The glow up for these devices is campaigns like this, which is an attempt to obscure the fact of them building a surveillance network for an authoritarian state.

The idea that no one said anything about the Obama deportations requires you to ignore the fact that he was labeled the Deporter in Chief by immigrant rights groups. This is why Biden was particularly deliberate in building relationships with many of these same groups to mute their criticism

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Saturday night's all right for activism! If you're in Washington state, here are three actions to say no to age verification, and one on AI. If that's not how you want to spend your Saturday night, no worries. Tomorrow or Monday morning is fine too. Read on for more! (1/N) #waleg

Commentary from leader of the Coalition for Rights & Safety of People in the Sex Trades (Seattle, WA) on the ghastly non-consensual use of identifying survivor photos in “PSA” presentations by city prosecutors.

Mansplainception: When you call out some mansplaining and the "well actually" crowd comes along to tell you it isn't.

@baileytownsend.dev @sharpiepls.com i just migrated an account to Blacksky using the most excellent PDSMoover tool and your oh-so-helpful video .... so smooth! I had set this account up from scratch on a Blacksky PDS so it was the first time I had migrated an account there

At the end of the day doesn’t matter if we like/admire folks they decide to test out full blown authoritarian violations of the constitution on. It matters that we fight for everyone to be protected by the constitution. Solidarity is not the same as fandom or friendship, solidarity is what wins.

“Enshittification” is basically we get treated like yall and they still think that’s a winning move because it’s in the “zeitgeist” We have a five year old looking listless in a concentration camp and they still focus and PAY folks who laughed at that future

bsky mods banned @are0h.blacksky.app but you can still engage with him on staging.blacksky.community .

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

Apparently I'm "uncivil" for telling a dude who'd been mansplaining at me for most of the hour that he should go to the library when he was whining about how ChatGPT is so useful for answering his questions about the fall of the Roman Empire. >>

If useful, emotion detection is euphemism for physiognomy. So it's not so much biased but a full-blown pseudoscience. Poss some of these are useful by my coauthors & I, but thread probably the most: doi.org/10.59490/jht... arxiv.org/pdf/2202.08674 doi.org/10.1145/3432... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

When this launches to production, something to keep in mind is your private data will be separate Mutes (NOT blocks), bookmarks, etc will be specific to the app you use Someone muted on bsky won’t be muted when using the Blacksky app Blacksky bookmarks won’t be bookmarked when you are using bsky

Oh wait, SB 6111 is up first. And it's similar to Mississipi's bad age verification law! I wrote about this in privacy.thenexus.today/mississippi-... EDIT: whoops, not up yet after all!

I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts. Another long 🧵>>

We found the one person who'll be in theaters to see Melania: The Bribe, The Movie. And it's exactly who you'd expect.

The hearing on HB 2599 is just starting! www.tvw.org/watch/?event... #waleg

Here's a draft of what I'm thinking of saying about this issue in the hearing on HB 2599 (AI in therapy), hich starts at 1:30) ... I probably will only have 90 seconds so can't go into detail. If you happen to see it before then, any thoughts? Or anybody else, feedback very welcome!

I downloaded the Upscrolled app. Just saw that the official accounts of the founder & even the app itself follow Greyzone "journalists" infamous for war crimes denialism everywhere that isn't Gaza. Hard pass. Another app that tells me African lives don't matter. That's just Meta with a 🇵🇸 flag.

intercommunalism is the way.

Here's some of my testimony on SB 6312 (prohibiting surveillance pricing) Very glad I was an early testifier, because it totally undercut some of the points industry lobbyists made later in the session! #waleg

Good morning! Starting now: a #waleg Senate committee hearing on SB 6312 tvw.org/video/senate... SB 6312 bans "surveillance pricing": setting a different price for each consumer based on the maximum they are willing to pay. That shouldn't be legal, and this bill prohibits it.

Read this and then subscribe to one of Emilia’s subscriptions. If you’re privileged please give something back. Emilia has helped me numerous times on many different technical issues. She’s one of THE people you need to work with when it comes to ATProto + ActivityPub.

