Disincentivizing widely-used online services from offering strong encryption. During a war with Iran. A country that's been conducting cyber operations against U.S. targets for years. That's what both parties think belongs in the NATIONAL DEFENSE BILL.

John Perrino@johnperrino.com · 3w ago

There's another effort to break encryption in the US Senate! The STOP CSAM Act was added to the current version of the annual defense spending bill, known as the NDAA. If passed, it could require Internet infrastructure services and online platforms to break encryption to scan all data.

There's another effort to break encryption in the US Senate! The STOP CSAM Act was added to the current version of the annual defense spending bill, known as the NDAA. If passed, it could require Internet infrastructure services and online platforms to break encryption to scan all data.

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The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured. Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-...

Wishing a very happy 102nd birthday to the great Marshall Allen, born on May 25, 1924 #SunRa #Arkestra

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Apricot Hip.

Libby Hill@libbyhill.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Hello dear reader, My new album, THE CONFUSER is out on July 24 on Tiny Ghost Records. It’s a rockin’ affair, with a few ballads for romantic waltzing & a dystopian psychedelic rant. Guaranteed to float your chimes & ring your boat! Available now for pre-order here: linktr.ee/robynhitchco...

The year is 2030. I now own a home in every walkable US neighborhood, which I've paid for by selling rubber stamps that say "refused to release the Epstein files"

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

Nighttime prayer: “Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Rob Reiner, my favorite actor, Robert Redford, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.”

Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.

Ask your employer, your politician, your professional organisation, your religious leader: ask anyone who claims authority, moral or otherwise

Ned Pyle@nedpyle.com · 7mo ago

Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.

I also support Aaron’s work and pay for a subscription. It is always worth reading, always informative. Thanks, @atrupar.com for your tirelessness.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

It's a slow morning on the Sunday shows, but if you appreciate me getting up early and bringing you the highlights each weekend please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. I think you'll enjoy PN and paid subscribers make my work possible. Thanks.

I love it when you're having a discussion online with someone and they forget to cut this bit from their reply...

Failing to protect the rear end from the back end.

When your toilet has a camera and its "end-to-end data encryption" turns out to be sharing the data with the manufacturer over HTTPS. 🤷‍♂️ And by the way the manufacturer may use your data to train its toilet AI. varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2p

Should someone want to subscribe to Paulina's Patreon, here it is: www.patreon.com/c/paulinabor...

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 8mo ago

It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina! The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina! The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 11mo ago

10/ Instead of centering men who missed the boat (and still don't seem to get it), let's lift up the work of Paulina Borsook, who saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago. Someone should do a profile of her very interesting life. And hey, let's drop some cash into her GoFundme!

"Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

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"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

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AI music dorks online, in a nutshell: It used to take me ages and oodles of money to poorly execute a lame idea, now I can do it an hour!

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that. —Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags. You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

I know that if we all completely stopped reacting to Alex Jones he probably won’t just die, but it seems to me we should give it a shot.

Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 11mo ago

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Love and thanks to everyone who has checked out my new album, “The Resurrection Game”. It’s been out for five days now! 10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙 You can listen to it here: ffm.to/pm4q3vm