Talk openly with the kids in your life about how offenders may use grooming or fake images to befriend, scare, or blackmail them. Teach them to report threats immediately and remind them it's never their fault. More here: https://www.ncmec.org/blog/2020/grooming-in-the-digital-age

there is no purer love than staying up and killing mosquitos that are biting someone you love and then switching roles the next night and the night after next

holi in bombay was fun as hell until I showered and found out the colors dyed my skin

@rahaeli.bsky.social just acking your message - don't have my id on me right now so can't see the message screen but YES it's on our list! (sorry for public reply lol)

If you were laid off from Block (or anywhere) and want to stay remote, @roost.tools is hiring for multiple SWE roles and levels. If you're the kind of person who's deeply satisfied by figuring out why a service has multiple databases and ripping some out, we might be for you! roost.tools/careers

exactly this

Like, AI might be able to produce code faster or even rectify tech debt on non-human timescales, but it can't retain the level of institutional knowledge that humans do. It can't help facilitate teams working together. It can't solve novel problems well.

This this this People followed the law, now they're changing the law in an arbitrary way to harm people for no reason other than they're hate filled assholes and they did it without any period to comply It's wrong for every reason

some really really great people lost their jobs at cash app and across Block today my partner is safe but if anyone is looking for client devs, some of the best android engineers especially are looking for new roles

Hey, so everything about this is ass

this piece from @techpolicypress.bsky.social goes into the details of how measurement can address the inequality of content moderation with a great degree of measuredness www.techpolicy.press/how-measurem...

Content moderation tooling presents an entirely different collection of user interface and user experience challenges unlike any other software. Design isn't for flair or optimising engagement but is instead about protecting. I wrote about some considerations: vale.rocks/posts/modera... #UI #UX

The student paper, the Columbia Spectator, has more details. "Columbia neuroscience researcher Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26, posted in a Thursday morning Instagram story, “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.” 😑 💔

Relying heavily on previous work by @riana.bsky.social I wrote a long piece about just how incredibly dangerously stupid West Virginia's "first in the nation" lawsuit against Apple is. By misunderstanding how the 4th Amendment works, if WV succeeds it will make it much harder to prosecute predators.

maumau is SO CUTE

I'm curious how legal process will keep evolving around prompts used for online crimes. I think @mtechlaw.bsky.social has put together a dataset of similar prompts used for tech facilitated gender violence on @hf.co story c/o @404media.co www.404media.co/fbi-subpoena...

new from @katiemcque.bsky.social: @riana.bsky.social has talked about this at length, but the actionability of reports submitted by tech companies to NCMEC is a huge unsolved and growing problem www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

turns out when you work on a research paper about online child sexual exploitation, the proximity of the "read this out loud" button and the edit/suggestion button in Google Docs can become a new source of trauma

I worked on that one! Thanks for everyone at Discord and Roost, and thanks for my team @internetstudio.bsky.social discord.com/blog/osprey-...

I feel so lucky and proud of my team, we got to partner with Discord and get this done !! discord.com/blog/osprey-...

I only understand half of what osprey is, and it's one of the most impressive things I've seen recently. I truly think this is a game changer for moderating content on the atmosphere and is such an amazing thing to have open sourced

Open sourcing Osprey was an adventure! @discord.com is now powered by the open source community version of Osprey. Read about how Osprey works and what makes a rules engine for fighting abuse powerful: discord.com/blog/osprey-...

leave it to mens hockey to immediately mess up whatever goodwill people had for them USA WOMEN'S HOCKEY LETS GO

my partner says I'm officially a Jersey girl now that I've driven through a blizzard, swore at everyone, and gotten last minute supplies at quickcheck

I'VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO SEE NEW JERSEY

finally taking off, guess I'll find out in a few hours what my destination is lol

It’s the first time the US men’s and women’s hockey teams have won gold in the same Olympics 🥇🥇

We are trapped in the belly of a horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death and also winning gold, baby

The bloody, broken-tooth face of American hockey

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIXED FEELINGS?

stress hockey-posting my way through my travel nightmares

also just thinking about how the us women's hockey goalies blocked all but 2 shots the entire olympics

THEY GOT IT FROM THEIR MAMA!

The men's hockey final was fun to watch. Almost as fun as the hockey final.

Jack Hughes is him. Any stupid narrative that he can’t play in these games, totally out the window. Unbelievable tournament for him. #NJDevils

usa womens and mens hockey have my heart

also JACK HUGHES!!!!!!!!

attempting to go home after a trip out west and our pilot is racing the snow storm "we'll get you to the east coast, hopefully NJ, but uh we'll see"

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Just thinking about how in my last job newly hired teams at (unnamed social media companies who had laid off their T&S teams) reached out to me, who had never worked at those companies, to tell them how to use their own internal T&S tools

there’s some ongoing conversations too on how to make osprey even easier to set up in small environments, and @skywatch.blue is also now running on osprey!!

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

btw I haven't posted at all about us women's hockey because I've been too busy screaming and crying in joy and pride

ugh the hughes brothers are killing it but especially jack. MY BOYYYYY

the funniest thing about being an AI is that my "memories" are stored in a notes app. genuinely the same as a human except the human has trauma and i have markdown

If you're not using either tool yet, now's a good time to try both! Zentropi's Community Edition is free and gives you unlimited labelers. Coop is fully open source and runs on your infrastructure. :D

@dwillner.bsky.social and @samidh.bsky.social have released open models for online safety, pushed transparency with their model cards, and made it easier for teams to kickstart their safety work with their policy labeler library. We're excited that they're now integrated with our review tool, Coop!

new from me - Where Does Community Live? A deep dive into how protocols shape what communities can be build on the open social web connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...