Lovely to talk with these folks about the problematic ways that crawlers are breaking the Internet lately

🧊 is actual Gestapo. No ID, masks, improper labels (they're not "police"). And worse - our police (the few that wanna help) can't actually force 🧊 to show ID. Why? Because if they are 🧊 then they're "impeding a federal investigation." They are tying the hands of police to actually protect citizens.

Good start. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

I cannot express how absolutely bull this is www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Pretty soon, they're going to ban video altogether; they just haven't figured out how to. It will be labeled as a matter of "security" chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

To be honest I’m not even surprised about this considering everything else. americanjournalnews.com/tumblr-linke...

Let me get this right… the “teachers are indoctrinating our kids” group is … creating a propaganda campaign to indoctrinate kids? www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

I’m tired of being upset and tired of all of this. You get DOGE to cancel stuff to fund a 300M ballroom and then destroy $10M birth control? This is the point. Distract. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

What do you do when the President makes a threat of “war” to the city you live in? Asking for all of us. Can the Governor deploy the Illinois national guard to defend its residents against masked thugs? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

The ignorance of how things work makes me facepalm constantly. WIKIPEDIA IS COMMUNITY GENERATED CONTENT! are they gonna “investigate” 4chan next? Maybe they should just read my open access book… thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Yet again the party of “free speech” and “don’t tread on me” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I mean we are all pretty tired of yelling “it’s like Hitler” but this is pretty intense. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It’s funny that the administration wants to strip nonprofit status from orgs while groups like this remain fine with their tax exempt churches. www.newsweek.com/church-preac...

“If they spit we hit” - Violence as a reaction from an armed force as a response to protest is absolutely authoritarianism. www.axios.com/2025/06/10/l...

Major General Randy E. Manner, former Acting Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau statement to Fox News: "This is an inappropriate use of the National Guard and is not warranted.”

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

Nothing says freedom like state run media that publishes its own “facts” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Between this and the AI provision, this is a circus of nightmares. Im really not sure what stops thid outside of a full blown revolt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They've always been thinly veiled, but the audacity is really incredible now. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

If you don’t think people should take medical advice from you, the country’s top health official…. MAYBE YOU SHOULD STOP OFFERING IT. And also maybe stop influencing policy about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

Look what the "states rights" folks have cooked up here - sneaking in something absolutely ridiculous... again...

I honestly thought this was a joke until now. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

This alone is huge, but that the Register if Copyrights was canned right after this release is even bigger. www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...

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Oh this is positive. "You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work, and you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person… I just don't understand how that can be fair use." www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Well this is just super fun. Full on government approval of conspiracy theories. www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

Oh fun, AI stalking tools! 🤦‍♂️ techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/t...

Apparently the new US policy is to threaten other countries freedoms for trade. Fun. www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...

As of this morning, we've tracked over 600 student visa revocations at more than 100 colleges. That's double yesterday morning's count. Send updates to me or @amowreader.com and follow @insidehighered.com interactive visa map here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Mmmm nothing quite like a full fledged market manipulation by billionaire heads of state www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The new McCarthyists are targeting legal clinics now. Sheila Bedi is one of the most amazing people I know and this is absolutely infuriating. www.wbez.org/education/20...

Glad Wisconsin stood up to the money. Now we need to organize the left. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

The free speech fanatics have…. *checks notes* …. cancelled 300 visas because of… *checks notes* … expressing free speech in a lawful way. Brought to you by the same people who defend people protesting with nazi flags… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“AI fairness” is so ridiculous it’s maddening. The level of bias inherent in data only ensures you will amplify previous issues - just faster and stronger and more “efficiently” (but using 100x more power and money?) www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

Good. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...

So let me get this straight, Trump keeps violating judge orders but… nothing happens… does what he wants… and nothing? I mean if anyone else violates multiple court orders they go to jail… www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...

This is a real Washington Post headline. Grenell literally said “Diversity is our strength”

Right. So, here’s the deal. It’s called the First Amendment.

we just need stupider leftists. I'm dead serious. charismatic guys with the stamina to record 100 instagram reels a week in the front seat of their car saying stuff like "trump made summers too hot" and "the fries at wendy's taste better ever since they went woke"

I love how artists and creators can get sued because they don't have the money to pay for lawyers arguing for "fair use" but giant companies can wholesale steal tons of copyrighted material and argue its "fair" - yeah this is going great. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

First they came for our paper products and they didn’t understand that meant toilet paper, so they didn’t protest… then they came for wine and …. Bad things happened? amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....

Jobs and jobs "Our goal is to help build a vast commons of well-understood data, gather a diverse community to investigate and improve it, and affirm the role of institutions as stewards of knowledge in the age of AI." institutionaldatainitiative.org#careers

Hope so arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

NEW: We ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly. (w/ @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @towcenter.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social) www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Yes.

The journal I edit, *communication +1* just released a new special issue on #MediaAesthetics that might be of some interest to my academic and humanistically minded friends. The journal is fully #openaccess so please check it out. communicationplusone.org

It's the little things ... like one less "cool with authoritarianism today" SCOTUS member .... that keeps you going...