I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Platformocracy news round-up: New York, France, & Google jump on the child-safety bandwagon; Meta, Tiktok, & Discord auto-moderation goes rampant. Plus, previewing this year’s summer field trip. @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @eff.org, @techcrunch.com, @reuters.com, & a bunch of EU press releases.

News round-up: New York, France, & Google jump on the child-safety bandwagon; Meta, Tiktok, & Discord auto-moderation goes rampant

Online age verification keeps accelerating with a major new EU report and a new Android feature. Creators and regular users continue to take it on the chin from platform moderation errors. Plus, I pre...

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@calabro.io is this how chess works?

Are you better off now than you were two years ago? In 98 days, you can vote for things to change.

My labradoodle chased a groundhog up a tree. This photo feels like it needs to be a meme. Open to suggestions.

Salmonella and cyclosporiasis in our food, causing massive outbreaks... it's almost like putting Roadkill Bobby in charge of our health was a bad idea.

Direct quote from my son: “It must’ve been for $1,000.” Had no idea it aired last night until I suddenly started getting texts. Love you @jeopardy — and thanks @whoiskenjennings @chriseliopoulos and @penguinkids for building this. Special love to you, HK! #jeopardy #kidlit #books #bookstagram

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

fascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about!

It's tough, but maybe showcasing success stories of creators thriving on fair splits could inspire change and unity.

What if the path to open social media runs through creators, not communities? Open social media today reminds me of the comic book self-publishing movement before Image – worthy, interesting, but *marginal*. How could we recruit today's biggest creators to the cause? 1/4

What if the path to open social media runs through creators, not communities?

In 1992, Marvel’s top artists flexed their power to break the comic book industry wide open. The best way to open up the Internet today might be to get today’s biggest creators on our side in the same...

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Jesus H Christ. It's one of the bleakest Bowie songs.

Amanda Silberling@amanda.omg.lol · 2w ago

this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

Getting the apps is hard, but there's an army of technologists who are ready for more, after decades of doing fake startups for a Big Tech company to "acqui-hire" and/or toiling to improve ad click-throughs. 53/

Great thread.

Emelia@thisismissem.social · 2w ago

Said something interesting to a friend today when they asked about different open social web protocols. It might be a little bit controversial, but: I think that ActivityPub is decentralized in principle, whereas AT Protocol is decentralized in practice. 🧵

Watching ICE agents literally run away from a Mount Laurel Starbucks without their coffee because the neighborhood completely rejected them is pure gold. South Jersey will make you unwelcome every single time you show your faces.

It’s your right and your obligation to call out corruption and abuse.

my mom showed me Aliens when I was 5yo and the women in that movie (especially Sigourney Weaver) imprinted on my tiny brain that women will fuck your shit up and not stop until one of you dies, which is an important lesson for little boys to learn early

If Andy Beshear doesn’t call for a special election before August 3rd and force Mitch McConnell to prove he can speak in a video, then Andy Beshear becomes the new Merrick Garland. I’m sorry but I make the rules.

HISTORY THREAD. I have been weirdly obsessed with the English Civil War and the Levellers for years. It’s one of the best historical analogies I know for the modern struggle for authority over our online lives. 1/12

Explainer #8: what connects the creator economy, Spider-Man, and the English Civil War?

In the 1600s, Parliament fought for democracy against the divine right of kings. The most radical rebels of the time have lessons for today’s online creators, via the founding of Image Comics in 1992.

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Note: No one is going to stop for an unmarked vehicle without any identification. We teach people not to stop but to drive directly to the nearest police station. ICE agents seem to be the only people in the country who don't know that.

Jesus I hate how normalized guns are. An armed policeman just walked up the aisle of the local train I’m on and my blood pressure increased. (Not as bad as the armed police crossing guards outside the local school.) There are lots of bad things about American but the number of weapons is the worst.

So great that I have a contract with my mediocre sandwich and soup provider.

In positive news, was just reading about an island in Chile that installed open water solar panels and a bunch of tuna and salmon moved in underneath them because the vibrations of diesel energy had ceased. :) The world could be so good if people were just smarter everywhere.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

ABOUT BILLIONAIRE GALAXY BRAINS. I spent enough time around people like Alex Karp in my Google career to know their mindset up close. For some rich and powerful people, “debate” curdles into “explaining why you’re wrong.” 1/3

Palantir's Alex Karp goes full Galaxy Brain, and the US Supreme Court gets something right for once

I am back from vacation and ready to take gratuitous potshots at Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s 20-minute free-associating rant on CNBC. Plus, a big win for online rights at the US Supreme Court (which I pr...

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Gideon Mitchell@gideon-mitchell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here are some of the ads from 1991 that ExonMobil used to cast doubt among the public about climate change - AFTER their researchers had confirmed that it was real.

Boston is suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The city says the companies deliberately designed addictive features like endless scrolling, notifications, and algorithms that harm kids' mental health. The lawsuit joins more than 1,500 school districts nationwide.

Good coverage here.

Scott Stein@scottstein.bsky.social · 4w ago

Meta introduced one firmware update aimed to stop camera LED tampering, but so many other aspects of glasses privacy still need to be solved (as the landscape starts to heat up fast, with ever more advanced hardware coming) www.cnet.com/tech/service...