When you haven't finished the marathon, but are already planning the next one.and the one after that. 😂 If you didn't get in off the #SydneyMarathon lottery, join me in raising money for @stopspyingny.bsky.social down under next summer and this spring en Paris! www.stopspying.org/marathons

What the hell is this?

So proud of my colleagues at @stopspyingny.bsky.social, our partners at @ecbawm.com, and our amazing clients!!!! This sort of lawsuit is the reason I founded STOP, and the culmination of so many years of work. theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...

British friends, excited that UK preorders for my 1st book are live! @evanselinger.bsky.social and I explain why the DOGE (move fast & break things) approach is broken and how we can fix huge problems by moving slow and upgrading. You can get 25% off until Friday! www.waterstones.com/book/move-sl...

My latest piece! I explore the crazy world of #running products and all of the unproven inventions that are inundating my digital life. www.businessinsider.com/rise-running...

Watching what’s happening to CBS News is really terrifying. If we keep losing the integrity / independence of institutions like major broadcasters, universities, and newspapers, eventually there won’t be much left that actually ensures the most bedrock elements of an open democratic society.

Why is it so much harder to find new music now than it was a decade ago? It feels like all of this streaming services. Just use their AI to recycle the same familiar artist and tracks over and over again. It should be the golden Age of music discovery, but it feels like the dark ages instead.

#CharlieKirk says some awful things, but that doesn’t make his shooting any less awful. The more we normalize political violence, the more quickly we doom our democracy. A zealot with a gun can inflict grievous wounds, but they can’t delegitimize the ideology they fight. They only make it stronger.

"A lot of these predictive tools can create unintended errors where certain communities are underserved or misunderstood because of how the model missed or wrongly accounted for individuals’ risks in that community." @foxcahn.bsky.social #AI www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/a...

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Condemns NYPD False Facial Recognition Arrest Of Innocent Black Man "Facial recognition doesn’t just threaten New Yorkers’ civil rights, it undermines their safety." @foxcahn.bsky.social #NYPD #FacialRecognition www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

It was such an honor to have @foxcahn.bsky.social from the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project on my podcast to talk about all the horrible invasive ways big tech is using “child safety” to dismantle civil liberties online and off.

What on earth?? abioticfactor.wiki.gg/wiki/Albert_...

So excited to be able to partner with the amazing folks at @proton.me (especially Chris Cannucciari and Julia Jade Duffy) for this project on privacy and mass surveillance! youtu.be/QpFw7dk9l-0?...

After Tea’s recent breaches, with 70,000 user images allegedly leaked to, I decided to test out their facial verification for myself. Turned out I could break in in just a few minutes. 😬So why is creepy facial surveillance becoming such a big part of digital life? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

(1) As I see people denying the awful reality of Gaza, "fact checking" images of starving children for not being the perfect victims, it's hard to know what could possibly break through the wall of misinformation.

I’ve seen some lackluster political events, but the anti-#Mamdani protest at Union Square is channeling a new level of desperation. Basically just organizers and camera crews. Highlights include chants in support of DeSantis and moving to Florida that drew looks of revulsion from onlookers. 🙄🙄🙄

“The NYPD keeps using these incredibly disturbing companies to spy on New Yorkers, while hiding that surveillance from the public & violating NYC law in the process,” said Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Tech.Oversight Project. “The FDNY is clearly being complicit in enabling these NYPD abuses.”

So many who baselessly claimed Mamdani is an antisemite are shockingly silent when Trump justifies his estate tax roll back by saying “Shylock” bankers are coming for family farms. It’s beyond a double standard, it’s complicity in the politicization and horrifying normalization of antisemitism.

Fuck

So the headline is more incindiary than I would have liked, but so glad the Daily News let me speak to this moment and why Mamdani’s election is good for NYC Jews. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/01/m...

We are witnessing the fracturing of the US Constitution in real time. This order brings us closer to a day where the bill of rights will once again be a dead letter in so many states. 😢

So happy, so relieved, so stunned.

I still think that any lead Cuomo has in 1st place votes will vanish as other candidates are knocked out and their votes are reassigned to Brad & Zohran. Been proud to work with both of them for years and I think either could be an exceptional mayor. And I know Cuomo would be a nightmare for NYC.

