I have to be honest, I haven't been following much about Platner. But Stoller's support is incredibly damning.

The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and charities funded the drug’s early development, execs, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. (Pub. Feb. 2025)

Ok hear me out, what if we built an anti-data center that consumes a data center on contact.

BREAKING: the Massachusetts House just passed one of the best data privacy bills in the country. It includes a total ban on the sale of precise location data and includes a private right of action allowing people to sue Big Tech over data abuses. HUGE WIN! But there’s more work to do 🧵

🚨 🚨 🚨 THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE IS VOTING ON DATA PRIVACY TODAY!!! Call your Reps and tell them to support the ACLU-backed amendments that make H. 4746 stronger, and OPPOSE amendment 18 that makes it weaker. Reskeet to get this in front of as many massholes as possible!!! FFTF.link/madataprivacy

If we lose any Dems in the upcoming vote on reigning in abuses of government spying powers through FISA then we will never win a FISA fight until we get new dems. Everyone should be watching the Senate vote this week as a referendum on the party.

This raises an interesting question, what TV show is the best to watch in reverse order Memento style? For All Mankind?

when did leftists become enamored with intellectual property enforcement? please understand that copyright and trademark are and always have been regimes designed to benefit very large corporations and wealthy "rights" holders the idea these systems help artists and small businesses is a fuckin lie

When we say that age verification is going to over-censor the Internet, this is what we are talking about.

To the tune of Snoop: "Toast was the bread that they gave me"

Congrats to Marco Rubio for his appointment to DNI.

BREAKING: Boston City Council just unanimously passed a resolution condemning dangerous age verification and censorship laws, including the proposals put forward by @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Backlash to age gating social media is growing! www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

Holy shit, LLM chats are discoverable! www.axios.com/2026/05/11/m...

“The bar argued that simply because the women were Asian, they had no way of knowing if they were SWs or not.”

“At worst, we're talking about a technology that invades your privacy if an ICE or CBP officer even looks at you, but even at best, we're looking at a project that, like lots of DHS tech, just wastes taxpayer money on shiny gadgets,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @404media.co.

“I think Utah is really setting the precedent here for other states and other countries,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told @sltrib.com. “It’s very hard to do and a very unworkable concept.”

Un-shockingly a common form of police abusing mass surveillance systems is using ALPR camera networks to keep tabs on their current partners, exes, & even strangers. ij.org/police-have-...

Tech policy folks: are you on the right side of history ?

A number of commercial spyware companies have sought to influence government by hiring lobbying, law and PR firms, reports Tech Policy Press Fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos. In part two of our spyware lobbying series, he takes a closer look at their efforts.

Any member of Congress that votes for a clean FISA reauthorization is voting to hand Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump the power to spy on Americans without a warrant on a silver platter.

This piece is essential reading for everyone in Massachusetts. The proposals pose real risks to everyone, including kids. @evangreer.bsky.social and @nathaliemarechal.net explain why and what could be done instead.

THREAD: Let's dig into one specific piece of the misguided "protect the kids" social media legislation that Massachusetts lawmakers are trying to rush through: The provisions that involve "parental consent." (Read my Boston Globe piece here for a primer) archive.ph/rAK4P But let's go deeper 🧵

Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/

I'm so glad that Copilot is programmed not to violate Billy Shakespeare's copyrights.

I think I've played all of these. xkcd.com/3235/

Congrats to every enterprise using zoom who just got exposed to BIPA class actions. (People, I get paid for these hot takes.)

Mare Gluesenkamp Perez's platform is killing sea lions and the Fourth Amendment.

Design x dystopia:

Update on where things stand on FISA: this deal is a win. We got the House to back down from an 18 month extension, buying us time to negotiate on real reforms. I'll be fighting like hell for reforms that put your privacy first, and will have more to share soon.

BREAKING: 150+ journalists including @maddow.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social @jamestgriffiths.com @doctorow.pluralistic.net @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @kattenbarge.bsky.social are thanking @archive.org for services to journalism. ✍🏻Journalists can still sign at www.savethearchive.com/journalists/

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

These tools aren’t just biased by demographics—even if they were accurate, they’d be biased by deployment: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2457/ www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

In today's Connecticut Post, Demand Progress Action & @fightforthefuture.org placed an ad asking why Dem Rep. Jim Himes is doing Trump & Stephen Miller's bidding by trying to get Democrats to support renewing FISA with no privacy reforms.

One of the things I noticed when studying AI is that it's potentially one of the most democratized techs in a long time. There is no moat. There's open source. You can run it locally. It's hard to lock down with IP protections because it relies on fair use to exist.

People yelled at me a few weeks ago when I suggested locally run open models were getting to be pretty powerful. But... it's true.

The Atmosphere is a rethinking of the Internet, with social connections that you control, built in. It allows you to do more with others, while maintaining more control over your own data and experiences.

Can you die from constantly interacting with people who are confidently wrong about something you’re an expert on? Asking out of fear for my own life

I'm honestly so sick of these popcorn meme bloggers, podcasters and posters so hopped up on wanna see something happen juice that they don't care who gets hurt as long as they get to see something happen. But to make everyone happy I have a bill proposal.

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

Here's the number for the congressional switchboard. Please call your reps and senators. This man needs to be removed from office now. (202) 224-3121

There are so many people that contextualize the Trump admin as something we can just rebuild from. But there will be no recovering from this if Trump actually goes through with his threats.

New: Florida's wildlife police are giving ICE access to Flock from thousands of cameras around the country & performed dozens of lookups for immigration enforcement per month. Shows ICE is still accessing and also shows that access often comes from unexpected places: www.404media.co/floridas-wil...

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

I wish this is how I learned the news.

Hehehehehe

New type of IP maximalist just dropped. www.axios.com/2026/04/02/g...

📣Calling all journalists who think what's happening with the @archive.org getting blocked is garbage, or for those who just love the Internet Archive, DM us because we're doing a thing!

I got a "Florida Man" themed Cryptic Killers puzzle for some escapism only to find out the prime suspect is Matt Lane. And what's funny is that this is the second time this has happened to me.