This isn't to say kids don't need protection; it *is* to say that protection will not come from a panoptic surveillance state that not only their parents but also any predator with a keyboard can franchise into their very own home.

KOSA doesn't just threaten free speech—it threatens privacy. It will push more online services to age verification, requiring people to hand over more personal information just to read the internet. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks

The Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine privacy for everyone. Alongside the SCREEN Act, the CHATBOT Act, and

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Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

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🧵3 month assessment on the Australian social media ban is in: very little change, and no change in practical outcomes for children and young people - no mental health or family relationship improvements, no differences in leisure time, same degree of harmful access, like loosing sleep to scrolling 🚨

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

Said it before, saying it again: the problem with nonconsensual deepfake porn sites isn't the "pornography" part, it's the "nonconsensual" part. If you don't put "nonconsensual" in your law, you're just banning porn and you're no different from the Heritage Foundation. www.kare11.com/article/news...

This is a great thread. I'm an academic advisor now and finding that sometimes the question I should ask is if students have or need accommodations. They've been fine through high school but the stress of engineering classes brings out their needs. They can be engineers if we give them a chance.

Jess Miers 🦝🦞@jmiers230.bsky.social · last wk.

To my past, current, and future law students: please know that your accommodations are not a "large advantage." They're a need. Legal education is broken in so many stupid ways. But what we are not going to do is normalize this kind of thinking. Let's go over why. 🧵

the thing about public libraries is that they are—or at least many of them are—the one unrestricted public space in which children are treated with something approaching full civic equality with all other people. And they sense that. Our children’s room is the liveliest space in our library. 📚

Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.

The fact that public surveillance can be turned off for the rich seems a demonstration that they're quite aware of their false narrative. "privacy is a luxury for the elite few, and the rest of us are subjected to pervasive surveillance everywhere we go" www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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Ironically, France's government did a study several years ago that found there was no safe or technically feasible way to mandate online age verification without massively expanding surveillance and eviscerating online privacy. They decided to do it anyway.

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 2w ago

France just became the first nation in Europe to ban teens from social media and, you guessed it, they’re forcing everyone to upload their ID’s for social media access in order to enforce it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

sad the World Cup is over; not sad that (hopefully) we’ve come to the end of white people who live in the Unites States of America in the year of our lord 2026 going on and about Argentina being a racist country

Agora q copa acabou: racismo é o solo sobre o qual o ocidente se ergueu. A colonização é um empreendimento do racismo. Argentina é racista até a medula, Espanha tbm, França, Alemanha, Brasil... cada um à sua maneira. Não vejo benefício algum pra luta anti-racista enquadrar torcida de futebol assim.

having already won the world cup in 2018 and 1998, along with appearing in the final in 06 and 22, i deeply respect france's dedication to showing how silly this match is

This is a rich (literally, figuratively) reasoning when gambling is eating up more and more of our relationships with the world. There’s never been a greater sense that appealing to economics as illuminating human nature is a base form of sophistry.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 3w ago

Emily Oster, an *checks notes* economist, on public health crisis, social media, risk, and evolutionary psychology. Can I have a national column on economics?

omg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win

THE FOOTBALL GODS ABHOR A COWARD

English-speaking nations eliminated Telemundo officially wins the 2026 World Cup

AAAAEEEE VAMOS ARGENTINAAAA

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

Given debates in the US on who truly represents the working class, I'll point out that in Brazil a movement to give workers a 5-day workweek - arguably the biggest worker gains in the 21st c - is led by a Black trans woman (Rep. Erika Hilton) & a Black gay man (City Council leader Rick Azevedo).

Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥🔥🔥

The FIFA VAR interesting as window into how algorithmic governance can operate in practice outside of the China context: highly-surveillant and high-tech (ball sensor, graphs, etc.) accompanied by a form of transparency (replays, etc.) without accountability and still essentially a blackbox.

gonna need a wellness check on Andres Cantor after this game

I relate to Argentina because this is also the only way I can get work assignments done

We can all agree to hate VAR but Argentina was unbelievable today, what a 2nd half 💙

Telemundo’s narrator losing his voice over the last goal, Latin America I love you don’t ever change

VAMOS ARGENTINA BORAAAA

Sitting beneath the villainy of real-world authoritarianism is the entrenched use of artificial tech tools & surveillance to monitor our every move. Public outrage over this all-encompassing surveillance state is real & growing. Why we launched #SOS: pressingissues.org/the-antidote...

The Antidote to Surveillance Is Solidarity

Why we’re launching a grassroots campaign to stop government spying

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What’s the German word for knowing it’s over 2/3rds of the way through something but still having to suffer through the rest of it?