A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA. I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better. She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Exceptional, important, and well worth the watch. Come for the defense of free speech and stay for the turtle.

While terrible, this is entirely unsurprising. If you hold serious safety efforts in contempt, this sort of thing is inevitable.

Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾‍♀️

Someone behind me is arguing intensely that 7×5 = 35, and I am so curious about the origin of this fight.

I’m out of words.

One of the tiny but great joys in life: a cookbook you’ve used so often and loved so well that it effortlessly flops open to your favorite recipes. ❤️

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.

Periodic reminder that Trump decimated the National Park Service’s staffing and budget, and the GOP imposed a $1 billion budget cut on D.C. municipal services. That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!

OSINT folks, the bar has been raised

"I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)"

Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6. How will the next legally required transition of power go?

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

The most unrealistic aspect of War of the Worlds has gotta be that everyone is just out there answering Teams calls with no issues. Can you imagine how awful it would be to navigate the end of the world…on TEAMS?!??!

This is not the slightest bit surprising and it began prior to Trump coming back to power. As the idiot AG of Missouri was pursuing Missouri v Biden, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal sued me and my colleagues with the same forum-shopped judge and plaintiffs. Wake up: it’s a machine.

If I’d taken a shot every time I wrote the word “multistakeholder” (or some derívate thereof) today, I would - well, I’d be dead, probably. Very dead. Terrible way to go.

The world’s first anti-deepfake wearable is here👀 Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now) Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com

if you're writing a story about "trump threatens to federalize dc," it's really worth including the fact that there is no mechanism by which he can do that, and perhaps noting what he might have been referring to instead (deploying the natl guard? presidential control of MPD?)

Paging @waldo.net. I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. 🤢

What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Heading out on a weekend trip to camp visiting day and I have two novels, a full manuscript to review, and about 40 reports queued up, because I may possibly have six entire hours of reading time combined. Clearly this makes sense.

This is the type of GOOD news I'm here for in 2025. Congrats @dwillner.bsky.social and @samidh.bsky.social!

"I'm calling on VOIP through a VPN"

Ofcom tomorrow morning.

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

🪪 My concerns about the Online Safety Act remain the same as when I last wrote about it nearly decade a decade ago when it was proposed as the Digital Economy Bill: 1) It normalizes uploading sensitive documents such as ID scans to random websites, which will likely increase identity theft. 1/3

I wonder how many of us, with giant email backlogs on our In boxes, have figured out that postage stamps were congestion pricing for message-sending?

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋 Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

The comments 💀😂

If you wanna get HAMMERED, I give you this drinking game: take a shot every time Claude responds, "You're absolutely right!"

Trolls, they set the tone for the party! 🐸 2016 is oddly memory-holed. That the WH is wholly debased (based, they’d say) at an official comms level is I guess new. Why are memes effective propaganda? Bc the audience gets to participate, and that *activates* and commits. That part gets left out.

I've done a silly thing and I'm (mostly) happy to introduce you all to blahg, an ATProtocol blogging application that supports long-form content, attachments (images), and backlinks.

The Mad King is calling for a Special Prosecutor to investigate election fraud… Days ago Benz went on John Solomon and said FBI covered up Chinese interference. Said EIP helped conspire to “censor” it. PAY ATTENTION. The bullshit machine is kicking into gear, trying to spin lies into reality.

This is simply one of the most thoughtful and nuanced explanations of the role that cycling infrastructure plays in Black and Brown communities. Definitely worth a read. When I started Oonee I was shocked to see so many pols treat 🔒🚲 as 2nd tier issue. That was not my experience growing up in BK.

Having lost a good percentage of the college fund to Ring Pops in the name of independence and agency, I endorse this statement.

karaoke night with friends and Joe Frazier heard me, told me I had soul, and bought my table a round. As I apologetically explained that I’m from Louisville and so have to be an Ali fan.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

Ever new rights- and privacy- violating applications for the AI surveillance net

Happy happy pride, my loves!

AI is a general-purpose accelerator, not an isolated technology. A federal budget that fails to understand that basic truth is a budget will fail to return meaningful benefits to taxpayers, and the world. Sebastian Elbaum and I break it down here. www.techpolicy.press/trumps-big-b...

C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N: Faizan Zaki, 13, of Texas wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The runner-up from last year was competing in his fourth bee. The national spelling contest celebrated its 100th anniversary this year.

We’re gonna get some really funny “Shakespeare never intended for his plays to be performed outside of the gender binary” takes out of this

Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...

I am so in love with this.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Florida pulls up to the bar and goes all Florida talkin bout alligators and snakes and high schoolers on spring break and carp the size of Corollas. Ohio just shakes its head. “Hold my beer.” youtu.be/SJ0yAGHBEpo

Mother’s Day is a complicated day for many, and it can hit very differently depending on where we are in life. Sending love to the other moms today, but sending the most love to those who may be hurting today. This mom sees you, and I’d give you a huge hug and a comforting cup of tea if I could. ❤️

He heard “papal” and thought they said PayPal.