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Dean Jackson

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Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 2d ago

My latest documents how the data center industry is deploying front groups, sockpuppet accounts, astroturf campaigns, and counter-insurgency tactics to neutralize community opposition. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social with UPitt's Sam Totoni. www.techpolicy.press/big-techs-pr...

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Unfortunately, the institutions persist until there are no people of courage left. Once all the brave professionals resign, only lackeys remain.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 2w ago

no reporter or producer or correspondent reallllly wants to be the source, the subject of an important but bad and sad story of urgent national importance but she did it, anyway. thank you cecilia vega - www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3w ago

This is the energy we need

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Did you watch Trump's election integrity speech last night? I used an LLM to create a summarized index to the declassified documents, with links to the original sources. View it here: deanwjackson.github.io/declass-index/

The 2026 Election Declassification: An Annotated Index

A document-by-document index of the 59 files released by the White House alongside the 16 July 2026 primetime address on election security.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3w ago

Conducting assessments of voting systems’ vulnerabilities is not the same as those vulnerabilities being successfully exploited Uncovering adversaries’ plans for interference is not the same as successful interference happening Voter registration data is public Trump was president in 2020

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3w ago

A reminder that in many states, after every election, bipartisan officials conduct a hand audit of a random sample of paper ballots. A hacked election in those places would mean confusion, not an altered result. Republican election officials must be seething tonight.

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Going to run for governor by standing behind Amy Acton and shouting out better answers to questions Say it with me now: "This is a distraction from issues facing Ohio families"

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · last mo.

Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

Case 3:23-cv-00571-TAD-KDM
Document 219
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Filed 07/01/26 Page 1 of 23 PagelD #:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL
VERSUS
ALEX STAMOS ET AL
CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D.
MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject
Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos,
Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the
Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the
Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition
[Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
I. BACKGROUND
This case is before the Court on limited remand to determine jurisdiction.
Hines v. Stamos, 111 F.4th 551 (5th Cir. 2024); see also [Doc. No. 112]. On May 2,

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · last mo.

Why was Cleveland's mayor the only elected official to speak at a conference heavily sponsored by the tech right and defense contractors? And why has he been so quiet about it? deans-list.ghost.io/special-edit...

Special Edition: Why is Cleveland's Mayor palling around with tech bros and defense contractors in Detroit?

This is a joint post with Upbeat Nonsense, a Cleveland newsletter about pop culture and politics. Is warfare the future of economic development in the Midwest? Last week, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bib...

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Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · last mo.

Treating all opposition to data centers as a national security threat is the wrong move, says Jordyn Abrams, who argues policymakers must address legitimate public grievances about AI—not just police them. www.techpolicy.press/to-mitigate-...

To Mitigate Anti-Tech Violence, Strengthen Democracy

In the long term, the United States government must disentangle itself from the tech elite, writes Jordyn Abrams.

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Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

My bank asking the real questions

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My main criticism of these sorts of statements is it treatment disinformation and misinformation as a supply side issue, when its really a demand side issue. The solutions need to deal with what drives that demand, which is a sense of humiliation and/or betrayal.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Labour deputy says Farage is a threat to democracy and calls for misinformation clampdown www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

This was super fun to work on! Really pleased with how this edited collection on gaming Trust & Safety came out. Thank you @cdt.org, NYU, and @csint-au.bsky.social for supporting this work. And to @sbradshaw.bsky.social for being a grade A coauthor. 🫶

Dhanaraj Thakur@thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out this new short series on trust and safety in gaming! It was great to put this together with @sbradshaw.bsky.social @dwj.eurosky.social Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat, and @kateruane.bsky.social.

@scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NYT headline writers REALLY exercising that both sides muscle 🙄

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2mo ago

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Because the service had been arranged last minute, the funeral home on a busy street in Atlanta could only offer them one hour.
Orlin wore a long-sleeved shirt and a tan vest with a striped bow tie and matching pants.
The clothes concealed his injuries. A new teddy bear was tucked beside him.
Embroidered into the satin lining of his casket was "Principito," or "Little Prince."
His full name was embossed on the coffin:
Orlin Josue Hernandez Reyes.
McCaffrey and Hernandez's sister had to hold Hernandez up as she walked trembling toward her son. Once she regained the strength to stand, she stood over him and stroked his face and chest.
"I never wanted to leave you," she whispered repeatedly. "I wanted to bring you with me.
My son."

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

"Bari loves this institution," Bilton told staffers at one point during the highly contentious meeting. "She loves '60 Minutes.'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley countered. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it—and she's doing exactly that."

This story is based on audio of the meeting obtained by Status. A CBS News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment, but Pelley's stunning series of remarks left staffers on the newsmagazine wondering if he will resign.

In the meeting, Pelley pointed out that Weiss has "no qualifications for her job" and told Bilton "you have slender qualifications for this job." Pelley, the former anchor of "CBS Evening News," noted that the changes Weiss has made to that program "have been catastrophic."

