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Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur for the rights to freedom of assembly and of association, presents a report on the profound crisis of mental health and psychological trauma currently sweeping through civil society and the global activist community. advox.globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/d...

vibe shift not real until I meet a baby named Janet

Actually this rhymes with prevalent ideas about Bsky executives personally moderating poasts here based on grudges.

Bsky folk theories about who hits "publish" on prewrites in newsroom CMSes are amazing. Nina Totenberg out here personally logging into Grove without her reading glasses and whatnot.

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This is weird.

got to it. scorched earth, insufferable, could not love her more

how long O lord must I do other things before I can read the new Patricia Lockwood essay

emerging from months of sprinting and looking around at my other work like a dazed gopher. brain immediately reverts to teendom, suggests that the only correct move is to throw Alien up on a big screen while I type

Hey readers @margin.at is cool

For them this product seems so weird that you almost wonder if Little Debbie might have gotten hacked

“No one actually argues against AC as a moral issue“ lol tell me you don’t hang out with any French people withou—

truly there is nothing like a grant/fellowship/etc application process for making me feel simultaneously so proud of my work and also like such an absolute weirdo

This is so great. Cannot think of a better-positioned person to get into the gruesome realities of AI regulation, natsec controls, and the *extremely wild* public conversation about what the administration is doing @himself.bsky.social. www.programmablemutter.com/p/what-the-a...

We really do need to help our children build necessary AI literacies: Salt circles, protective incantations. An awareness that contracts with spirits are always trying to destroy you. Banishing. More banishing.

Looks like the unhinged AI podcast ep with the always-great @oddletters.bsky.social is up! Ty Audrey and co for the chance to talk about LLMs as, you know, demons.

The Hollow Men (2026).

literally I came out of my office for dinner and he said Oh hey, we had The Talk and I froze

I too am a prickly person with big feelings but idk, "I believe that returning after a suspension carries with it an implicit promise that I won’t post that, or something like it, again" doesn't do it, for me. (But I kind of definitionally care about the networks more than my particular platform.)

Computer, which viziers are scheming against me?

It's interesting that people mostly mentioning personal use of work computers in their worries bc, yes, that's a danger, but it's one that you have some control over. I'd be way more worried about performance reviews, snide emails, all the court politics stuff getting dumped into the open.

Coming to the end of Nonesuch and won't be ready to talk about it for a bit, but I keep coming back to the idea that one of Piranesi's greatest accomplishments is that we spend most of that book in the kind of otherworld most authors have difficulty sustaining for more than a chapter.

I‘m going to get yelled at for this but I stg ”blog posts” so Claude-flavored that it’s clear you didn’t even do rewrites are going to make me stop reading online

Appreciate @austinkocher.com always diving in deeper and giving us more context on these awful deaths in ICE detention.

So grateful to @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social for raising the erosion of people's willingness to assemble and form connections. In addition to surveillance, I fear gen AI is interrupting cooperation & that fear of social media harms also cut people off from our collective capacity as humans.

Wait a minute wait a minute is this…pencil skirt?? Is that why those exist?

This is actually the specific shape of corporate workplace disaster I’ve been waiting for. The era of safely typing anything is probably over.

broooooo

This is extremely good news re: the administration's attempts to use shoddy data that is totally unfit for the ostensible purpose to disenfranchise voters. Fingers crossed on the appeals.

Just tried to click through to a Bsky profile from YouTube and got this. Same youtuber's X profile gets no warning. Anyone have a verifiable read on what's going on here? (I don't need help making up snarky explanations, I'm interested in the actual mechanism.)

cannot tell you how much I love my nerd-ass town

Just did The Cull on ~20 years of comics and graphic novels and hooooo boy

…what even is this paper? I read it and I still couldn’t tell you what this is supposed to be doing, it really does feel like somebody put something wild into a whole lot of very specific water bottles.

Still processing that conservatives spent decades insisting that religious institutions and wealthy philanthropists should take care of poor and desperate people (rather than governments) and then the last few years insisting that both divest from empathy, charity, and philanthropy.

ending the week with 248 copies pre-ordered, which feels pretty terrific. thank you Bluesky for buying books!!

HOLLERING START TO FINISH this is so good

An ~interesting thing about our Immigration team's work is that the volume of events they're adding to our timeline has not substantially decreased, even though actions against immigrants are getting a smaller slice of public attention. I think that means the project is working as intended??

This is such genuinely good news about something I have been a total stressball over.

You are *not prepared* for the noise that comes out of a mountain lion cub. Sound up! 🔊

ICYMI: my new article explores the early history of u.s. electronic death registration systems. it's a story about trying to improve both data quality and ease of data entry. turns out, those goals were in tension

I'm trialing a bunch of dictation apps right now bc I busted my arms again and I have to say, the experience of *literally* talking to my friends in the computer is so especially deranged

My very most Norman Rockwell take: We should ask normal people to explain in detail how they think content moderation and platform governance work and then we should clearly explain how content moderation and platform governance work, in that order

The US is currently failing to manage infectious disease, in ways large and small. We have new updates on how we’re (mis)handling the ebolavirus outbreak and steering ourselves into oncoming waves of vaccine-preventable disease. 1/9 unbreaking.org/issues/infec...

It looks like W Identity, the part of @wsocial.eu that checks your papers before you go in, has a very basic XSS on its admin backend, found hours after launch. This seems almost too predictable... Cyberfriends, any thoughts on how bad? 23.social/@kantorkel/1...

So, sorry, I've been focused elsewhere, W Social is basically on-protocol Post with ID checks and Euro hat?

READ! This "not being able to answer" questions abt his references to Heidegger exactly shows he didn't do the reading, the thinking, to justify the quotation & citation! Writing ALWAYS starts w/reading. And YES always examine the material conditions for the production of knowledge, art, etc.

This is such a wild thread and sign of things to come. Having poked around, I think it might be the case that people who've formed their self-image around the sense of being owed deference bc they're the smartest lad in the school are the ones experiencing LLMs as a spiritual concussion.

OH MY GOD YES, yeeeesssssss

Hey kelp fans, my kid is building a Leaflet site and will be accepting illustration commissions later this summer, watch this space 🌱