#MediaLab

PPC Landppcland
2026-03-03

FYI: ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures: UK's ICO fined MediaLab £247,590 for failing to protect children on Imgur, finding no age checks were in place from September 2021 to September 2025. ppc.land/ico-fines-imgur-owner

Luís Rijoluisrijo
2026-03-03

FYI: ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures: UK's ICO fined MediaLab £247,590 for failing to protect children on Imgur, finding no age checks were in place from September 2021 to September 2025. ppc.land/ico-fines-imgur-owner

Luís Rijoluisrijo
2026-03-01

ICYMI: ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures: UK's ICO fined MediaLab £247,590 for failing to protect children on Imgur, finding no age checks were in place from September 2021 to September 2025. ppc.land/ico-fines-imgur-owner

PPC Landppcland
2026-03-01

ICYMI: ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures: UK's ICO fined MediaLab £247,590 for failing to protect children on Imgur, finding no age checks were in place from September 2021 to September 2025. ppc.land/ico-fines-imgur-owner

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯cryptadamist@universeodon.com
2026-02-17

cleaned up and interlinked my collection of #EpsteinFiles sites where you can browse files of particular interest with color highlighting of interesting keywords

michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/ep

(these pages are not optimized for mobile)

#crypto #Epstein #uspol #uspolitics #JeffreyEpstein #Trump #bitcoin #jeremyRubin #peterThiel #Scaramucci #SteveBannon #MAGA #orban #mandelson #BorisNikolic #billGates #MashaDrukova #cryptocurrency #blockchain #MIT #MediaLab #MITMediaLab #JoiIto #LarrySummers #BrockPierce

screenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.htmlscreenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.htmlscreenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.htmlscreenshot of https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/index.html
Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblogsomebitslinks@tech.lgbt
2026-02-03

MIT / Epstein: More details of corruption from my old graduate school
thetech.com/2026/02/02/epstein
#medialab #epstein #scandal #joiito #mit #-

De la graine à l'humusLagraine
2026-01-29

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Retrouvez plus de ressources sur libresites.org

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯cryptadamist@universeodon.com
2026-01-15

@touaregtweet there's some very interesting emails in the nov. #EpsteinFiles where Joi Ito (head of the #MIT #MediaLab at the time) emails Epstein in a panic about the fact that Obama had announced an initiative to track down the wealth of #Putin and other russian #oligarchs.

michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/ep

#JoiIto #MITMediaLab #uspol

JOI ITO
  │ Can you talk now?
  │
  │ On Apr 27, 2014, at 04:41 , Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
  │ > if you havetime
  │
  │ > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Joi Ito < wrote:
  │ > President Obama's response to the Ukraine crisis, while derided by critics as slow and weak, has
  │ reinvigorated a 15-year global hunt for the Russian leader's hidden wealth.
  │ >http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/sanctions-revive-search-for-secret-putin-fortune.html?smid=nytnow-share&smprod=nytnow │                       
  │ > sent from my iPhone
  │ > --
  │ > <...snipped jeffrey epstein legal signature...>
  │ --
  │ Please use my alternative address,
  │ to avoid email auto responder
Yorgos Saslisyorgos@chaos.social
2026-01-11

Weekend well spent on #homelab upgrades:

📈 3 -> 5 node #K3s cluster,
💪 single-node etcd -> 3 node etcd for #HighAvailability,
💿 updated k3s version,
🧹 tidied up some cabling on home rack.

All set for a #medialab installation !

Next up:
- find some time for that ... 😅

github.com/gsaslis/home-on-k8s

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2026-01-09

🚀 MIT's latest endeavor: the Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) – because what we all need is a neural tug-of-war! 🤖 Meanwhile, the Media Lab's login system is as intuitive as programming a VCR in the dark. 🙈🔐
media.mit.edu/projects/agonist

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯cryptadamist@universeodon.com
2025-12-10

#EpsteinFiles: not only did Jeffrey #Epstein fund the entire bitcoin development team at #MIT Media Lab from 2015-????, he took a special interest in Madars Virza, co-founder of the "privacy coin" ZCash (#ZEC).

