on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to troll

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

I've now moved to @jdp23.thenexus.today as my primary account. I'm keeping this account around as a backup, at least for the time being.

Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Something that I think we need to be clear about is that internet scholars (critical and otherwise) have made this clear for at least two decades and the rest of the academy (and the public) responded with a collective "what happens online isn't real," so forgive me if I'm like "water is ALSO wet."

Seems like there's a lot of chatter among folks looking to migrate off of bsky.social as a PDS, and out to other options. Friendly reminder for white people like me, that Blacksky is for Black folks. There's a related PDS for people that aren't Black too, but Blacksky isn't for us white people.

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Like I said ... Think twice before you amplify thinly-source stories. Even if you're expressing skepticism, you don't want to give them more oxygen. One alternative: take a screenshot and draw a couple of big red question marks over it. Or, just don't amplify it!

So I’ve been banned from Reddit for three days by automated moderation for making a racist post… …paraphrasing Kirk’s final words. From the #youcantmakeitup files.

I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️

This is what solidarity looks like thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidar... Part 2 of “Decentralization” and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere Here's a thread with some highlights (🧵)

reminder that bsky.team only has jurisdiction over what happens on their servers. If you self-host or are hosted by blacksky.app they cannot remove your posts. they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere. signups and migrations are open.

None of my friends have *become* fascists. No one.

Lots of accounts sharing misinformation for clicks + shares. This doesn't help anyone. "Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I'm guessing this is news to most of you but I have a book coming out. :) I and three co-authors (all of whom are HCI researchers with law-adjacent degrees) wrote Human-Computer Interaction and U.S. Law, which will be out from Cambridge University Press in December. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

Although "Massive Cognitohazard Zone" would be a great band name!

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? Just setting up my blacksky-comra.de ... I'll be slowly shifting my presence to this account. I tend not to migrate accounts; instead, I prefer to recreate my network based on my interests today, not two years ago - and leave the baggage of old posts behind

"a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect" hmm a Lost Cause, one might say

Also when I was in high school I was a country music DJ. That or McDonald's were the only two options for summer jobs.

Accessibility in the ATmosphere? The current state of accessibiilty on Bluesky leaves a lot of room for improvement. So, let's start making things better! thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3lxxyg36k5s2t As a first step, let's focus on gathering information ... #accessibility. (🧵, 1/N)

It would cost @blackskyweb.xyz $160K annually to do automated video and image moderation for every post in the Blacksky feed. This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com. I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe. My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.

What accessibility problems have you encountered on Bluesky or other ATmosphere software – bugs, missing documentation or functionality, whatever? 🧵

Let's see how this works ...

i don't think most understand how big this is. currently, bsky forks do not give selfhosted PDSes the ability to use 2FA which leave users unprotected from brute force attacks; the fix below stops those attacks it also stops me from rotating my password every 120hrs to a new randomized password 🫠

Please provide your input on @blackskyweb.xyz Community Guidelines (use of the feed, moderation, app, as well as developer/network services). Anyone using our feeds, subscribed to our mod service, on the PDS/relay Provide input via the following link 🗳️: assembly.blacksky.community/6carwc4nzj

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Jesus fucking christ i am exhausted of people who refuse to take even 1 class that would introduce them to ideas like the social construction of rules, laws, tech, & definitions of "crime," & who continually learn the wrong lessons from every science fiction story they ever meet. I mean holy shit.

Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.

To Chicago comrades & anyone else facing possible federal occupation: The National Guard is standing around for photo ops. DHS, ICE, FBI, DEA, ATF, are working with local police to terrorize & kidnap our neighbors. Organize accordingly.

This is because workers are "associated with diversity" by virtue of not being white guys, and to be anti-DEI is to be pro-segregation

I maintain that "escaping corporate control" only speaks to people where corporate control is in their top 5 concerns in life The pitch I offer you is shared ownership of your community and curatorial control over your online experience. It presupposes escaping corporate control (means, not ends)

You can’t talk about Twitter and Gamergate if you actually never fucking talk to , compensate, or ask for the actual steps to repair the damage TO THE POINT THE ACTUAL PRIMARY TARGET OF GAMERGATE SAYS THEY HAVE HAD TO LEAVE THE SPACE

I've been paying for Bridgy Fed myself, out of pocket, since the beginning. I'm happy to, and I'll continue to, but it's not cheap. We have big ideas and plans for the future, and funding is our main blocker. Please help if you can!

My entire life is dedicated entirely to Not Being Sean McElwee Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I can get with this but I really think that these people are bored and also their ideas suck.

If you’re reading this snd preparing to ask “would you sacrifice a presidential win for trans rights,” I’ll save you some time: yes the fuck I would. Fascism in blue is still fascism and we should be clear that an anti-trans candidate is a fascist candidate.

Gonna be banging this fucking sign for the next three years.

atproto Subreddits atproto Facebook Groups atproto Usenet Groups Lemmy for atproto These are analogies you can think of for what I’m trying to do with Blacksky Algorithms long term.

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.

I've ended up writing a very long piece about XSLT and whether browsers should keep the code they use to transform XML documents into new forms because what was meant to be a technical debate about security, resource priorities and backward compatibility touched such a nerve it needs MEMES 🧵

Happy to announce a new update to @tektite.cc Account Migration Service from BlackSky! 1. if the PDS has multiple domains to choose from, you can select which one you like. 2. Privacy Policy and Terms of Serivce is now shown BEFORE you migrate as well. and...

New Post from your favorite Community Safety and Support Steward at @blackskyweb.xyz explaining Misogynoir, how we are working to moderate reports of it, and resources for you all to learn more about it! S/O to my first post using @leaflet.pub ! leaflet.pub/7949ab92-a18...

If Cali was a safe space at one point then more people should be rising up to actually pay attention and look at who its self-serving governor actually is instead of vaunting his obviously ego-driven desires that require sacrificial lambs of people in order to get ahead. Its as simple as that.

Every day I come on here and see photos of massacred Palestinians who look like my nieces, nephews, cousins, uncles...and in the next moment I have to argue with someone who spends all their energy telling me I should have overlooked genocide instead of telling their candidates to stop the genocide

From the beginning, many of us were apprehensive about allowing LLMs to actually execute code. Asking it for answers is one thing. Allowing it to take actions in privileged environments is entirely another. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/29/v...

I also really appreciate this advice from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social, which tracks with my own experience teaching high school students and college students and talking with my own kids. Emphasize environmental costs and - once more - that GenAI is *not* inevitable.