Leigh Honeywell
@hypatia.bsky.social
Security, diversity, housing, Canadian stuff 🇨🇦. Cofounder and CEO of @tallpoppy.bsky.social; more at leighhoneywell.com
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cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
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This is an absolutely fascinating article, coauthored by @hypatia.bsky.social, about how predatory behavior and fraud / financial impropriety often go hand in hand. It’s long, but well worth a read. hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/n...
No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities
Content note for discussion of abuse and sexual violence. In the last couple of weeks, three respected members of the computer security and privacy tech communities have come forward under their ow…
hypatia.ca
February 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
This is an absolutely fascinating article, coauthored by @hypatia.bsky.social, about how predatory behavior and fraud / financial impropriety often go hand in hand. It’s long, but well worth a read. hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/n...
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I don’t regret to inform you that in between discussing AI sales forecasting models, the sales guys at my hotel bar are talking about how brave the people in Minneapolis are.
January 27, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I don’t regret to inform you that in between discussing AI sales forecasting models, the sales guys at my hotel bar are talking about how brave the people in Minneapolis are.
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@mmasnick.bsky.social has it 100% correct
January 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
@mmasnick.bsky.social has it 100% correct
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Finally some good news.
Ken Burns Announces New 10-Part ‘Mr. Biscuits’ Documentary After Adopting Cat
WALPOLE, NH—Revealing that the series would force Americans to rethink everything they thought they knew about the “cute little fuzzball,” filmmaker Ken Burns announced Friday the release of Mr. Biscu...
theonion.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Finally some good news.
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I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Plymouth; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th.
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Plymouth; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th.
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here’s me in @newrepublic.com back in ‘20 on coptalk, “resisting arrest,” the standard of “reasonable fear,” police impunity, painfully blatant lies, and more of what we’re seeing, again, right now newrepublic.com/article/1568...
Policing and the English Language
The poisonous contradictions of coptalk
newrepublic.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 PM
here’s me in @newrepublic.com back in ‘20 on coptalk, “resisting arrest,” the standard of “reasonable fear,” police impunity, painfully blatant lies, and more of what we’re seeing, again, right now newrepublic.com/article/1568...
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the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
the stadium stopped selling alcohol seven innings ago. everyone at this game is sober now
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The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.
October 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.
My mum is knocking it out of the park as a grandmother in many ways, but one of them is that she has wildcrafted two nice strollers from the curb just in her regular travels, not even looking for them on garbage day or w/e
October 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My mum is knocking it out of the park as a grandmother in many ways, but one of them is that she has wildcrafted two nice strollers from the curb just in her regular travels, not even looking for them on garbage day or w/e
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I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...
South Koreans Describe Fear and Anger After Georgia ICE Raid
Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the United States under murky circumstances, they had always planned to return home.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
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i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated YouTube Channel Uploaded Nothing But Videos of Women Being Shot
YouTube removed a channel that posted nothing but graphic Veo-generated videos of women being shot after 404 Media reached out for comment.
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with
If our little guy ends up somewhere on the spectrum, I’m sure it will be all the Tylenol I took during my pregnancy, and not the fact that both of his parents have ham radio licenses 🤪
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If our little guy ends up somewhere on the spectrum, I’m sure it will be all the Tylenol I took during my pregnancy, and not the fact that both of his parents have ham radio licenses 🤪
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once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system
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I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.
You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.
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One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
September 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.
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This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump to sign order designating antifa a terrorist organization
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order as soon as Monday designating the antifa movement a "terrorist organization," the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
www.reuters.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
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Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?
September 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?
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The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more.
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Having been in the US on one of these visas… lol, lmao
President Trump plans to add a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications in the administration’s latest crackdown on a system it says is used by tech companies to avoid hiring American workers.
Trump to Add $100,000 Fee to H-1B Visas
The move, expected as soon as Friday, would upend a program for foreign workers that the president says tech companies overuse.
on.wsj.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Having been in the US on one of these visas… lol, lmao
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The thing Eisner identifies that so many have missed abt the dangerous & escalating 1A restrictions is that the overwhelming majority of us do not have the resources to challenge the state in this way. If our key institutions cave in this moment, that opens the floodgates.
Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.
September 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The thing Eisner identifies that so many have missed abt the dangerous & escalating 1A restrictions is that the overwhelming majority of us do not have the resources to challenge the state in this way. If our key institutions cave in this moment, that opens the floodgates.
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I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased.
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi.
This is *not* normal.
I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
This is *not* normal.
I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.