I don't want the rest of my professional life to consist of trying to decipher whether a human wrote something or just pasted something from their chatbot, navigating how to ask that politely, and/or spending most of my time responding to unending streams of slop.

if browsers enabled one-click presentation of cryptographic proofs of email ownership, how would that primarily be used? -- tracking users across domains, selling their identity and personal information to data brokers, and spam could we protect against that small step towards even more […]

I can't find it now, but someone has been posting occasionally about how we need safe accessible social media style communities for kids, and so schools could run their own fediverse instances, with good moderation, so that kids can get exposed to and learn how to use social media within their […]

Do IETF/W3C spec documents get longer, wordier, more abstruse when every commit is co-authored by an LLM? Do, and should, specifications include documentation on what the LLM provided vs what the purported editor provided?

'booking a vacation' has become the quintessential AI use case. are these developers just all too rich? they don't want to learn about travel, or how things work in other countries? or it's an existing model and people want travel agents back, as long as they don't have to pay them?

If you're unwilling to read the text answers to open-ended questions in your survey, I would rather you not ask those questions at all, rather than asking them, and then asking an AI to summarize instead of reading them. That is: if you won't bother to read something, why should I bother to […]

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

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like with any decentralized protocol, you have to get advance permission from developers at a single company before using any of the functionality

The simpler approach to AI, I propose, is to go back to the other thread: when you say you're going to mass-harvest the work of creators so that you can replace those creators at mass scale, that's dead center in the sphere of unfair business dealings. If you only pay creators with enough […]

@davidgreene.bsky.social speaking the absolute truth. "Parenthood, even in the earliest days, made it clear to me that my children were not mere balls of clay for me to mold. They were, and are, their own people."

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · last mo.

As governments rush to age-gate the internet, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior counsel David Greene argues we're skipping a vital question: not "how do we age-gate while protecting privacy?" but "should we be doing this at all?" He reflects on the issue as an expert, and as a parent.

Let's put a nice, 17 acre park with multiple playgrounds and picnic shelters at the end of a greenway. We have multiple parking lots in case people want to drive. How many bike racks should we have? Durham, NC: Zero, definitely.

Central North Carolina people: I *hope* you don't know this dude, but if you recognize him or his car, speak up. He is an attempted murderer of two cyclists in Durham. (Also: Is it weird that the cops appear to have surveillance photos from a tire shop but they don't have his name or any other […]

that "best minds of my generation lost to madness" quote is a much better fit for the AI endlessly-making-you-feel-right-prompting machine, but we already re-used it too much for the ad-clicking-data metaphor, so, alas, it's not available

it might be individually unhelpful to express your rage at some lone individual when it's actually a small symptom of a much larger systemic problem, and, it's totally normal for people to get mad when they suffer consequences from an individual symptom of a much larger systemic problem; like […]

Okay, turns out I don't manage to participate in many panels after all, but still wanted to highlight @cdteurope's excellent panel "Beyond age gating" about how to _really_ protect minors online (hint: it's not by banning them from social media). 👏 #CPDP2026

You're just saying "I have no literally no additional ideas as to what we could do".

Call for participation in the Online Safety Community Group at @w3c: https://www.w3.org/community/online-safety/2026/04/30/call-for-participation-in-online-safety-community-group/ While many stakeholders have a particular interest in bolstering safety for vulnerable populations such as children […]

stepped out to the burger stand for lunch / passed a press conference about the local children kidnapped by ICE

the wiring to my ebike's integrated headlamp snapped, while I was installing a rack and basket. do bike shops like to fix that kind of electrical thing? or am I an adult that should just relearn the skills to solder/heat-shrink/whatever wires back together?

the only way to stop centralization is for everyone to stop learning anything about technology and instead outsource all practical understanding to a small number of tools

Indicative datum from using chat apps with emoji reactions, my most commonly used reacji, or at least one that is always listed in my frequently-used list is: :disappointed:

'sure, the last dozen times we told you this we were lying, and our ultimate goal is to erase the gains of labor over the past hundred years, extract as much money as possible to as few people as possible, burn all the fuel we can to prevent progress towards climate adaptation, undermine every […]

Denial of service attacks at different levels: * I wrote this 20 page document with an LLM. Can you now review it and tell me if it's any good? * Someone I don't know wrote a wordy issue/request. Is this real? Would it insult them to ask if it's AI-generated? * Although boosters have been wrong […]

just heard an insulting NPR piece on the "extreme" measures that some Olympic athletes are taking to avoid getting COVID before competing. Some are wearing masks inside!!1!

> (This is how men behave.) Among the more sickening parentheticals I've read.

The TikTok deal has improved the privacy of exactly no one and has done nothing to improve national security. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

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@anupamchander.bsky.social with the money quote: “My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

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What would happen if ICE wanted to join the Fediverse? Most instances probably wouldn’t host that account, but some would. The account would be broadly blocked at both individual and instance levels, and some instances would probably defederate the hosting instance. Some folks would migrate […]

We could try to explain the privacy concept of "resignation" (answering apparent "privacy paradox" with evidence that people conclude surveillance is inescapable) with academic papers from Joe Turow and survey research ... or, you could just watch this Subway Take […]

The decisions made in standard-setting have "crucial ramifications for human rights" (so says the Human Rights Council) — so how should we design technical standard-setting bodies and their practices to better support human rights?