I also support Aaron’s work and pay for a subscription. It is always worth reading, always informative. Thanks, @atrupar.com for your tirelessness.

I love it when you're having a discussion online with someone and they forget to cut this bit from their reply...

Failing to protect the rear end from the back end.

Should someone want to subscribe to Paulina's Patreon, here it is: www.patreon.com/c/paulinabor...

It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina! The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

"Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

AI music dorks online, in a nutshell: It used to take me ages and oodles of money to poorly execute a lame idea, now I can do it an hour!

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that. —Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags. You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

I know that if we all completely stopped reacting to Alex Jones he probably won’t just die, but it seems to me we should give it a shot.

Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."

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

Love and thanks to everyone who has checked out my new album, “The Resurrection Game”. It’s been out for five days now! 10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙 You can listen to it here: ffm.to/pm4q3vm

The threat of having to submit your ID to speak online is chilling, especially as we’re watching ideological capture and capitulation play out across traditional media and institutions. And it’s particularly gutting that sex workers and digital rights activists have been sounding alarms for years

Always a pleasure to represent a righteous client.

A fun project I've been working on for a while is out now, In Formation Magazine, tagline: "Every day, computers are making people easier to use." I'm a contributing editor and columnist. informationmagazine.com

#NoKings in San José.

so i'm teaching a course on "hope" and what's being described here is literally despair

Long but good read on Martial Law in the US. If you are being fearmongered about the issue, it's complicated and not nearly so linear or universal as those talking about it suggest. And it's not anything the US military is prepared to do by doctrine/geography. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

My first song in 5 years came out last Wednesday. It’s an indie-folk song I wrote about being a deeply romantic person living in decidly unromantic times. Here’s the link if that sounds like it might be your kinda thing: ffm.to/n35r6m7

I've recently discovered that a fun way to get over any lingering anxiety about releasing an album is to immediately start making a follow up 😹

Thanks to @theneedledropnews.bsky.social for the first review of my new single, “No Happy Endings” 💜 theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...

Emma’s new single: moving swiftly already! Yaysville!

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

President Declines Gift (1925)

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it

Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.

This is literally how toddlers act

In my quest to unseal the search warrants for XiaoFeng Wang's homes, I just filed my reply brief in support of my motion to unseal. The govt had opposed the motion, pointing to the need for secrecy in an open investigation. But that's what redaction is for. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you’re not following Riana Pfefferkorn’s efforts to unseal search warrants in the case of Indiana University professor Xiaofeng Wang, you should check out her recently filed reply brief; it’s a must-read!

Thanks to @midnightpals.bsky.social for publicizing this. It's over $4500 as I post. I've contributed, you should, too. Just a few bucks will help. gofund.me/3a08f14b

Future cybercrime will be 90% AI personas from different police departments proving to each other that they're real people by committing various test-crimes. archive.is/202504191120...

@iainthomson.bsky.social, well done here. @tamzen.bsky.social laughed so hard our eyes watered. Of course the default access code is 1234, of course. www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/u...

Heads up! Ahead of next week's markup, civil society & security experts are sounding the alarm, urging changes to the TAKE IT DOWN Act. We're seriously concerned it threatens encryption. www.internetsociety.org/open-letters...

Meme stolen from @yaelwrites.com

@theliamnissan.bsky.social, muchacho. Is there a way to send you a tip on something that might trend on The Bad Place?

OUTSIDE of you, there are MILLIONS of wolves

To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.

Reading about Microsoft canceling Skype is like reading about the death of some celebrity and thinking, "Oh, that's so sad. I didn't realize they were still alive. I will miss them."

Current and former federal workers: We’re here in D.C. sending out our signal 🚨 Contact us confidentially on Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips.