A managers job is to hire people who are good at their work and then remove as much unnecessary bullshit out of their way as possible so that they can focus on doing their work.

The GOP's long-running crusade against what they see as social media censorship of conservative views has racked up a lot of wins. But it's quickly becoming an awkward topic for the right as Trump and Brendan Carr take jawboning to new levels. Our story today: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

While I still believe AI is probably unprofitable enough to be a bubble, I really want to caution people against thinking AI is going away. For example, here's from a recent CDT report. It's use is pervasive and alarming and we need to be dealing with that reality.

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Sure, but to be clear this means “we should have a society that redistributes wealth equitably and ensures all people’s basic needs are met” and not “shame and mock teenage girls for liking things”

I love that AFI has been very slowly turning into The Cure over two decades.

Apple removing ICEBlock, a legal app for monitoring ICE activity, from its app store at the behest of the federal government mirrors what it has done in other regimes. www.iceblock.app

As a public interest advocate it's become so hard to calibrate "this is a really important thing you should care about" vs "the fascist takeover of the US." Like we have to also keep track of and fight against the bad things that are smaller than fascism but also there's fascism.

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TFW you absolutely nail a perfect espresso.

Psycho Pass was predictive.

The Hatch Act is dead.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Many of us called out that this law passed by Democrats would turn out to be a massive self inflicted wound. They never should have passed the TikTok ban. It was a bad idea even WITHOUT oligarch capture.

It's really hard to concentrate when there's a new Twilight Imperium expansion coming out and they keep slow dripping the new content reveals.

VPN usage surged in the UK after the disastrous roll-out of their online ID check / age verification law. It took about 15 seconds for politicians there to start talking about banning VPNs. This is why we're organizing the #DefendVPNs day of action today. Join us!

I'd love to be in the meeting where they tell the UI dev they need to change all the fonts for the new update so that users feel like they changed a lot.

It's really funny that I found a group of people who will regularly show up in person to play complicated board games but I can't find a soul who will play one online.

Everyone in the admin should be investigated to see if they shorted Kenvue. www.marketwatch.com/story/kenvue...

Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA. Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/

We defend free speech online even though it's hard and we've lost a funder over it because it's the right thing to do.

Literally the most low effort time to get branded as a principled republican.

I think that one thing that is increasingly clear is that most people aren't on some magic right/left political line and that they are more likely to be attracted to those with strong principles, wanting to try new things, big personalities, etc..

This is interesting but not surprising. Real heads will recall the similar “government copyright licensing offices lose money” and “museum copyright licensing offices lose money”. Original post: hachyderm.io/@jedbrown/11...

I just need 15 million people to send me a dollar. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Someone taught the ground squirrels in Colorado about Instagram and now they pose for you.

I finished City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky and it was very good. I also think he read Joe Abercrombie's First Law series and said I could do that.

I really want to see it now.

Also just a friendly PSA that you are under no obligation to watch videos of horrific or gruesome events just because they appear in your feed. Sharing this because I'm familiar with the feeling of watching something without really thinking about it and then immediately regretting it.

Evergreen.

Mississippi’s age verification law poses an “existential threat” to smaller platforms like Bluesky and Dreamwidth, which cannot afford to implement expensive AV systems or risk hefty fines. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Charlie Kirk has reportedly been shot at an event in Utah: www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...

Transformative work of the day

Wrote about yesterday's SCOTUS nonsense.

GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.

Also, the Supreme Court decision in 1935 was unanimous, with liberals and conservatives agreeing that the president did not have this power. It's been on the books for ninety years, but John Roberts of course doesn't give a damn.

I got tipsy and went on a rant that proto-MAHA were the people at naturalist food stores that thought if it tasted bad it was good for you.

Republicans put out this crazy racist shit and yet establishment Dems are still treating voters as if they were deer that can't be scared off with things like policies and convictions.

I think that the problem with shutting down the government is that while it's absolutely the right thing to do politically and arguably morally, at least without major concessions, Dem lawmakers personally know the people that will be hurt. It's their current and former staff.

This is a big litmus test for how you feel about copyright.

I just made us a Harry's Midnight Snack and I swear it tastes like mint chocolate chip ice cream. www.theeducatedbarfly.com/harrys-midni...

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Section 230 is the reason creators can share accurate reproductive health information, including gender affirming care, sex education, contraception + how to access safe abortion care.

I made a set of handled soup bowls years ago after my wife asked for it. They are not great, yet she to this day prefers using them over our nice bowls.

ACB promises to rehabilitate the public's perception of SCOTUS by cashing in on book deal.

Politics is all about subtracting coalitions from your voter base says sportsball mathematician.

"What's even on this thing?" So far shuffle has been Oddisee and Talib Kweli.

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Only one panel left! A successful DragonCon. Thanks to all the policy fans that show up for the tech policy fan track.