@drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team sharing what it means to be a thoughtful community steward and member. so many valuable insights that extend into life beyond t&s (e.g. valuing lived experiences & collective input over credentials/meritocracy)✨

@safiyanoble.bsky.social MENTIONED!!!! great reference from @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team on Algorithms of Oppression and how the demographic makeup of T&S teams heavily impacts the policies and decisions to bring expert experiences (not only expert resumes)

Lessons for community labelers: Skywatch is a part of Bluesky's composable moderation, as a community-run labeler that people can subscribe to labels are a type of metadata about account/content. They exist on their own and as part of API responses or directly embedded in records themselves.

at the Q/A session, @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team discusses what it takes to make a real trust and safety team at #ATmosphereConf "...expert experience, not expert resume..."

listening to @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team talking about "Creating a Safer Web" at #Atmosphereconf. Who puts the trust in "Trust & Safety"?

⚠️ Could #Flock mass #surveillance be coming to #Issaquah soon? This was pitched to council a year ago, but was awaiting a grant which we're told has now come through. 19 potential entry/exit points will be considered as part of a "pilot program" at an estimated cost of up to $200K per year.

“Love the ones you starve with; them the ones you eat with” Shout out to my Risk Takers ❤️‍🔥 The tech industry has never seen a team like us before. If you wanna know why we’re winning, you’re looking at the reason. You’d be blessed to have any one of them on your side. @blackskyweb.xyz

Trust and Safety systems cannot stop at violence prevention, they must cultivate a culture of digital resistance. I think of digital resistance as a care politic; moderation is at its most effective when it is rooted not only in enforcement, but also in community care and collective responsibility.

TIL that Doctorow was talking shit about Audre Lorde (in the same way that y'all fave at Techdirt did on that podcast):

I'm at the town hall event on surveillance in Seattle, where Mayor Katie Wilson is being interviewed onstage by the South Seattle Emerald's Florangela Davila. Read and watch along with me!

It’s been super fun to be a Critical Race Theory scholar & have the tools to recognize all these claims of merit cloaked in white supremacy and have no one listen because it made whiteness feel threatened.

States are dogged in their introduction & advancement of bad bills to target free speech, press, access to information. Here’s an excellent piece on a bill I’m disturbed by in GA, where we’re actively fighting for open govt & records: georgiarecorder.com/2026/03/27/g...

Wish I could make it to #ATmosphereconf but instead, please come to a presentation by my student @leijiew.bsky.social, who will be talking about our interview study understanding experiences and needs of feed creators: atmosphereconf.org/event/VLerG2y

In addition to being great factual reporting, this does a really good job of disambiguating all the things that get hustled in under the header of "AI," and the various sociotechnical and historical points at which that term has been used to mean those different things.

This talk, "Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Knowledge, & Power" by Alondra Nelson on April 9, looks so good I might need to cancel class & bring my students to this instead... #philsci #STS #AIEthics #philsky

Chap 23 is up now. This post is about recognizing early signs of mild cognitive impairment in someone with early onset #Alzheimers It's not easy because they're so young. I think MCI started for Peggy at about age 52. Co-workers recognized it first. #dementia fiveandahalfyears.net/chapter-23-m...

I was on a panel this afternoon discussing this spy program and related surveillance authorities w/ some really fire experts, so if you missed it here's the video. It's not too long and was pretty comprehensive. #Section702

“Meritocracy” was the biggest lie the tech industry ever told. On my sides you really “keep what you kill”. But I never kid myself that backchannels and warm introductions still rule everything ~Around~ me.

My latest on the use of generative AI in the legal system: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Come for the jurisprudence, stay for Judge Loki!

THREAD: A major court decision just found Meta & Google liable for addictive product design. Good. Fuck these Big Tech giants & the surveillance capitalist biz model they road in on. But here's the rub: politicians are already using this to try to advance dangerous censorship & surveillance bills.

Finally time to drop the thing I've been working on for weeks: Bluesky without Bluesky – I ran a full stack PDS/Relay/AppServer/Client stack using no bluesky code!

