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Edward Perez

@eddieperez.bsky.social

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Election admin & voting technology. Ex-Twitter director for civic integrity. Lapsed poli-sci academic. I post about democracy & social media. Likes: facts. http://linkedin.com/in/eddie1perez Board of Directors @osetinstitute.org

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · Oct 12

“Words like ‘freedom,’ ‘justice,’ ‘democracy’ are not
common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”

— James Baldwin

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 23h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely insane that the President of the United States has sent militarized secret police to attack multiple American cities, all at the same time.

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 8h

Q: “So why would OpenAI allow this?”

A: Because they are an immoral, parasitic company devoted solely to feeding investors for profit.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 9h

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 9h

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 14h

how I miss the halcyon right-wing days of “local control knows best…”

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

trib.al

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 17h

fucking goons

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17h

Petition to call “anti-DEI campaigners” what they actually are. I propose professional racists, hired bigots, mercenary chauvinists.

BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 17h

shocking

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 2d

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives. The post Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 17h

Love the little Suzuki!

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

Just saw an announcement from a kids soccer group that ICE agents have been spotted in the area, so it’s OK to skip today’s games if people are scared.
The MAGA assault on our community is intolerable and has nothing to do with making people’s lives better.

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 17h

👇👇👇

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18h

I think the last few months have shown how describing a particular far right ethos as "anti-government" has kind of fallen apart

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 19h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 18h

“…large companies have co-opted the language of openness and interoperability to defend monopolistic control.”

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 18h

For this week’s podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke with Mallory Knodel from the Social Web Foundation and the Internet Exchange and Burcu Kilic from CIGI. The conversation revolved around a post they wrote for the Internet Exchange titled “Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests."

The Open Internet is Dead. What Comes Next? | TechPolicy.Press

Justin Hendrix spoke to Mallory Knodel and Burcu Kilic about their recent essay, titled "Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests."

www.techpolicy.press

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 2d

He’s such a small, petty, desperate, overweening little man.

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is an abuser, and we are all trapped in the house while he rages.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 4d

I am so fucking tired of hearing the tired, lazy lies about how “now you can walk to the subway safely in DC, now you can go to restaurants…”

DC was just fine.

And Trump & the GOP are parroting these lies in the stupidest ways, for MAGA snowflakes in rural America.

Fuck you, you fucking liars.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4d

So they weren’t peaceful tourists? I’m losing the plot.

(Also, that means he pardoned Antifa, in case anyone cares)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 4d

Your post resonates with me, Neil. Although I am retired now, for many years, I relied on Twitter to both learn and educate the public about election security, election technology, and election administration. Twitter had a very robust community of responsible election professionals. Now it’s gone.😪

Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 4d

the freedom of speech president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."