Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I've made a lot of progress since last year, excited to share more soon! would love to chat with others who are interested in a PDS for private data, related projects, etc who should I speak to?

Starting a series on Open Social! Hoping to spotlight some of my favorite atproto projects :) And your favorites too, so tag them in the comments! There were a ton of logos in this video, so I've tagged everyone in the comments #tiktoksale #opensocial #atproto

/8 A huge part of what makes it very hard to convict Jonathan Ross for murder was baked into America generations before Trump was President. That’s the primary factor that lets law enforcement kill with impunity, not Trump. Dick Wolf has killed more black men than Leopold II.

In Better Things *Are* Possible news: Vietnam is banning unskippable YouTube ads.

Lunchtime re-share hopeful.technology 💕

Consensus reality has been under assault by Trumpism and by tech for years now. But it's important to underline that people are still putting their lives on the line because they believe it matters. www.theverge.com/policy/85905...

#ATProto is giving Major Evolutionary Transition vibes: "(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maj...

the best antidote to blackpilling is remembering that every video you see of an ICE thug abusing their power was recorded by an American who volunteered to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of people they've likely never met and never will

If it ain't broke (it is) don't fix it (we did)⤵️ mzl.la/45JCOO6

When artists lead, technology becomes more human. Artists Make Technology is our new $6.5M partnership with @dorisdukefdn.bsky.social to ensure performing artists help design the digital future. When artists lead, technology becomes more human. https://bit.ly/3Lq9O7h

Comments on this story devolving into whether The Verge is allowed to write about politics….

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Let's see how Chris votes at the end of the month. Save this post.

Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

Folks in privacy engineering and related fields, it's PEPR time again -- submit talk proposals about topics related to designing, building, and understanding products and systems which foster privacy and respect. I'm looking forward to seeing your talks! www.usenix.org/conference/p...

Getting started with Claude for software development: steveklabnik.com/writing/gett...

From 2020: “From May 27 to July 7, Ari Weil cataloged 72 incidents of cars driving into protesters across 52 cities, including both civilian & law enforcement vehicles.” Why increasing use? Weil suggests norms shaped partly by far-right memes & sites like Daily Caller www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

We fought a revolution so that we could ignore unlawful + inappropriate government orders, and now the folks who rely on our votes + tax dollars are telling us to shut up and comply or die. Obscene.

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump. organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68

Renee Nicole Good is the one whose reputation should be protected, whose death should be marked by flags across the country being lowered to half-staff, who should be getting tearful tributes and acknowledgments from politicians and media figures. These are the people we ought to honor.

Right to repair is even harder for incarcerated people.

I loved the Decoder episode where @reckless.bsky.social interviews Stack’s CEO, who is convinced that the business is evolving but healthy. It’s a really interesting conversation about how to navigate both urgently and thoughtfully through disruptive change. www.theverge.com/podcast/8440...

AT-tention bloggers !! We've entered the ATmosphere 🛸 Sign-in with your Bluesky, Blacksky, or self-hosted account to start writing, and keep your blogs and posts stored in your own PDS with @standard.site lexicons for better interoperability and discovery between platforms. Read all about it:

I’m so pleased for the publication of the tenth anniversary edition of Reclaiming Conversation, with my new introduction, a warning about our new love affair with artificial intimacy. And so pleased that @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social’s blog, After Babel, has published the new introduction.

For these four people, 2025 was their first year online. What they gained—and what surprised them—might change how you think about the internet. Read more in #NothingPersonal ⤵️ mzl.la/48Vqcpg

A donor in Maryland is paying off the debt of about 82,000 meals for low-income students. Administrators estimate the donation will cover two years’ worth of school lunch debt for students enrolled in the free and reduced-priced meals (FARM) program.

@chrclla.bsky.social continues to fight against mistreatment of immigrant and refugee children. Keep up with that fight here.

My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.

Reminder: our Techdirt fundraiser is going on right now. Unlike some, we won't pull, or even water down, the stories we write about CECOT.

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

In which i offer to facilitate a research project to explore atproto ecosystem brand and user experience needs discourse.atprotocol.community/t/research-p...

@abeba.bsky.social gave what remained of her talk, but it was a shadow of what she wanted to say. Afterwards, @nabiha.bsky.social reached out and asked her to give the same speech at Mozilla Festival — this time, uncensored.

“Our mission has always been to prove that you can imagine and innovate without exploitation. Mozilla Foundation is honored to be part of this Council that embodies those principles at exactly the scale and moment it’s needed most.” Perfect words for what we need to do @nabiha.bsky.social

@samgregory.bsky.social says that social media companies need to step up their content moderation and AI labeling games. @nabiha.bsky.social says that these companies “should have been prepared” for AI-generated videos.

Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.

Incredible work everyone keep it up.

🧵ICE cut off her wedding ring. Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old US citizen, a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE. They told her to “get back.” She didn’t move.

"AI" suffusing academia w/ a pervasive miasmatic atmosphere of mistrust by supplying an arms race btwn students (via systems which, yes, increasingly, I've been doing this for 20 fucking years, encourage them to not give a shit & just get a degree) & teachers (via surveillant copshit) sure does suck

The answer, IMHO, is that we stop treating our advertising infrastructure as something unfixable and instead make it work viably.

“Stops of people based on their race, use of Spanish, or location (such as a car wash or bus stop) have become known among critics as ‘Kavanaugh stops,’ after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh justified the method in a September opinion.”

Breaking news: A federal judge ordered the release of grand jury materials in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, saying that public access to the records is required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Congress previously approved.

@spencer.place’s “alive internet theory” rejects the inevitability of a “dead internet” and boldly proclaims that “we will never let the open internet die.” Instead he asks… “How can we make the open internet more resilient, vibrant, and collaborative than ever?”