Huh, just stumbled on this art nonprofit that curates shows and then posts work on billboards around a given city. Artists, here are the themes they have open atm:

In light of this decision, the federal government should rethink if it can continue to buy Americans' location data without a warrant. I'll keep pushing for black-letter law that would stop the sale of your data to anyone, including the government.

What an honor to get to help tell just a little bit of @catthekin.checkmyads.org's deeply compelling story in our book ON COURAGE, and excerpted today in Lithub. Her story will inspire you to do hard things + give you tools to stand up for the values and people you care about, even when it's scary.

A few years ago, I was in trouble. I was very scared and didn't know what to do. I waited three days in the dark by myself, and then picked up the phone. Lithub has published this story, an excerpt from On Courage by @juliaangwin.com and @fieldsmeyer.com here: lithub.com/what-to-do-w...

One of the most beautiful chapters in our book, ON COURAGE, is this one -- excerpted in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy -- about how @catthekin.checkmyads.org overcame her fear. Long story short: You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous! lithub.com/what-to-do-w...

NEW—'On Courage' is a new book out tomorrow by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @juliaangwin.com and Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow @fieldsmeyer.com about the many ways regular people have dissented against autocracy. Read this EXCLUSIVE excerpt about a former HUD lawyer challenging Trump:

I still can’t believe that @maddow.bsky.social loved our book enough to narrate the audio book and to devote a 45 minutes segment to it. I am verklempt. youtu.be/6PQCw1Bf83o?...

Candace is the expert on kids and social media that politicians and the media pretend Jonathan Haidt is. And here she is debunking his whole schtick.

Age verification prompts are now on Bluesky when you visit the UK. They want to email me a verification so that my email is tied to my ID across social platforms.

Libraries could be community centers that offer more than just books.

I think it’s important to keep talking about children and social media, but I also think that debate is a cover for what these laws are really about: surveilling the entire population online

“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”

@mayor.nyc.gov's 🔥 Knicks speech was a message to all Americans: "Standing here before what feels like the entire city, there is a Jalen Brunson quote I can't stop thinking about: 'You are allowed to think about the worst possible scenario — but you gotta go out there and do something about it.'"

design with the child in mind. www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

@juliaangwin.com and I interviewed 100+ dissidents on five continents. What they had in common: At the moment conventional wisdom would say to retreat into the ease of a smaller, more cautious, more guarded life, people facing authoritarianism made their community bigger. More here, for the NYT👇

That’s not the effective analogy the doomers seem to think it is… @nathaliemarechal.net joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to observe and contextualize Sen Sanders’ descent into AI Doomerism: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

To spell it out, this has the potential to be a really big deal. It could help make end-to-end encryption the default for a new generation of collaboration apps the same way the Signal protocol has end-to-end encrypted Signal and WhatsApp conversations on billions of phones.

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

This describes all of us at our best

Good list of groups doing great work on surveillance tech. boltsmag.org/everything-e...

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder

This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?

"There was never an agreement to give the US sovereignty over the internet. We are still inside UK borders when we use the internet. The infrastructure is here. The revenue is made here. The internet is eminently governable."

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

I think I speak for everyone when I ask how this will be used to sell advertisements.

NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social

the federal government is going all in on AI data centres with big energy demands & environmental impacts. many communities are not convinced the benefits outweigh the costs — like Lorneville, NB. great story by @moiradonovan.bsky.social, today at @thenarwhal.ca

Friends, Asmaa is very cool and is new to Bluesky. Please say hello to Asmaa!

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. [kottke.org]

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

Really enjoyed going on the I've Had It Podcast to talk about the psychosexual panic known as the Make America Great Again movement, and talk about why you've just gotta make fun of these people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1qr...

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles. January 2026 - Washington Post archive.is/CVXYF (no paywall)

I'm not arguing that anything ✨Classic✨ is being lost. Those books are everywhere. I have stuff that is almost NOWHERE ELSE. Some of it is in copyright, some isn't. Some of the authors are living, some are not. Maybe some would never have sold. But I loved them. I kept them. They were part of me.

Friends, they've come for the poetry section. And the illustrated children's books. And the medieval history. The unknown company is buying up good stuff, and (for contractual reasons, and also because maybe? these books really are for humans? in a different market?) I can't refuse to sell them.

If I believed that someone was trying to assemble a collection of obscure books, that would be different, too. Like, go ahead. Make a seed bank but books. I'm on board. Instead, the obscure books are just... gone. And I'm not alone in suspecting that. www.democrata.es/en/digital-a...

Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

They had their spines ripped off by machines.

There's a situation unfolding in the land of online bookselling that I haven't discussed primarily because I have little information to share. An unknown company is making multi-volume purchases, and when I say multi-, I mean some of us have been getting 500 orders a week. For REALLY random books.

Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints For this who don’t remember Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, in

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

I'm excited to be working on this anthology with Gideon, and getting to work with some amazing authors!

NEW: Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data.