Kristin Alvandi
@kristinalvandi.bsky.social
Born in NY made in दिल्ली | Keeping kids safe online | all takes my own
Sending extra love to the mods handling that video tonight 🫶
ROOSTERs @julietshen.bsky.social & @kristinalvandi.bsky.social are at the Crimes Against Children Conference #CACC2026. We work w/everyone (platforms, nonprofits, vendors) to make detection, review, & reporting tools widely available so all organizations can study, modify, & use them. Come see us!
OK! I have read the complaint in the "Grok (OK, fine, xAI) (OK, fine, SpaceX) sues Minnesota over obscene deepfake law" lawsuit, and I'm here to break it down. Link to the complaint below, so you can follow along. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.
What Data Was Your AI Trained On? xAI Doesn't Want You To Know
Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich from Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST) say we all need to stand together to demand transparency in AI.
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Still thinking about everyone we met at #TrustCon. So here's a nudge: we're hiring 🐓 Engineers to build open source safety tools protecting 360M+users, and a marketing mgr to help that work reach people. Everything we ship is public & free for platforms to study, modify, use. roost.tools/careers
Careers | ROOST
Join the team at ROOST and help build open source safety infrastructure.
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Going to #CACC2026 with @roost.tools will you be there? We are booth 67! Come talk open source tools & child safety with us! 🐓
Please call your reps to vote no on this bad internet bill!!
Dieselbrain@dieselbrain.bsky.social · 10mo agoAlongside KOSA, the 'Stop CSAM act of 2025' is a big priority target we need people to yell at their representatives about!
Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org
Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?
From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...
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Bills like KOSA (s.1748) and Stop CSAM Act of 2025 (s.1829) are nothing but mass censorship bils. Contact your reps (be it Dem or Repub) and tell them OPPOSE both bills. Here's some script to use/edit. #SaveSpeech Find rep: www.commoncause.org/find-your-re... To call: 5calls.org/issue/kids-o...
![For email:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vyys5nq3rbuvi3o5svdqyooo/bafkreid73hpivrisoobzvm6tz37cgd3ehoazwob2ckm6hz7fdk7ce2mkhy)
Teen Vogue@teenvogue.com · 10mo agoOnline censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org
Strong encryption is an important part of the solution to PROTECT children from grooming and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Encryption Keeps Kids Safe Online - Internet Society
EARN IT Act, the STOP CSAM Act, and the Kids Online Safety Act erode encryption, the best tool we have for keeping our kids’ information private and secure.
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I swear I have a real job… I’m home after #TrustCon where @roost.tools was EVERYWHERE. We presented in 6 sessions across 3 days, largely thanks to @julietshen.bsky.social. Even when we weren’t in a session, we got countless shout-outs from T&S pros encouraging folks to adopt our tools.
TrustCon day 2 💚 Thank you to everyone who packed yesterday's panel on what open source means for your T&S stack with @julietshen.bsky.social. Fitting week: 1 yr ago today we introduced Coop & Osprey. Today they help protect 360M+ users, including 45M events/day right here on Bluesky. roost.tools
That's a wrap on TrustCon 🐓 3 days, 6 sessions, 1 launch (Osprey 1.1.0!), many chicken hats. Favorite moment: non-engineers building working moderation rules in our workshop — safety tooling you can study, modify, and use. One year of Coop & Osprey. Just getting started.
We're VERY excited to release the latest Osprey - the first release since our 1.0 in March. Huge thanks to all the contributors, especially to @discord.com who upstreamed a number of new features to the open source project!!!
ROOST@roost.tools · 2w agoJust announced at #TrustCon: Osprey 1.1.0 is out! Dark mode, registries that show what your deployment actually does, comparable benchmarks, and groundwork for plain-language queries.
Go ROOST!! 🐓🛠️
ROOST@roost.tools · 2w agoTrustCon day 2 💚 Thank you to everyone who packed yesterday's panel on what open source means for your T&S stack with @julietshen.bsky.social. Fitting week: 1 yr ago today we introduced Coop & Osprey. Today they help protect 360M+ users, including 45M events/day right here on Bluesky. roost.tools
“Almost 70% of teens were worried about being a victim of AI-generated sexual content without their consent. Those teens also found themselves taking action to protect themselves, by being careful of what they posted, making their social media private or even deleting their accounts entirely.”
AI-generated sexual content is starting to affect how teenagers view sex, consent and body image | CNN
As generative AI becomes more widespread and sophisticated, experts urge parents to keep an eye on how teens use the technology to create explicit content.
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Responding to Dario Amodei's call for industry self-governance, Oversight Board members Kenji Yoshino and Ronaldo Lemos lay out three requirements for credible AI oversight: independent overseers, external standards, and transparency.
What AI Companies Can Learn from the Oversight Board
AI risks demand governance that is capable of addressing complex and fast moving problems, write Oversight Board members Kenji Yoshino and Ronaldo Lemos.
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Why does every platform rebuild the same safety tools from scratch, behind closed doors? Our Head of Product @julietshen.bsky.social joined the Won't Fix pod to talk open-source T&S infrastructure, AI vs. human judgment & safety for the decentralized web: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFV7VwxkLs
Won't Fix Episode 9: With Juliet Shen, Cofounder & HOP at ROOST
YouTube video by Won't Fix
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Seems like a good time to remind people the USWNT has won 4 World Cups! ⚽️
What is currently missing from the discussion is the hidden children's rights and human rights cost of mandatory age assurance, write Emma Day and Sabine Witting of Tech Legality.
Human Rights Experts Should Engage in Age Assurance Standards
In the absence of proactive regulatory enforcement, technical standards have become more important for age assurance vendors, write Emma Day and Sabine Witting.
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IMO not passing the Senate. Great write from Tim as always.
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · last mo.On Monday, the US House of Representatives passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, a sprawling collection of measures aimed at mitigating online harms to minors, in a 267-117 vote. The bill will now head to the Senate, where it reportedly faces long odds, writes Tim Bernard.
we're hiring a full-time engineer for Osprey at @roost.tools ! if you've applied to ROOST before, I encourage you to apply again if you're interested and have familiarity with Osprey 🦅 take a look at the code: github.com/roostorg/osp... robust-open-online-safety-tools.breezy.hr/p/c9af2efd30...
Software Engineer — Osprey Project at Robust Open Online Safety Tools
Note: This position is available at the Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer level. Level will be determined in the interview process. Position Overview Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROO...
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we're also hiring a full time engineer for Coop, @roost.tools's review tool! check out the code: github.com/roostorg/coop robust-open-online-safety-tools.breezy.hr/p/e87130d3ad...
Software Engineer — Coop Project at Robust Open Online Safety Tools
Note: This position is available at the Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer level. Level will be determined in the interview process. Position Overview Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROO...
robust-open-online-safety-tools.breezy.hr
Curious about how this could be implemented? Quire Vys’ monthly Substack wrote about Australia’s social media ban: open.substack.com/pub/quire/p/... #ageassurance #childsafety
“The First Domino”: Australia Tests an Age-Based Social Media Ban
Early enforcement offers a preview of what works, what breaks, and what moves elsewhere
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The Verge@theverge.com · 2mo agoBanned social media apps will include Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, though messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal will not be covered.
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