This is the point at which you strike and shut down the school until they back off. It doesn’t matter that you’re vulnerable, that they can fire you. This is where you have to draw the line or there is no university left.

But in happier news, it seems that Colorado has amended their OS-level age attestation bill to exempt open-source software. So yeah, people in other states: point to Colorado as an option that is much less bad! www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalO... #SaveSpeech

A cookie-cutter ban-teens-from-the-Internet bill is advancing in California. eff.salsalabs.org/stopcasocial... leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa... #SaveSpeech

In other words, biology can't be taught at Texas Tech

Reasons to be dubious: freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

"I am angry at Mark Zuckerberg so I will be publicly executing the CEO of Wikipedia for no apparent reason" is, unfortunately, the prevailing vibe of tech policy legislation

The people need to know! Sign this open letter to @massgovernor.bsky.social asking if she used Chat GPT to write her new social media legislation. Because ... that would explain a lot! www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/did-...

@evangreer.bsky.social Maybe share this for the folks in CT?

The Connecticut state senate has passed an omnibus-ish bill that includes social media regulations like a mandatory warning label (hella unconstitutional) and various privacy-invading demands. See section 39 here: www.cga.ct.gov/2026/lcoamd/... #SaveSpeech

"Regardless of the method, online ID checks mean people’s social media activity would be linked to their identity... Human rights activists have warned for years that online age verification mandates are a gift to dictators and a danger to journalists and dissidents."

🧵 I want to crack down on Big Tech as much as anyone, prob more than most. But the draconian and unworkable kids' online safety bill that the MA House passed earlier this month is not the way to do it. From @evangreer.bsky.social & me in today's @bostonglobe.com : www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/o...

NEW: @nathaliemarechal.net and I wrote for the @bostonglobe.com about the new push for "age verification" (aka mandatory online ID checks) in Massachusetts and how it will hurt kids and help Trump. Send this to people you know in MA and tell them to send it to their state senators & the governor!

CC @evangreer.bsky.social

The surveillance state comes to MIT thetech.com/2026/04/16/a... "Technical specifications for the cameras suggest that they will be capable of collecting real-time face and object classification data, including detection of motion, loitering, crowds, face masks, and camera tampering."

Judges and other politicians saying damn fool things about the law has, at least, liberated me as a physicist to figure I could do a better job of rejuvenating it than any "reform" proposal so far.

Recognizing that no judge or jury will endorse an expansive reading of Section 230 when Meta is the defendant, and that this will half a step into the future have a disproportionately bad outcome on people who are less evil: a discussion draft for a Section 230 for the modern age.

Client-side scanning comes to 3D printing, with proposals to have printers forced to embed algorithms to scan for weapons. Printing weapons is a bad thing, but so is ubiquitous surveillance from your own devices. A dangerous model for other areas. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Reading what I think is the most recent version of Illinois' age verification bill... It looks like it would demand age signals from the OS in order to, like, join a listserv? Wikipedia would be obligated to gather these signals... but then maybe not do anything with them? ilga.gov/Legislation/...

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Hi @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social and @electerika.bsky.social. It probably comes as no surprise to you that I have certain concerns about Gov. Healey's version of a "social media" ban, which I have tried to phrase as delicately as possible.

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ARTICLE UPDATED to include quote from Sapir: (Sapir says that he was not the final decisionmaker on the HHS report’s content or wording. “Whether the report is ‘discredited’ depends on the merits of its findings and methodology, not on the identities of its authors,” he writes.)

“Having Sapir at the helm of this project absolutely & completely discredits it as a work of scientific scholarship worthy of the agency,” says Khadijah Silver, director of gender justice & health equity at Lawyers for Good Government. (Sapir declined to comment) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Can anyone help out with $10 to buy my niece a book? After reading @drskyskull.bsky.social 's review I know she'll love the Choose You Own Adventure Mothman novel, and I'm super tight on funds. Paypal.me/starbroken

“Aliya Bhatia, senior policy analyst for CDT, told UPI that newer iterations of the Kids Online Safety Act are much improved over what was introduced in 2022, but it could carry unintended consequences.”

#Michigan folks: age verification is coming for you, too. www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalO... #SaveSpeech

Here’s what I’ve been saying: even if you think kids should be off social media you should oppose this bill. It lets Big Tech off the hook while punishing parents. It will force you to upload your government ID to post online, and will force parents upload sensitive docs like birth certificates

From someone that just had their PayPal account hacked (check my pinned post for the GoFundMe link to help me), & possibly all of my data, can you imagine what could happen if you put your government ID on the internet just to post a picture of a bird? If this goes any further, we're fucked!

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

MASSACHUSETTS! The social media ban legislation that passed the House is a nightmare for online privacy and safety, would force YOU to upload a gov ID to post online, and would harm LGBTQ youth and undocumented families. @fightforthefuture.org is organizing a sign-on for MA orgs opposed. DM me!

You can't run around for years saying that your technology will replace jobs at the low end and humanity at the high end without some fraction of the population reacting like this

This is a Sokka joke, and I approve

ed blum is straight up just trying to eliminate educational opportunities for black kids under the guise of “equality.”

Screw it, I'm writing a new Section 230 that will save user-generated content and make everyone except Meta, TikTok, X and ambulance-chasers happy. This will join my proud tradition of submitting committee testimony that is ignored and advocating amendments that the MA state house doesn't adopt

The Substack linked in the replies reads like a common-or-garden guy who is not left-wing or right-wing but a secret third thing that is also right-wing awful.systems/post/7918518...

I’m going to be using this line at least three times a week from now on

The legal definitions of "social media" in these proposals almost always sweep far more broadly than Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

Blog Post: With Opinions Like This, Congress Doesn’t Need to Repeal Section 230–Massachusetts v. Meta blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

I've been saying this! You don't even need scientific papers, only a couple well-placed posts online and two hours to make AIs spit it out uncritically

When you walk into a bar, they check your ID and hand it back to you. But if this bill becomes law as written, when you visit a website with user-generated content, Big Tech could require you to provide your ID and then they will hold on to it indefinitely. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

Against the amicus briefs from parties across the ideological spectrum, the Massachusetts top court has denied Section 230 immunity to Meta, on the grounds that the claims against it do not involve the specific content of the content they publish.

Arizona is on the cusp of passing a ban-teens-from-the-Internet bill, too. House version: www.azleg.gov/legtext/57le... What I believe is the most recent senate version: www.azleg.gov/legtext/57le... #SaveSpeech

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom singlehandedly set back the cause of Indian food in the United States

"Aioli" should include only garlic and oil

@jmiers230.bsky.social I've been doing a literature search for potential adverse effects of warning labels and haven't found much that's directly pertinent so far. Any pointers?

Massachusetts, we have a problem The MA House just advanced one of the most draconian restrictions on social media in the US. This bill would force you to upload a government ID to post online, and subject LGBTQ youth to parental monitoring and surveillance www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

the ice cream labels where i work, which must be accurate by law (especially allergens, so we don't injure someone or get fined) are filled in by a coworker recently learned she's been copying AI results instead of visiting ingredient manufacturer's sites, so now, on average, they're all 30% wrong