#ZCash “fixes” the main issue with bitcoin, at least for people like Jeffrey Epstein. Zcash transactions are encrypted / private and therefore nothing about them is publicly visible in a block explorer¹ (and therefore any suspicious large transactions would not even be noticed).

ZCash, (unlike #Monero / #XMR, its prime competitor in the “privacy coin” space), is not an open source project. It’s privatized secret money created by a corporation. That corporation (Electric Coin Co.) also just so happens to have been funded by DCG, the crypto VC fund Larry Summers sat on the board of for 7 years after being introduced to Brock Pierce by Jeffrey Epstein. ZCash is actually one of #DCG’s flagship investments 🤔

Hard not to think that Epstein wasn’t meeting with #MadarsVirza to make a few “feature requests” that would make #ZCash more useful for people like Jeffrey #Epstein.

(it’s also worth at least mentioning that all of the cryptoverse’s biggest cretins like the #Winklevoss twins, Naval, Emperor Shillbertine, etc. started pushing ZCash HARD a month or two ago as the “true” bitcoin, but that’s probably a subject for a separate post)

¹ though a lot of people think the transactions are visible to #ElectricCoinCo via a backdoor, which is v. different from Monero. i haven't done the work to have an opinion on whether that's true or not, but a lot of bros call ZCash some variant of "CIAcoin"

#crypto #medialab #privacy #EpsteinFiles #madars #Virza #blockchain #LarrySummers #uspol #BarrySilbert #cryptocurrency #JeffreyEpstein

Madars Virza
/ About me / Publications /
Madars Virza

I am a Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab where I work with Joi Ito on cryptocurrencies (at the Digital Currency Initiative) and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (at the Ethics Initiative).

I co-invented Zerocash and co-founded Zcash. Both of these rely on libsnark, the efficient C++ library for zero-knowledge proofs, that I am an author of.

I recently graduated with Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, where I was fortunate to be advised by incomparable Ron Rivest. My Ph.D. thesis, also on libsnark, won the George M. Sprowls Award for Best MIT Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science. Before coming to MIT I did my undergraduate work at University of Latvia under the excellent guidance of Andris Ambainis.

The best way to reach me is: madars@mit.edu. You can also send me physical mail but due to COVID-19 I am not checking my mailbox too regularly.From: Joi Ito 
Sent: 11/22/2017 6:14:38 PM 
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Subject: Re: 
Importance: High 
Lots of stuff going on that week but I'm in town. 
#metoo is quite amazing... 
Madars is doing well. His PhD paper won an award and he found a vulnerability in ING's new crypto currency. 
Sent from my iPhoneDate: Monday, May 6 2019 10:52 AM 
Subject: Re: $25K from ASU 
From: Joichi Ito < 
To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>; 
That would be great. I've been busy, but good. How are you? Heard you saw Madars. 
> On May 6, 2019, at 06:48, J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: 
> i can have andrew farkas , he gave a building to the hasty pudding harvard. fund plant guys. how are you >?@Cryptadamist Nov 13

1. blame the collapse of bitcoin on "muh the government"

2. "true crypto has never been tried", sorry about all the money you lost

3. time to buy into our new ponzi Zcash / $ZEC
⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯cryptadamist@universeodon.com
2025-11-26

For the #EpsteinFiles curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie #SteveBannon. While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the #bitcoin core development team starting from around 2015 at #MIT (possibly until his death).

Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:

- Highlighted important names ("trump", "jabor", "brock", "#bitcoin", "#SaudiArabia", "#Israel", etc)

- Deanonymized (with help) as many of the #Epstein emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.

- Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.

- Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, author counts, etc)

i'm really enjoying posting screenshots of Bannon inviting Epstein to the movies on Bannon's insane right wing War Room tweets. his audience Really Does Not Like the fact that the two were so close and communicated so much.

* Site: michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/ep
* Post about some of the more alarming things in the Bannon / Epstein discussions: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/i-m

#EpsteinFiles #uspol #Bannon #WarRoom #uspolitics #Trump #MAGA #MBS #middleEast #Gaza #EhudBarak #Mossad #Netanyahu #bitcoin #BTC #crypto #cryptocurrency #Jabor #LarrySummers #WoodyAllen #michaelWolff #MITMediaLab #MediaLab #Harvard

[06/18/19 06:28:46 AM] Epstein: How dare you refer to your sweetheart by such a phrase. Shame on you , boy I've been 
having fun with this
[06/18/19 06:29:18 AM] Epstein: If I were you. Id sign that dollar quickly. As the interest expense is getting very very
high
[06/18/19 06:30:37 AM] Epstein: All I need to say. Is " its so beautiful - he shares the same view of you " and Lucifer 
will look like mother Theresa
[06/18/19 06:32:24 AM] Epstein: Do you think when she wakes up in the morning she looks a little like Donald
[06/18/19 06:32:35 AM] Epstein: Sam jowls
[06/18/19 06:32:39 AM] Epstein: Same
[06/18/19 06:33:39 AM] __________________: Scary
[06/18/19 06:33:47 AM] Bannon (?): Too much coke
[06/18/19 06:37:46 AM] Epstein: Too much ugly
[06/18/19 06:37:57 AM] Epstein: Miro ?
[06/18/19 06:38:15 AM] Epstein: Im meeting council of Europe head thurs. to push
[06/18/19 11:18:08 AM] Bannon (?): Working miro
[06/18/19 12:22:42 PM] Bannon (?): Shanahan blown up by CCP
[06/18/19 12:30:15 PM] Bannon (?): Did you watch Chernobyl yet???
[06/18/19 12:31:11 PM] Bannon (?): Have you read 'in the closet of the Vatican ' yet
[06/18/19 12:32:48 PM] Epstein: Yes no yes
[06/18/19 12:33:21 PM] Epstein: June 26 for chernobyl
[06/18/19 12:39:54 PM] Bannon (?): Dude-- I thought u were global player-- sean will get to u
[06/18/19 12:39:57 PM] Bannon (?): Today
[06/18/19 12:40:50 PM] Bannon (?): You are now exec producer of 'ITCOTV'
[06/18/19 12:41:20 PM] Epstein: Porntable of "sent from my iPhone" style signatures used by epstein and friendsAbbreviations Used Frequently In These Chats 
 ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ 
 ┃ Abbreviation ┃ Translation ┃ 
 ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩ 
 │ AD │ Abu Dhabi │ 
 │ Barak │ Ehud Barak (Former Israeli prime minister) │ 
 │ Barrack │ Tom Barrack │ 
 │ BG │ Bill Gates │ 
 │ Bill │ Bill Gates │ 
 │ Brock │ Brock Pierce │ 
 │ DB │ Deutsche Bank (maybe??) │ 
 │ HBJ │ Hamad bin Jassim (Former Qatari prime minister) │ 
 │ Jabor │ "an influential man in Qatar" │ 
 │ Jagland │ Thorbjørn Jagland │ 
 │ Jeffrey Wernick │ Right wing crypto bro │ 
 │ Hoffenberg │ Steven Hoffenberg (Epstein's ponzi scheme partner) │ 
 │ KSA │ Kingdom of Saudi Arabia │ 
 │ Kwok │ Chinese criminal Miles Kwok AKA Miles Guo AKA Guo Wengui │ 
 │ Mapp │ Kenneth E. Mapp (VI Governor) │ 
 │ Masa │ Masayoshi Son (Softbank) │ 
 │ MBS │ Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Saudi ruler) │ 
 │ MBZ │ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Emirates sheikh) │ 
 │ Jared │ Jared Kushner │ 
 │ Miro │ Miroslav Lajčák │ 
 │ Mooch │ Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci (Skybridge crypto bro) │ 
 │ Terje │ Terje Rød-Larsen │ 
 │ Woody │ Woody Allen │ 
 │ Zug │ City in Switzerland (crypto hub)table of the most common email authors in the recent epstein files archive
BiblogTecarias, BiblogTecariosbiblogtecarias
2025-11-21

En la entrevista que Sofía Moller le ha hecho a @efrainfoglia, diseñador, investigador y coordinador científico del de la UOC, hablan de censura, acceso a la información, activismo, tecnología.

"Internet libre, crítica y comunitaria"
biblogtecarios.es/sofiamoller/

Yann 不停 Heurtaux🔻shalf@mamot.fr
2025-10-31

#AppelÀLÉquipe

Pour un collectif qui se structure gentiment, la question de la qualité du contenu produit live quand quelqu’unex est quelque part où il se passe des trucs, d’une part, et de l’entraînement à la prise de parole médiatique, d’autre part, se pose de plus en plus.

Au vu des expériences dans le groupe, la mise en place d’une formation interne se fait au calme, avec le cursus vite fait suivant. Vous voyez des gros manques ?

#MediaLab #MediaTraining

PROD (la partie MEDIA "LAB")
- couverture live d'un événement auquel on participe, comment ça se documente efficacement en direct
- comment on prépare et on interview proprement des gens, pourquoi, quand est-ce qu'on ne le fait pas
- quand et comment on improvise parce que prio au direct
- le matos, et son stockage / sa logistique dédiée
- le montage audio/vidéo
- la publi séquencée, le recyclage multi-canaux etc.
- stockage et archives structurées
- base de données de personnes à interviewer et suivi de la logistique de bookingMEDIA TRAINING
- comment on se prépare à être interviewé, par ex. par des journalistes
- comment on rattrape ou laisse couler ou termine prématurément une interview manifestement hostile
- quel suivi après, comment on construit dessus pour préparer la prochaine
- revue de presse de nos interventions dans les médias mainstream ou militants
- veille structurée
- base de données de journalistes
2025-10-06

🎬 Unser Kurzfilm-Workshop zum Wettbewerb „48 Stunden – Durchdrehen!“ ist erfolgreich beendet! In nur zwei Tagen entstanden vier Kurzfilme, die am 21. Dezember beim Kurzfilmtag ihre Weltpremiere feiern – inklusive Publikumspreis! 🍿✨
#Kurzfilm #MediaLab #Kurzfilmtag

2025-09-27

🎬📖! Unser neues Projekt - Geschichten zum Leben
erwecken: Lesen, Basteln, Animieren ging heute in die nächste Runde…. Heute drehte sich alles um das Thema Daumenkino.
@makerport_stralsund @gutes_aufwachsen_mit_medien @bw_bibliotheksverband @hansestadt_stralsund Stadtbibliothek Stralsund #Trickfilm #StopMotion #AnimationWorkshop #Filmemachen #CreativeKids #Storytelling #Medienpädagogik #DigitaleBildung #Medienkompetenz #Medienbildung #KreativesLernen #MakingMedia #Mitmachen #KinderKreativ #JungeMedienmacher #KidsCreate #JugendKreativ #EntdeckenGestalten #Workshop #Ferienprogramm #Kreativtage #BildungMitZukunft #KreativMitMedien #medialab

MadXMad_X
2025-08-30

Imgur protest changes every day! We had the front page filled with Hulk porn, next was "F**k you Business Daddy" aka Medialab AI, later a frontpage filled with boobs, and now - a blackout.

Screenshot of the Front Page of Imgur: almost all posts are just black image.
STOP🚗🚘🚛BlechTerror🛑Fascismblechterror@mastodon.de
2025-08-28

@fernandez sieht ja fast aus wie #imgur vs #medialab... 😉

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