ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

Mass surveillance makes us less safe. www.404media.co/flock-logins...

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained. Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

I love it when people try to say bad stuff about Portland but we just end up sounding rad as fuck.

So funny that Noem's trip is being spoiled by perfect weather. It might be the nicest day of the year in this beautiful city.

Also, you'll see this is a screenshot by a video from a guy named David Medina. Medina was convicted for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and was later pardoned by Trump. He has since rebranded himself as a Trump-aligned social media influencer. More here: www.opb.org/article/2025...

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with? DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker Judge: You're a lawyer

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

Oops! NYT seems to have accidentally published an editor's comment. There's no way to read "Too extreme. Too inexperienced. An absolute disaster." as anything other than a comment on the piece and its authors.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

It is disappointing to see Google and others pushing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification. As EFF points out, ZKPs aren't enough to protect our privacy, and without a federal privacy law, they're just more fuel for data brokers. Some additional thoughts 🧵 www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

We don’t talk often enough about the Superman issue where, fed up with pedestrian deaths from car collisions, he sets out to try and destroy every car in the city.

I’m begging people to realize that there is a link between these big tech investors, Andreesen in particular, their hideous racist politics, and the fact that so many of them are using vast fortunes and investments to prop up surveillance tech companies that blanket both cities and borders.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

generative AI is the most socially harmful technology since the automobile, but at least no one has to write shell scripts anymore

We teach a broad range of political perspectives here at Harvard... ranging from those of *checks notes*... center-right military officials to... *squints* ultra-right market absolutists, and you should be more grateful for that.

New paper(!) on the "clubcard" data structure that we're using for WebPKI revocation checks in Firefox. A clubcard is a membership test for an r element subset of an n element set. Size is ~1.13 log(n choose r) bits. Or (better!) ~1.13 Σ log(n_i choose r_i) where i indexes blocks of a partition.

Next up, Toward revocation checking that works, by John Schanck #realworldcrypto

Ready to revoke outdated cert habits? #realworldcrypto2025 Day 2 Session 3, John Schanck aims to fix revocation checks, while Mari Galicer et al. audit key transparency. Join us to keep your ‘trust anchors’ firmly in place. Can't join us? Stream live here: www.youtube.com/@RealWorldCr...

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"One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel." www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

“There are 13 million legal foreign residents (green card holders) in the US. If the administration can deport Khalil, it means those 13 million people must live in fear if they dare speak up or publish something that runs afoul of government views.” journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

"[S]he had not been a part of the break-in but was returning to her apartment that evening after a picnic with friends...when the police pushed her and arrested her. Her case was quickly dismissed.... 'I’m just surprised that I’m a person of interest...I’m kind of a rando, like, absolute rando.'"

“U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin ordered Friday that Alawieh not be moved outside of Massachusetts without providing the court 48 hours’ notice of the move and the reasoning behind it.” www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

i'm not feeling the artificial general capacity to create knowledge. but i am kinda feeling the artificial military intelligence, and the artificial signals intelligence, and the artificial counter-intelligence. not a great vibe tbh.

BREAKING: Columbia University says it has expelled, suspended or revoked degrees from some students who seized a building during a pro-Palestinian protest.

jesus christ

NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.

As usual @maxread.info says it better than I ever could:

in this week's newsletter we explore why a small backlash is mounting against the larger a.i. backlash of the last year or so maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-bac...

Appeasing fascists by abusing their enemies proves ineffective at Columbia. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

The call for submissions for the Re-Imagining Cryptography & Privacy Workshop (ReCAP 2025) is now available on our website: recapworkshop.online Deadline: April 10, 2025. We welcome work and perspectives from social scientists, humanities scholars, community organizations, and technologists!

A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️ Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women. Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.

fresh audio product: • Ben Tarnoff on tech worker militancy, the bosses’ crackdown and hard turn to the right • Jodi Dean, author of Capital’s Grave, on neofeudalism www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

👏 pivot 👏 stargate 👏 to 👏 cryptanalysis 👏

Some words from MLK Jr to consider as the tech oligarchy cements its power www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/martin-lut...

Collective actions by tech workers under Trump 1 often made strategic use of corporate liberalism: arguing that certain contracts or policies didn’t live up to a company’s “values”. Interesting to think about what happens to that tactic if big tech abandons corporate liberalism under Trump 2