Molly Roy
@mollyroy.bsky.social
PhD. MSIS. Performing arts librarian. I research choreographies of surveillance.
Great images from the NYPL archives
Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running
The nearly forgotten Black stars, songwriters and strivers who made Broadway what it is today.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Great images from the NYPL archives
Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Black Musical Theater, 200 Years and Running www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/
Atlas of Surveillance
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
www.atlasofsurveillance.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/
Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We just launched a new version of the Surveillance Watch platform with improved filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities & investors, a more accessible lite version etc.
Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io
Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
www.surveillancewatch.io
September 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We just launched a new version of the Surveillance Watch platform with improved filtering and search, detailed entity analysis views, better visualization of connections between entities & investors, a more accessible lite version etc.
Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io
Have a look at the latest updates at www.surveillancewatch.io
Worth the read.
A different tech future is possible.
Support libraries!
Thank you for your work @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social
A different tech future is possible.
Support libraries!
Thank you for your work @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Worth the read.
A different tech future is possible.
Support libraries!
Thank you for your work @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social
A different tech future is possible.
Support libraries!
Thank you for your work @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture
Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans..
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My Mother, New Orleans
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, I’ve left the city that raised me.
www.newyorker.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans..
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two?
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two?
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.
The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
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It’s facebook, so whatever makes it to market requires you to imagine the greediest most antisocial application.
Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers With Hand Gestures
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
It’s facebook, so whatever makes it to market requires you to imagine the greediest most antisocial application.
Speak up Texas
🚨Urgent, updated action items: How to oppose SB37 to keep colleges & universities competitive
✅Contact your Representative ✅Contact House Calendars Committee
✅Contact information and talking points ⬇️⬇️⬇️ aaup-texas.org/blog/f/oppos...
✅Contact your Representative ✅Contact House Calendars Committee
✅Contact information and talking points ⬇️⬇️⬇️ aaup-texas.org/blog/f/oppos...
Oppose SB37 to keep colleges & universities competitive
Updated May 21, 2025.
aaup-texas.org
May 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Speak up Texas
Worthwhile interview with Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist and activist Maria Ressa.
We deserve public spaces where real people can have real conversations without being manipulated. Instead we have social media that erodes democracy at a cellular level.
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E
We deserve public spaces where real people can have real conversations without being manipulated. Instead we have social media that erodes democracy at a cellular level.
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E
Maria Ressa warns of authoritarianism in the US: “This is a pivotal moment"
YouTube video by GBH News
youtu.be
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Worthwhile interview with Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist and activist Maria Ressa.
We deserve public spaces where real people can have real conversations without being manipulated. Instead we have social media that erodes democracy at a cellular level.
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E
We deserve public spaces where real people can have real conversations without being manipulated. Instead we have social media that erodes democracy at a cellular level.
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E
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“If a worker committed the kind of incompetence that WorkComposer did, this data might be used to fire them,” EFF’s José told @gizmodo.com of a massive bossware data breach. “WorkComposer, too, should be out of a job.”
An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online
The leak highlights how digital workplace surveillance exposes employees to new risks.
gizmodo.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“If a worker committed the kind of incompetence that WorkComposer did, this data might be used to fire them,” EFF’s José told @gizmodo.com of a massive bossware data breach. “WorkComposer, too, should be out of a job.”
Choreographies of protest
Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Choreographies of protest
“the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ― which is supposed serve as a watchdog for travelers’ civil liberties ― recently had key members fired by the Trump administration.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/tsa-fa...
www.huffpost.com/entry/tsa-fa...
Why You Can (And Should) Opt Out Of TSA Facial Recognition Right Now
Do you really want to be submitting a face scan to the current U.S. government?
www.huffpost.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ― which is supposed serve as a watchdog for travelers’ civil liberties ― recently had key members fired by the Trump administration.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/tsa-fa...
www.huffpost.com/entry/tsa-fa...
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LC gave one day's notice to change the subject heading to "Gulf of America" but its own country code for Zimbabwe still references the white supremacist-run Rhodesia, which gained internationally-recognized independence as Zimbabwe in... 1980
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February 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
LC gave one day's notice to change the subject heading to "Gulf of America" but its own country code for Zimbabwe still references the white supremacist-run Rhodesia, which gained internationally-recognized independence as Zimbabwe in... 1980
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“Good luck with that” feels like the whole entire moment
February 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“Good luck with that” feels like the whole entire moment
“ abandoning our values is wrong and it won’t protect us. Obedience in advance only feeds authoritarianism.”
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/a...
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/a...
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions
A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“ abandoning our values is wrong and it won’t protect us. Obedience in advance only feeds authoritarianism.”
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/a...
Hundreds of Artists Call on N.E.A. to Roll Back Trump’s Restrictions www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/a...
Librarians
The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later.
guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...
guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...
LibGuides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
A guide linking to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
guides.lib.virginia.edu
February 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Librarians
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We also assembled a list of detailed questions that you can ask your city government or police department if they are currently using this technology, or if they are planning to use it in the future. accelerator.carnegiecouncil.org/data-fusion/...
Data Fusion Question Set | Carnegie Ethics Accelerator
If a law enforcement agency has acquired or is in the process of acquiring data fusion technology, here are questions that you can ask them.
accelerator.carnegiecouncil.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We also assembled a list of detailed questions that you can ask your city government or police department if they are currently using this technology, or if they are planning to use it in the future. accelerator.carnegiecouncil.org/data-fusion/...