The second #waleg surveillance pricing action: email members of the House committee voting on another version of the bill. An amendment came out today with several important improvements, so we want to support it. Deadline: 8:15 am tomorrow (Wednesday) www.takeaction.network/xactions/464...

The first surveillance pricing action has a deadline of * 7:00 am Wednesday * - that's tomorrow! This is a simple "sign in Pro" action. Here's a page with more info. www.takeaction.network/xactions/46543 (Sorry for the short notice on this, the hearing just got announced today.)

HB 2112 is the first of the age verification bills in Washington state to get a hearing this session, so coming out strong against it will hopefully give legislators pause about moving the others forward as well. If you're a Washington resident, please contact legislators!

Say no to age verification in Washington state! If you're a Washington resident, tell your legislators not to follow Texas' lead! HB 2112 is one of several age verification bills this session,. It's based an odious Texas age verification law.... www.takeaction.network/xactions/46385

One human rights observer in Maine said agents followed her home, blocked off her street, and came to her door to say they know where she lives. Her children are now staying elsewhere, to keep them safe.

Urgent #waleg action alert: please sign in CON on the harmful hospital charity care bill (HB 2250) by 12:30 pm tomorrow (Tuesday). app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie... 1. select your position - CON 2. fill in the rest of the form. 3. click Submit Registration

Made a video on @techcrunch.com ‘s coverage of @skylight.social ✨ Shoutout to all the new users on Skylight who are actively helping us make this thing better! @reedharmeyer.bsky.social and I appreciate you all! 🥹 Thanks to @sarahp.bsky.social for covering this growth and the Open Social Web!

On Signal, you can opt to have an open link that anyone can use to join a chat. Or, you can make it so it requires an admin invite or approval. So I imagine they got their hands on an open url and think they hit paydirt, which. Great Have fun chatting with a bunch of PSL recruiters, boys

I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.

There's a bill here in Washington (HB 2599) to regulate AI use in therapy. Here's the current language of one key section. A couple questions: 1) what else should be prohibited? 2) is there better wording for (c)? More about my concern here in the reply ...

coz often people invoke me and my book in online scraps about "where were you when..." and to chastize those newly organizing: I'm not interested in whataboutism & disparaging ppl. As an organizer, I appreciate ppl are joining, and I hope my work is of service. Stay in the struggle & keep building.

I was only 7 when this happened, but I knew the name of the President (Carter) at 2. I watched the PBS NewsHour (then the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour) religiously throughout my childhood. I cared abt news from a very young age. But I first heard abt the MOVE bombing 10-15 yrs ago, as an adult.

and the victims' remains were finally returned to family in 2021, almost 40 years later

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Yep. I live in the US and think of myself as politically aware but had never heard of the Orangeburg Massacre until I just happened to be visiting my Mom in South Carolina when a hurricane rolled in and we wound up staying in Orangeburg ...

Before Kent State, there was the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State. We're not trying to one-up you. We're demanding that you put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Never Forget y'all. My memory is LONG and there are a lot of folx I'll never forgive for this. www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...

If you're being at all honest, you know that, at this point, "abolish ICE" is the mainstream moderate position.

Read the room y’all. An ICU nurse just was murdered by ICE. Editors seriously y’all 🙄

I want to highlight the importance of community, not just on the streets, but online, that lets reporting on these protests reach people across the ATmosphere. This feed is made from starterpacks built by @startribune.com, lists by @aendra.com, and components built by myself and @fema.monster.

if the genocide in gaza is the experiment zone for the technology of colonial control and annihilation that capital, via US imperialism & its barracks-outpost (the zionist occupation of palestine), exports worldwide, the executions in minneapolis are the experiment for all cities in the core

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

Read the South Seattle Emerald's great coverage of the Washington Whistle Project: southseattleemerald.org/news/2025/11...

Two weeks after UW report, WA’s driver data is still accessible for immigration enforcement. (UPDATE) notesfromtheemeraldcity.com/two-weeks-af...

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.