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Next Cypurr Session 7/18!
Cut through the hype and doom around AI with the CyPurr cats! This session will go over a beginner-friendly review of how the recent wave of AI tools works before diving into what it means for privacy and mass surveillance. Bring your device for the second half, where we'll opt-out of these settings together and discussing a more private and just future of tech.
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cypurr-session-ai-and-you-central-library-info-20260718-0300pm
V cool article on the recent Cache.me.outside event (with a Cypurr mention!) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/big-tech-breakup-parties
Upcoming Cypurr Session at the Brooklyn Public Library with special speaker from the Legal Aid Society, Paula Garcia-Salazar!
In this session, we will be talking about landlord tech, how it exacerbates housing injustice, and what rights tenants have to protect themselves.
Check the link below for more info: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cypurr-session-landlord-central-library-info-20260321-0300pm
NEXT EVENT! Check out our next Cypurr Cinema event at the PIT, featuring a talk from Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard
We'll be screening the @PBSNewsHour@flipboard.com Frontline Documentary Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus, investigating the powerful Pegasus spyware, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group.
https://www.propertyistheft.org/events/cifbkniv1ge62yvzl6cq6ivgawodwm
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now also featuring a q+a with Beck Haberstroh and Imani Thompson discussing their project "We Are Already Gathered"
"We are already gathered is an event series that brings together communities with shared surveillance risks. Let's talk about who is collecting our information and strategize through teach-ins and zine-making.Together, we investigate the systems that investigate us."
More on the project here: https://wearealreadygathered.info
Happy New year! Slate of Cypurr workshops coming up, check them out!
Tomorrow! At the BPL, talking KOSA with special guest @davidgreene@mstdn.social from @eff@mastodon.social
Plus a movie event and social at Wonderville in February
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Reminder that our next Cypurr session is this Saturday!
Plus, announcing our very special guest speaker: @eff@mastodon.social Civil Liberties Director @davidgreene@mstdn.social who will be speaking on the implications of internet-verification laws on individual liberties
Check out his bio here: https://www.eff.org/about/staff/david-greene
See ya there!
For this session, we'll take a dive into the rash of online safety bills that have been the talk of the internet lately (i.e. the Kids Online Safety Act [KOSA] and the like), and discuss how they affect folks of all different backgrounds.
Speaker TBA
More info: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cypurr-session-real-kick-central-library-info-20260117-0300pm
Cypurr Prez: Slides.com/cypurr/protest-privacy-11-25
-early film for Angelina Jolie, Johnny Lee Miller and Mathew Lilard with cameos from Penn Teller and Marc Anthony
-soundtrack and wardrobe is sick
-visuals were not computer-generated, but rather were combinations of different kinds of animation
-so much rollerblading!
Thanks again to wonderville for hosting!
Have a safe new year everyone!
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UPDATE: This event will also feature a Q + A from the Ridgewood Tenants Union discussing tenants rights and organizing in your building.
The Ridgewood Tenants Union is an all-volunteer and tenant-led anti-gentrification group working together to grow the power of working-class tenants and unhoused people in Ridgewood, Maspeth, Glendale, and Middle Village. Founded in 2014 and demanding safe and stable housing for all, they organize together to fight displacement.
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Hi all!
Just plugging tomorrow's Cypurr Screening event, now with a speakback featuring film director Jazmin Jones!
Food and drink proceeds will be donated to the Immigrant Defense Fund.
Plus (!!) we’ll be giving away three DVDs to folks who donate
Hope to see you there!
Do you want to leave Google in 2025 but don't know where to start? Do you wish the process of moving your digital life over was a little less overwhelming?
Join Cache Me Outside & Cypurr Collective to break up with Google. Bring your laptop or phone & we'll lock in on alternate search tools, email services, browsers, migrating account data, removing ourselves from search results, and more.
DJs, VJs, and live coders on open decks all night at our fave bar/arcade!
RSVP: https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/break-up-with-google-2-2-26
Next Cypurr Event!
Catch us at Wonderville for a screening of Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024, dir by Jazmine Jones) which “investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.” This documentary questions the simultaneous commodification & erasure of black people in tech spaces, a topic that is as relevant as ever with the exploitation of Black avatars in the age of AI.
Discussion to follow!
https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/cypurr-cinema-super-secret-matinee-2-1-26
Check out this upcoming talk on issues around age verification policies from @eff@mastodon.social Gen-Z for Change and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience coming up at the Brooklyn Public Library on 1/15!
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/human-cost-online-age-central-library-info-20260115-0300pm
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See y’all today!!
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Weekend of Cypurr event starts Saturday! Hopefully see y’all then.
Hack The Planet!
Catch us at Wonderville for our next Cypurr Matinee on 11/23! We’re finishing up our trilogy of 1995 cyberpunk cinema with a screening of the cult classic Hackers (1995, Johnny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Dir: Iain Softley)! Movie will be followed by a discussion on tech and cybersecurity
https://withfriends.events/event/73QoIb5c/cypurr-cinema-super-secret-matinee-presents-hackers/
Catch our next Cypurr Session at the Brooklyn Public Library (Grand Army Plaza) on 11/22! This session’s focus is on Protest Digital Security, featuring a very special talk from members of Cache Me Outside!
See details here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cypurr-session-protest-central-library-info-20251122-0300pm
Check out our next event at @wonderville on 5/10!
We'll be showing and talking about a bunch of shorts having to do with autonomy and surveillance
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Info for our second speaker for Saturday:
Ven Qiu is an archivist and creative technologist based in New York. As a memory worker committed to data sovereignty, they are interested in the sociopolitical and infrastructural conditions of digital preservation.
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Next event this Saturday! Check out the bio for our main speaker below:
Olivia M. Ross is a Caribbean American information worker, documentarian, and secretkeeper from Queens. Her work practice in audiovisual and software preservation informs embodied research into the cybernetics of secrecy, power, and place. She is a 2025-2026 Archival Resident at Performance Space and a maintainer of the Cyberfeminism Index. Ask her about Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (1987). She is a death doula-in-training.
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See y’all tomorrow at wonderville!
Re-uploading with correction on Cypurr Session date, we got a BUNCH of great events coming up in May! Hope to see you at one or all of these!
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Tomorrow! See y’all there!
Next Cypurr Session! Communities Need Backup
Building a personal archive of your life online doesn't just help you regain control, it preserves an important snapshot for the history of everyday working people. We'll discuss the importance of digital archival practices (with some guest speakers) before walking through how to download your social media history and view it offline (and optionally, delete it!). Let's not surrender our timeline to Mark and Elon!
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cypurr-session-central-library-info-20260516-0300pm
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Hi all! This is cancelled for today due to the weather. Hope to see you at a future session!
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Just a couple days away! Hope to see you there!
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This Saturday at Trans Pecos! Hope to see you there!
Next event at Trans Pecos on 6/6!
This workshop is an introduction to personal digital privacy and information security practices! We will cover threat modeling, encryption & getting around the city, and how we make choices with data. Material will be provided for us to make personalized digital privacy zines, taking the information we find useful to craft our own pocket-guides.
This workshop is open to anyone, no pre-existing skills or technologies are required.
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See y’all today at 3!