I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
Kendra Albert
@kendraserra.bsky.social
They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants. More at kendraalbert.com.
Excited to see how the company that fell all over itself to put "Gulf of America" on Google Maps decides to apply the YouTube Terms of Service and Community Guidelines to a livestreamed execution by firing squad. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
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Here's the brief that @kendraserra.bsky.social and I filed on behalf of Annie, the @ncacensorship.bsky.social, @authorsguild.org, @dramatistsguild.bsky.social, @electricliterature.com, and @pw.org – ncac.org/news/ncac-am...
“Clear as Mud”: Coalition Slams NEA's Gender Ideology Funding Rules in Federal Appeal
NCAC and literary partners file an amicus brief challenging the NEA's executive order ban on arts funding that "promotes gender ideology.".
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Annie Dorsen@anniedorsen.bsky.social · 4d agoStarting now...RILA v. NEA oral arguments...This is the appeal of the "gender ideology" case, where the gov argues that it's not viewpoint discrimination if it happens at the end of the grant application process rather than the beginning. 🤷♀️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhHo...
People keep thinking they can automate the type of admin work often done by women... bc they think their institution is a machine and not a brain. They think it can be recreated as a set of tasks executed w/ rules, and that we can skip the parts relying on relationships, memory, and judgment.
Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 4d ago“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
There was no curbing Philadelphians’ enthusiasm at the first Philadelphia Parallel Parking Championship Saturday. Go Birds. www.inquirer.com/life/philade...
Competition was tight at the first Philadelphia Parallel Parking Association Championship
Hundreds of backseat drivers gathered in Headhouse Plaza on Saturday to watch 14 people park their cars.
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If you want to preorder my book right now, S&S is having a 20% off sale w the code SPOOKY @atriabooks.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Anythi...
Anything of Value
A memoir and call to action from renowned sex worker, activist, and legal scholar Lorelei Lee exploring the historical and current criminalization ...
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Many supposed news organizations are launching weird AI and tech products that fundamentally break the rules of journalism. Any interview is an individual conversation with its own terms between a source and reporter.
Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · last wk.Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
I thought this was a Control: Resonant image before I saw the logo.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · last wk.Cordless window blinds are safer for kids.
Meet the panelists of Refuse, Resist, Repair: Making Critical Moves in the Times of AI ⚡ 🎤 @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social, @posada.website, Apryl Williams, @fractalecho.bsky.social, and @steelecat717.bsky.social 📅 Fri, October 9 at 2:00 PM ET 📍 Zoom 🔗 Register events.umich.edu/event/149368
Made it through this week and I finally get to play control resonant!!!
This is literally the best museum I've ever been to. I can't recommend it enough if you'e in the Seattle area. Seeing a call *physically* connect end-to-end was mind blowing.
Connections Museum@connections.museum · last wk.We are in the news :) southseattleemerald.org/arts-culture...
I saw this lawsuit and sighed a sigh that could probably be heard in the next county.
🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · last wk.I literally said to Portia this morning, there's gonna be a shield law lawsuit soon. I didn't think it would be TODAY. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have filed a bill of complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court against New York, Massachusetts, and California. Hold on to your butts.
NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
With the Witcher 3 remaster, I will re-announce my favorite head canon: Geralt is a trans man. (I will not take any questions on this.)
I think this is a really important read. @masnick.com carefully explains what is so shocking about recent revelations in court about undisclosed COIs concerning research on copyright and LLMs. www.techdirt.com/2026/09/25/o...
OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case
A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times' ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I argued earlier, that struck me as something of a nothingburger of a story, because...
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we should call this article what it is, & Levy isnt alone in it. It's a prevalent mindset among Computer Men of a Certain Age: the nostalgic meandering of those who dont understand how we got here but certainly don't want their tender idols dirtied thru association w/ folks like andreessen & musk
This is incredible.
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella)@kanarinka.bsky.social · 2w agoMIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
It turns out that a great way to absolutely murder my ability to concentrate is to have two people next to me have a heated and extended conversation about a trading card game I don't play.
ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points
IT'S OFFICIAL: ROMchip's 4TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISER is set for Saturday, March 13th, 2027!🎉 To celebrate, we're dropping the names of our first two streamers: Everest Pipkin and Chris Kohler! Mark your calendars and join our newsletter to get all the updates📰: eepurl.com/crCul1
I saw this order from Judge McMahon and came to read Courtney's take and I was not disappointed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 3w agoCan you imagine doing this when you have a pending motion to hold you accountable for multiplying proceedings with bad faith filings? And a pending show cause order? DO COUNSEL IN THIS CASE NOT LIKE MONEY AND/OR SELF RESPECT?
NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025
<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi
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Yessssss
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 3w agoExcited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we currently know it. I've been thinking about this book for over 5 years, and am excited to finally write it.
Hi everyone! The latest update from the Lynne Freeman circus has arrived. It's a terrible circus and it appears to have only one act (bad faith conduct), but it does keep going on and on. Lemme explain what the NEW bad faith conduct is.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last mo.For those of you following along in the OTHER copyright case that has high stakes (but for many fewer people), the defendants have also now moved to sanction Lynne Freeman's counsel and hold them jointly and severally liable for attorneys' fees awarded. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
There’s something unnerving about getting to the end of a book on the Red Scare and only then finding out that you are a member of one of the groups that led to people being investigated and blacklisted. (That would be the National Lawyers Guild, for the record.)