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Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation Mama to Musa and Ibi Definitely have cookies in my purse
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Erlend Sogge Heggen
about 3 hours ago
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
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Andy Greenberg
about 21 hours ago
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...
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From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’
New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick...
https://www.wired.com/story/from-ukraine-to-iran-hacking-security-cameras-is-now-part-of-wars-playbook/
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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD
about 9 hours ago
Stellar.
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Ian James
about 9 hours ago
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/...
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California youths plead with appeals court to hear how climate change affects their lives
In an appeal, lawyers for 18 California youths argued that regulators discount children's future health when weighing environmental policies.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-03-06/la-enviro-california-children-climate-discrimination-lawsuit
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Dr Abeba Birhane
about 18 hours ago
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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Women’s March
about 18 hours ago
Heading out for International Women’s Day this weekend? Join our Protest Safety Training TONIGHT at 8PM ET / 5PM PT. Know your rights, know the risks, and know how to protect your community. See you there:
https://act.womensmarch.com/signup/iwd_protest_safety_training/
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵
about 18 hours ago
Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing
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Mark Hurst
about 21 hours ago
AI is central to this illegal war. New from me -
buttondown.com/creativegood...
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AI and the illegal war
“No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and...
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/ai-and-the-illegal-war/
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Mark
1 day ago
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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Thundermail Email Hosting — Thunderbird Pro
Thundermail offers you email hosting with the same values as Thunderbird. Enjoy privacy, security, and freedom from client to inbox.
https://www.tb.pro/en-US/thundermail/
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Mozilla
7 days ago
🚨 Call now open: Democracy x AI Incubator Mozilla Foundation is funding working AI systems that strengthen information, transparency, and civic space. $50K + 12 months of support. Apply by March 16, 2026
https://bit.ly/406u4yj
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APPLY NOW Democracy x AI Cohort | Mozilla Foundation
We are seeking to support working prototypes that prove AI can serve democracy. Apply now.
https://bit.ly/406u4yj
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Mozilla
3 days ago
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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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Appraising Data Governance in Africa Report Launch Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Digitalisation and datafication processes are seen as a catalyst for economic development in many African countries. However, as African countries set up data governance mechanisms to respond to their...
https://mozilla.zoom.us/meeting/register/9iLP2_6ZQg2BqWn3hsQ1YQ#/registration
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CalMatters
1 day ago
Some of our hardest-hitting stories started off as tips from readers. Here’s how to get in touch:
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aly
1 day ago
anyway you should pay for things in monero
www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
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Catherine Rampell
1 day ago
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?
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Guillotine Hunger Force
1 day ago
this is making me laugh so hard
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Mike Masnick
2 days ago
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.
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Kay Coghill, PhD.
2 days ago
Revisiting this this week.
www.audible.com/pd/B0C3MSJXW...
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Unmasking AI
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to...
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C3MSJXWP?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow
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Jason Lengstorf
5 days ago
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:
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Rachel Levinson-Waldman
5 days ago
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.
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Karl Bode
5 days ago
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.
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Oligarchs Are Building The World's Biggest Propaganda Machine. Their Success Isn't Guaranteed.
America's wealthiest, shittiest people are trying to hoover up the entirety of new and old media companies in a bid to pummel the plebs with propaganda. But what they want, and what they actually get,...
https://karlbode.com/oligarchs-are-building-the-worlds-biggest-propaganda-machine-their-success-isnt-guaranteed/
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evacide
5 days ago
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.
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Kurt Opsahl
6 days ago
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...
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Uncle Space Ghost
7 days ago
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
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M̴̛̫̀ã̴̩̙̲͖̖l̴͓̪̮̈́̎p̸͔̘̹̲̘͇͒̽̌̓͗͠e̵̮̙̜̜̝͑̐̕ͅȑ̷͙̰͙̞̐͜͝͠͝c̶̢̱̹̻̚͜í̶̡̝̀̅̽̏ŏ̴̩͓̈̀̂
10 days ago
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:
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What the World Needs Now is Forums Sweet Forums - Mal’s Musings
and other thoughts from a forums purveyorI was seven years old when I got my first video game console. It was Christmas, and I actually got two! A GameBoy Po...
https://pckt.blog/b/mal-s-musings/what-the-world-needs-now-is-forums-sweet-forums-dc1k23r
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Los Angeles Times
6 days ago
A charismatic educator, a connected consultant and an AI deal that failed L.A. schools
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A charismatic educator, a connected consultant and an AI deal that failed L.A. schools
Alberto Carvalho and Debra Kerr's roots date back to their days together in the Florida education community. Now, both find themselves as central figures in a federal probe into AllHere, the company behind L.A. Unified's failed AI chatbot project.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-01/how-probe-into-failed-startup-led-to-lausd-superintendent-investigation
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Erlend Sogge Heggen
7 days ago
I make open source software because I want: - agency - correctness - transparency - trustworthiness - longevity-by-replicability - collective self-sovereignty
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Veni Kunche
7 days ago
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...
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How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare
U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9
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Kat Abughazaleh
7 days ago
Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
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the news for the last two months is very much giving "season finale" to an extremely weird twenty years
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Mark Dingemanse
8 days ago
"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
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Anil Dash
7 days ago
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
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Sam Biddle
7 days ago
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
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Josh Shaked
9 days ago
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
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From Attention to Intention - The Open Garden
Exploring business models for atproto and the open social web
https://jshaked.leaflet.pub/3mfrgv2aezc2g
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David Rothkopf
7 days ago
Once again our first thoughts should be of human cost of conflict in Middle East, price paid and risks incurred by innocents.
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Alondra Nelson
8 days ago
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.
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Alondra Nelson
7 days ago
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...
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The Administration's move to cut all federal government use of Anthropic and designate it a Supply Chain Risk sets a dangerous precedent. There's a reason that national security leaders and… |...
The Administration's move to cut all federal government use of Anthropic and designate it a Supply Chain Risk sets a dangerous precedent. There's a reason that national security leaders and libertaria...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexandra-reeve-givens_the-administrations-move-to-cut-all-federal-activity-7433280474816450560-OhxT
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Hibri Marzook
8 days ago
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
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Tim Onion
8 days ago
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.
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The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
https://www.thehandbasket.co/
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sarah jeong
8 days ago
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
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Parker Donham
11 days ago
A former Washington Post reporter now reports on ICE flights and their associated abuses, funding the work through donations. Seems like a worthy cause.
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Jameel Jaffer
12 days ago
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...
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Reconstructing Free Expression
https://knightcolumbia.org/research/reconstructing-free-expression
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
12 days ago
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"
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Gordon
12 days ago
Bluesky is ridiculously well-positioned for the agent internet. Everything signed = agents can build up un-fakeable reputations.
newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-break...
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LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.
The dead internet theory wasn't wrong, just early. Here's what to do next.
https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-break-the-internet-signing-everything
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Amanda Litman
13 days ago
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.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
8 months ago
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/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08972-6#MOESM1
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The Bulwark
13 days ago
"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."
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Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis
The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/46kVMuT
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Emily M. Bender
14 days ago
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. >>
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Emily M. Bender
14 days ago
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. >>
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Brian Merchant
15 days ago
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
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San Diego Slackers
Local Breaking News for San Diego County
https://sdslackers.com/
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