🚨 new paper! We investigate how to use pluralistic AI to align killing people and turning them into nutritional slurry with community values and norms. This is the first open source replication of what goes on in companies like @anthropic.com or OpenAI who actually use AI to choose who dies! 🚀

And now we have permalinks for the next time someone's like "They weren't even talking about [Y] on here" and I can say, "you mean Over There"

Looking forward to reading this

Bringing ICE to airports isn’t about faster security lines. It’s the next phase in militarizing the police surveillance state. The inescapable presence of ICE agents in airports is just one visual indicator that life as many once knew it isn’t the same. This cannot be normalized. 🧵 >

I am very proud to say that I worked for months as an expert witness on this case. I am very pleased by the outcome.

Today, Bridgy Fed begins expanding beyond microblogging, starting with long-form. If your Atmosphere (Bluesky, Blacksky, Eurosky, Northsky, etc.) account is bridged, all of your @standard.site publications and documents will bridge over to the Fediverse and the web 📜↔️📃 1/4 🧵

blacksky.community now determines trending topics for our app based on conversations within Blacksky’s community of users.

For this week's Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey about their forthcoming law review paper, "How AI Destroys Democratic Institutions." They say the "affordances of AI systems extinguish" key features of democratic institutions.

A professional update, as it were! @blockpartyapp.com has been acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social!

That these people with ideologies rooted in race science & eugenics are framed as "left" reminds me of how ridiculous this dichotomy is. Half of those dudes on stage above are race scientists obsessed with"blacks are more stupid than whites" but according to some, I should "collaborate" with them 🙄

The Future of Life Institute has completely rebranded and infiltrated journalism & labor spaces like there's no tomorrow. "one of the groups mentioned in the story, the Future of Life Institute, which is dedicated to warning about AI risks." 🙄 www.semafor.com/article/12/0...

I wrote the intro here at the end of 2024. it's good to compare how narratives of AI have evolved since then in the context of authoritarianism including terms, concepts, backlash, and anthropomorphic ways of seeing. We can map trajectories and gaps globalvoices.org/2024/12/23/a...

this is a massive win www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

My latest about Mayor Wilson's surveillance announcement last week and the new state license plate reader bill.

The point of putting ice in airports isn’t just to put ice in airports. It’s to normalize putting them anywhere as “extra security.” This will include polling places w/ long lines in minority communities, polling places in blue/purple districts, & anywhere else it “helps” the people deploying them.

This is important. 📌

In honour of “AI Literacy Day” join a star studded lineup in unpacking “AI” “Literacy” – Sunday, March 29th! Register here! Notaidoc.com/literacy

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

Extremely impressive work by @rishkebab.blacksky.team and the Blacksky team: Acorn, a platform for growing and managing communities on decentralized infrastructure. "It started, as most things do at Blacksky, with moderation" ... gotta like that!

Anyone that has done content moderation before knows that emotional support/wellbeing tools are always developed secondary to the work (usually in response to burn out etc). Putting it first, ensures that moderators can take an approach to the work that actually centers their wellbeing.

Imagine what it was like to be publicly opposed to the Patriot Act & to the establishment of DHS as a Black Muslim after 9/11, 😂 I remember clearly that it took less than 2 months for Congress to pass the Patriot Act with almost no debate. When you called to register opposition, there was disbelief.

Everybody who tried to argume with me about the water and energy consumption of "AI" abd data centers can go jump in a fucking lake. While they can still find any.

This book, "Border and Rule," by Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social, will radicalize you if you're not there yet, will empower you if you're ready, and will help you educate others if you're an organizer. A brilliant, brilliant work.

Glaring trans womanly at everyone lowkey valorizing the fucking TSA.

Our recent work on understanding the transcripts of 19 people who experienced delusional spiral with AI chatbots was covered in the financial times! www.ft.com/content/7f63... Check the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.16567

hello! has your community successfully fought against a new Flock contract, or tried (successfully or not) to get one cancelled? I want to hear about it for a piece I’m writing!

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

I got sick of seeing that face on the TL so I vibe-coded a face labeller. Currently only processing posts from accounts with >3000 followers, due to compute limitations. @facelabels.bsky.social Still optimizing params as I see how it performs.