David Brody
@dbrody.bsky.social
Privacy rights are civil rights.
Founder & former director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Founder & former director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
- Encrypted communications
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Assistive devices for people with disabilities
- EVs
- Solar & wind power
- Open source anything
- Basically any grant research funded by NSF, NIH, or NASA
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Assistive devices for people with disabilities
- EVs
- Solar & wind power
- Open source anything
- Basically any grant research funded by NSF, NIH, or NASA
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 4:27 AM
- Encrypted communications
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Assistive devices for people with disabilities
- EVs
- Solar & wind power
- Open source anything
- Basically any grant research funded by NSF, NIH, or NASA
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Assistive devices for people with disabilities
- EVs
- Solar & wind power
- Open source anything
- Basically any grant research funded by NSF, NIH, or NASA
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The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Epic has a new AI summary generating tool, and I noticed that it completely hallucinated a GI bleed for one of my patients last night.
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Epic has a new AI summary generating tool, and I noticed that it completely hallucinated a GI bleed for one of my patients last night.
HOV lane, here I come.
February 18, 2026 at 2:37 AM
HOV lane, here I come.
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After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
February 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
This is the Natural Disaster Disenfranchisement Act.
Remember when Hurricane Helene decimated big chunks of North Carolina two years ago? What percentage of voters whose homes were destroyed recovered their marriage certificate or other crucial docs?
Every fire and flood will disenfranchise.
Remember when Hurricane Helene decimated big chunks of North Carolina two years ago? What percentage of voters whose homes were destroyed recovered their marriage certificate or other crucial docs?
Every fire and flood will disenfranchise.
Sen. Mike Rounds on concerns that women will be disenfranchised by the SAVE America Act: "If you get married, you show them your marriage certificate and you're on your way once again"
February 17, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This is the Natural Disaster Disenfranchisement Act.
Remember when Hurricane Helene decimated big chunks of North Carolina two years ago? What percentage of voters whose homes were destroyed recovered their marriage certificate or other crucial docs?
Every fire and flood will disenfranchise.
Remember when Hurricane Helene decimated big chunks of North Carolina two years ago? What percentage of voters whose homes were destroyed recovered their marriage certificate or other crucial docs?
Every fire and flood will disenfranchise.
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BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
February 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
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Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
February 17, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
Odds are this baby is a US citizen, because he was probably born here.
Even if he isn’t, merely detaining him at all should be a violation of the 8th Amendment, among other things.
Even if he isn’t, merely detaining him at all should be a violation of the 8th Amendment, among other things.
‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.
Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
www.sacurrent.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Odds are this baby is a US citizen, because he was probably born here.
Even if he isn’t, merely detaining him at all should be a violation of the 8th Amendment, among other things.
Even if he isn’t, merely detaining him at all should be a violation of the 8th Amendment, among other things.
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I really wish American Jewish organizations would spend a bit less time on college student protestors, and a bit more time on the fact that the US government is barely bothering to dog whistle to the historically antisemitic and Holocaust revisionist European far-right.
This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.
February 16, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I really wish American Jewish organizations would spend a bit less time on college student protestors, and a bit more time on the fact that the US government is barely bothering to dog whistle to the historically antisemitic and Holocaust revisionist European far-right.
Weev played a major role in building up the Daily Stormer a couple years later, where he and others played a major role in generating troll storms against Black people, Jews, and LGBTQ people. This fed directly into the growth of the alt right and led to Charlottesville in 2017.
A strange find from the Epstein files:
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."
Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 16, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Weev played a major role in building up the Daily Stormer a couple years later, where he and others played a major role in generating troll storms against Black people, Jews, and LGBTQ people. This fed directly into the growth of the alt right and led to Charlottesville in 2017.
I did not expect Larry Page to be a worse philanthropist than Elon.
I’m also assuming Buffett has a bunch of charitable bequests teed up, given his pledge.
I’m also assuming Buffett has a bunch of charitable bequests teed up, given his pledge.
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I did not expect Larry Page to be a worse philanthropist than Elon.
I’m also assuming Buffett has a bunch of charitable bequests teed up, given his pledge.
I’m also assuming Buffett has a bunch of charitable bequests teed up, given his pledge.
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X-Wing (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released circa 33 years ago.
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
February 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
X-Wing (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released circa 33 years ago.
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
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This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
All of this thread, plus even in the most generous explanations he looks like a rube ready to get steamrolled by the Susan Collins Machine. She’s one of the most adept political operators in the nation and he telegraphed he’s too politically incompetent to prevent an obvious scandal.
Ok fine @newrepublic.com, want to dance?
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
All of this thread, plus even in the most generous explanations he looks like a rube ready to get steamrolled by the Susan Collins Machine. She’s one of the most adept political operators in the nation and he telegraphed he’s too politically incompetent to prevent an obvious scandal.
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Ok fine @newrepublic.com, want to dance?
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Ok fine @newrepublic.com, want to dance?
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
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Dear Bluesky, I like to think of
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
February 15, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Dear Bluesky, I like to think of
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP
Post an image you can hear
February 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Post an image you can hear
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mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house
Note: The social media person is taking a planned vacation next week. Recalls will go out on Thursday as is the custom but subscribe for recall emails so you don't miss them. The social media person will be *absolutely unreachable* and any content you see from our accounts will be pre-scheduled.
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house
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wrote about That AI Essay, the "scare trade," and safety researchers deciding to quit in public nymag.com/intelligence...
February 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
wrote about That AI Essay, the "scare trade," and safety researchers deciding to quit in public nymag.com/intelligence...
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there's a lot of reason to doubt him!
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
there's a lot of reason to doubt him!
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE