The last text message Zuck ever sent me was the night before they renamed the company to Meta, telling me to pay attention in the morning because he thought I'd be really excited by what they were going to announce. The next morning I kept waiting for the thing he thought I'd be interested in.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

I can vouch for Marisa, she's fantastic and will handle this story with the care it deserves.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

I'm honored to join the Cato Institute and my wonderful co-panelist today at 2:35pm ET to speak about Section 230 and Generative AI! Livestream here: www.cato.org/events/secti...

Section 230 at 30: The Past, Present, and Future of Online Speech and the 26 Words That Created the Internet

Join us for a day featuring panels on the history of Section 230, the current impact, debates, and legal challenges around the law, and how it might interact with future content moderation strategies ...

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a 12-minute response video to people mad at him supporting mass surveillance and censorship, and somehow got even MORE wrong about Section 230 than his original congressional testimony.

My Response To Joseph Gordon-Levitt

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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Reading the Epstein emails, I don't want to hear another goddamn thing from the government about "protecting kids" online.

Trump Demands $10 Billion From Taxpayers For Leaked Tax Returns; His Own Lawyers Get To Decide What He Gets Back in May, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered what might be the single most audacious statement of the Trump era—and that's saying something: I think everybody - the…

I was so completely flabbergasted by this article that I wrote a lengthy email to NCMEC about it, telling them to fix their CyberTipline reporting form whose UX enabled a huge overstatement of the scale of the AI-CSAM problem to go uncorrected for 6 months. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/letter-to-nc...

Riley Ray Griffin@rileyraygriffin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What happens when the AI race collides with child safety?

You may have seen headlines claiming that AI-generated CSAM is “flooding” the Internet. But in 2025, roughly 78% of the reports to NCMEC labeled as AI-generated CSAM turned out not to be AI-generated at all. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/letter-to-nc...

The last thing anyone needs is a new "platform" for microblogging. The whole point is we should be moving beyond silo'd platforms into an open social world. So my response to the launch of "W" as a competing platform to "X" is simply: "but Y, tho?" cybernews.com/tech/europe-...

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.

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I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem

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Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad…

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras www.404media.co/flock-expose...

This is the correct take on the whole Trump AI EO situation and it amazes me how many folks in the industry and tech policy circles are falling for the grift. Kudos @mmasnick.bsky.social for saying it. www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/t...

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal

The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…

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Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

tfw you aren't a billioinaire so you have to do a gofundme for your powertrip 🥺

Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop. It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!). I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?

Holy shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

I’m petitioning to add a tuna protein option at Chipotle. Who’s with me?

For some reason, I'm suddenly recalling how all of MAGA has been claiming that Biden's pardons don't count because they were done by "autopen" meaning he didn't really know about them or approve them. Not sure why I'm suddenly thinking about that, but it just sprang to mind.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

Words can hardly capture how proud I am of my students. I'm so excited about this new student organization dedicated to the First Amendment and I'm honored to serve as their faculty advisor.

Elizabeth Caroline@elizabethsipod.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My co-founder and I just launched the First Amendment Law Society. In a time of rising censorship, we built space for law students to speak, dissent, and shape the future. Grateful to our school @jmiers230.bsky.social. Say it. Mean it. Make it matter.

I love that my local library makerspace enables me to fight for a less smelly apartment walkway.

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

wow, which common vaccine was it?

I’ve been looking forward to this for half a year :) Time to take true ownership of my Kindle.

Dammit Jeff@dammitjeff.com · 11mo ago

PSA: IF you wanted to jailbreak your kindle but had a firmware that was too new, THERE IS A NEW JAILBREAK OUT FOR IT. This new jailbreak now add supports for kindles on firmwares 5.18.1+! Even the latest firmware update is moddable rn. I covered the entire process here: youtu.be/l4ZliC82RtA

Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…