I am in a giant room full of my fellow Gen Xers and it feels great

To quote the bard, I do believe if you don't like things you leave.

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If I were on TikTok, I would take the precaution of deleting my account. If you’re comfortable with the regime mining your TikTok data, I wish you luck & hope you do not live in (or have any need to visit) the US.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Someone is trying real hard to email me a Trojan hidden in a pdf attachment

Why even do journalism if you're willing to sign this pledge. You're just signing up to be a mouthpiece for government propaganda.

iOS App Store now seems to be blocking VPN. Not a good look for a "privacy-friendly" company.

As @jesgilbert.bsky.social & I warn in our book The Secret Life of Data, all "smart" apps and devices are Trojan horses that can be reprogrammed to serve new functions after you've already invite them into your home and your life. Usually without consent & to your detriment. Caveat digital emptor.

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Inshallah

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So one reason why the construction of the Purple Line is such a fiasco, is that the Hogan administration’s went for the cheapest bid but the proposal scored a technical ranking that was only third among the four proposals. This is a pretty accurate review of why it's been such a shitshow.

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I also torrent porn in order to advance the goal of reaching superintelligence. You're welcome.

I would definitely vote a Colbert/Kimmel ticket.

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

I did it. So can you.

If only someone had warned us in the 90s that telecom deregulation was bad for democracy

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Mubi, Kanopy, Criterion

Now is a great time to get a paid subscription to Breaking Points, ProPublica, or any other independent news outlet that does not require a merger approval or license from the FCC or any other federal entity

My @americanair.bsky.social flight is now 3 hours late and we've undergone 2 gate changes and somehow it's not even one of the five most horrible things I've had to deal with today

Me too

They should call it Triumph of the Shill

I don't hate saying the Mastodon crowd has it right. I wish y'all would come over there, where it's truly decentralized, 100% algorithm resistant, open source, non-commercial, and as Nazi-free as you want it.

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It's a helluva time to be a media scholar

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

In case you were wondering when the comedians and educators are silenced and under attack, that’s when you should be VERY worried

There was an excessively depressing all-hands-on-deck meeting at my school today, and even my saying this may be more than my employers are willing to countenance.

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We have hit another turning point. So to speak. Critical voices, even popular, lightweight ones, are being summarily eradicated from the media sphere. We will not be turning back any time soon.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Your good news of the day

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

We need better AI governance than the White House plan. Good to see Senator Kelly propose a federally guided, tech industry-financed fund to support workers, community development, infrastructure & equitable access to clean power and water in a sustainable AI ecosystem punchbowl.news/kelly-ai-for...

Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

This wrought be laughable if it weren't so damned cryable

Congrats Dr. Babu! Incredible new work on facial recognition tech in the Global South

I have spent a fair amount of time in the DC jail over the past few years and 1. It is not a place any 14-year-old should ever have to spend a single night 2. Nearly all of the incarcerated population is Black.

There were a bunch of gun violence threats at several public schools in my kid's school district today and tonight they sent a long email including this paragraph and can I say I FUCKING LOVE MY COMMUNITY

‘A Clock’ is an online remake of Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’. Using a timeline of all the scenes, one person has been steadily reverse-engineering the original 24-hour film. It’s nearly finished…the whole thing debuts on Oct 15. [kottke.org]