Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Fun little post on the natural fit between LLMs and terminal user interfaces from @bergmayer.net. bergmayer.net/ai-and-telet...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability

POV you built AI without cultivating moral discernment

In a day with wonderful colleagues imagining how we can have a positive AI future, this is mega depressing. matthewsag.com/copyright-wi...

Harold Feld from @publicknowledge.bsky.social : "The fundamental problem facing American discourse today is not whether platforms moderate content, but rather that only a handful of massive technology companies control how millions of Americans receive information..."

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

We're thrilled to welcome @nickgarcia.bsky.social arcia.bsky.social, @merbroussard.bsky.social, and @bb.usefairuse.com to the next in our fall webinar series! Register today for Legal and Ethical Issues in AI on 10/30! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...

And don't forget to register for the next webinar in our AI series! We'll be talking legal and ethical issues in AI with @merbroussard.bsky.social and @nickgarcia.bsky.social! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Inspired by the 11th card of the tartot, Justice, this braille sticker symbolizes the importance of working towards a future that uplifts everyone. shop.eff.org/products/la...

The law belongs to everyone. We told a court that being the biggest provider of summaries and research tools shouldn’t give Thomson Reuters a monopoly on access to the facts in judges’ decisions. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

A lovely example of genuine public service!

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

If you think AI is the future, then you should be giving serious thought to what obligations we need to impose on hyperscalers as their public importance grows, and how we push the industry to make compute power as cheap, commoditized, and plentiful as electricity or water.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

We need more leaders like this who will fight for democracy.

This is fascism and a step towards the destruction of the Union.

Back the blue.

This is really cool -- www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/29/nyregion/interborough-express-tour-brooklyn-queens.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.x-Iy.as7h1zesNck8&smid=url-share

📚 “Every citizen should know that libraries are under attack.” In a new interview‬, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle outlines the structural threats facing libraries today & the paths forward for an enduring library system. @cni-org.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org vimeo.com/1103555091/8...

"[Trump's AI Action Plan] is action without vision or direction." Our statement on today's announcement from Senior Policy Counsel @nickgarcia.bsky.social: publicknowledge.org/president-tr...

🚨 Tomorrow, the Trump Admin is expected to release an AI Action Plan along with new executive orders on #AI. In his latest article, @nickgarcia.bsky.social takes a look at what Trump’s AI plan has the opportunity to get right—and what America can’t afford to get wrong.

If we aren't protecting David Baldacci with the full force of the United States Senate then I don't even know who we are as a nation anymore.

From 1949

I mean, I’ll say this: as a policy advocate on AI issues, I appreciate Grok for consistently illustrating the torment nexus we’re trying to avoid at scale.

control panel of the day #HCI

Public Knowledge is hiring! PK is a great place to work and whoever fills this role will be working on AI (with me!), a healthy information environment, digital platform accountability, and other critical issues.

Now would be a good time to buy my book We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, which explores how cranks and hucksters exploited the increase in autism diagnoses to promote disinformation and stigma around #ActuallyAutistic people. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Last week, federal judges released two landmark decisions on artificial intelligence — both finding that AI training on copyrighted works is a protected fair use. Read the breakdown from @nickgarcia.bsky.social on what these rulings mean as well as their limitations at the link below:

For the past year, I've been working with dozens of my most admired humans on the planet to put some new thoughts to think with out in the world. Storytellers, may I present the uncensorable, decentralized Stop Surveillance Tech Copaganda Toolkit: stopcopaganda.compost.digital

This is how constitutional government dies—not through dramatic coups but through mundane budget allocations funding systematic terror.

I would love if this ¶ from NYT's story on Paramount's kickback to the mafioso in chief said, instead, "the media has capitulated faster than other institutions of civil society, in large part because their corporate structure puts profit over truth." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

The Trump admin is reviving America’s legacy of exclusion -- including via attacks on digital equity, writes Broadband Policy Director @alisavalentin.bsky.social‬. Some Republicans are advancing a politics of “deservingness” that reinforces racial inequities: www.techpolicy.press/countering-t...

Confused about the recent spate of AI fair use rulings? Unsure how the Copyright Office's recent report plays into all this? Come join me on a tour of wtf exactly is going on. The only thing this webinar is missing is the falafel.

Huge win on getting the AI moratorium out of the budget bill, but it still remains an utter travesty... including on other tech issues like this sell off of public spectrum. Just another example of the irresponsible, destructive, looting and pillaging that characterizes the whole thing.

99% of amazon packages ever delivered were delivered by a government system that lets me mail a letter to the grand canyon for a quarter

Red alert for the big bill blocking state tech laws! There’s a new draft of the AI moratorium and it’s WORSE. The exceptions narrowed so “generally applicable” laws only survive if they do not create an “undue OR disproportionate burden” on AI. This creates huge uncertainty for which laws survive.

nothing has reinforced my belief that NYC did the right thing like seeing just how upset all the worst people in the world are over it

Seeing the anguish from people like this is a great reminder that even though money has a lot of power in our politics... Voting still has more. And they hate that.

"When I say this, you may read my meaning to be, 'The subways are fine if you are brave,' or 'Riding the subway is a character-building because it teaches you to be tough.' No. I’m not saying that. I’m saying that the subway is fine. It is not scary."