"So why should we expect any of this is going to be any better?" Pelley asked Bilton.

Bilton tried to move the meeting along, but Pelley pressed on, challenging the new executive producer’s references in interviews to “60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt’s vision for the program as he outlined his plans.

"I have another question," the veteran journalist said. "Did you at any point work with Don Hewitt, telling everybody about what Don Hewitt thought, and what his inspiration was? I worked for Don Hewitt from 1999 to 2004 and Lesley Stahl probably worked with him for 30 years. Just wondering how you have such deep insight?"

Bilton replied that he was simply quoting Hewitt’s own words from past interviews and asked Pelley whether he had any other questions. Pelley said that he did.

"I have many questions," Pelley responded. "What was wrong with Sharyn Alfonsi?"

As Bilton started to say he would "defer," Pelley interrupted: "This is not the crowd to dodge."

Bilton insisted he was not dodging.

"Nobody talked to you about that?" Pelley continued, pressing him on the firing. "They're taking one of your correspondents away and nobody mentioned to you what was wrong with Sharyn?"

Bilton acknowledged that he "had conversations with people."

"And what came out of those conversations?" Pelley asked. "They are private conversations?"

Bilton reiterated that he "did not fire" Alfonsi or Vega. Pelley pointed out that Bilton had nonetheless discussed the matter with others. Charles Forelle, a top Weiss deputy and managing editor of CBS News, interjected, telling Pelley that he was being "rude."

"This is not actually productive," Forelle said. "This is not an interview."

"It's working for me," Pelley replied.

"Anybody came into our house—this is '60 Minutes,'" Pelley added. "I guess you wandered in expecting to read a statement off?"

Pelley then asked Bilton "what was wrong with" Draggan Mihailovich, the executive editor of "60 Minutes" who was fired on Thursday.

Bilton again said that he did not fire Mihailovich. Forelle one more told Pelley that he was being "rude."

Pelley did not let up, however. The veteran newsman told Bilton and Forelle that the way management handled the firings was "cruel." Forelle—yet again—responded by calling Pelley "rude."

"I'm not being rude," Pelley shot back. "I have some pretty—you know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock. Sending Draggan Mihailovich to HR to get fired, because nobody could look him in the eye. Not talking about Tanya's contract. Not talking about Sharyn Alfonsi's contract. Not talking about Cecilia Vega's contract. Just calling them up and telling they were fired. That's rude. This is a conversation. That is rude, and you were part of that."

Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

Amazing?

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

You would have to explain what a call, text, YouTube, website, and social media account were first. But then they'd probably be pretty upset!

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WYDEN: "Founding Fathers would roll over in their graves if they knew the govt was able to demand a list of everyone a person called and texted, everyone who watches a YouTube video or visits a website, or uncover anonymous social media accounts, all without a warrant or court order of any kind"

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

My latest newsletter is a long reflection on an AI and journalism conference I attended in Baltimore last week, including a look at the process by which Tech Policy Press produced a timeline of links between MAGA, Silicon Valley, and the European far right: deans-list.ghost.io/ghost/#/site

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Look I can’t help that one of my hobbies is “reading PDFs”

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

Maybe he ate at the one in DC's Chinatown and just really enjoyed it

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump bought at least $1 million of stock in Kura, a sushi restaurant chain. But people are wondering if he meant to buy something else.

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

Proud of this one: At @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we created an interactive timeline of linkages between the Trump administration, the US tech sector, and the transatlantic far-right. You can view it here: www.techpolicy.press/charting-the...

Charting the Transatlantic Far Right Campaign Against Europe’s Digital Rules

How large is the European interest in Washington’s narrative of censorship and grievance? Dean Jackson considers evidence on the public record.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing intimate user data with Google and Meta without consent.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's hard to know what the Republican Party is going to look like when Trump is finally out of power, but if these kinds of stories are any glimpse into the future I think it's pretty clear that the GOP is on track to get far, far, far worse www.notus.org/congress/wil...

Sen. Rand Paul’s Son William Hurled Antisemitic Insults at Rep. Mike Lawler

The younger Paul interrupted Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar to say “Jews” would be to blame if Rep. Thomas Massie loses his primary.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

JUST NOW: Rep. Todd Warner walks into the house to strip majority Black Memphis or representation wearing a trump flag as a cape as Rep. Camper of Memphis looks on Video: www.instagram.com/reel/DYCuFmt...

Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

TBF you can do this with any movie concept

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Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

For shame. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/04...

RFK Jr. to speak at City Club of Cleveland May 7

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak at The City Club of Cleveland next week. He has stirred debate and criticism since his confirmation last year.

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Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

This week's newsletter is about the unrelenting march of time, the pervasive sense of instability, and the long-term threats that catch up to you. Plus, if you scroll to the bottom there are dogs! deans-list.ghost.io/unreal-bird-...

Unreal Bird #9: Polycrisis

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