Sarah Kay Wiley
@sarahkwiley.bsky.social
Tech policy and litigation at the intersection of 1A, monetization, and competition. Currently at Tech Justice Law Project.
Lawyer sometimes.
Adrenaline junkie always.
Would rather be trail running.
Lawyer sometimes.
Adrenaline junkie always.
Would rather be trail running.
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I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I find this extremely chilling:
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
If you’re looking for a way to support independent comedy, check out @dropout.tv ❤️
Start with Game Changer - Season 7, Ep 1. Thank me later.
Start with Game Changer - Season 7, Ep 1. Thank me later.
September 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you’re looking for a way to support independent comedy, check out @dropout.tv ❤️
Start with Game Changer - Season 7, Ep 1. Thank me later.
Start with Game Changer - Season 7, Ep 1. Thank me later.
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KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.
September 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
KEY to the story about ABC suspending Kimmel's show: Nexstar and Sinclair, two big owners of ABC-affiliated stations, both need FCC approval for pending deals. With a lot of $$ on the line, both have reason to curry favor with the Trump admin. Both decided to yank Kimmel's show.
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I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.
Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.
Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.
Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.
Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.
Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.
Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.
Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.
Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.
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🚨BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit in California state court against OpenAI for defective product design and wrongful death after ChatGPT encouraged and aided a 16-year-old California boy’s suicide — including by providing detailed instructions on how to hang himself in the final hours of his life. 🧵
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🚨BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit in California state court against OpenAI for defective product design and wrongful death after ChatGPT encouraged and aided a 16-year-old California boy’s suicide — including by providing detailed instructions on how to hang himself in the final hours of his life. 🧵
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The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one.
One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
August 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one.
One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."
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The Trump administration’s forthcoming AI action plan will center industry interests & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable roll-out of AI into every part of our lives. With @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, we’re among the 90+ orgs demanding AI policy that puts the people first. peoplesaiaction.com
People's AI Action Plan
peoplesaiaction.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Trump administration’s forthcoming AI action plan will center industry interests & lead to the unrestrained, unaccountable roll-out of AI into every part of our lives. With @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, we’re among the 90+ orgs demanding AI policy that puts the people first. peoplesaiaction.com
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Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:
www.supremecourt.gov
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.
It has written majority opinions in only 3.
Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
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I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.
July 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.
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When ICE targets one vulnerable community (immigrants), it has a cascading effect on other vulnerable communities (children, the disabled, etc.). This is great reporting from @19thnews.org showing exactly how ICE is destroying families and communities.
After a child care worker is detained by ICE, a community is left reeling
Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American children, and one of the few who cares for children with disabilities. Now she and her seriously il...
19thnews.org
July 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
When ICE targets one vulnerable community (immigrants), it has a cascading effect on other vulnerable communities (children, the disabled, etc.). This is great reporting from @19thnews.org showing exactly how ICE is destroying families and communities.
Thinking a lot lately about how the bar has moved even lower for transparency - from “who wrote/said/did what” to “is it even a person?”
And this occurs in all sorts of scenarios and industries - customer service chat, journalism, law, and policing.
And this occurs in all sorts of scenarios and industries - customer service chat, journalism, law, and policing.
BIG NEWS: After a long investigation we have uncovered that Axon's Draft One--a program that uses genAI to write police reports based on body-worn camera audio--is *designed* not to retain the data on which parts were written by an officer and which parts were written by AI. A looming disaster.
Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that...
www.eff.org
July 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Thinking a lot lately about how the bar has moved even lower for transparency - from “who wrote/said/did what” to “is it even a person?”
And this occurs in all sorts of scenarios and industries - customer service chat, journalism, law, and policing.
And this occurs in all sorts of scenarios and industries - customer service chat, journalism, law, and policing.
1 in 5 Montanans rely on medicaid. Reading estimates that 31,000 Montanans alone will lose their healthcare because of the BBB. Not to mention the $5.4B that our rural hospitals could lose. Daines, Sheehy, Zinke, and Downing this is on YOU.
July 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
1 in 5 Montanans rely on medicaid. Reading estimates that 31,000 Montanans alone will lose their healthcare because of the BBB. Not to mention the $5.4B that our rural hospitals could lose. Daines, Sheehy, Zinke, and Downing this is on YOU.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Red alert for the big bill blocking state tech laws!
There’s a new draft of the AI moratorium and it’s WORSE. The exceptions narrowed so “generally applicable” laws only survive if they do not create an “undue OR disproportionate burden” on AI. This creates huge uncertainty for which laws survive.
There’s a new draft of the AI moratorium and it’s WORSE. The exceptions narrowed so “generally applicable” laws only survive if they do not create an “undue OR disproportionate burden” on AI. This creates huge uncertainty for which laws survive.
www.blackburn.senate.gov
June 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Red alert for the big bill blocking state tech laws!
There’s a new draft of the AI moratorium and it’s WORSE. The exceptions narrowed so “generally applicable” laws only survive if they do not create an “undue OR disproportionate burden” on AI. This creates huge uncertainty for which laws survive.
There’s a new draft of the AI moratorium and it’s WORSE. The exceptions narrowed so “generally applicable” laws only survive if they do not create an “undue OR disproportionate burden” on AI. This creates huge uncertainty for which laws survive.
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I mean, if everything is going in the shitter, there’s no reason to have anti-gay people have all the fun; start making religious objections to all sorts of stuff. The Ten Commandments getting put into class all over, for instance. That’s at least 40% religious orthodoxy.
SCOTUS, by Justice Alito, holds that it violates the religious exercise of parents for public schools to have LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks without allowing parents to opt-out their children from seeing them.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I mean, if everything is going in the shitter, there’s no reason to have anti-gay people have all the fun; start making religious objections to all sorts of stuff. The Ten Commandments getting put into class all over, for instance. That’s at least 40% religious orthodoxy.
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News: Senate Parliamentarian OKs the revised reconciliation provision tying federal broadband subsidies (BEAD) to states not enforcing AI laws for 10 years, according to Dems on the Budget committee www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
June 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
News: Senate Parliamentarian OKs the revised reconciliation provision tying federal broadband subsidies (BEAD) to states not enforcing AI laws for 10 years, according to Dems on the Budget committee www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
Seeing cowboys, farmers, first-time protesters turnout in small towns in red states like MT is filling my heart with hope. Let’s go!
June 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Seeing cowboys, farmers, first-time protesters turnout in small towns in red states like MT is filling my heart with hope. Let’s go!
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If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.
Attending a Protest
For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download).
Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountab...
ssd.eff.org
June 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.
The only king I serve.
June 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The only king I serve.
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in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuries
Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a "less-lethal" round.
www.cbsnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people
June 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people
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Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.