my partner when i say i'm going to be out all day giving a talk on the sidelines of UNGA for @roost.tools: it's always the UN, never u-n-me

i had the best cherry tomato i've ever tasted today while picking produce at a farm like wow honestly my life is changed

I wish it was clearer that the "nonconsensual" part of the Bluesky TOS is almost certainly about nonconsensual sharing of nude photos and revenge porn rather than people's non-con fiction or drawing. /r/bluesky is seriously out of control on this topic right now.

my TikTok feed has decided I must see a lot of Mister International content and I gotta say, Canada is one fine ass furry

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

great times, I'm bummed to miss it this year!

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

Here is an in-depth privacy and security guide by @fightforthefuture.org that goes beyond the basics, answering questions about VPNs and how to run an anonymous blog. There are also quick references but I recommend reading the 43-page PDF. www.turnoffyourphone.org

yall I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that moderation isnt coming for your cnc kink art, it's just a more detailed explanation of what they've already been doing and explicitly saying "ai generated deep fakes of nudes is not ok"

I don't work at bsky I've just been in policy discussions before + I keep getting tagged by people angry about the changes to synthetic / simulated acts IMO that part is trying to get at the deep fake non consensual intimate imagery (huge problem with nudifying apps and software) and synthetic CSAM

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Who knows what today might bring (derogatory)

One week left until the Trust & Safety Research Conference hosted by @stanfordcyber.bsky.social! The final agenda is now available: fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...

Yay and Vermont! bsky.app/profile/luck...

Rep Comer hauling in tech CEOs to talk about content moderation and radicalization 💀 Welcome to the “moderation isn’t censorship” club, nuance is good actually. oversight.house.gov/release/chai...

very cool to see AP devs hacking with AT-style OAuth! I'd really love to see convergence in the modern ecosystem around this shape of distributed OAuth

got another android buggie for bsky (I can't not QA this is my everyday experience on like 99% of apps lmao) I think this is supposed to be a warning that changing display name will break verification but it's blank

if the choice is between being verified on bsky and keeping up with the good ol spooky name tradition y'all know what I'm choosing

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Just saw that NCMEC released Jan-June CyberTipline report stats, a first for them, because of "sharp increases in new and evolving crimes targeting children on the internet, including online enticement, use of artificial intelligence and child sex trafficking." www.missingkids.org/blog/2025/sp...

of COURSE I get a plumbing emergency today OF COURSE

starting my morning with a podcast about Nazi catboys and fascist femboys and had an out of body moment of wtf have I chosen my life and career to be

i was wondering why my bag is so heavy and i finally dug around i have 5 separate full size containers of sunscreen FIVE

yay but also I've just learned how big bullfrogs are and ???????

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I joined @oliverdarcy.bsky.social’s Status for a conversation about content and mobilization. We discussed how real-world events become online spectacle, why influencers rush to set the narrative, who benefits (in some cases, profits), and what would change things. www.status.news/p/charlie-ki...

the bluesky android app has been weird OR my phone is breaking somehow; I keep having to kill and restart the app bc tabs/buttons aren't responsive and sometimes get into weird states where the media from one tab overlays over others LinkedIn android is also being weird so might just be my phone

A Great Blue heron says goodby to summer and starts looking towards the arrival of fall. #heron #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Starting a long day of some fucked up shit with some forward facing raptor. Which is not fucked up. #bird

now im reminiscing and will prob plan a campervan trip out to the Olympic Peninsula again soon like this is unreal also might fall into the trap of "should I go blonde again"

this weekend was supposed to be a touch grass eat hot dogs and dance break from Being Online but we ended up binging @panicworld.com on the drive no ragrets

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

love is: him secretly packing long pants because he knows I'm a desert girl who underestimates the prevalence and harm of ticks

Some very cool #moss and #mushrooms I saw on a hike today in the Catskills

She's not here on Bluesky that often by @aagh.bsky.social, a true expert on trust & safety (and a great explainer of trust & safety) had a good post on LinkedIn about the challenges of trust & safety during high profile events. www.linkedin.com/posts/aliceh...

The bad actors are out in force and this is part of an AI-generated firehosing campaign that exists with Facebook's blessing

Next week I'll work our other comment subtree into atmunge and benchmark things out. We're trying to see what it takes for some open weight trust & safety models to keep up with the @atproto.com firehose (i.e. and with a number of people around @roost.tools, there's a discord if you're interested)

guys i did it thanks for the good time indowarehouse

i think im gonna log off, eat a hot dog and go dancing

The write up from @garbageday.email is Very Good™ www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

*watching innocent people rapidly acquire the cursed knowledge that has driven me to madness* oh no

I've worked on the far-right beat for nearly 10 years now, and I've had to handle sorting through a lot of misinformation on politically motivated violence. And this is by far the worst instance of it, including from a lot of people who should really know better.

i just spent too much time last weekend configuring my terminal teehee

Something I think about not infrequently is how, in many cyberpunk worlds, anyone who uses the ‘Net with any efficacy has a cyber-barrier of some kind, or there’s even a ‘Net-wide firewall, that staves off an absolute deluge of spam, slop, and rogue AIs that otherwise make it hostile and unusable

being online right now feels like being harry and marv just getting walloped by paint cans to the face ... except it is posts

All of these tips are derived from the psychological protections developed for content moderators, and if you want more detail and citations, crowd.cs.vt.edu/wp-content/u... is the paper that has the best collection of citations that I've found .

blur filters too!