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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 8d

Hell is EdTech

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING
@knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism

This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 16d

A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA.

I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better.

She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 17d

Exceptional, important, and well worth the watch. Come for the defense of free speech and stay for the turtle.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17d

Great great great @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech.

I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...

This Kind of Freedom Will Leave You Speechless

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

www.youtube.com

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 18d

While terrible, this is entirely unsurprising. If you hold serious safety efforts in contempt, this sort of thing is inevitable.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 18d

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.

www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content

Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.

www.businessinsider.com

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‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social · 18d

Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾‍♀️

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 19d

Someone behind me is arguing intensely that 7×5 = 35, and I am so curious about the origin of this fight.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m out of words.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 8

Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.

Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.

nyti.ms

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · Sep 8

One of the tiny but great joys in life: a cookbook you’ve used so often and loved so well that it effortlessly flops open to your favorite recipes. ❤️

Image of the cooks illustrated cookbook.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 31

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences

The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.

wapo.st

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Aug 29

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · Aug 28

It is delightful.

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · Aug 28

It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · Aug 28

NEW: Credit reporting giant TransUnion has confirmed a data breach involving more than 4.4 million customers' personal information. TransUnion claims "no credit information was accessed" in the late-July breach, which it said involves its U.S. consumer support operations.

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers' personal information | TechCrunch

The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers.

techcrunch.com

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Mike Rifer @thelifeofrifer.bsky.social · Aug 27

Periodic reminder that Trump decimated the National Park Service’s staffing and budget, and the GOP imposed a $1 billion budget cut on D.C. municipal services.

That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 26

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · Aug 24

OSINT folks, the bar has been raised

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 18

"I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)"

Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life

www.nytimes.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6.

How will the next legally required transition of power go?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 17

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change.

The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · Aug 17

The most unrealistic aspect of War of the Worlds has gotta be that everyone is just out there answering Teams calls with no issues. Can you imagine how awful it would be to navigate the end of the world…on TEAMS?!??!

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is not the slightest bit surprising and it began prior to Trump coming back to power. As the idiot AG of Missouri was pursuing Missouri v Biden, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal sued me and my colleagues with the same forum-shopped judge and plaintiffs. Wake up: it’s a machine.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · Aug 15

Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment.

For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I’d taken a shot every time I wrote the word “multistakeholder” (or some derívate thereof) today, I would - well, I’d be dead, probably. Very dead. Terrible way to go.

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · Aug 6

That would be amazing plot twist. 😂

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · Aug 6

I saw it in upstate NY…

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Mozilla @mozilla.org · Jul 14

The world’s first anti-deepfake wearable is here👀

Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now)

Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com

The Box — The World's First Anti-Deepfake Wearable

Feel safe in public again. Our elegant, full-size wearable has you covered.

wearthebox.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Aug 5

if you're writing a story about "trump threatens to federalize dc," it's really worth including the fact that there is no mechanism by which he can do that, and perhaps noting what he might have been referring to instead (deploying the natl guard? presidential control of MPD?)

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Aug 5

a) The president can't unilaterally federalize DC; Congress would need to repeal the Home Rule Act. Have fun trying to convince the parliamentarian that this doesn't actually require 60 votes in the Senate
b) Statehood please

CivicTracker @civictracker.us · Aug 5

🚨BREAKING: Trump says he might "FEDERALIZE" D.C.

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