Occupy Wall Street co-founder built an AI organizing mentor that runs offline
Micah Bornfree, co-founder of Occupy Wall Street, has developed a free AI organizing mentor called Outcry that operates offline. The app is designed to assist activists by providing tools for organizing without transmitting data to external servers. It utilizes a model trained on various organizing resources to help users strategize and solve campaign challenges.
- ▪Outcry is a free app that runs offline, ensuring user privacy by not transmitting data.
- ▪The app was created by Micah Bornfree, also known as Micah White, who co-founded Occupy Wall Street.
- ▪Bornfree trained the AI model using organizing handbooks and transcripts from mentoring sessions with activists.
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Occupy Wall Street co-founder built an AI organizing mentor that runs offline Ellsworth Toohey 4:43 pm Tue May 19, 2026 Outcry, a free AI organizing mentor that runs offline from Micah Bornfree Most AI assistants send your conversations to someone else's server. Outcry, a free app from Micah Bornfree, PhD, takes the opposite tack: the model lives on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple silicon Mac, and nothing it discusses with you is ever transmitted anywhere. Bornfree is the chosen name of Micah White, the senior Adbusters editor who issued the original call for Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and later wrote The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution.
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