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"Two recent international polls...show that many people in Western democracies understand what’s happening here, even if some Americans are slow to see it. Perhaps more instructive are the views of people in nations that have watched their own democracies erode, such as Hungary, Poland and Turkey."

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Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Scoop: Threat intelligence reports obtained by WIRED and @propertyofthepeople.org show military and state-run fusion centers are tracking civilian-made ICE encounter maps, while others distribute "threat" alerts about tomorrow's "No Kings" protests. By me @wired.com (free to read):

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Egg bagel just won the @wnyc.org rank choice voting demonstration. (A great example of a civics lesson from local media): www.wnyc.org/story/we-wan...

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Here is a gift link to @kashhill.bsky.social's must read piece on the dangers of OpenAI's sycophantic LLMs and the parasocial relationships people are creating with them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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"An appeals court late Thursday allowed President Donald Trump, for now, to keep the California National Guard deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles, blocking a federal judge’s move just hours earlier that ordered the Trump administration to return control of the troops to [Gov. Newsom]."

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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[cw: explicit] Six years into the deepfake nudes epidemic, we are nowhere near beating back the tools that make this abuse possible. In fact, AI nudifiers are expanding their services and remain unrepentant in their use of mainstream platforms to reach customers. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Verge staff are ready to strike. VOX MEDIA YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT!

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In the latest episode in her special podcast series, Through to Thriving, Tech Policy Press fellow @anikacolliernavaroli.com talks with @dupatton.bsky.social about his personal and intellectual engagement with the concept and practice of joy, and what it all has to do with technology and policy:

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“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

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She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"

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Oh everybody is Black now.

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AI infrastructure may exacerbate past harms that previous fossil fuel industries have imposed upon communities of color, excusing its extractive and harmful impacts in the name of progress and innovation, writes Kapor Foundation tech policy associate Cecilia Marrinan.

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Research conducted by the African Content Moderators Union and Personaldata.io reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs, per Rest of World.

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The head of the fema command center quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/c...

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Big Tech featured prominently in UK announcements at London Tech Week. The UK risks aligning too closely with a few of the world’s most powerful firms—giving them outsized policy influence and embedding their tech in public services, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Megan Kirkwood.

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This is the Administration that sought charges against a sitting Member of Congress for conduct that seems a whole lot less than what it is doing to a sitting Senator for no apparent reason. This on its face looks like an illegal seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

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Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

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Does anyone know if Rick Moranis is back as Dark Helmet? And who could ever replace John Candy as Barf? Also I am old

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What is happening in LA and what are the legal and policy constraints around Trump's use of the military? Important, timely resource from @justsecurity.org with @rgoodlaw.bsky.social, @stevevladeck.bsky.social, Mary McCord and Elizabeth Goitein.

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Thomas Meier and Kristina Khutsishvili contend that the challenge to democracy posed by concentrated digital power is not merely institutional, economic, or ethical, but a disruption of the very conditions for democratic citizenship. www.techpolicy.press/who-owns-the...

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AI infrastructure may exacerbate past harms that previous fossil fuel industries have imposed upon communities of color, excusing its extractive and harmful impacts in the name of progress and innovation, writes Kapor Foundation tech policy associate Cecilia Marrinan.

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Much focus has been on gaining access to platform data under EU's DSA—but what happens once that access is granted? Democracy Reporting International and AI Forensics take a closer look at TikTok’s data access mechanism, exploring how it works in practice. www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-ti...

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Action speaks louder than words. Danish Minister of Digitalisation @carolinestage.bsky.social wants to phase out Microsoft from the ministry to reduce the dependency on US tech. This will be a long process. But actual action, not just talking points, is noteworthy!

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Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

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Six months into 2025, democracy faces immense pressure. Justin Hendrix, Ramsha Jahangir, and Dean Jackson spoke to experts from around the world to understand how they make sense of this moment. buff.ly/n8zs8y1

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CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...

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I spent some time at the site where protestors incinerated five Waymos—all lined up neatly in a row in downtown LA—and spoke to journalists, eyewitnesses and activists who were there. This is how protestors weaponized Waymos and Lime scooters, and turned them into icons of the anti-ICE uprising

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You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

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For almost a decade, there's been a lot of (justified) hand-wringing and paper-writing about fairness issues in AI. This case gets to the heart of a very important question - how much of that work has materially improved the lives of real people? Grateful for this careful & honest investigation.

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Bruce Springsteen speaks on the American moment

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New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun: Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work. Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...

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After a recent court order, OpenAI is now required to retain the very data many of its users believed to be most private. This introduces serious privacy risks, especially for vulnerable users like victims and survivors of domestic violence, Belle Torek writes.

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If we care about the future of public technology, we can’t afford to ignore its environmental price tag, writes Pupak Mohebali. It’s time for policymakers to stop seeing AI as an abstract cloud of code and start treating it like the real-world infrastructure it is, she says.

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Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

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Google and Meta's duopoly in online advertising has already had a devastating impact on publishers, with serious consequences for our democracies. The next phase – in which tech giants use AI to cut publishers out of the equation entirely – will be far worse. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

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"When researchers at the University of California at San Francisco examined social media use and depressive symptoms among tweens over a three-year period, they found that an increase in social media use predicted a future rise in symptoms of depression — but not the other way around."

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"Elon Musk, who until recently oversaw the cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service, voiced regret about his recent feud with President Donald Trump, writing in a social media post early Wednesday that some of his derogatory comments about Trump 'went too far.'"

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Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

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Full Newsom address- quite an artifact of this moment. youtu.be/pXQQNUeb4Sw?...

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Newsom: "Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we have feared has arrived. He's taking a wrecking ball to our Founding Father's historic project."

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