Last week, EPIC published a one-pager detailing how government agencies exploit the third-party doctrine as a loophole to purchase personal information from data brokers, even though they would have to get a warrant to access the same information directly.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116325532654671149 OK, this is evil. #anthropic specifically coding #claude to be nontransparent / opaque. Should we stop talking about bringing them to the EU now? Fully against the spirit, intent, and law of the #AIAct. Unless those guys are REALLY convincing […]

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too? I think so. But it requires acknowledging the distinction between speech and design: www.platformer.news/social-media...

…If i was going to make a nightmare allegory about surveillance and empire based on wizard of oz and Grimm's fairy tales themes, this is what part of it would look like.

Hard to fathom a worse moment in human history to devalue sociology.

Dear Zoom app, thank you for your kind offer to transcribe every MS Team meeting but no thanks.

I’ll raise you one @evacide.bsky.social and say we need to ban the selling of personal information. Some things shouldn’t have markets. Personal data is such a thing.

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

“The moral crisis we are facing is not just a matter of the war itself, but also how we, the observers, view violence, for war now has become a spectator sport or strategy game.…What a profound moral failure, for gamifying strips away the humanity of real people.”

A small marker of our times: this phrase in a news story (rather than opinion) and it being completely accurate. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

I‘m over the moon that my paper on digital product safety as an adaptation and evolution of historical product safety strategies is out. can this show a harmonizing, holistic and more effective way forward? www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

The administration is engaged in norm destruction while installing new assumptions about and practices for how AI should be steered and regulated. Consider: $10 billion in equity stakes in tech firms and a "golden share" granting veto power over corporate decisions. This is not deregulation.

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.” “‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

…*and* I feel like focusing on shitty wrongheaded definitions of "intelligence" directs the collective attention away from asking better, more actually important questions.

…Also also, I'm frankly disappointed that the idea of "human-like/-level intelligence" is still being used or taken seriously as a metric At All. It's a meaningless cipher that Looks like it should mean something but which adds up to nothing, the more we examine it. Its roots are eugenic and racist…

"Perhaps the most substantive change is that the US government has achieved its own kind of “golden share” of unfettered TikTok user data. In short, it might be the worst of all possible worlds." By @lalevasseur.bsky.social Irene Knapp and Bryce Simpson

If they ban whistles switch to cowbells. It'll be fun for all the Gen Xers. Because we need more cowbell.

Right wing billionaires now control TikTok. It's unsafe.

(FYI Padlet is a leaky by design app- feeding the global commercial surveillance infrastructure. appmicroscope.org/app/843/ dm me if we can be of more support.)

Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and kids.

Next week 🪩 Join EFF's Lena Cohen at DistrictCon for a discussion on "How a Handful of Location Data Brokers Actively Track Millions, and How to Stop Them." www.eff.org/event/eff-d...

We love to see it! Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️ github.com/zoicware/Rem...

What fresh copilot ai hell is being once again foist upon us? all of the settings in MS Word Advanced that apply at a file level, apparently default to [the obnoxiously truthfully named? ] "AI Agent AI Spy.docx". This is exhausting.

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social 's CCC talk was so inspiring I wrote a thing about it: internetsafetylabs.org/blog/insight...

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

💯 this ⬇️

Watching The American Revolution and it’s fascinating. So far, both the English army and the us militia under Washington seem like keystone cops. (How didn’t Washington get fired? He seems to have misjudged every major move of the oppo.)

The latest issue of In Formation starts off with a bang. No notes. 🧑‍🍳💋

Data breaches affect everyone, and this year we saw plenty of them, ranging from the novel to the predictable. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I want to drive a dump truck of cow manure to the Microsoft headquarters and drop it off in the lobby as a thank you. They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.

📣 Calling all word-nerds: we're updating our glossary of terms in our open-to-the-public Software Safety Standards Panel. We've synthesized definitions from extant AI and other laws worldwide to arrive at a clear and complete list of terms. /1

I mean, is he serious? He can’t seriously believe in his glorified word salad spinner, can he? for me, the most troubling thought is that he actually believes in the quality of the extrusion machine, that he isn’t just a snake oil huckster.

But talking about “risk” is a trap. It’s an on-ramp to incrementalism. bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Many journalists are tracking the procurement and deployment of new technologies and tactics, but it's hard to get the entire picture. A generational threat to civil liberties that I suspect future governments will struggle (or refuse) to roll back. Dramatic reform/abolition will be required.

💯this 👇

nailed it:

Powerful keynote on human dignity and moral nihilism by Bhikku Bodhi. “(1) The first factor pushing us toward moral nihilism is the transnational economic system driven by unregulated predatory capitalism.” /1

I don’t see how, as a society, we can tolerate or accept this set of “ai” technologies woven into every aspect of our lives. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

As I get older the most unrealistic thing I see on tv is people over the age of 50 making dinner plans for 8 pm.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

But here’s a thought: maybe the solution isn’t tweaking consent mechanisms or expanding exceptions. Maybe it’s time to kill third-party cookies by law – simply prohibit them along with other unsanctioned tracking.

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Calling all parents! We're updating our app safety labels (if you've never seen one, here's an example appmicroscope.org/app/403/) and we're going to be adding in a bunch of information about app behaviors that present unique risks to children.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption. “We” is more important here.

I know there's a lot going on right now and one thing that's going on is the Trump admin is trying to roll back rules for making new buildings accessible. There are six days left to make comments about it.

Currently reading @naomiaklein.bsky.social Doppleganger and her mention of Chaplin’s speech at the end of The Great Dictator couldn’t be more timely. youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20