Aaron Mauro
@aaronmauro.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Digital Humanities at Brock University. Niagara, Canada.
www.aaronmauro.cfdh.ca
www.aaronmauro.cfdh.ca
Tribal Alliance Against Frauds tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org
Tribal Alliance Against Frauds
Learn about our advocacy for American Indian Native American tribes and our fight against tribal fraud. Join us in protecting indigenous communities.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Tribal Alliance Against Frauds tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org
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Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's jeeproject@yahoo.com email address over nineteen years.
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Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's jeeproject@yahoo.com email address over nineteen years.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Epstein emails (2.5 GB)
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's jeeproject@yahoo.com email address over nineteen years.
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's jeeproject@yahoo.com email address over nineteen years.
ddosecrets.com/article/epst...
Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
The Creation of America’s Car Culture podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
The Creation of America's Car Culture
Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 2025-11-11 · 30m
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November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Creation of America’s Car Culture podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings
: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped
www.theregister.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...
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Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...
www.404media.co
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
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Review bombs are the latest weapons in the culture war. But where do they come from, and how can you spot them coming? It's all explained in my latest for @flaminghydra.com!
ALSO TODAY: @annaleen.bsky.social on the review bomb, which “though it doesn’t always work, at times it gives a tiny group of angry dipshits an outsized influence.” flaminghydra.com/rise-of-the-...
Rise of the Review Bomb
In the fall of 2003 the presidential race was heating up, and a new wave of hacktivists was chipping away at incumbent George W. Bush’s online reputation all over the internet. Which is why, if you we...
flaminghydra.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Review bombs are the latest weapons in the culture war. But where do they come from, and how can you spot them coming? It's all explained in my latest for @flaminghydra.com!
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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This is a cool series, and I'm glad @theverge.com asked me to be a part of it
Trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?
Our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet, is now live in its entirety. You can check out each piece in our beautiful hub, or join us on a quick scroll 🧵
Our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet, is now live in its entirety. You can check out each piece in our beautiful hub, or join us on a quick scroll 🧵
The future of being trans on the internet
The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is a cool series, and I'm glad @theverge.com asked me to be a part of it
A short documentary about the groundbreaking sound design of Dune: Part Two, featuring director Denis Villeneuve and sound mixers & designers from the film. kottke.org/25/10/004764...
A short documentary about the groundbreaking sound design of...
A short documentary about the groundbreaking sound design of Dune: Part Two, featuring director Denis Villeneuve and sound mixers
kottke.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A short documentary about the groundbreaking sound design of Dune: Part Two, featuring director Denis Villeneuve and sound mixers & designers from the film. kottke.org/25/10/004764...
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Feminist Digital Humanities (open access) www.bibliopen.org/9780252048302
September 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Feminist Digital Humanities (open access) www.bibliopen.org/9780252048302
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Check out @aaronmauro.bsky.social's lecture, "AI, Security, and the Future of Education," delivered as part of Brock's Homecoming events! #brocku #AI #cybersecurity #edtech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlw...
AI & Cybersecurity with Dr. Mauro
YouTube video by Brock University
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September 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Check out @aaronmauro.bsky.social's lecture, "AI, Security, and the Future of Education," delivered as part of Brock's Homecoming events! #brocku #AI #cybersecurity #edtech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlw...
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Hi! The @archive.org has many epic features like saving sites and viewing deleted pages, but it's also got some little useful functions like tracking edits, searching broadcasts and visualising topics in news items.
I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
I visit all of them in this YouTube tutorial 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwuX...
OSINT At Home #26: Top 5 Wayback Machine Hacks to Recover Pages, Prove Edits & Search TV News
YouTube video by Bendobrown
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September 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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How people are using ChatGPT according to paid research from OpenAI openai.com/index/how-pe...
How people are using ChatGPT
Largest study to date of consumer ChatGPT usage shows demographic gaps shrinking, economic value being created through both personal and professional use.
openai.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
How people are using ChatGPT according to paid research from OpenAI openai.com/index/how-pe...
I'm Not a Robot
Prove your humanity
neal.fun
September 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
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All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs.
The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...
www.thedissident.news
September 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs.
The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself.
www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...
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Join us on September 19th at noon for @aaronmauro.bsky.social's webinar on AI, Security, and the Future of Education: brocku.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx... #brocku
Brock University | Ticketing - Homecoming Webinar
Join us on Friday September 19th from 12-1pm for a webinar presented by Aaron Mauro, Chair of Brock’s Digital Humanities Department and Associate Professor of Digital Media. In the webinar, Dr. Mauro ...
brocku.universitytickets.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Join us on September 19th at noon for @aaronmauro.bsky.social's webinar on AI, Security, and the Future of Education: brocku.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx... #brocku
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stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
it's not a distraction
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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August 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
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you can run the new apertus LLMs fully locally on your (mac) laptop with just 2 lines of code:
pip install mlx-lm
mlx_lm.generate --model swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 --prompt "wer bisch du?"
(make sure you have done huggingface-cli login before)
pip install mlx-lm
mlx_lm.generate --model swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 --prompt "wer bisch du?"
(make sure you have done huggingface-cli login before)
Apertus LLM - a swiss-ai Collection
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
September 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
you can run the new apertus LLMs fully locally on your (mac) laptop with just 2 lines of code:
pip install mlx-lm
mlx_lm.generate --model swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 --prompt "wer bisch du?"
(make sure you have done huggingface-cli login before)
pip install mlx-lm
mlx_lm.generate --model swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 --prompt "wer bisch du?"
(make sure you have done huggingface-cli login before)
White nationalist group marches at popular Niagara monument www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...
‘Public and open with their hate’: Masked white nationalist group marches at popular Niagara monument
A University of Winnipeg professor says Second Sons Canada was testing the waters with its military-style rally at Queenston Heights Park in Niagara, and that the choice do do so at Brock’s Monument w...
www.stcatharinesstandard.ca
September 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
White nationalist group marches at popular Niagara monument www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...
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Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉
The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms
Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early
academic.oup.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉
If you are a university administrator in Ontario, read this: www.caut.ca/bulletin/boo...
Book Review / An Introduction to University Governance
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September 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you are a university administrator in Ontario, read this: www.caut.ca/bulletin/boo...
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EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.
Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.
Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
September 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.
Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.
Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...