👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.techdirt.com/2025/11/06/m...

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

As if the SCOTUS decision wasn't bad enough, the 6th circuit said "hold my beer" and explicitly created a constitutional right to bully trans kids who are already at tremendous risk of self harm and suicide. These judges want dead trans kids.

Every billionaire is a policy failure. I don’t even have a word for trillionaires.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

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Again: these people will not change their behavior or their culture until the consequences are meaningful. Start fining tech companies 1/3 their yearly revenue for each infraction, and then we'll start to get somewhere.

💯 - and ignoring scams because they earn you money/dealing with them is too costly contributes to the “law of the jungle” vibe that characterizes authoritarianism

Wooooooooooow… with this kind of incentive for lawlessness, no wonder Meta turns a blind eye to the immeasurable harm it does to its users and the world at large.

So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/policy-submi... (1/x)

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

This, right here, is the most important story not nearly enough people are paying attention to.

This is the most relatable skeet I’ve seen all week

Tech companies are the Trump Administration’s footsoldiers ↘️

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

What in the actual fuck ‼️

Teen Vogue and WIRED are both part of Conde Nast. If they've cut the politics coverage at Teen Vogue... it makes me worried they'll cut Wired as well. I hope not, but...

We've got you 👍

This makes me really, really worried for @wired.com

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

An important thread that’s not simply about the University of California. It highlights the misguided administrator-managerial thinking that has become endemic in higher education across the country. Professors are the lifeblood of the academy. Stop treating them like gig workers. 👇👇👇

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

This is absolutely savage. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

What a stupid timeline we live in.

New: Progressive congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh has been indicted over protests outside Chicago-area ICE facility after videos of confrontations with federal agents have fueled right-wing calls for her arrest. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

CDT joined a coalition of civil society organizations in filing comments with OSTP in response to their Request for Information on Regulatory Reform on AI, calling for them to maintain existing civil rights protections as a matter of law and policy. cdt.org/insights/cdt...

lol no they absolutely will not, for so many reasons I'd bet everything I own that in 20 years there will never be more than 1000 people in space at any one time. (It'll probably be well under 100.) Nobody will be living there with their kids. Tech billionaires don't know a damn thing about tech.

Join CDT, @datasociety.bsky.social & @ACLU.org “Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society” — a conversation on using research to advance equity and tech accountability. 📅 Nov 13 | 10–11 AM ET | Online

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

After January 6, 2021, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Comcast publicly pledged to stop donating to politicians who sought to undermine the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election. In 2025, these companies have stopped worrying about democracy and are buying Trump a ballroom.

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

This is so bleak: www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

I simply cannot with OpenAI’s “we are going to automate scientific research” and “discover new science” nonsense. Like, even more than I cannot with a whole lot of “AI” nonsense.

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

I made a verison of this argument last month in the NYT. We absolutely need more transparency about what messages tech giants are pushing on us and why. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

Despicable.

Heard from many of you! Here it is: wapo.st/3L1t9v0

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

Leah and I just got off the stage in DC. More than 200k. Double what we saw for Hands Off! This movement is incredible. We’re better than fear. We’re braver than billionaires. We’re bigger than ever. And we will win. #NoKings

"As a result of Trump's big, beautiful disgraceful bill, which made massive cuts to medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million low-income and working class Americans are going to lose the health care they desperately need to stay alive." @sanders.senate.gov #NoKings

Folks at Tech Policy Press have launched an 'Ideas for Europe’s Future' series! As part of it, they will be publishing perspectives from leading experts who joined out Future of Democracy event @openmarkets.bsky.social Read @ramshajahangir.bsky.social's great write up & stay tuned for more

More of this energy, please, and make it national!

It’s important to understand what someone like Russel Vought is saying when he terminates the entire CDC IRB. It’s a statement that there should be no limits on the ways a marginalized person’s bodily integrity can be violated, and he knows that.

The FDA approved Enovid (AKA “The Pill”) as a contraceptive on May 9, 1960. JFK became president months later. So, of course, pregnancy rates were much higher than now, as birth control pills became more easily available to women. RFK Jr. is an idiot.

Those numbers aren’t percentages, they’re average births per woman over her lifetime. Basic numeracy matters. And yeah this is a dog whistle for the forced birth agenda.

All I see is more ways for tech companies to surveil and control

Hate reading as a service. I’d been hoping you’d tackle this one !

‘is europe going to be a beacon of democratic resilience - or a vassal.’ - @johnnyryan.bsky.social on *the* question facing european leaders at @article19.bsky.social @openmarkets.bsky.social conference

The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would