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Cyberlyra

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures.
Longtime data economy resistor incl. #mobileLinux; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. #Bettertech is possible if we build it!
Progenitor of the #optout Experiments, the #cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of #reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech
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How to leave Big Tech:
https://www.optoutproject.net
Academic Bio and Pubs:
https://janet.vertesi.com
Also I study NASA teams:
http://www.shapingscience.net
Help others get off Big Tech:
https://www.reclaimcontrol.tech

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · 15h ago

Ten years ago, Cambridge Analytica used data from Facebook games to tweak UK and US voters and torque world geopolitics.

Today we find out that the company behind Pokémon Go used all your data finding Pikachus to teach autonomous robots how to navigate and take away your jobs.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · 5d ago

Post to Mastodon for actual engagement. People read. They have ideas. They tell you those ideas. You can discuss them.

Post to BlueSky and some dude who knows nothing about your field informs you boldly that "you are overthinking this" and presents his pop-psychology view instead. ::smh::

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · 5d ago

Six years ago today the WHO declared the Covid19 pandemic.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Mar 02, 2026

RE: @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social

Proud to be working with this group. If anyone needs help or inspiration, I have lots of tips for a full#cybercleanse at www.optoutproject.net and you can join a support network via www.reclaimcontrol.tech

#ElbowsUp #bigtech #optout

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Mar 01, 2026

Also if you are around #Berkeley and you care about science funding, come see me talk about my new book, The Cost of Crisis, in the Sociology Department on Monday afternoon. It's all about what happens to science when you start slashing budgets, based on ethnographic and historical work at #NASA. Info and registration link below:

https://sociology.berkeley.edu/janet-vertesi-cost-crisis-towards-techno-socioeconomics-big-science-under-neoliberal-austerity

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Mar 01, 2026

If you're at or near Berkeley, mark your calendar -- I'm speaking about my Opt Out Projects this Wednesday from 4-5:30. Register here:

https://besi.berkeley.edu/event/how-to-opt-out-lessons-from-14-years-of-evading-surveillance-capitalism/

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Feb 26, 2026

Digital Resistance Tip #2: Fragment your Online Identity

https://video.infiniteloop.tv/w/d1RmHSum5i2zKaoFqBB9K2

#optout #bigtech #reclaimtech #reclaimcontrol #digitalresistance #datasovereignty

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Feb 23, 2026

Digital Resistance Tip #1: One system at a time!

https://video.infiniteloop.tv/w/jgr2nhMiFvfv6HpokJ9GHe

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Feb 22, 2026

Looking for #datasovereign #video #editing tools to make smartphone video shorts available for online "content" about #optout and #reclaimtech including captioning.

The workflow looks tremendous and like there are few options without feeding a company's servers/AI/databanks/facial-recognition-learning-systems so I will just say up front what I'd prefer:

- FOSS or other ethical tech (small EU-based businesses under GDPR ok)
- Smartphone if at all possible: .APK or SFOS preferred, iOS is doable
- If necessary, PC tools using Debian flavors of Linux (ubuntu, raspbian), or MacOS
- #noai unless running STT or caption burning models locally, on the box

( i.e. @emilymbender@dair-community.social and @mystery_ai_hype_theater what do you use? )

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I have lived in the US for 23 years. This week I used the word "keener" at a meeting and someone interrupted me to ask what that was. I explained it's a Canadian word for someone who's just earnestly
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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Feb 15, 2026
Growing up, I was always called "a keener." For good or bad it was part of my identity. Maybe people here have persistently misunderstood me as ambitious when actually I just really, really, really like learning things. Maybe they don't understand why I'm not too strategic because I never thought it was winner takes all game. Maybe they'll read this and think it's dishonest and self-serving because that's all there can be. But you can't afford to be a keener in this country because you will get belitted for it and passed by as a naif. If you genuininely just love working with people, or learning about stuff, or making things, because it brings you tremendous, expansive, loving pleasure, people figure there must be some reason why you're doing it, otherwise there's no reason to do it. There is so much inequality, so much grasping, so much competition, so much of the time there is no place for keeners and the joyful, earnest, even clueless energy they bring. Small wonder even people I approach with earnesty think there must be something behind it, hopefully until they get to know me better. I suspect there is a lot I have misunderstood about my students here too. I thought many of them loved learning and we had that in common. They do their assignments and speak politely to their profs and show up in office hours to ask questions. It looks like being a keener, on the surface, to another keener at least. Why wouldn't they want to geek out with me about things we care about? But the majority of them know the game. They got to where they got to because they played it. They were the smartest and most culture crammed so they could be here and launch to a great career. They are adding items to their resumes that make them look shinier than the next person when it comes to the last job left on earth. What a joyless form of learning and living that must be. To be clear, that isn't everyone I've interacted with. But I am slowly re-appraising many of the interactions that I thought I understood (and others that I just never understood) from the vantage point that "keener" is not a type you can be here. And that means that for a vast majority of the people I interact with, I'm probably deeply, deeply misunderstood. 2/2
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Sociology & Design Prof @PrincetonU; Science, Technology & Society; NASA teams; critical design; remote work. Co-editor MIT Infrastructures. Longtime data economy resistor incl. # mobileLinux ; data sovereignty; reproductive privacy. # Bettertech is possible if we build it! Progenitor of the # optout Experiments, the # cybercleanse - www.optoutproject.net - and co-Founder of # reclaimtech movement - www.reclaimcontrol.tech # nobot Cishet # ally # noTERF Unpinned posts delete after 2 weeks.

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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Feb 15, 2026
I have lived in the US for 23 years. This week I used the word "keener" at a meeting and someone interrupted me to ask what that was. I explained it's a Canadian word for someone who's just earnestly enthusiastic, an eager beaver, selflessly just excited about learning stuff and participating. I alwasy thought it was just something we have a cooler word for that they don't -- like toque for beanie, or parkade for 'multi-story parking garage', or garburator for in-sink disposal unit (I mean, come on). But this week I realized--there is no equivalent in the US, for keeners. It's like that thought-language concept about linguistic relativity (no word for orange= can't see orange) except the other way around (no word for it because it is impossible). There is no word for keener in America because you can't be a keener in America. Love learning? You have to display it so you get the top grades and go to Yale and make lots of money as a lawyer. Work hard? Not because you love it but because you don't know any other way to be. Expert about something? You gotta hustle and monetize with YouTube videos else you're not an expert and also you can't afford to send your kids to college. Love music, or dancing? you have to do it eight times a week for a trillion dollars or you can't do it at all. Having elementary school aged children in the US has been eye-opening. It is Lord of the Flies in the classroom and on the playground. Children learn it's a hierarchy, and it's better to be on top, whatever that takes. Seven year olds on investment apps. Constant culture cramming. Playground games where they literally hit each other with sticks. Grabbing others' toys while some teacher you don't pay attention to says something useless about 'sharing' and you eventually turn that into 'an economy.' (1/2)
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@cyberlyra@hachyderm.io · Jan 27, 2026
DHS is seeking public comments by February 9 on proposed changes that would include visitors to USA submitting all social media handles, email addresses, phone numbers, and biometrics including prospective DNA sampling, all family members' names and numbers, and mandatory use of a mobile phone app by CBP among other requirements, before entry to USA is approved. Summary here: https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media Federal Register text here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf "SUMMARY : The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The information collection is published in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. DATES : Comments are encouraged and must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration. ADDRESSES : Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained in this notice must include the OMB Control Number 1651–0111 in the subject line and the agency name. Please submit written comments and/or suggestions in English. Please use the following method to submit comments: Email: Submit comments to: CBP_ PRA@cbp.dhs.gov
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