Just finished my speech for my keynote on Monday for the DLF Forum 2025 @clirnews.bsky.social and I think this might be the best speech I’ve ever written in my entire life. It’s titled: “Your Silence Will Not Protect You: A Clarion Call to Make Online Protection the Rule and NOT the Exception”

Buttigieg polled an impressive 0% with Black voters. Zero. Percent. Do you know how kind and friendly Black voters are? Everyone gets like 3%, just for showing up! You have to work to go down from there! It's 2025, And I still run into people that don't know why Black voters don't like Buttigieg.

not Wh*te people and random trolls proving the necessity of reading Alice Wong's work on race and disability in response to a memoriam post on her work on race and disability.

Stop and frisk laid the groundwork for this moment and many many people ignored that stop and frisk was and is a real problem.

Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design. This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all." Gonna try to hold that.

What's next? Smoke cigarettes responsibly? Pollute needlessly responsibly? Have indentured labourers responsibly? Abuse people responsibly? Exactly.

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

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

I, too, am late with Fund Me Friday, so I will extend it to Save Me Saturday. Drop your links below and I will repost them as long as I able.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Join @blackskyweb.xyz for “Digital Misogynoir + How to Report it on Blacksky” 11/14, 7PMEST on @stream.place. This event is part of @raceforward.org + CTWO’s Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy! #CWA25 #LiberatoryLeadership #CTWOxRACEFORWARD

The point of LLMs aren't even that it will accurately enforce the desired ideological conformity. The stochastic errors and subsequent penalization are the point.

NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:

The share of American women and girls age 15 to 44 who would like to move permanently to another country if they had the opportunity: 🟣 45 percent of single women 🟣 41 percent of married women 🟣 44 percent of those who do not have children 🟣 40 percent of those who do

🚨🎧 Don't miss the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream! @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social will be talking to Sophie Song about what happens self-professed defenders of workers’ rights turn to chatbots for “research” Mon, Nov 17, noon PDT www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

We're looking forward to @evelyn.northsky.team sharing more about Northsky and our plans for the future!

Help the @19thnews.org better serve you, our audiences! Take our survey to help our team continue to build an independent news organization that reflects your experiences. It'll greatly inform how we make editorial decisions and move the work forward! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8565522/7...

I posted this before the latest discourse broke and it just affirms the need for this feature

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

"People are mad that BlueSky won't allow them to make death threats." No! People are mad that BlueSky's AI automod regularly gets it wrong, moderation decisions/ penalties are seemingly arbitrary, and the moderation team has terrible comms.

I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.

This is the lighter flavor of how existential risk AI operates as AI hype. Espionage and hacking campaigns the have the feel of being "autonomous" and yet executed by a state actor are one step removed from "the system ran away from us and now we're all fucked."

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

jobs.theguardian.com/job/9893829/... Recruitment for a head of ops position at @foxglovelegal.bsky.social closes in a week! Please share widely and apply if of interest.

The mayor-elect of Seattle fucking Washington standing in a picket line for Starbucks workers hours after her victory speech. This rules so hard

I reposted every single part of this thread, but this is just to say that you should go read this thread, and also go follow and pay attention to Erin.

ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!

today and everyday, fuck proctorio. congrats to Ian Linkletter! linkletter.org/update-33-th...

If people like Singal get to continue spewing their vile bullshit, then banning Sarah and link protects nobody. Like zero people. If this is the outcome of you supposedly anguishing over these policies? And you go home at night actually thinking you did something? You are not being serious.

I'm gonna push back on this. I feel like people fall victim to this all the time. The flaw in this reasoning is that if the platform has decided to engage in moderation, they don't need to take the word of the person that it's a joke. They need to use their own judgment and make a determination.

Next Wednesday in SF!! Come hang, I'll buy you a beer, and let's talk protocols, privacy, & the future of everything 🔮🍻

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This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen

I hear the Network State had a very rough night at the Cloverdale City Council. It’s the People of Cloverdale vs The Network State.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

This essay from @josie.zone is essential.

more atproto news this week, with the launch of the knowledge sharing platform Semble, a new music streaming platform plyr.fm, hosting a static site on your PDS, and a whole lot more links

Aaron Goggans and I talk about what happens when movements start running on empty—how trauma, burnout, and dysregulation can shape our organizing, and what it takes to sustain ourselves and each other in a moment of crisis and emergency. I found this conversation so helpful, and I hope you will too.

#MeToo forever And girls, Mute it all. Settings > Moderation > Muted words & tags

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying. The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.

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"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

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dynasties are a symptom of democratic failure - maybe high barriers to entry into politics - maybe poor information about all candidates-> name-recognition problem - maybe something else! but definitely not a sign of merit, fairness, or accountability

This exact same dynamic—dehumanizing fake content made entirely bc Facebook pays people to make it—played out in Myanmar in the run-up to a genocide. @karenhao.bsky.social laid it out in the starkest terms: www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1...

I want to restate something I said in a lot of replies yesterday, which is that this move is not going to reduce replies yelling at the Bsky team—and that should not be the goal. What it does is clarify how moderation works here so that people can assess that and act accordingly.

Why Privacy Starts with Consent Not Code @tessa.germnetwork.com, writer turned founder of @germnetwork.com on how she went from teaching at Stanford to building a private messenger that puts consent at the center of online communication. Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/0KzYtw0py4M

The problem, Aaron, is that when you give zero information about what it *was*, you create not just one space that people will rush to fill with speculation: 1. What was the unstated reason? 2. Why was the reason unstated?