More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

My dept at Fordham is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Media Policy and Platform Governance. "We are especially interested in someone whose research and teaching speaks to policy or legal implications of internet-based platforms and AI systems..." Please share widely: apply.interfolio.com/174378

now that’s mycopunk

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Wow no one asked for my LinkedIn all weekend 💯

Happy Friday, germs. Send us bug reports! 🔍🪲🐛🐞🕵️ Germ DM > Dashboard > App Logging > Send Logs

IRL bsky feed immersion with the atproto crew at cypherpunk 10/10

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Good morning Brandenburg

Glad I got to speak to @rude1.blacksky.team and @tessa.germnetwork.com today who made me realise that I’d like to use Bluesky & AT Protocol more. Still rebuilding my network here. Please reach out if you see this and we know each other from twitter or elsewhere!

“A study of fatal mass shootings, incidents in which 5 or more ppl were killed, from 2014 to 2019 found 59% were domestic violence [DV]. In 68% of cases, the shooter was committing or had a history of DV. Fewer victims survive mass shootings tied to DV than ones where that dynamic isn’t present.”🧪🛟

I have been informed the best time to go to Berghain is right now. Reader, it is 11am on Sunday morning.

Today in statistics are not knowledge

mycopunk!!!!!

The purpose of a system is what it does and Instagram is a sex trafficking website

Oh this is nasty

Ok team so it’s the Berlin marathon tomorrow

Does everyone know and is everyone telling their networks that folks on H-1Bs and H-4s are being advised by Big Tech lawyers to return to the USA immediately?

Hi from Berlin where the club bouncers give you stickers for your phone cameras Will smart glasses finally kill Klub Kultur?

Damn it feels good to be in Kreuzberg

I am just cackling reading this. Y’all really couldn’t fathom how we learned about fascism from 1st grade. This is like a Normal Fun Eurotrip itinerary for a Jewish American family. Sorry I make dark jokes sometimes, they’re 2000 years old

Here’s a treat for you: a bit of my mom’s Berlin sightseeing list. (Don’t worry, I’m on my own tip) This is all to say you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me… except unfortunately you’re gonna have to

The Irish, out of pure greed for foreign investment, have been selling the data of 450 million European citizens to the Trumpist regime. Ireland undermines the EU in service to the US in a shameful equivalent of the work Hungary does for Russia. It has to stop. noyb.eu/en/former-me...

Deep thoughts from a Swiss airport 🤔💭…

Thank you @pfrazee.com for writing this up. Given that Bluesky runs both the app and the PDS of the vast majority of users on the network, a next question would be whether the company will manage two different policy and moderation workstreams, and how? pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lz4sgu7iec2...

baby it's Germ

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Thrilled and grateful to see this new work on encryption as a feminist tool against gender-based violence by @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy and @herahussain.bsky.social internet.exchangepoint.tech/why-feminist...

Anyway Me Too was a women’s free speech movement.

See y’all at 8am pacific

Private data is so crucial. It is a growth feature, because safety is a core user need. Now let me get on Berlin time 🥱😴

I am working on a gated space for Blacksky Feed posters that will be available on blacksky.community. It will probably be text only. @germnetwork.com is working on encrypted DMs. X/IG/FB style private accounts is a thing being discussed by some developers and is possible but taking time to solve.

From the Man Show to a hero of free speech, quite the ride Or maybe douche-of-center became far left. Who can ever know

Today I correctly clocked the Chris Ware stamps in the post office, if you’re wondering how Chicago I am

Which muppet will she be

Big opportunity for a therapist backend and patient marketplace built around E2EE storage

My personal theory, already unfolding, is that in a few years public social posting will be chilled to the most basic bulletins and trolls, and the rest of digital social life will be in small and large group chats, calls, and A/V rooms—much of it E2E encrypted Public honesty isn’t safe anymore

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Not picking D is crazy. There is a reason that is the birthplace of civilization. You get Greece, Turkey, the Levant, south, southeast and east Asia. Unless you’re actually from one of the other regions and only eat their food I really don’t understand the debate.

The revolution will not be on Partiful.

THE ATPROTO STREAMING APPLICATION NOW INTEGRATES WITH DISCORD AND CAN SEND NOTIFICATIONS WHEN YOU'RE LIVE 🥰

Y’all ready for this

This Thursday at noon EST I'll be joined by @adamprz.bsky.social, Sue Stokes, Steve Levitsky (stevelevitsky.bsky.social), and @dziblatt.bsky.social on a webinar to talk about the state of American democracy. Please come! Registration here: www.crowdcast.io/c/civicforum.... Please share.

I have a few ideas, but what event do YOU think we should do next?

that's lit

wgn is reporting homeland security secretary kristi noem is in chicagoland with customs and border protection for an operation today. we saw a large cbp presence early this morning in elgin. wgn’s report claims ice has arrested 250 people in the last week under “operation midway blitz.”

Murderbot, but stupider

Jane Goodall recalls Chicago’s role in her life of activism. The renowned ethologist said she switched from “scientist” to “activist” after a 1986 visit to the Lincoln Park Zoo. She returned to the zoo for some special appearances over the weekend. blockclubchi.co/3K1d7kd

Great idea