You cannot ban children from social media without making *everyone* prove their age just to use the internet. And that is a MASSIVE privacy violation with huge potential for abuse by nefarious companies charged with doing the verification. globalnews.ca/news/1175151...

📺 HAPPENING TONIGHT 📺 EFF's Cindy Cohn will be on @TheDailyShow.com with Jon Stewart at 10 PM Central and 11 PM Eastern and Pacific! Make sure you tune in!

Suddenly getting lots of ads for the country of Benin on streaming services. They're working, I'm curious now.

This fine Sunday morning a man and child rang my doorbell and asked if I or any of my neighbors speak Spanish. They seemed to be native Spanish speakers with fine English and not in distress. I wish I’d asked why, but I hadn’t had coffee and was just confused.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

I have a mail slot in my front door for the first time in my life and I jump halfway across the room every time the mail comes.

"Senator Tuberville is the latest in a long line of American politicians who see bombs as a way of shortening Muslim women’s hemlines." This piece by Meher Ahmad is really excellent--lots of nuance that's missing from most stories on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...

The “Arab Spring” protests didn’t just reshape politics…they transformed how we talk about the internet, and how governments respond in times of protest, crisis, and conflict. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Wow, I did not expect so many wonderful replies! In turn, I'll share my last three favorite novels: - The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami - Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa - The Crossing by Andrew Miller

I'm attending a conference (RightsCon) this year that has a resident zebra at the venue. Couldn't be more stoked.

If you’re seeing this, please tell me the title of the last excellent novel you read. My library doesn’t have my top three picks right now.

Petition to update "The Streisand Effect" to "The Afroman Effect"

I'm a little obsessed with the Afroman defamation trial.

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility is looking for an advisor on tech investment with an expertise in technology and human rights and a passion for holding tech companies accountable

This is incorrect, BUT the administration did spend "more than $7.4 million on lobster tail in four separate months ... There was also $15.1 million worth of ribeye steak, $124,000 worth of ice cream machines and “a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home.”

"Numerous academic studies over many years have showed that viewing cop shows can leaded to warped views of the criminal justice system and policing"

Cool that my US taxes are due shortly and I'm locked out of the German site for payroll documents.

I adore Casey's work and I'm chuffed that my book is included.

as the war on Iran began, Chancellor Merz asked “what should we do when international law clearly reaches its limits”. but also says it is “not the moment to lecture our partners and allies”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlf...

In about 25 minutes I'll be live with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and Aparna Surendra discussing regulation of the public sphere. Join us! tickets.artangel.org.uk

One of my known skills is copyediting, which includes transforming your footnotes into one of three styles I have memorized, and I just realized that that latter skill is now being made redundant by AI. I am not mad about it.

I asked Claude to generate a book jacket blurb for a novel inspired by Heated Rivalry and the Lumen database, and, umm…

Shepherding this project (along with David and others who aren’t on bsky) has been one of my greatest joys since we started in 2019.

And all of the Speaking Freely interviews are worth reading and re-reading for global perspectives on freedom of expression -- especially at this time when some powerful folks are trying to hijack it. eff.org/speaking-freely

"For me, free expression is about possibility, and possibility always contains both and even multiple ends, the beautiful ones and the brutal in equal measure." This Speaking Freely interview with Shin Yang, the steward of the online community Lezismore, is a great read. www.eff.org/pages/speaki...

And 52 in Lebanon.

Apple finally releases a $600 MacBook. Honestly, smart. I just hate the “AI first” branding.

if you haven't watched any Puppet Regime on youtube yet, thank me later. it's good to laugh in difficult times.

The nation of Guinea shut down the internet for several days in 2007 and damn if I can't find a single article still online about it.

Signing off for a bit. I can’t read hot takes while my Signal groups are filled with friends in the region doing safety checks because Trump needed attention.

I recently lazily asked an LLM to give me a list of 20 books on content moderation to see what it would say. The first ten or so were good, then it suggest Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaid’s Tale. Not kidding.

Back in the same pub that had Cutting Crew on repeat. No 80s bangers tonight, just a side eye from the teenage bartender for being on my laptop. Sad, since Cutting Crew fan #1 told me I was absolutely welcome to use it.

I imagine that it’s quite the opposite in summer, but being a few blocks from the beach is very motivating for my writing.

My latest favorite AI glitch is that sometimes when you search Google for how many languages a famous person speaks, it gives you the Wikipedia multilingual drop-down menu languages as a result.

I hope the women’s hockey team accepts Flavor Flav’s invitation. What a perfect fuck you to the president that would be.

🇩🇪Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has rejected 🇲🇦Morocco’s lawsuit against Die Zeit over its reporting on the Pegasus #spyware, reinforcing press freedom protections. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

they needed an autopsy to tell them that?

I’m currently writing in a pub where Cutting Crew’s “I’ve Been in Love Before” is inexplicably stuck on endless repeat and no one else seems to notice.

This is awful. It's also the same as stuff I heard in the high school hallways. An unfortunate reminder that age verification and social media bans don't solve the actual problem: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a dataset. www.olympedia.org/lists/81/man...

After seeing freedom.gov I went down a little rabbithole leading to the new dietary guidelines, and all I can say is: IN THIS ECONOMY?

No, not the obscure chess move. This: jilliancyork.com/2021/01/14/e...

Ah, I see Merz has done a White Man's Gambit. www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesel...

We’re back with a reminder: don’t forget to register for “The AI Cyber Nexus: a strategic dialogue on global security, trust, and governance,” where we’ll explore how AI governance and cybersecurity intersect and what it means for people’s rights. www.accessnow.org/event/access...

Lovely to be a resident of the UK on this historic day.

@thatdocphoenix.com I don't know how I wasn't following you here! I thought of you last week, as I picked up a book and saw you had a chapter in it :)