Did you know that the paperback version of my labor history book for young readers, ‘Fight to Win!’ is coming out in paperback soon, at a very low price point, right in time for summer reading lists? Now you do, and you can preorder it for 25% off here! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fight-to-w...

The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.

"The legend of Cesar Chavez will never be the same," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "But the righteousness of the trade union struggle...cannot be tarnished by Chavez’s behavior."

Interviewed the journalist who was getting death threats from polymarket gamblers to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike. Scary stuff in here about how the intense harassment made him (for just a split second) doubt what he saw and reported. Others may not have his conviction/morals.

Like, well, pretty much everybody, the Cesar Chavez story broke @coyotemedia.org's heart. There's so much to say about it, but @soleilho.com swung big: can we all agree to just... skip the whole hero thing entirely? www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-her...

At a time when the right is using racialized/gendered anxieties to attack migrants/workers, the liberal response to claim moral purity by removing chavez' name while refusing to fight for the dignity of workers that dolores huerta and other survivors put before their healing is performative at best

*ARIZONA CHARGES KALSHI WITH OPERATING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS

New! Living Trans, a video series featuring trans people working in technology and cooperativism, produced by the Argentine co-operative Alternativa Laboral Trans (ALT), in partnership with DigiLabour, funded by the Queer and Trans Research Lab/University of Toronto www.youtube.com/@alt.coopera...

Latest from me and @juliapowles.bsky.social for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social on the social media ban and age-checks: It's not just that this proposal is faulty, unreliable, and unfit for purpose. It's actively harmful. www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...

Everyone read the latest from @juliapowles.bsky.social and @katejsim.bsky.social !!! www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/onl...

So excited to see this out in the world! @tomasgna.bsky.social historicizes the tensions between scale, compliance/trust, and governance/regulation that characterize the project of T&S ⬇️

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Behind the scenes, “Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children.”

Finally caught up with this great piece from @currentaffairs.bsky.social on the prediction market, which actively targets economically precarious young people. Absolutely no reason for this market to exist, let alone their ads to be everywhere www.currentaffairs.org/news/ban-pre...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

we're releasing a PDF of our zine about ICE's tech for free. we also translated it to Spanish. Please share far and wide! www.404media.co/icezine/

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Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

And there’s a federal version of this bill that you should tell your lawmakers to support. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/data...

Yup. Everything in this thread, up to and including the end. You don't eat around the cockroach.

In zohran's new york there will be a bidet in every bathroom

"Warren’s co-sponsorship of KOSA is a shocking betrayal at a time when anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry is ascendant and self-described “allies” in Congress are abandoning our communities to the MAGA wolves" @fightforthefuture.org www.erininthemorning.com/p/op-ed-with...

another thing worth repeating about the Grok "situation" theres an essentially infinite amount of consensually made adult content online to fit every possible preference, kink and desire making deepfake porn of others without their consent is about twisted power and control, not being horny

One interesting thing about this is how few articles covering this mention OpenAI’s coming move to integrate ads, which merged with people’s health data, presents a wide range of predatory scenarios.

This. Whats happening w Grok is a supply chain issue: a harmful tool made available for harmful uses. All the talk of OSAs and yet there does not seem to be a regulatory instrument --or the will -- to actually go after Musk. This speaks more to the failure of our regulators.

We are seeing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine. And if you thought the Grok CSAM shitshow was bad, it’s likely getting worse. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

what people are able to do with Grok at the moment is far far far worse than putting people in bikinis www.404media.co/inside-the-t...

LLMs are not sentient, are not human. Grok cannot “apologize” or explain how or why any of this is happening. But of course major outlets such as Bari Weiss’s CBS News wrote that Grok “acknowledged ‘lapses in safeguards'." @jasonkoebler.bsky.social with more: Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9l...

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

READ: Palestinian women in Gaza have faced widespread sexual violence during the Israeli genocide. Despite mountains of evidence, human rights groups face difficulties pursuing justice, as women live in fear of social stigma and reprisal from Israel. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/afte...

What a way to wrap up the year by sharing COSPR's work at #39c3! Antagonistic framing of children's safety vs. adults' privacy does no one good. We need critical connections to move us towards effective, compassionate, and enduring interventions. media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-a...

#39c3 @katejsim.bsky.social Not an Impasse: Child Safety, Privacy, and Healing Together events.ccc.de/congress/202...

As both the House & Senate look to repeal Section 230, I'm curious who they think should be held liable for the comments they've left open on the Epstein photo dump...? Them? Dropbox? Do they have a trust & safety team watching the comments?

We spent long time studying the question "does training data filtering help prevent generative models from generating unwanted content?" TL;DR: Nope. In some cases it slightly increases difficulty but not enough to prevent even average users from finding ways to create what they want.

Happening TODAY! Tune in!

TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online. Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at badinternetbills.com

On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.

404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and how people are resisting this tech. Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.

Looking forward to my first CCC in a few weeks to talk about what privacy preserving, principled approach to children's online safety looks like! fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...

Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.

NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

What do you mean you are she/her divine earth mother bill from cuomo's schoolhouse rock AI slop for halloween

Every time.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The wait is over. Cant wait to read this! @lalouverouge.bsky.social