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All surveillance technology is bad.

“The surveillance company Flock told employees at an all-hands meeting Friday that its new people search product, Nova, will not include hacked data from the dark web. The announcement comes a little over a week after 404 Media broke the news about internal tension at the company about plans to use breached data, including from a 2021 Park Mobile data break.

Immediately following the all-hands meeting, Flock published details of its decision in a public blog post it says is designed to "correct the record on what Flock Nova actually does and does not do." The company said that following a "lengthy, intentional process" about what data sources it would use and how the product would work, it has decided not to supply customers with dark web data.”

#surveillance #flock #data #people #search #public #tool #darkweb #product #privacy #tech #news
404media.co/flock-decides-not-

404 Media · Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search ToolThe move comes after internal pressure and 404 Media’s reporting.
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“Rachel Halton still doesn’t know who made the decision, in October 2022, to summarily decommission the $160,000 #JacquardLoom that had been a cornerstone of #RMIT’s renowned #weaving and #textile #design courses for 20 years.

Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and #mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the #TextileIndustry and a modern #tool for weaving strands of #yarn into intricate #fabrics. Halton knew she couldn’t let it end up in landfill.”

“The loom was the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and one of only a handful in the world, bought for the university’s #Brunswick campus in the early 2000s, soon after Halton started teaching there. It “elevated what you could do as an artist”, she says.

Students enrolled just to have access to it. International artists visited especially to weave on it. It became integral to Halton’s creative practice.”

“Watt has “a very special affinity” with the loom. It isn’t just the time she spent working on it at RMIT, or that it sat in her home for months after it was rescued. She’s also been using her coding skills – self-taught – to update its electronics. It’s as though technology is lapping back on itself, given that #Jacquard #PunchCards inspired the basis of #ModernComputing.”

This is why Australia can’t compute.

#RachelHalton / #Tech / #programmIng / #BuildingStuff <theguardian.com/australia-news>

“Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and #mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the Textile Industry and a modern tool for weaving strands of yarn into intricate fabrics” A Jacquard loom. source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts
“Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and #mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the Textile Industry and a modern tool for weaving strands of yarn into intricate fabrics” A Jacquard loom. Yellow yarn turned to fabric. source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts
“Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and #mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the Textile Industry and a modern tool for weaving strands of yarn into intricate fabrics” A Jacquard loom. Electronic circuit board for the loom to operate. source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts
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Bobbing Boat

While driving a mooring pin into the ground, the mallet's head separated from the handle. This bank is quite hard — no chance of pounding in a pin just by holding the head in my hand. Those would be love taps.

When I went to a nearby boat to ask to borrow their mallet, I noticed they were tied to rings, with more rings ahead of them.

So I moved the boat up to the rings, of course.

But I do need a new mallet.

#CanalLife#canal#mooring
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