Watching an organizer use Lovable to build the website she needed for her local group of activists, with events and a links hub and a clever members map/graph, has me convinced that we need an open source equivalent based on atproto to un-silo such sites. Dunno what’s closest, maybe @webstudio.is 🧵

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran. Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system. www.wired.com/story/from-u...

Stellar.

Eighteen Californians, ages 10 to 19, are asking an appeals court to OK their claims that the EPA discriminates against children by ignoring the long-term health benefits of climate regulations. @blancabegert.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

if the invention of emails was to make us efficient and effective, how come i can do emails till the cows come home yet feel unproductive, inefficient, and irritable

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Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing

AI is central to this illegal war. New from me - buttondown.com/creativegood...

I would suggest keeping an eye on Mozilla—they are working to position Thunderbird as a true alternative to Google’s suite: www.tb.pro/en-US/thunde...

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On March 11, Mozilla Fellow Kiito Shilongo, @giz.de Africa and others will examine the real-world impact of data governance across Kenya, Ghana and Zambia. Register to join the conversation: mozilla.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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anyway you should pay for things in monero www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

this is making me laugh so hard

Over the years I've had complaints about @wired.com and some of its focus/editors. But it's doing its best work in *ages* over the last few years. The idea that a Palantir bro needs to buy it because sometimes it calls out fascism, is ridiculous.

Revisiting this this week. www.audible.com/pd/B0C3MSJXW...

I still have no idea what the @npmx.dev team is planning tomorrow and I'm excited to find out what's happening while we're streaming at 9:30am Pacific. watch live here:

Thanks to @knightcolumbia.org for giving me the opportunity to write about this as part of their larger project on reconstructing free expression - it’s such an important effort and I can’t wait to see what comes out of it.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the Paramount/Warner deal, how it's best viewed as a well-funded attack on informed consensus, and how we still have collective agency to determine whether or not it actually succeeds.

I have come away from my last conference cautiously optimistic about how useful AI can be in reversing malware and extremely scared about all of the new attack surface being created in the use and deployment of AI tools.

The NSA has a long history of word games, and it woukd be best to understand them before taking reassurances at face value. From 2013. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

I have a term for this that is not meant to be charitable: we have for generations molded fellow Americans into "Beings of Leisure", totally untethered from alarm for anything save the loss of convenience

I'm finally ready to show off the thing I've been working on: atBB (pre-alpha)! It's a forum platform built on top of atproto. I wrote up some thoughts about why I am interested in building forums: pckt.blog/b/mal-s-musi... 1/2

A charismatic educator, a connected consultant and an AI deal that failed L.A. schools

I make open source software because I want: - agency - correctness - transparency - trustworthiness - longevity-by-replicability - collective self-sovereignty

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths apnews.com/article/isra...

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

the news for the last two months is very much giving "season finale" to an extremely weird twenty years

"Should one not ask of any public project … whether it (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; … (4) favours people over machines; (5) maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) favours conservation over waste; (7) is reversible or irreversible? Franklin, The Real World of Technology, 1990

I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

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

Business models in the atmosphere?!?! Let's talk about how atproto and standard.site can move social media away from enshittifying, attention-based business models towards intent-based business models that better align revenues with openness and interoperability. jshaked.leaflet.pub/3mfrgv2aezc2g

Once again our first thoughts should be of human cost of conflict in Middle East, price paid and risks incurred by innocents.

And the global reverberations: the US is asking allies to choose the American AI stack. But this episode sends a clear message-if you build on American AI, DC can reshape its terms at any moment. This will accelerate the digital sovereignty concerns voiced last week at the AI Impact Summit in India.

Excellent statement from the Center for Democracy and Technology’s @alexreevegivens.bsky.social, who notes that concern about today’s action is wide ranging and bipartisan www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

LLM subscriptions lock out developers in non-western countries. It’s hard to afford a Claude subscription when the monthly pay is 350 USD. There is no regional pricing. Not every one has access to a credit card. I thank software piracy for starting my tech career

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

A former Washington Post reporter now reports on ICE flights and their associated abuses, funding the work through donations. Seems like a worthy cause.

We @knightcolumbia.org have started to post short essays from some of the scholars and advocates participating in our "Reconstructing Free Expression" project. I'm going to post the essays in this thread, as we publish them. They're really good! knightcolumbia.org/research/rec...

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

Bluesky is ridiculously well-positioned for the agent internet. Everything signed = agents can build up un-fakeable reputations. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-break...

Local zoning as a way to stop the detention centers — one of many reasons why electing fierce leaders to local office in every possible state matters in 2026.

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Language modeling is a useful component of many technologies that can be built without extractive, exploitative means. Take the automatic transcription built by and for the te reo Māori people -- there's te reo Māori language model that's part of that. >>

I also want to point out (again) the ways in which lumping together all uses of LMs (like the lumping of technologies into "AI") obscures the issues at hand. >>

San Diego had recently held a city council meeting to hear public concern — overwhelmingly, citizens called for an end to the contract with Flock, but were ignored. Weeks later, the smashed Flock cameras turned up in the street. They were first reported by Bill Paul of SD Slackers: sdslackers.com