There are lots of reasons to oppose the Iranian government, but none of them are a good reason for war. Bombing a country does NOT improve its human rights. Toppling a government does NOT build a stable region. How many times must we learn the lesson that we CAN’T fight our way to peace?

Mourning dashed hopes for peace and the needless deaths on our screens. Once again, political opportunism and feigned necessity lead us to war, showing how little those in power today have learned from the follies of our past.

Interesting seeing increasingly desperate pro-Cuomo messaging, especially the move from asking people to vote for him/rank him first to just asking people to rank him at all.

It's a beautiful day to NOT rank Andrew Cuomo

When even elected officials can be whisked away by masked agents, none of us can rest comfortably with the state of our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...

I am terrified of where this leads us, horrified how many more will needlessly die. 😢 #iran www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

(1) I feel so deeply torn watching everything unfolding right now in opposition to Trump's threat to our republic. It is clear that inaction in a time of crisis like this is unconscionable, but it's also clear that the actions we're taking fundamentally are failing to win over much of the US.

When you run an anti-surveillance organization and pass this on the way to dinner, you know the world is on fire…

An LAPD officer in a helicopter announced to a crowd of protestors “I have all of you on camera. I’m going to come to your house.” This is the very definition of using surveillance and the threat of reprisals to chill constitutionally-protected free speech.

In other off-topic distractions from dystopia and our constitutional crisis, I made my music video premiere 35 seconds into the new David Byrne music video. 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM-B...

I've done some amazing stunts over the years, but this has to be my most ridiculous. Not only did I spend months forging an Ai WeiWei artwork because I thought the gallery selling it was being obnoxious, but i actually got to interview WeiWei about my stunt.🙃🤯

The federal government is so irretrievably fascist under this shitbird administration that the El Ay Fucking Pee Dee is comparatively reasonable and fair.

1) Trump’s ability to reset the news cycle through manufactured crisis is amazing/horrifying. He faced setback after setback this week, his coalition is crumbling, and yet he is still can shift the narrative through fear mongering and a willingness to further ignore all norms re presidential powers.

With everything so grim, I’m so excited for a ridiculous, frivolous, and wonderfully irreverent project of mine to come out tomorrow. It may not fix any of the things keeping us all up at night, but it will hopefully be an entertaining distraction from it all. 😁

Hell is when your headphones can’t keep out the conversations from finance folks on Metro North heading to Westchester to play golf. I’ve already learned 3 new forms of tax evasion and 5 new ways ways to complain about “the scary homeless”…and the train is still in NYC.

“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

After everyone saying how much #AI would change the world, the biggest change in my life is just how much time I have to waste disabling and circumventing unwanted LLM features. People may think AI is the future, but the future definitely is NOT now.

We went full black mirror. Tracking anyone, anywhere, at any time using their face is simply incompatible with democracy. Terrified to think how cops will weaponize this against protesters, religious groups, and anyone else law enforcement wants to target. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Friends, I'm a wrangler for MozFest this year, and I wanted to put in a plug for our call for proposals, which is closing on May 21st at Noon CET / 6 AM ET. It's a very short proposal, and a great venue, so please reach out to me if you have any questions. pretalx.com/mozilla-fest...

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

Alito’s dissent is infuriating, but worth reading. We rarely get an unvarnished, real-time look at the strategies used to rationalize human rights abuses. Legalistic gaslighting, self-inflated outrage at cherry-picked technicalities. We’ll see much more of this. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

BREAKING: S.T.O.P. Celebrates NYC Passage Of POST Act Amendments Closing NYPD Surveillance Loopholes The bills force the NYPD to disclose many of its surveillance systems, what data it collects, and who has access. www.stopspying.org/latest-news/...

As a Jewish man, a civil rights lawyer, and a privacy expert, I can assure you that this policy as almost 0 to do with actual antisemitism. www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g...

Why do people have to be so negative and refer to this as a “trade war”? Can’t we be more positive and think of it as a “loving poverty”? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

This blatantly illegal and a really chilling step in the effort to weaponize government data against immigrant communities. Trump is really going far beyond the Nixon-era abuses that led to IRS data protections, and it has chilling echoes of the Japanese internment. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Make Scammers Great Again www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...