Wendy Seltzer
@wseltzer.bsky.social
On a quest to explore other socials. Also @[email protected]
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I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
My favorite books of 2025
25 books that changed the way I look at the world this year
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
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The cool sh*t we could have as a civilization if minoritized researchers could just DO SCIENCE with their energy. Whew.
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
I did my job. And then I did a job that never should have been my responsibility afterwards, sending emails and having meetings about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Other women scholars had to spend their time explaining to Aspen leadership why this was not ok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The cool sh*t we could have as a civilization if minoritized researchers could just DO SCIENCE with their energy. Whew.
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"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot
The Body as a Password: The Cost of Face ID
Convenience is costing people their freedom. Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities, writes Afsaneh Rigot.
the-decenter.ghost.io
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot
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turns out warrant canaries go both ways
"So to deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
turns out warrant canaries go both ways
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One year from now, Chrome will enable "Always Use Secure Connections" and warn users before plaintext HTTP by default.
HTTPS by default
One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One year from now, Chrome will enable "Always Use Secure Connections" and warn users before plaintext HTTP by default.
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
SFILEN
San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network
sfilen.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
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#SanFrancisco! Join us in person TONIGHT! 🌐 Celebrate 1 trillion pages saved to the #WaybackMachine at The Web We’ve Built at @InternetArchive. Experience digital history live! 🎉
📅 Oct 22
🕔–🕙 5 PM–10PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
ONLINE ⬇️🧵
#Wayback1T
📅 Oct 22
🕔–🕙 5 PM–10PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
ONLINE ⬇️🧵
#Wayback1T
October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#SanFrancisco! Join us in person TONIGHT! 🌐 Celebrate 1 trillion pages saved to the #WaybackMachine at The Web We’ve Built at @InternetArchive. Experience digital history live! 🎉
📅 Oct 22
🕔–🕙 5 PM–10PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
ONLINE ⬇️🧵
#Wayback1T
📅 Oct 22
🕔–🕙 5 PM–10PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
ONLINE ⬇️🧵
#Wayback1T
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Every quote in this story from the founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff has been designed in a lab to illustrate the single most wrongheaded approach to technology, surveillance, privacy, and crime: www.theverge.com/tech/804052/...
‘I was the demolition man’: Ring founder reflects on how he almost destroyed the company
Ding Dong!
www.theverge.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Every quote in this story from the founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff has been designed in a lab to illustrate the single most wrongheaded approach to technology, surveillance, privacy, and crime: www.theverge.com/tech/804052/...
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My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!
No Kings SF was sunny and crowded!
October 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
No Kings SF was sunny and crowded!
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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Great day to show what you believe in. Speak your truth. Show you are prepared to fight against authoritarian rule. If you’re marching, having a teach-in,organizing, or resting for future battles, do it with the conviction that we will not give in, that we stand on the side of justice.And stay safe.
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Great day to show what you believe in. Speak your truth. Show you are prepared to fight against authoritarian rule. If you’re marching, having a teach-in,organizing, or resting for future battles, do it with the conviction that we will not give in, that we stand on the side of justice.And stay safe.
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Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
October 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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The Harvard Crimson joined 43 other college newspapers on an amicus brief filed Wednesday in support of a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s targeting of noncitizens for political speech.
Samuel A. Church & Cam N. Srivastava report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Samuel A. Church & Cam N. Srivastava report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Crimson Signs Amicus Brief in Suit Claiming Trump Admin Suppressed Noncitizens’ Speech in Student Papers | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson joined 43 other college newspapers on an amicus brief filed Wednesday in support of a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s targeting of noncitizens for political speech.
www.thecrimson.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Harvard Crimson joined 43 other college newspapers on an amicus brief filed Wednesday in support of a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s targeting of noncitizens for political speech.
Samuel A. Church & Cam N. Srivastava report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Samuel A. Church & Cam N. Srivastava report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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New copyright scenario: lawyers threaten researchers over cryptographic solution found in Smithsonian archive
A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New copyright scenario: lawyers threaten researchers over cryptographic solution found in Smithsonian archive
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MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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Very good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
All year, we’ve seen this administration treat appropriations bills less as laws-to-follow and more like Lucy playing football with Charlie Brown. What should make this moment any different? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump in has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Very good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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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.
reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.
read and share and, for your opeds, steal.
October 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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.
reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.
read and share and, for your opeds, steal.
Congratulations Cory, you got the NYT to say "enshittification," if grudgingly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Congratulations Cory, you got the NYT to say "enshittification," if grudgingly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
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The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation
October 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation
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Oh, that’s a good one.
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Oh, that’s a good one.