Trump uses the phrase "like no one has ever seen before" like no one has ever seen before

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

numbers stations are so weird and neat

Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

Just another day in the bad cyberpunk novel we are all trapped in

This is literally disgusting, politically and personally. But at least this means that from now on, I can call him "Beta Brendan" forever.

Time is running out to RSVP for this event at Georgetown next Thursday 3/26 on AI and internet scraping, with experts from my organization, @cdt.org, as well as from Google, Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Cloudflare, New York Times, and more!

This is a dramatic reversal of the FBI's commitment in 2023 to halting bulk collection on Americans' through data purchases. Extremely alarming for privacy www.wired.com/story/fbi-pu...

Strikingly, all panelists seem to agree that the supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was appalling and a massive affront to American values and the First Amendment.

We at @cdt.org have an amazing lineup for our 3/26 event on AI and internet scraping with @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social, including @archive.org, @wikimediafoundation.org, @cloudflare.social, @sparcopen.bsky.social, @nytimes.com, @eleutherai.bsky.social, and more! RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Internet + AI policy friends: RSVP to join @cdt.org at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social on Thurs March 26 for a lively morning of panels and talks on internet scraping and the future of the open web in the AI age--with perspectives from AI labs, web publishers, scrapers, & a range of experts.

#Billionaires aren't going to #space because they love #scifi. This is a game of Monopoly, and they are playing to Own the Pipes. www.techpolicy.press/in-the-twent... my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on space-based economic capture #academicsky #space #newspace #spacex #nasa #blueorigin

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

EFF's Cindy Cohn unboxes her new book, Privacy's Defender! It hits shelves TOMORROW, March 10th. Order your copy today and see if Cindy is coming to a city near you for the tour! www.eff.org/Privacys-Def...

If Americans can’t figure out why we’re starting a war with Iran, then frankly they don’t deserve to know. by Karoline Leavitt

Just thinking about how lots of people in the White House are making money off of this

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Either the DOD is taking a softer stance with OpenAI (which seems hard to believe) or OpenAI is prepared to make more concessions here than it is acknowledging

I think the bigger security risk is the gestapo she runs that murders people for standing in the street and kidnaps children to put them in concentration camps. But sure, if the shoe thing gets her shitcanned, do what you gotta do.

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Our story on how the Pentagon misread the situation with Anthropic. They thought they would fold under the strong-arm tactic. Instead, Anthropic is seeing a boom of support from other AI companies and their own employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

The FTC pinky promises not to use COPPA against tech companies that collect the personal information of minors to perform age verification. We have completely and utterly lost the plot folks. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison.

The DHS is moving to consolidate its face recognition and other biometric technologies into a single system capable of comparing faces, fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifiers collected across its enforcement agencies, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.

The Constitution says "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." Presidents who violate the Constitution should be impeached and removed from office.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. bit.ly/4rA2p4R

You earned it @sayash.bsky.social

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

I think Lauren is correct that this piece does ignore or elide the valid leftist critiques, but there is a dismissiveness around the users of AI that is a big part of why those critiques are largely failing. The stakes are too high to keep repeating unsuccessful tactics, or to keep scolding users.

Papers don’t quote ANYONE like this. Normal human speech is LOUSY with ums, uhs, and doubling short words (a, I, the). You clean that up as a matter of course.

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Parents are increasingly opting out of mandatory school laptops for kids. Surprised this article didn’t mention the privacy and security risks that should also make parents concerned. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Once again, it is bizarre how the media seems to think that only Democrats have agency.

Both Democrats and Republicans helped create the infrastructure for ideological surveillance at the US border—but the Trump administration is deploying it in the service of a radically partisan and censorial agenda. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses. Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

How did this one random sub-agency of DHS become America’s secret police force, with a larger budget than many entire states? We’re so stuck on this absurd theoretical debate over “do we need immigration enforcement” that we missed Trump building himself a vast paramilitary army

"Despite the high bar for censoring online speech, lawsuits trace an escalating pattern of DHS increasingly targeting websites, app stores, and platforms—many that have been willing to remove content the #government dislikes": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics #law #tech #contentmoderation

Coming soon. A short story of Elon Musk's Mars in 42 (or 69) posts. The moon is but a stepping stone. Mars *will* be his. Prepare yourself. (Pictured: Elon Musk, God Emperor of Mars, aka G-LON)

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.