A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

One of my favorite people in this world. An ardent supporter of Palestine. Rest in peace Alice

If you want to learn more about Alice Wong and her work, you can find many links on her profile, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social, or check out disabilityvisibilityproject.com, or her Wikipedia page. Your library may also have her books, including audio/ebook editions (@multcolib.bsky.social does).

probably the best description anyone could write. She made so much room for beauty, pleasure, and joy in her life. That wasn't a break from fighting; it was WHY she fought.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

Alice in her own words: bsky.app/profile/thra...

Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

I am really, really, really heartbroken to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's passing. She was and forever will be one of the most badass, eloquent, and brilliant people I've ever met. Gift article of this story here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

And how its built doesn’t need to be mutually exclusive with data protection and privacy.

Male pattern kindness

I've been sober for almost a year (shy one week!) and I used to think my late night posting and impulsive purchases were substance related but nope it's just 100% me and it's oddly comforting to know that anyways I now own four pairs of socks that make my legs look like chicken feet

But seriously, it’s so exciting and engergizing to see the momentum and traction that @roost.tools has. We’re committed to bringing the superpowers of open source development and community to the trust and safety space, ultimately helping reduce harm in open and transparent ways.

I did not have evangelizing open source to the literal pope on my new job bingo card, but that’s legitimately pretty awesome. 😆

this is so good lmao

nvm it's just because I'm sick yay

ROOST is committed to helping accelerate this momentum and building a shared global foundation of open source safeguards that uphold the dignity of every child online.

Real accountability and transparency depend on technical openness. That’s why we believe core child-safety protections should be open sourced so anyone can study, test, improve, and reuse them.

This week, our President, @camillefrancois.bsky.social, visited the Vatican for a discussion on protecting children in the digital age. We were very humbled to have been invited to participate in such an important meeting and at such a pivotal time.

I'm so proud of my partners hard work over the past few months, now finally public 💚 cash.app/new

is this booktok

Really well done and detailed report on how technology impacted the 2024 US elections by my brother! "This paper examines the persistent patterns and new innovations deployed by foreign actors during the 2020 and 2024 U.S. Presidential Election cycles." www.integrityinstitute.org/research/map...

also I think it’s good actually that Bluesky isn’t really treating celebrities or high profile people differently from anyone else with regards to moderation, even if you don’t agree with those decisions

and you get harassed and doxxed and you get involved in litigation against your employer and you get cPTSD and and and and and idk, i still choose this work because i love what the internet could be and wanna try to make it possible for it to be that for someone else these days *jazzhands*

In the wake of news about Project B, a new women’s basketball league with a range of funders from around the globe, I want to highlight this recent paper exploring (and critiquing) the concept of “sportswashing”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

sooo i have spent the majority of my career working to fight the sexual abuse of minors and i also think that normalizing posts about violence towards women is bad (however repulsive the women and their beliefs are) obvi no one is feeding anyone to a woodchipper but i'm with bluesky T&S on this one

i headbanged too hard at my MIL's retirement party and hurt my back that's a sentence i am upset that i am able to write

We just wrote an in-depth post about Toxic Content labeling. It presents a new way of defining toxic speech online-- and illustrates the importance of observable features for accurate language model interpretability. Would love to hear how YOU define toxicity, too! blog.zentropi.ai/observations...

The Moment Leaves spiral downward; the lesson of sakura - Ev'rywhere I look. #poetry #Haiku

A lot of people think of moderators as eldritch entities that are bound to the exact words of the spell and if you don't speak the exact words, you cannot be moderated! Whereas in reality it's a bunch of very tired and overworked people going "are you fucking kidding me with this shit"

There are so many samosas in my car

LETS GOOOOO SEATTLE MAYOR WILSON

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

ICE is just going to outsource the stalking of undocumented immigrants to random private investigators, is willing to spend $180 million on it: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

“Oh you work in trust and safety? Name every single cultural element for all global cultures for all time.”

I understand that AYCE places play pounding house and techno (this place is actually playing legit techno lmao) bc faster bpm means faster table turnover but now it's 9:30 on a Wednesday and I'm extremely hyped up

I love chubby cattle

never thought i'd be reading a long ass paper on ukrainian diaspora and NYC in extreme detail but here i am (LFG wikinyc 400!!!)

As the nation focused on New York City’s mayoral election and gubernatorial races in New Jersey & Virginia, there was an intergenerational movement of Black people, particularly millennial women, in small cities & rural towns shaking up local elections, too. capitalbnews.org/rural-electi...

If you are a researcher who happens to know other researchers who study Reddit/use Reddit data, I beg of you to please send them this paper. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

I want to go for a walk but it's also 40F and windy outside

idk why wikipedia's suggested edits keeps having me update articles on offshore energy but now i know a bunch about offshore energy i'm at the age now where a day off from work means more editing time YAY

threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app! tangled.org/@jakelazarof...

She's live! Creating and expanding Wikipedia articles for T&S is my current hyperfixation. Here's one on the REPORT Act en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REPORT_...

brooklyn botanical garden from this past weekend

bless

We're hoping to change this by encouraging more public sharing of people's work. So, today, we're launching policy discovery and sharing on Zentropi. Browse featured policies, find more from authors you like, fork what fits, and adapt for your context. 🧵 2/5

this is super duper cool, and they made it public! writing policies are hard enough, writing them for AI systems is honestly much easier with zentropi. i've tried it.