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This year’s non-work accomplishments in statistics. FWIW:
Pirates
Organized one, two, ? surveillance camera mapping events.
Attended the
Boston Anarchist Bookfair
and organized the Pirate Party table. Worked the table for both days with Steve, Micky and Alex.
Organized the pirate contingent of and marched in the Trans Resistance March. Marched in the
XR Boston
contingent at
Honk!
Took too many photos/videos. Still haven’t finished editing or posting them.
28 Pirate News recordings
. That count was fewer than the forty we recorded in 2022. Ran 24 meetings and four quarterly conferences. Didn’t send enough email updates. Probably sent too many social media posts.
Photography
Created 4016+ photos. Shared 106 on my two Flickr accounts and more in text messages to family and friends. Particularly happy with this one:
Took my son’s high school yearbook photograph. He was pleased. Photographed 20+ co-workers for id photos. Learned a bit about
NX Tether
Attended
Victoria Sambunaris
‘ talk at the
Photographic Resource Center
‘s
Speaker Series
. Attended
PHSNE
‘s
Photographica
for the second year.
Attended at least two school drama performances. Photographed one of them. Haven’t posted the photographs. Really should.
Attended two art exhibits (Hokusai and Sargent). Wanted to attend two more, but didn’t. Took too many photographs. Haven’t posted a single one. 🙁
I reviewed the
Ulanzi foldable half cage
Reading
Bought or received twenty nine “books”.
Read six “books” fully
, but didn’t keep to my 1/month. I use books in quotations since I am padding my numbers by including two
Framelines Magazines
, which I did read cover to cover, but that isn’t a big accomplishment.
Games
Played in one miniature game (at
Havoc
), which is the same number I played in 2022.
Finished painting 64 1/285th scale microarmor miniatures. They have been in a state of not yet done for years. Still need to Dullcoat them. Haven’t taken photos of them and posted them. Got part way through another 56. May finish those this month. They are wheeled vehicles, so may is the operative word.
Must have cleaned, glued and primed 500+ microarmor/nauts. Also, cleaned, based and primed 54 modern soviet airborne infantry stands. The basing was frustrating, but yielded the most satisfaction. Maybe I will write up my process.
The degree I increased my “pile of potential” when I should be finishing figures is depressing, so I will ignore it.
Office
Most of my office was done last year (?), but one wall remained that needed patching and painting as I have previous mounted electronics to it. I patched and primed it.
Realizing I was in over my head (decade old color matching, paint that finally dried in the cans, ugh), hired someone to paint it (and another room I patched and primed). They did a great job and dealt with my primer color misadventure. During the break, my friend David and I put up the wall shelves I have sat on for … 6 months?
Considering that the walls are not at aligned to gravity, I am pleased how it came out.
Now I just need to move books on to the shelves.
I’ll leave it at that and post about 2024 goals hopefully in January.
Reprinted from the
Massachusetts Pirate Party
This year is the 22nd anniversary of the signing of the PATRIOT Act made possible by the 9/11 attacks. Since then, government and corporate surveillance continues to expand. We will join Pirates nationwide to push back on the effort to surveill our public spaces by mapping the surveillance cameras in East Boston.
Join us!
At noon on September 16th, we will meet at the
East Boston Public Library
at 365 Bremen Street, East Boston. It is an eight minute walk from the Airport MBTA Blue Line stop.
The library has a link you can use to get directions there
We will then divide up into teams and fan out to map cameras. We encourage everyone to wear a mask and social distance.
Register now so we know you are coming!
On Sunday, we hope you will join us in Acton for a relaxing afternoon talking, eating and, weather permitting, swimming in a pool.
Register separately
. Attendance at the East Boston outing is not required. It is potluck, so if you want to bring something,
add to our etherpad
We posted instructions for how to use several camera mapping apps on your phone so you can get ready
. Check out what we have mapped so far at
cctv.masspirates.org
Attended this year’s
Trans Resistance March
in Roxbury with the
Mass. Pirates
contingent. Included are photos I took of or after it.
Some crowd shots:
#TransResistanceMarch
pic.twitter.com/zwCCxuJhBJ
— Massachusetts Pirate Party (@masspirates)
June 25, 2022
Our waving Trans/Jolly Roger flags were popular:
#TransResistanceMarch
pic.twitter.com/GUpVsEgxVJ
— Massachusetts Pirate Party (@masspirates)
June 25, 2022
I was joined by Purple Bandana:
#TransResistanceMarch
@Purple_Bandanna
pic.twitter.com/Tx3mnQzIeX
— Massachusetts Pirate Party (@masspirates)
June 25, 2022
He got one of me with the Trans/Jolly Roger flags:
Eventually, we arrived at Franklin Park:
#TransResistanceMarch
arrives at Franklin Park
pic.twitter.com/baIP2b81LL
— Massachusetts Pirate Party (@masspirates)
June 25, 2022
#TransResistanceFestival
pic.twitter.com/eG6bB1WVLB
— Massachusetts Pirate Party (@masspirates)
June 25, 2022
Afterward, I got a few local pictures including of street art:
The man in this mural introduced himself to me.
This park was locked preventing kids from playing in it:
The whole photo album:
The
Boston branch of the Party of Socialism and Liberation
held a pro-Choice rally Friday. My wife and I joined it. It was well attended:
The signs were great:
Some interesting photographic opportunities presented themselves:
You can find the rest at this album:
Back in October I walked around
Worcester mapping surveillance cameras at a Pirate Party outing
. Got a chance to photograph some of the murals and other sights in downtown Worcester.
Steve and I talked about the
CDA Section 230
gutting SAFE TECH Act on the latest Pirate News livestream.
