A ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

Enhanced Community Safety Initiative Won't Qualify For November Ballot - Portland Mercury

A ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballo...

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Hello my Seattle-area friends! I will be at City Hall for a rally in favor of Seattle's plan to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores if anyone wants to sign up and/or come by. The rally is Friday at 8:45 at the lobby in City Hall. action.consumerreports.org/20260807rsvp...

I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.

Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterday

Turns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

born to drink and read Catullus, cursed to write grant applications as the sun sets.

diving deep into Hot Roman Summer

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Spotify competitor Tidal built a reputation by collaborating with musicians and focusing on audio quality. How will it handle the era of AI-generated slop?

Tidal Says It Won’t Pay Royalties for AI-Generated Music

Spotify competitor Tidal built a reputation by collaborating with musicians and focusing on audio quality. How will it handle the era of AI-generated slop?

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me and my brother just got our births displaced as the best thing that ever happened in my dad's life #knicks

Odi ET amo?? in this economy???

I need an app that tells me which tab or program just made a notification noise on my computer.

Sending cake to someone who did a good post is possible and worthwhile.

Mikhail Klimentov@leadergrev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They made her a cake at work lmao

this is the same guy that wrote an op ed decrying clicktivism like 10 years ago??

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Outcry is a chatbot “designed specifically as a ‘private, on-device AI mentor for activists, organizers and movement builders.’”

Thanks to Daniel Spielberger at Study Hall for a fun written Q&A to delve into what it's like to work on a large and sprawling investigation with a major newsroom as a freelancer. studyhall.xyz/free-newslet...

From Layoff To Pulitzer: A Q&A With Investigative Reporter Yae… | Study Hall

From Layoff To Pulitzer: A Q&A With Investigative Reporter Yael Grauer

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it won't happen, but it'd be helpful for the pro-privacy and anti-surveillance space to reflect on how many fascists from the left were elevated and supported in the movement.

Jamie Gangel@jamiegangel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Breaking - Tulsi Gabbard out www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/p...

I have bad news about the continued existence of AskJeeves.com but I have good news about the continued availability of P. G. Wodehouse's 15 Jeeves novels, which continue to be the only work of literature adapted into a Web search engine.

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

my man never let me down

Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended

He says this but didn't endorse Jimmy "The Rent Is Too Damn High" McMillan against Cuomo in 2010 🙄

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

We’ve been told our content needs to be more informative so here you go

Too much to hope that Zendaya's casting as Athena is a Martin Bernal reference and that Nolan is gonna go after the white supremacist underpinnings of classicism.

The NYT is doing this on purpose. They must be boycotted out of existence. People to the left of the NYT have to stop proofreading the articles like they intended to report factually in good faith and somehow got confused along the way.

Aubrey Nagle@aubsn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Regurgitating RFK's argument & throwing in a few (of the majority, medical consensus!) disagreements is NOT journalism. At no point does this article challenge the idea that potential withdrawal symptoms keep anyone *on* medication or they're not worth their benefits, which is his whole argument!

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

I hope the RightsCon team at @accessnow.org are getting all the support they need. I worked on RightsCon a decade+ ago and the baseline is incredibly stressful and exhausting. I can't imagine this on top of everything else.

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

RightsCon was delayed by Zambia's Ministry of Information for "thematic issues" and problems with speakers.

if there are features about social media that are harmful to children (algorithmic content recommendation, infinite scroll etc.) maybe just ban those features for everyone instead of requiring easily circumvented ID checks.

Not sure I can really enjoy Petrarch after a lifetime of pop feminism analysis, but also my boy was so whiny I'm not sure I ever would have enjoyed him.

Source Callout: for a story at the Guardian, I'm interviewing folks who were asked to keep working with someone after sexual assault or harassment or relationship abuse, and told to stay silent "for the good of the movement" (more info in pic with alt text). reach out on Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

The quality of @yaelwrites.com 's work speaks for itself, but I can speak to how fun it is to work on projects with Yael! Do yourself a favor and get your company or nonprofit to hire her! Alternatively, if you're a funder, throw a grant our way so we can keep working on security and privacy ed!

Yael Grauer@yaelwrites.com · 4mo ago

At the same time, I’m exploring new full-time or contract opportunities in: •Security and privacy education •OSINT and investigations •Program and product management

A bittersweet announcement: I was impacted by the layoffs at Consumer Reports, alongside a number of extremely talented colleagues. I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity and so proud of the work we did fighting for consumers and helping people stay safer online.