Very cool, very chill, very sound policy basis for not letting federal cyber experts talk to state officials about election threats

Farewell sweet Prince

The long-term threats AI poses to democracy Check out our newest episode with @dwj88.bsky.social and Samuel Woolley

Hello, My name is Ozymandias, and I am King of Kings. Please look upon my works! All best, - O

"50 percent chance of rain for 24 hours" is the weather forecast equivalent of ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Car worship and the suburbs it made are responsible for so, so much of what's wrong in American life

I lost track. Which sign of the apocalypse is "man-eating plague monkeys?"

Cool cool good to know

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Again, I can't stress this enough: Democratic elected officials are not constantly talking about climate change and trans rights. They are constantly talking about "kitchen table issues." Centrist pundits: Do a single fucking content analysis of their campaign speeches and materials, I beg you!

Food relief orgs can do a LOT with a little. $50 to the Atlanta Food Bank provides 150 meals. $100 to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank provides 250 meals. Anything you can share will go a long way. Never feel like your efforts are too small to make a difference.

"AI can save you time." You miserable fool. You stupid baby. Technology can't save you time. The mechanical clock and the Google Calendar have chopped your life into small pieces to be sold, and you think adding more technology will let you keep some of those pieces for yourself?

Man it's almost like Yochai Benkler was onto something in "Network Propaganda"

"the flood" of course being a race of zombie aliens. Super neat to see dehumanizing speech from armed, masked men

I'm still mad it's not called "random penguin house."

“If ye love wealth better than liberty... go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” - Samuel Adams, 1776

A great piece (and underlying report) on how to better support independent research into tech platforms by my @techpolicypress.bsky.social colleague @markscott.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/the-case-for...

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Whenever something ridiculous happens, one fun trick is to ask an AI model about it to get an incredulous reaction “That claim is not true … The White House is a protected historic building, and any major construction or demolition would require congressional funding, permits, and public record”

Biden admin was no saint. But there is no there there to claims that it was censoring social media says @noupside.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net. Nor is there any comparison with what Trump is doing. Both sideists are doing a real disservice to truth www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-there-n...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Did a new one

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Very excited for @clevelandvotes.bsky.social's reverse town hall. What an innovative idea: the audience asks community leaders questions, and elected officials and candidates listen. Maximize the public's voice.

@dwj88.bsky.social and I wrote this summer about how the Big Beautiful Bill would lead to a new era of federal surveillance. The dangers are apparent.

👉 When the state brings violence into neighborhoods — when it throws elders to the ground, fills bodies with bullets, jails people without cause, and takes children from their homes — we must be able to bear witness, writes Dean Jackson (@dwj88.bsky.social), but Big Tech firms are silencing dissent.

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on tech censorship of ICE-monitoring applications. www.techpolicy.press/under-trump-...

Quite a day.

I don't get downtown for work enough.

"The video is part of a paid Israeli government campaign of posts on Google-owned YouTube that 'focus on whether or not a famine is taking place in Gaza,' according to an internal Google email reviewed by The Washington Post." wapo.st/47dlXDu

Sam Woolley and I have a piece in the Guardian today summarizing our recent @jodemocracy.bsky.social article on AI and democracy: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Full article is here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I’m sure nothing bad would happen if you went in.

Sens Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt are holding their hearing on the Biden Censorship Regime of 2018. Watch live here as they try to figure out: who was president in 2020? Witnesses: Alex Berenson, Sean Davis of the Federalist, Eugene Volokh, Gene Kimmelman www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRu...

"We have heard the tired slogan that riots are the language of the unheard. But violence is the language of the unhinged" - Sean Davis, The Federalist co-founder huh. somehow, I don't recall him saying that about the January 6 assault on the Capitol or the whole "Hang Mike Pence" thing

mesmerizing, wholesome

If only there were some way of knowing

Just look at the pieces in the "related" column. Not to blow our own horn, but is anyone telling this story better than @techpolicypress.bsky.social ? www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...

A secret meeting with X. A senior State Dept. advisor just out of college. The VP's speech in Munich. Pressure on European regulators. What do they share? They're all part of an agenda to turn the transatlantic alliance into a far right international: www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...

The new white nationalist State Department: undertaking "a dramatic project to replace the United States’ traditional alliances with European nations, including through efforts to support ideological allies on the continent’s far-right"

Also, the piece is just... bad? It's a bad defense of content moderation. "I don't like Tucker Carlson's speech so he should be deplatformed" is not a nuanced take. The piece is also too long! Bring back gatekeepers AND editors

Dare to resist fascism in education

Jim Jordan is full of it, ex. 1,654: @noupside.bsky.social and @mmasnick.bsky.social unpack the times that Google, under oath, contradicted how Jordan describes its letter to the Judiciary Committee. A letter that btw was pure capitulation to gov pressure. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

Sam Woolley and I have a piece out in @jodemocracy.bsky.social on the true dangers AI poses to democracy in the years ahead. While acknowledging immediate harms like discrimination, we eschew catastrophism and explore the cumulative impact of already visible trends. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

A good read if you want to see how a company speaks to Congressional investigators in private vs. what it says in a letter meant as political posturing for propaganda purposes: wiczipedia.substack.com/p/jim-jordan...

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

You know what? Sure. I'll let them have this one.

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

In a forthcoming paper for the Emory Law Journal, UVA law professor Danielle Keats Citron and UC Irvine School law professor Ari Ezra Waldman consider the evolution of the 'Trust and Safety' field. Dean Jackson considers their findings:

The nonbinary alien whales are coming for your rights

That's how fast you lose norms. One generation.