Guest essay by @kimballscott.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Masculinity

They've lost the 9yos

great. more misinformation is exactly what they world needs right now

Dal Paese reale è tutto.

A whole lot of terrible ideas were on the table when the DSA was drafted. EU lawmakers REJECTED THEM. Meanwhile the U.S. and other countries keep proposing or enacting them. They include crude filtering mandates, takedown w/o notice, & restricting "lawful but awful" speech. 3/

I’ve been scared to re-read this snarky old post in case I said anything I regret. But, upon review, I stand by every word. The proposal was I was criticizing was nuts. But here's the thing: IT CHANGED. There was a democratic process! It worked!! Hooray!!! 2/

Kimmel and Colbert are just the begining www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

In her #SOTEU speech, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu picked up an idea for a reparations loan that Lee Buchheit, Hugo Dixon and @nathalieloiseau.bsky.social recently proposed in an article for ECFR. Here's is how the authors think it should work: ecfr.eu/article/ukra...

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

On #LLM #Security risks, mitigations, and residual risk: words.narain.io/the-jailbrea...

As usual @cwarzel.bsky.social's take is the most useful.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

New Atomico 2025 State of European Tech! Give the team your thoughts here: atomicovc.typeform.com/SoET-24#sour...

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

I don't get all this #Labubu fandom. I remain a #Tokidoki girl.

Trump Is threatening European sovereignty by threatening punishment for enforcing its own laws such as the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts. The ‘deal’ and tempered approach by EU leaders is not containing The Tech Coup

We're in 2025, right? Because just now Google's #AIOverview seems to have set its internal clock back to 2024 or earlier

Remember when getting caught doing something immoral or illegal would end a politician’s career? That was awesome.

Scoop: White House hands down loyalty ratings for hundreds of companies

Ladies let’s keep an eye on this because it will tell us if the Swiss will keep considering us accessories to our men or if they will move to recognize us as human beings with agency and our own bank account

#ICYMI: You can spot E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief, in the crowd of Capitol rioters via our archive of 500+ Jan. 6 videos. Watch him walk through the bottom of the screen starting at ~1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

"kids these days have too many genders and air-source heat pumps" -- the Right, probably atmos.earth/fossil-fuel-...

La nostra Costituzione prevede criteri di progressività nell’imposizione fiscale. Notizie come queste fanno capire quanto ormai viviamo in un sistema regressivo. www.ft.com/content/d17e...

100% agree!

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

“When we numb ourselves to loneliness, we give up the hard work of making ourselves understood, of striving for true connection, of forging relationships built on mutual effort. In muting the signal, we risk losing part of what makes us human.”

Europe is not a victor right now; it is on the path to be the next victim. So, if nothing else, self-preservation must kick in, convincing European countries that allowing the alteration of borders by force would be a suicidal move. - @glandsbergis.bsky.social

Versace on the door

Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just relaxed export restrictions on AI chip manufacturers AMD and Nvidia. Lutnick's family business empire holds a combined $1.1B stake in both companies. "Conflict of interest" is an understatement.

I'm astounded that World Central Kitchen continues to feed Gazans after its own workers were killed by Israel. José Andrés' organization deserves to be heard and supported. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Italy, Spain and France must step up and rise to the challenge.

Putin is installing spy software on every new device sold in Russia. This is a huge step toward the Kremlin’s technofascist ambitions of control and coercion.

"The manifesto is not a vision of a shared future; it is a declaration of war against any force that seeks to restrain the absolute power of the oligarchs behind capital and technology."

42,500 excess deaths a year. Quantifying Trumpcare economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

Russia tried to kill Christo Grozev. The NYT: Kremlin-backed spy cell tracked him for 2 years across Europe. Six agents are now jailed. The man who led them - Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek. 1/

Il presidente dVincenzo De Luca deve essere informato che l’altra sera, al Bolshoi, al concerto diretto da Gergiev, venivano proiettate sullo sfondo immagini e testi deliranti e criminali di esaltazione (e falsificazione) dell’aggressione russa all’Ucraina. (tks Pevchik)

"Here’s the thing about fascism: it never ends well. Not for the countries that embrace it, not for the people who live under it, and definitely not for the entrepreneurs who think they can ride the tiger."

I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying into the neoractionary nonsense that maybe a little light fascism is good for silicon valley. It's not. It's very, very bad.

Smart solutions in a UK airport. Instead of a steep staircase to board the plane, a gently ascending ramp with three segments folded next to each other. Much easier to navigate for passengers who have trouble with stairs and for those carrying trolleys or wheeled bags.

@marklemley.bsky.social's OOO message: “I need a break from work, and life, and frankly this country."

What could go wrong, one wonders

Wow. Just wow.

I don't consider myself an expert sci-fi reader but I've read four of the six in this post: pmadden.medium.com/what-science...

What about nonconsensual sexual images? I hope Denmark will subject platforms to the same rules, regardless of whether an image or video is AI-generated, old-school photoshopped or authentic. The principle is the same: "everybody has the right to their own body". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pensiero del giorno: non sono più disposta a perdere tempo con le castronerie sesquipedali.

Again I stand by what I said. "I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.