You can read a redline version
Some of the articles we reference:
The SAFE TECH Act offers Section 230 reform, but the law’s defenders warn of major side effects
War on Section 230 begins in earnest as Dem senators look to limit legal immunity for social networks, websites etc
Now It’s The Democrats Turn To Destroy The Open Internet: Mark Warner’s 230 Reform Bill Is A Dumpster Fire Of Cluelessness
Senators Warner, Hirono, And Klobuchar Demand The End Of The Internet Economy
We live stream Sundays at 7:30pm Eastern. You can find past recordings at
MassPirates.org
Reposting this from the
Massachusetts Pirate Party
. If you live in Boston, do contact your city councilor and tell them to support this ordinance. Details below.
Today at 3pm,
Boston City Council’s Committee on Government Operations will discuss a proposed ordinance
to ban face surveillance in Boston. The hearing will be by Zoom meeting and the public may watch this meeting via live stream at
boston.gov/city-council-tv
It is too late to address the committee, but you can still provide written testimony. Details below. The ACLU put together a
toolkit for activists that includes model testimony
. There are also public education resources available at
Please attend the hearing and help out in the following ways:
Sign and share the ACLU’s petition in support of the campaign:
Encouraging your friends and family in Boston to provide testimony in support of this ordinance;
If you live in Boston, contact your city councilor and tell them to support this ordinance. You can find a list and email them at
. The ACLU has a
toolkit for activists that includes contact information for the city councilors
Written comments may be sent to the Committee or staff email (below) and will be made a part of the record and available to all Councilors.
Email
ccc.go@boston.gov
christine.odonnell@boston.gov
Attn:  Christine O’Donnell, Docket #0683
Fax Number
:  617-635-4203 Attn:  Christine O’Donnell, Docket #0683
Mail Address
:  Docket #0683, City Council, City Hall, 5
th
Floor, Boston MA  02201
Recently I gave a workshop on protecting your digital identity for the
2019 Digital Literacy Fall & Winter Workshop series
run by the
Somerville Media Center
and the
Somerville Public Library
You can download a slightly updated version of my slide deck
If you would be interested in such a workshop for your community, non-profit group or company, please feel free to contact me at jokeefe at jamesokeefe dot org and I would be happy to setup a time or help find other members of the
Somerville Cryptoparty group
to teach.
I gave an application privacy workshop at
Code for Boston
on Tuesday. They recorded my talk on Facebook:
and on YouTube:
I posted the slide deck as a PDF
. Feel free to offer suggestions in the comments.
Some of the topics I need to add to the presentation:
highlight privacy and security testing;
having development/test servers and how to sanitize the data in the development/test database;
more about SQL/XSS Injection attacks;
review the video for other topics to add.
Scott Helme
is a Information Security Consultant.
He has a Patreon account on which he posts about computer security issues
and which he uses to take in donations for each blog post.  Recently he found out that Patreon suspended his account:
So
@Patreon
suspended my account.
They did this in secret. They have not notified me.
I simply noticed that they stopped sending me money.
— Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme)
December 24, 2018
He could still post and people could still signup to support him, but, taking a page from Paypal, Patreon prevented him from withdrawing any of the money people donated.  Eventually, Patreon completed their investigation and emailed him that he was good to go.  He eventually discovered that:
* a few emails further up I got this. Apparently someone suspicious pledged to me so they suspended my account to make sure it hadn’t been hacked. Can anyone explain that to me? ?
pic.twitter.com/o9V1dQfUpP
— Scott Helme (@Scott_Helme)
December 25, 2018
He estimates that account withdrawals were suspended for between 18 and 47 days.
Account takeovers are a real problem. Had his account been taken over, it would be good if someone couldn’t take his money out and notifying the account that they think it might be hacked could tip the hacker.  In that light, it could make sense to act as they did.
Having multiple other methods of contacting the user would have helped in this case…. well unless email, phone number and Signal were compromised. Patreon would need to prove they are who they say they are, of course. Phishing is a problem as well.
That all said, going from one fraudulent pledge to account takeover seems a stretch.
But this incident reminded me of
Violet Blue
‘s
reporting in Engadget about a troll campaign against women AMSR video creators
Capitalizing on entrenched and easily exploitable
anti-sex policies by internet giant payment processors
and a new internet sex panic
ushered in by FOSTA
, 8chan trolls have started a campaign to mass-report attractive women who make ASMR videos. Listing names of women making these sound-effect videos in a forum thread called “
PayPal lowering the hammer on ASMRtits
” they’ve declared war by posting links to report pages for PayPal, and called upon fellow haters to get the women kicked off YouTube and Patreon as well.
… and that Patreon just added another method for trolls to harass Patreon’s users.  If all it takes is for one fraudulent looking donation to pass into someone’s account to flip the
Account Hacked
bit, trolls will use Patreon’s process to suspend a user’s ability to withdraw their money for two to six weeks. That would screw up the life of anyone who makes a living via Patreon.
Patreon has more than a customer service problem.
Photo Stream
Peace and freedom art at Art Beat 2005
The Green-Rainbow Party was excluded from Art Beat 2005. As such we setup a table on the street with chalk and asked Art Beat participants to supply their own art for peace and freedom. This is a large part of the art work or statements that people produced.
The Graphic Imperative
Pictures of various posters from "The Graphic Imperative: An Exhibition of International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment. I took these pictures at the exhibition at the Massachusetts College of Art on November 5th, 2005.
Surveillance Photos
Natural World
Some pictures of the natural world I took years ago.
With Weapons of Will Game 4/23/2005
First playtest of With Weapons of Will (now By Will Alone).
By Will Alone Game 4/29/07
First convention game of the By Will Alone rules at Havoc XXIII.
Miniatures Photos
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