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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 21d

What makes Bluesky different: it’s open source, so anyone can contribute to building the experience they want. And even if you build a whole new app, the protocol means you can migrate with your data, identity, and relationships intact.

str👻d @str4d.xyz · 24d

The eternally-great thing about open source: if something doesn't exist, and the devs don't have time to work on it themselves, you can just implement it for them!

If they decide not to take it as-is, you've still helped explore the design space.

And if they don't accept it, but you need it, fork!

str👻d @str4d.xyz · 24d

Figured out enough of the rsky-relay internals to implement this myself (reporting the data that it currently records):

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The Verge @theverge.com · 28d

Ted Cruz’s new bill would let AI companies set their own rules for up to 10 years

The SANDBOX Act would let companies request exemptions from regulation for AI products and services — and let the White House override agencies that say no.

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Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com · 28d

join us for the 4th session of our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series on Sept. 29th, 11AM, EDT.
we are eager to host two brilliant keynote speakers, Paz Peña (Mozilla Foundation) and Tamara Kneese (Data & Society), who will discuss the social and environmental impacts of technocapitalism.
more info: 👇

jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 28d

Interested in environmental justice & how gender inequalities are embedded in technology infrastructure? Join us for the 4th Gender & Tech webinar, Sept. 29 11am EDT, with Paz Peña Ochoa & @tamigraph.bsky.social.
Free & open. Registration: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Co-org w/ @yasmincurzi.com

Poster of the 4th talk in the Gender and Tech Online Talk Series: Technocapitalism and Environmental Justice. IT features a dark green and orange abstract pattern, with the information about the event in white:
Speakers:
Paz Peña, Mozilla Foundation
Tamara Kneese, Data & Society
Moderated by Jess Reia
September 29th, 11am EDT.

This series is co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia.

In the bottom of the poster we have two sponsor logos: UVA Digital Technology for Democracy Lab and UVA School of Data Science

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Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 26

Respeito à nossa Constituição, à nossa legislação e ao povo brasileiro. É isso que exigimos. Porque democracia e soberania não se negociam 🇧🇷

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technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social · Aug 26

“This back-to-school season, the usual first-day jitters have been replaced by paralyzing fear. Kids are missing school, afraid to leave their homes. Parents are having to make plans in case they are disappeared. And teachers are having to be trained in safety protocols should they encounter ICE.”

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · Aug 25

Across the country, first-day jitters have been replaced with paralyzing fear. Empty desks, parents missing drop-off, and students deported after ICE check-ins.

"The fact is that the Trump administration is damaging an entire generation of American children," writes @tusk81.bsky.social.

Back To School For Some, But Not For Others

There will be empty desks in classrooms after schoolkids as young as six have been swept up and deported by the Trump administration.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com · Aug 25

Contribuí para essa super matéria da @laismartins.com no @intercept.com.br

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Intercept Brasil @intercept.com.br · Aug 25

Sim, apesar de o STF ter decidido que plataformas são responsáveis por conteúdos criminosos, o neonazismo ainda corre solto no Telegram. E o problema não está em comunidades escondidas ou nichos: nós encontramos pelo menos 35 mil brasileiros em canais neonazistas abertos na plataforma.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s deeply concerning to see #LinkedIn remove a policy protecting transgender and nonbinary people from one of the most prevalent and extreme types of online anti-trans hate at a time when trans people are under unprecedented attack, writes GLAAD’s @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social.

LinkedIn Joins Meta and YouTube in Abandoning Policies Designed to Counter Anti-Trans Hate | TechPolicy.Press

GLAAD Social Media Safety Program's Jenni Olson says it is deeply concerning to see LinkedIn remove a policy protecting transgender and nonbinary people.

www.techpolicy.press

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Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com · Aug 12

this is insane

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Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com · Aug 11

Come and join us in the third webinar of our Gender and Tech Online Talk Series - this time to discuss platform governance from an intersectional perspective with the amazing Julie Owono and Coleen Carrigan. More details below!

See you there?

jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Are you interested in learning more about how gender is shaped by digitization and platform governance? Join us on Aug 28 11am EDT for the 3rd event in the Gender & Tech Online Talk Series with Julie Owono & Coleen Carrigan. Free & open to the public. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The image displays important information about the Gender and Tech Online Talk Series:Platform governanceAugust, 11:00am - 12:15pm EDTJulie Owono - Internet Sans Frontières & Meta Oversight BoardColeen Carrigan - UVA Engineering and SocietyModerated by Yasmin Curzi.There is a QR code for registration and two logos: DTD Lab and SDS-UVA

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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · Aug 11

This talk will be moderated by @yasmincurzi.com, who is also co-organizing this series with me. The series is sponsored by the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab and the UVA School of Data Science.

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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Are you interested in learning more about how gender is shaped by digitization and platform governance? Join us on Aug 28 11am EDT for the 3rd event in the Gender & Tech Online Talk Series with Julie Owono & Coleen Carrigan. Free & open to the public. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 7

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking.
*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.
*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."
*Cannot "promote anti-American values"
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Jul 14

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jul 14

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.

zurl.co/YBGNy

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines

Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

zurl.co

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Sasha Abramsky @sashaabramsky.bsky.social · Aug 8

What kind of vile people put this much effort into reducing racial, economic and cultural diversity on campuses? What kind of people think it's bad to make an effort to include underrepresented people in higher ed? Their vision of America is truly that of AmeriKKKa.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

Trump Administration to Require Universities to Submit Data on Applicants’ Race

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Trump EO requires commissars to decide who gets federal money: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

www.whitehouse.gov

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Aug 4

Source:
apnews.com/article/poll...

The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll finds the vast majority of U.S. adults are feeling some stress about the cost of groceries, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs rema...

apnews.com

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Intercept Brasil @intercept.com.br · Aug 4

Bolsonaro sabia exatamente o que estava fazendo: provocou o STF, burlou restrições e acabou em prisão domiciliar. Ver o país pegando fogo do conforto de seu lar é exatamente o que ele queria.

Leia na íntegra: www.intercept.com.br/2025/08/04/b...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

www.wthr.com

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Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com · Aug 4

Indígenas Anacé protestam contra data center do TikTok no Ceará e pedem suspensão do licenciamento ambiental www.intercept.com.br/2025/08/04/i...

Indígenas Anacé protestam contra data center do TikTok no Ceará

Grupo exige realização de consulta prévia e critica o uso de água do data center.

www.intercept.com.br

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Brett Frischmann @brettfrischmann.bsky.social · Aug 2

But they’ll still shove it into everything, force-feed it to everyone (unwanted integration into software, unproven edtech etc), externalize costs, induce unpaid work. …

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 2

So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...

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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · Jul 31

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data

Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

www.fastcompany.com

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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · Aug 2

LULA NA CHINA NO
QUARTA SÁBADO

A imagem mostra dois trechos sobre comércio internacional entre Brasil, EUA e China. À esquerda, uma declaração de autoridade brasileira diz que, se os EUA impuserem tarifas, o país buscará novos parceiros, destacando uma “relação extraordinária com a China” e preferindo vender a quem pagar mais. À direita, um post da Embaixada da China no Brasil anuncia a habilitação de 183 novas empresas brasileiras para exportar café ao mercado chinês a partir de 30 de julho de 2025, com validade de cinco anos. Ambos os trechos reforçam o fortalecimento dos laços comerciais entre Brasil e China.

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Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com · Aug 2

After participating this week for the first time at the @icon-s.bsky.social in Brasilia, I’m heading to Bochum to visit the @cais-research.bsky.social (also for the first time!).
Looking forward to sharing my ongoing research on platform regulation and online gender-based violence in Brazil.

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Oxford Internet Institute @oii.ox.ac.uk · Aug 1

"This trend is very worrying when opaque rules are now applied to make these take down decisions, especially in the current political climate," she said.

Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules

Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Yasmin Curzi @yasmincurzi.com · Aug 1

Ainda que Microsoft e Google tenham dito que não suspenderão os serviços prestados ao STF e ao Min. Moraes, isso tudo só deixa ainda mais evidente a necessidade de investimento em uma infraestrutura digital que seja independente dos EUA.

www.poder360.com.br/poder-intern...

STF pode seguir usando serviços de empresas dos EUA, diz advogado

Javier Coronado Diaz, especializado em casos da Lei Magnitsky, afirma haver exceções que permitiriam também que Moraes, sancionado pelos EUA, mantenha seus perfis no Facebook ou YouTube, por exemplo.

www.poder360.com.br

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