Excellent interview segment with @esqueer.net about how the law is failing trans folks www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkBNqxfh/

It won’t be long before someone starts pushing a “second shovel” theory.

Where does this highway go to?

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP and the Idaho Alliance for Retired Americans , my law firm has filed a motion to intervene to oppose DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Idaho’s complete, unredacted voter registration list. www.democracydocket.com/cases/idaho-...

This is absolutely one of the best stories in media right now. Our FEMA dorector can teleport between locations, like Bill and Ted, but he doesn’t know how to go anywhere besides Waffle House. Maybe he can teleport Napoleon back so he can take over Iran. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkBdHsoP/

I predicted Bongino's resignation when I was giving a presentation about how Musk weaponized X to factionalize MAGA last summer. Have a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htIq...

I was searching google for a story about "Claude Anthropic" when I got hit with this nearly full page ad for ChatGPT.

When I tell students that sleeping with your phone in your bed is a sign of addiction, very wide-eyed expressions wash over their faces. It’s the most sincere tell that they are thinking and reflecting on their own values and behaviors, realizing how normalized it’s become to sleep with surveillance

If you visit X on the “for you” page, it’s a full information warfare campaign.

Sometimes work is an absolutely joy because of collegues like @morganweiland.bsky.social Read more about her research and plans at BU: www.bu.edu/com/articles...

Husband (who works in devops and colleagues demanding he review and admire their CrapGPT pull requests are the bane of his life) asked for this book for Christmas and I think he's been enjoying it. I've sent him a link to this talk :)

This post by @timothysnyder.bsky.social is a great example of prebunking coup plots. This is great for running a war games scenario preparing the field for these potential pivots. What are we going to do as researchers and journalists tasked with explaining the present in the rhythm of the past?

I hate sharing substack hosted work for obvious reasons but the skeet pretty much covers it

Networked harassment is a feature of generative AI, when slop is amplified by trolls for malicious purposes. It’s no different than someone taking your yearbook photo and pasting it on a nude body. It’s grosser perhaps, but hardly new to young girls who’ve been living through this for years.

Meme wars automated arsenal

“Gay” is a style: A neo-Hebdige analysis of subculturemaxxing among Gen Z males

#CHUDzuckerberg MUST RESIGN. After two jury trials in separate states, Meta’s liable for addictive design that harms kids’ mental health. Get creative by remixing these movie posters and share it as #CHUDzuckerberg on ALL platforms! Are you asking yourself why CHUD has been a meme lately?

#CHUDzuckerberg MUST RESIGN. After two jury trials in separate states, Meta’s liable for addictive design that harms kids’ mental health. Get creative by remixing these movie posters and share it as #CHUDzuckerberg on ALL platforms! Are you asking yourself why CHUD has been a meme lately?

Very interested to see how this plays out! Congrats to @avilewis.ca for earning the top spot.

Batman was a rich cop

Ohhhhhh meme wars just unlocked a new pocket knife.

Mark Zuckerberg must resign. He is the one consistent line in Meta’s history of poor privacy design and lack of enforcement on terms. I am proud to be a whistleblower in a line of researchers who have shown that Meta was strategically co-opting and killing research about their flaws. #zuckMustGo

Mainstream media could do a lot better job covering social movements. It’s not easy to organize hundreds of thousands of people to take time on a Saturday to protest. It’s not a party, it’s a result of ineffective representation in Gov. Every effort to build a resilient society is worth it.

Ken Burns is holding court at @bostonu.bsky.social at the College of Com. #powerofnarrative

I am so excited for the Power of Narrative conference kicks off today at BU! I'll be on GBH at 1pm today to tell ya all about it. combeyond.bu.edu/offering/the...

This is going to take a miracle of organizing to make happen, but it’s crucial because of the underhanded ways BiG Tech is using announcements of data centers to manipulate markets, while also hiding when buying property and withholding proper public notice. #ZuckMustGo

When has technology ever been a good thing for children?

Mark Zuckerberg must resign. He is the one consistent line in Meta’s history of poor privacy design and lack of enforcement on terms. I am proud to be a whistleblower in a line of researchers who have shown that Meta was strategically co-opting and killing research about their flaws. #zuckMustGo

In 2021, I was writing about and testifying in front of Congress about Big Tech behaving like Big Tobacco. www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

At the combination Pizza Hut and HR department.

This episode has haunted me ever since I first heard it. I’m so glad we get to share it with LONG SHADOW listeners—it’s where “In Guns We Trust” and “Breaking the Internet” collide. AND it features @bostonjoan.bsky.social who @vermontgmg.bsky.social interviewed in Seasons 2 and 4 of Long Shadow!

Excellent debunk of the Shy Girl AI allegations. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk8eGAT1/

HRF condemns Hong Kong’s latest expansion of national security powers, authorizing the police to demand device passwords. This development marks a dangerous escalation in the suppression of dissent.

For those who want to know more about the background of how Meta failed to protect child users, start here:

I have a distinct feeling that “trust in institutions” is an artifact of the middle and upper class maintainence of moral and social order. Yesterday, I gave a lecture at Sinclair community college. In the eve, I spoke at the annual “Dangerous Dames” gala for the League of Women voters in Dayton.

Remember this verdict was only possible because of whistleblowers. Every state should make this company pay for public education programs on the Danvers of Meta’s products. I’m about to go over to threads now just to troll the good news.

Market manipulation used to be illegal.

What!!! So cool

As a dozen shitty bosses have said to me and others before... "If you can lean you can clean."

I did see this coming. What was particularly cool about my situation was how quickly I was abandoned by everyone who said they cared deeply about academic freedom, but… I’m not mad. Heaven knows they’re miserable now.

It doesn’t take a sociologist to know how bad this is

I went to SXSW for the first time in twenty years… dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-dream-...

I would love to be a guest on “Have I got news for you” @cnn.com Putting this into the world in case someone out here knows someone who knows someone that could get me an audition. Just sayin’

I want off this ride.

Key and Pelle in 2026 predicted this all www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkJDVpmq/

I wonder which billionaire will buy the 2028 election. Now that should be a bet on Polymarket.

They are greedy. Not the richest men. The greediest men.

As much as I would love to believe we have reached the point where there are more important things to worry about... We're going to need a lot more flags in the future.

Yet another excuse to post this.