A Throne for a King has been set up on the mall and then promptly removed. In India, the police would have showed up, people would have been arrested, tweets and instagram posts would have been ordered to be removed. The state of freedom of expression today: thewire.in/rights/is-th...

NEW: "The Park Service has every right to modify [Malcolm X Park], which so badly needs care, but doing so during the summer hurts all D.C. residents," writes @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, who lives near the park, in a new opinion piece. "Yes, the park deserves care. But so do our neighbors."

For @51st.news, wrote about my favourite park in DC: Malcolm X! When I heard about the park closing for the summer, I was distraught! My neighbor (or Park Uncle) was skeptical - he's heard of enough of these beautification efforts in his 41 years near the park 51st.news/opinion-malc...

Resharing this piece from #CODI member @cdt.org on content moderation in the Global South, with perspectives from social platforms, digital activists and others on Maghrebi Arabic dialects, Kiswahili, Tamil and Quechua. 🌏 More from @aliyabhatia.bsky.social → cdt.org/insights/con...

I'm thinking of this especially in the context of India, where a new trans bill has revoked the right of self determination and identity for millions of people despite bestowing the right mere years ago: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

On Trans Day of Visibility, an essential piece on the right to selfhood and anonymity online, particularly for communities who don't have the same luxury in real life, and how that is threatened by new age verification requirements/laws: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

This is both a bold and incredibly nuanced position: Wiki pages train AI systems and the utility and efficacy of synthetic data to train systems begs a lot of questions, so it's smart for Wiki to remain a source of high quality human-generated training data particularly in langs other than English

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

“So you have all these people from the Global South... They use the same vocabulary that whoever’s coming up with these AI detectors is flagging as AI.” @emmaalpern.bsky.social on the people falsely accused of using AI: non-Native English speakers and neurodivergent writers nymag.com/intelligence...

Actually existing AI is making people's lives measurably worse: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Younger millennials learned digital security the hard way: learning how to dodge viruses while downloading music on Limewire. Maybe Australian teens are now en route to learn lessons their own way as they work around the social media ban: www.techdirt.com/2026/03/20/a...

Hope Americans play this game and once and for all stop thinking the immigration system is anything but some vibes articulated in the form of rules enforced to favor those with means and hurt those without

Decode is doing such essential reporting and analysis about the lived realities of tech users in India. W/ the Pulitzer Centre, they uncover how FRT used in welfare settings misclassifies pregnant women because they can't understand how pregnancy affects faces... www.boomlive.in/decode/ai-fa...

The party of Small Government demands 24 hour video footage of your children to "keep them safe": H/t @isabelalinzer.bsky.social for sharing this shrewd analysis: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

I estimated how much revenue the State Department and USCIS have received from legal immigrants and US sponsors for benefits that they are now banned from receiving. The answer is over $1 BILLION. That's just from the people who would've been approved this year cato.org/blog/banned-...

interested in questions of tech, labor, and worker futures? on April 10 in Princeton i'm hosting an outstanding lineup of panelists at "the future of (data) work," where speakers will discuss the ethnographic, archival, and participatory action research they've conducted with data + tech workers

Mamdani’s approach to Ramadan - one potent symbolic Iftar each night - is a model for elected officials broadly. We vest our electeds with a fusion of political+cultural power. All of them, at every level, can use of that civic magic judiciously to alter narratives about who is worthy in society.

all of this ai job loss "research," most of which is totally made up by AI companies themselves, is even more useless because it does not consider the broader impacts AI slop and AI porn is having by killing the human internet, social media, discoverability, etc www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-...

Technical looking AI analyses are being weaponized to falsely discredit authentic evidence: www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-conte...

NEW: Three teens allege xAI and Grok were used to generate nude underage images. Photos from homecoming, yearbook, beach outings were turned into CSAM and distributed on Discord and Telegram + some were bartered for other child abuse imagery, a lawsuit alleges. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Today is seven years since the deadly Islamophobic attack in Christchurch, NZ. The Christchurch Call emerged in the attack's aftermath has been held up as a crucial example of multistakeholderism. Revisiting what I wrote about the future of the Call and similar initiatives: cdt.org/insights/the...

New coverage from @euronews.com on Prof. @geoplace.bsky.social's research, which finds that answers from OpenAI’s ChatGPT favour wealthy, Western countries and sideline much of the Global South. Read more: www.euronews.com/next/2026/01...

