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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 14h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 8h

lately i've been thinking of this as platform logic.

replacing unpredictable human connections with fully controlled, fully visible (to the platform) transactions **is the point of this approach**

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 11d

You don't have a delivery guy from the pizza place, you have an app

You don't talk to customer service you open a ticket on zendesk

platform logic works by replacing direct human relationships with mediated transactions

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 9h

CDT Senior Technologist @npdoty.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy currently chairs the Privacy Working Group at the W3C, where GPC is being standardized – more on why that process is so important and continues to be a focus of CDT’s work:

It’s Time to Standardize the Global Privacy Control

CDT Policy Fellow Cami Goray also contributed to this post. Think of the number of times your website browsing experience has been interrupted by a cookie banner request for your consent to tracking. If you’ve felt frustrated by the need to jump through hoops before the chance to even access a website, you are not […]

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 9h

CDT’s @nathaliemarechal.net: “This should send a signal to the technical community, which is currently working through the W3C to standardize the Global Privacy Control [GPC], that policymakers are eager to integrate universal opt-out mechanisms into their jurisdictions’ privacy protections.”

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 9h

CDT’s @nathaliemarechal.net: “It’s important that we continue to expand these rules to tools beyond browsers, but California’s move is a common-sense step in the right direction.”

Meaningful Opt-Out Rights Require Companies to Do Their Part. State Governments Might Have to Make Them.

Update: CDT submitted a letter on March 7, 2025 to the California State Assembly’s Committee on Consumer Protection in support of AB 566, which requires vendors of web browsers and mobile operating systems to include a setting that enables users to send an automated signal to businesses with which they interact through their browser or […]

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 9h

CDT’s @nathaliemarechal.net: “Ensuring that your privacy preferences are known should not be a difficult or confusing task, and this bill ensures that the ability to universally opt-out of unwanted data sales is accessible and understandable."

Meaningful Opt-Out Rights Require Companies to Do Their Part. State Governments Might Have to Make Them.

Update: CDT submitted a letter on March 7, 2025 to the California State Assembly’s Committee on Consumer Protection in support of AB 566, which requires vendors of web browsers and mobile operating systems to include a setting that enables users to send an automated signal to businesses with which they interact through their browser or […]

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 9h

CDT applauds the signing today of AB 566 into law, which empowers Californians to exercise their existing privacy rights through their browsers.

Governor Newsom signs data privacy bills to protect tech users | Governor of California

State of California

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15h

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5d

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 12h

I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 12h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 12h

So you like child deductions ?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 1d

This is the kind of question that makes me wish I spoke German!

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 1d

As a connoisseur of fine Canadian passive aggressiveness, this was 👨‍🍳😘

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to compete with this.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

Creep tech: t.e2ma.net/message/rzbt...

UNIVERSITY OF | Office of
SAN FRANCISCO
Public Safety
Crime Safety
Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence
Reported
Dear USF Community,
We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus.
Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 2d

So the HELP committee staff… asked ChatGPT if the AI hype is real, it produced synthetic text suggesting it is, and they… published it ?!?!?!?

And Axios just… printed that at face value ?

JFCOMFGWTFKMN

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 2d

this statement by the American Council of Learned Societies, one of the key orgs in higher ed, is exactly right.

reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.

read and share and, for your opeds, steal.

I cannot post the entire alt text but it begins: On October 1, the White House proposed to nine leading American universities that they agree to a list of demands in exchange for receiving preferential access to research funding. The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” undermines the long-standing independence of American academia. It works against the best interests of colleges and universities and of every one of us who has benefited from the knowledge they produce. We call for its immediate rejection by all institutions of higher education.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 2d

I agree with the diagnosis in this 🧵: the economy is full of fraud, grift and assorted bullshit. Much of it tech-based.

I hope the prognosis is incorrect, because I really don’t want to live through even more interesting times, but tbh I’m not confident that it is.

Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 2d

Here's the thing...

The AI Bubble Pop *won't happen* for the same reason that the long predicted ad tech bubble pop won't happen.

They aren't selling a technology, they're selling fraud and profitable frauds always sell, the bigger they are, the longer they sell. It does not have to work to sell

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI yesterday:

I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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Where Is the Line?

On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America

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