These are the people who were upset privately owned social media platforms had moderators to take down CSAM and TVEC and such...

So exciting news, I installed this 3hrs ago and I've already had to update it once, because update...yay MS-stuff is fun...

Why on earth is the Teams app for Mac a 1.5 GB download? That is more than 1000 1.44mb floppy disks!

Aftenposten rapporterer i dag om noe som har vært et problem en stund – at norsk helsevesen og offentlighet ikke har veldig god innsikt i det vi i fagmiljøene kaller misantropisk og nihilistisk voldelig ekstremisme eller M/NVE (som inkluderer 764 og The Com). www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/6qPv...

Arresting the former FBI director for posting a picture saying "86 47" in seashells on Instagram is certainly one way "the land of the free" is making sure to "protect the 1st amendment" for all those people with 14 88 tattooed on their bodies...

Kanskje det viktigste jeg har lært etter 20 år som bindeledd mellom brukere og utviklere, er at når brukeren kommer med en spesifikk teknisk løsning er det best å stoppe og spørre "hva er det egentlig du vil løse?" Dette er en tråd om aldersgrense på sosiale medier.

I’m thinking about a dialectic between ‘slop’ and ‘care’ as two opposing orientations toward the manner in which we do things (like work, tasks, creative acts, interacting, etc); and how different ways and uses of automation can be influenced by, evince, or further drive a sloppy or caring attitude.

An actual king understands democracy better than Trump.

They made a while Broadway show about this being problematic...

Når jeg er i møter med alt fra politifolk til EUs "ledende eksperter" og policy-makers er dette noe som stadig slår meg - folk ser stadig på internet som en annen sfære enn "virkeligheten" og de opererer som om ikke *alle* (de selv og) lever i og navigerer en kompleks digital hverdag.

Norwegian politicians plan to execute on a plan that will potentially both make kids less safe AND violate the privacy of the entire population… How do we know it doesn’t work? Because kids are resourceful:

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. (Published Aug. 2025 with @adn.com)

no one tells you setting up a NAS takes as long as it does. perhaps because ignoring people who run NAS systems at home is a natural and normal instinct

I find it very interesting that Estonia - for years the exemplary case study for mandatory digital state ID (and therefore with a readily-available proof-of-age credential) *does not* support the EU proposal for a digital age of majority. 1/2

Just a thought, maybe people would stop shooting at the president if impeachment were an option? Ben Franklin certainly thought so: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members arstechnica.com/science/2026...

The desire to write a piece of the history of idiots and weirdos who tried to kill Presidents and why you need to stop saying "false flag" just because it failed cataclysmically is... strong.

Yesterday Mali's defence minister was killed in an apparent suicide truck bombing on his residence near the capital Bamako. The attack led to the collapse of his residence and the destruction of a nearby mosque, where a number of worshippers were also killed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

He, humble, poor, and lowly born, The meanest in the port division The butt of epauletted scorn The mark of quarter-deck derision Has dared to raise his wormy eyes Above the dust to which you'd mould him, In manhood's glorious pride to rise, He is an Englishman, behold him He is an Englishman!

Shooters with a "manifesto" usually attempt to disseminate those manifestos to make their motives clear - shooters with "some writings" do not... there's a difference and I feel like the difference will matter in the coming days... www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Thoughts and prayers to all the survivors of the Norway earthquake...

Also, considering the WH Press Association & Press Choir are right now all survivor of a potential mass casualty event I'd first of all extend my sympathies to some journalists I generally don't see eyet to eye with, and acknowledge this is an impossible time for them to do their regular job at.

To early to say anything much ofc, but "The suspect was carrying knives, a shotgun and a handgun, officials said." Means imho that this was planned as a mass casualty attack, not an assassination- the President may have been a target, as may the Press itself. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

What a time to have this guy as FBI director...

On the last leg of the spring tour and just feeling how tired I am after many, many weeks of bouncing around this weird world...

That's not how intelligence works...that's how propaganda works...there's a difference

One of the cool things about living in 2026 and needing to print something on paper from one of the most high-end computing devices ever made is that you still get that nostalgia boost when you have to go through Brother's website, designed in 1997, to download a driver...I want it on a floppy!

It's really concerning to me that we're building so much on the premise of parents being safe people in the lives of children - when that so often is not the case. I also think there's a lot to be said for building considerate infrastructure for safety rather than removing access & freedom.

Some excellent points being made in this thread regarding banning kids from social media and setting age limits for online. We've said it before, we'll say it again... The politicians pushing this don't really gaf, they just want to oversee everyone's privacy, and this is their excuse.

God grant me the confidence of politicians talking about shit they don’t know anything about.

First of all age restrictions on "social media" only addresses whatever some government official who's entire online life is on Facebook deems to be "social media" - the online landscape is more complex than that and includes everything from tiny websites, online games, messaging apps etc.

Four months ago Canada listed 764 as a terrorist entity. More discussion needs to happen about how Canadian kids are being targeted. The objective of their operation is to Traumatize communities and destroy families by having their targets destroy themselves. Evil. bsky.app/profile/bjor...

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

I think all airports in my mind has merged into a single big airport map, so I get confused about where I am...

This!!! Also for most of my work - a lot of my efforts these days is just reminding myself that what I know isn't what others know and then trying to transform that to making the knowledge accessible for others...wild times

People at airports...do NOT stop at chokepoints like like at the top/bottom of escalators or right after automated gates...the universe is chaotic enough, we don't need to add to it

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

English, why couldn't you just stick with one spelling of things? www.grammarly.com/blog/commonl...

I’d forgotten about this insanity. 🫠 The GOP hates even fictional Muslims.

The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino — the former CEO of X — have been summoned for “voluntary interviews,” while other employees of the platform are scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. www.huffpost.com/entry/france...

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

What is the definitional difference between a Deli and a Bodega, and does the cats know? 🐈 😻 🐈‍⬛️ 😺 🐱 😸

Monday airport run later in the day than usual is a pleasant change of phase.

Speaking to a class halfway around the world about how to make positive change in their communities is a fantastic way to start the week! Getting to do this is a privilege. Here are some reflections I wrote a few weeks ago about my career that might be relevant. www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-bu...

Tårarna rinner nerför hennes kinder. ”Jag är rädd för att någon högerdebattör ska ta ett ord [...] och vrida till det, så att det leder till ännu ett mordhot. Men jag gör hellre allt jag kan för att förbättra saker, i stället för att leva i någon falsk bekvämlighet” www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...

🚨 We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science, with a focus on International Peace and Security @vuamsterdam.bsky.social (deadline May 22). 👉 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

Really loving that the world thoroughly demonstrated how dependent we are on shipping lanes like the Strait of Hormuz, which are often controlled by less-than-stable regimes - I'm sure that will never come up again...

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

My prediction for upcoming elections in Europe is that they're going to have to be a lot more focused on data centers - including their impact on energy & water policy, employment, where they're built, national security and digital sovereignty.

Or is music getting better, and we're getting older, and music discovery systems getting AI-slopified and thus we may be less well equipped to find the good music and need to consciously develop our processes of discovery and curation to find the good music?