1/ As the US continues AI-enabled strikes on Iran, new @brennancenter.org research from @emileayoub.bsky.social and me examines how the military’s investments in the technology have been building to this moment. Congress must step up and reckon with AI’s dangers to life, liberty, and democracy 🧵:

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Happy to be in this important article about a NY county using AI translation for access to EMT services. AI translation may sound legible but it's prone to make up words and misunderstand non-English speech which could mean the difference between life and death centralcurrent.org/onondaga-cou...

I too do not think Bier's Blooski assertion that advocating for discriminatory quota-based deportations is akin to ethnic cleansing is hyperbolic

In today's language news: the Nawat language Wikipedia, made up of over 1000 Wiki pages in the language spoken by people in El Salvador, joins a growing list of official versions of Wikipedia in indigenous languages. Read about Wikiamachti here: globalvoices.org/2026/03/06/n...

""The Trump administration is using the threat of detention and deportation to suppress speech it disfavors"[email protected] on CITR v. Rubio, the case we filed this morning www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

Advancing the digital sovereignty of Tribal Nations is crucial, and AI has the power to do that. @brookings.edu’s latest research explores the risks, opportunities, potential AI governance, and how it can help transform these communities and bring them online. 🔗 www.brookings.edu/articles/avo... "

Does OpenAI actually have a "red line" on mass surveillance in its new deal with the Pentagon? New @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece lays out the key questions on what the agreement means, and what's permitted or prohibited:

The curious case of pushing for legislation that will end anonymity online while running a campaign to target speech and speakers you don't like online and successfully masking it all under the guise of protecting kids online :) boingboing.net/2026/03/06/t...

"Do we have the right rules in place and accountability norms to handle the exponential growing use of these tools? My answer would be no.”" A must-read by @rinachandran.bsky.social on the rise of dubious autonomous military tech: restofworld.org/2026/anthrop...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Congress and advocacy groups should be embarrassed to drag parents who lost their children to a partisan hearing on bad legislation that won't protect children online. Do better! There are so many actual experts ready to help. I wrote on this years ago with Stanford's Jennifer King.

The FTC just announced that the only national law protecting children's data online won't apply to age verification. You know. The Federal Trade Commission. The agency that's in charge of keeping people safe and enforcing the only rules on the books to protect children online. 🤦‍♂️

New piece by @mluria.bsky.social and me on what today's hearing on kids' safety is missing: the perspectives of parents and teens who are deeply skeptical of whether these bills will meet their needs. Huge thanks to @viacristiano.bsky.social for his sharp edits. www.techpolicy.press/congress-chi...

Risks of sovereign control of the tech stack: Indian ISPs blocked nearly 15,000 sites including those ending with .gov. theprint.in/science/indi...

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.

"If a candidate is obese or has asthma, the officer can refuse their visa." An immigration lawyer on what the H-1B process actually looks like in 2026: https://restofworld.org/2026/get-h-1b-visa-trump-america/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

Looking forward to speaking at UChicago's Tech for Good conference this afternoon (1230pm CT/130pm ET) on platform governance, accountability, and users' rights. Tune in! techforgoodconference.org

Govs want to use AI to translate public service information but without vetting these tools end up in embarrassing situations where their services end up no better than you lip-syncing a Bad Bunny song, or worse, in Washington state: speaking English in a Spanish accent apnews.com/article/wash...

Read @aliyabhatia.bsky.social on the need for multilingual evaluations of AI models. As these systems become further integrated into existing services and content moderation practices, how they work (or don't work!) in languages other than English becomes even more critical.

The Delhi Commitments launched at the #IndiaAIImpactSummit have rightfully centered multilingual evals as a core part of enhancing AI system use but how language experts will be included and eval outcomes are used is also important as Aditya Vashistha and I explain: indianexpress.com/article/opin...

"Any claims of AI solving for population scale problems must be matched against the reality of the Global South, in which young boys were applying enamel paint on the railings... with their bare hands to prepare for the arrival of Silicon Valley CEOs." www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...

ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/eSAhblK

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Will India truly forge a 'third way' at the #AIImpactSummit next week in Delhi or further entrench Big Tech actors' roles in the Global South at the expense of local alternatives? Great read by @ambakak.bsky.social and Astha Kapoor: restofworld.org/2026/india-a...

Incredible piece about what we lose when AI systems aren't trained on natively-created representative datasets: Bad Bunny lyrics! lausworld.substack.com/p/the-limita...

Attacks on academic freedom and cutting of stable, accessible channels to immigrate to the US will have ripple effects for decades to come. The US knows little of the brain drain that's about to come and that other countries which too have faced shifts towards authoritarian power have experienced