With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function. www.wired.com/story/the-ep...

Weird shoe number 505 You can dance.

AAUP v RUBIO IS DECIDED!!! This ruling is not only good news but also elevates the judicial ruling to an art form. This judge, a 84-year-old Reagan appointee (!), just tore into the current regime with glorious & eloquent rage. More of this!

'The temptation to resign ourselves to resignation is never stronger than at a time of overlapping crises' is such a great pull from this larger piece on the AI crisis, and also the larger fire we are fighting.

Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

“Cruz was the sole objecting senator, who claimed without evidence that Wyden’s bill could disrupt law enforcement, “such as knowing where sexual predators are living.”” the White House?

Wrote about some failures of major media orgs to meet this moment with a few recent truly head-scratching examples.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

A nifty coin from @edzitron.com has arrived. The inscription really made an impression on me.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

In our new report, “Rethinking the Loop”, co-authored with our friends at the @cdt.org, and the Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub (Upturn and @nhelp.bsky.social) we blow up that tired concept. Read it here (bit.ly/CDTReport) and let us know what you think.

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

📰 Social media news helps A study found that following news accounts on Instagram and WhatsApp boosted knowledge, belief accuracy, and trust in news, without raising polarisation. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪 #SocialMedia

polls wielded in bad faith are more dangerous than deep fakes. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

The ATProto dev community is really at the cusp of a lot of new things that are about to happen. I love seeing pieces like this, as it's time for the community to start showing off what makes ATProto products and projects great to the wider world. And it's def time to start dunking on our haters

"it's all bad, everyone is corrupt" is literally a fascist talking point. it is what fascists want you to think. "nothing matters, why resist?"

I’ve been doing court accompaniments at 26 federal plaza for several months. Scenes like this are not uncommon, but there has been a steady ratcheting up of legal pressure, with 2 court decisions and observing officials. They are perhaps becoming more careful

Much thx to Brian for appreciating my coverage of tech policy in California 🤘🏾🙏🏾

As I was saying, you can teach a very interesting law school con law class right now. But instead of starting with the text, it probably has to start with Gramsci on hegemonic crisis. bsky.app/profile/jama...

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Literally Wizard of Oz, while we live in the era of the Emperor’s New Clothes

Albania’s AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor with bonus Mira Murati from Thinking Machines and OpenAI! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBv... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250920-alb... - podcast time: 4 min 04 sec

NEW: An ICE officer was "relieved of his duties" after pushing an Ecuadorian woman to the floor at an immigration courthouse in New York. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

In which I get way too excited about Apple's new Memory Integrity Enforcement features, which will make mercenary spyware that much harder to deploy on new iPhones. (Subscribe!) freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Ffs #opensource as a concept is mainstream enough that there is absolutely no excuse for anyone working at an OSPO or in #FOSS MGMT to act like this. It's gross: www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/r...

Look at this groundswell of political support just waiting for someone to show some spine and strategy!

Very good news

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

i wrote the 🧵 below after talking with the good folks at @lataco.bsky.social here’s that conversation ⬇️ i appreciate y’all, @unraveledpress.com and @chicagoreader.com lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

i do this! i have a RAG which i throw everything i write into. "what if you could keep every idea you ever had and you never had to organize it" is a perfectly good idea.

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/

My latest newsletter is about how Internet culture died, and why the centralization of the web around a handful of large platforms is responsible for making the web a duller, more boring place. whatwelost.substack.com/p/the-death-...

A lot of respect for Kristof for not letting this go. It will be easy to forget the USAID cuts in the years to come. It's good to have people around making us remember.

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

I saw that an acquaintance on FedBook has personally gotten over 55 people to cancel their Disney subscriptions. This is a homebound person and she found her lane and is absolutely kicking ass at the moment. People are doing things.

A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from stripping 19 mostly Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., of food stamp benefits funding unless the states hand over data on millions of people who receive them

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” said Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University @katiefallow.bsky.social

Given ~~gestures at everything~~ now is a great time to support your local (or not local) worker owned journalism outlet. Throw the money you just pulled from WaPo et al at a media coop! If you're in the Bay Area (or care about it) COYOTE Media just launched:

God this is bleak. Journalists should be yelling LOUDLY about Mario Guevara.

Getting your defamation lawsuit struck under Rule 8 is roughly analogous to getting sent home early on the first day of school because you decided not to wear pants ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

mitigating your exposed surface area isn't pointless. throwing your hands up and saying it's pointless if you can't be perfect is unhelpful in the way i was saying before.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago. Earlier today, federal agents unleashed chemical weapons on protesters, elected officials, a local congressional candidate, and a local mayor. Defiant anti deportation activists remain. Another protest is planned for 7pm.

A group of local tow truck drivers are offering to tow people's work vans to work sites without charge if they're afraid of being taken by ICE while driving, which is a neat spontaneous community response to all of this

I miss websites. BuzzFeed, MTV News, Jezebel, The Toast, Deadspin, Vice, all my message boards, food blogs, design blogs, general blogs, Livejournal. We didn’t know how good we had it.

The core tenant of user agency is a credible path of exit. skyfall.dev/posts/slack