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Brilliant! Don’t miss it - “Searches:Selfhood in the Digital Age” Thank you @vauhinivara.bsky.social for this creative, provocative, thoughtful and important book

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Kelcie has been all over this horrifying story Opinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... One page judgement: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

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Let's be crystal clear: ending insurance coverage of abortion is tantamount to a ban for many people. The first body blow to Roe v. Wade was when SCOTUS upheld a ban on Medicaid coverage in 1980's Harris v. McRae

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Today in Luxury Surveillance.

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UPDATE: The West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Association said do not do what this guy suggested www.jezebel.com/prosecutor-g...

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Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies” newrepublic.com/article/1920... via @newrepublic.com

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“Adriana’s case reflects the new “Jane Crow” era, when the state in which a woman resides, becomes pregnant, and dies now determines whether she will be accorded basic civil and human rights” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Death by directive: "Trump Rescinds Biden Policy Requiring Hospitals to Provide Emergency Abortions www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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A West Virginia prosecutor said Friday that while he doesn’t want to investigate women for miscarriages, his colleagues are discussing it. He suggested people protect themselves by self-reporting pregnancy losses to police or a doctor. Why this is a horrible idea, feat @ifwhenhow.bsky.social

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Only every activist, researcher, journalist, and academic who thinks about this stuff said exactly this would happen.

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It's the third anniversary of Depp v. Heard. Not here to relitigate it for my readers, who are smart folks and get that it was a farce. But I'm looking back because, in retrospect, it predicted Trump's win. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/06/02/j...

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US State Dept. says silence or anonymity on social media is suspicious: "The lack of any online presence, or having social media accounts restricted to ‘private’, may be reflective of evasiveness and call into question the applicant’s credibility." papersplease.org/wp/2025/05/3...

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“Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion.” They used cameras in states such as Washington and Illinois where abortion is legal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“The cable also instructs consular officers to inform applicants with private social media accounts that they could be viewed as evading vetting” - penalizing individuals for simply protecting their privacy is absurd www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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Surveillance of women is the unavoidable consequence of the criminalization of abortion. Per @404media.co Flock enables nationwide surveillance of women traveling by car. www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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Good news for Wilmer! - and just one more reason law firms should fight these ridiculous orders www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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“Over the last four months, the legal world — and the country — has been plunged into chaos, and the Supreme Court bears a heavy dose of responsibility.” “Move fast and break things” - SCOTUS edition by @kateshaw.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/o...

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The greatest job alert! My team at EFF is hiring and you could be on it: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

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What happens when states conflict over their treatment of abortion - criminalization vs protection? Stephanie Pell for @brookings.edu on conflict between Louisiana and NY and TX and NY. www.brookings.edu/articles/lou...

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Five people I have not yet met in person but would love to have dinner with based on their thought-provoking, informative, insightful content - @hypervisible.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social @susanrinkunas.com @mjsdc.bsky.social and @stevevladeck.bsky.social Thank you for all you do!

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“Telling us that resistance to a particular technology is futile is a favorite talking point for technologists who release systems with few if any guardrails out into the world and then put the onus on society to address most of the problems that arise” Re dealing with AI in the classroom

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There is a long game here and we should think of Dobbs as an opening gambit - the lives, liberty and privacy of women are on the line in this highly coordinated and heavily funded campaign - see @jessicavalenti.bsky.social re the ongoing destruction open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

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Montana! An example of a state getting something done when it comes to data brokers and law enforcement - www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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During today's HHS budget hearing, Hawley brought up that junk science report & asked RFK if he believes this is reason enough to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone. RFK: “The new data... it’s alarming & clearly it indicates that at very least that the label should be changed."

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“Russell Vought is undoing years of painstaking, bipartisan work in order to prop up data brokers’ predatory, and profitable, surveillance of Americans,” says Sean Vitka, executive director of Demand Progress…. Vought rolling back attempts to protect Americans from corporate greed….. shocker

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Banning states from taking any action at all to curb potential misuse and abuse of AI and automated decision-making would be seriously insane. Especially in a world where Congress has abdicated its responsibility to protect privacy or affirmatively deal with AI. thehill.com/policy/techn...

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It was a bill to completely ban abortion in NC except to save life of the mother and it didn’t gain traction - but it is important to keep track of the legislators pushing this type of law - Reps. Kidwell, Moss, Brody and Loftis. www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2...

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Mothers living in states that criminalize abortion are almost twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or soon after than in states that do not ban abortion according to GEPI. Women’s risk of maternal death in TX for example is 155% higher than in CA. thegepi.org/maternal-mor...

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The message is that one political ideology—the one that the administration mislabels as “Christian”—occupies a place of special privilege in the United States. If anything you say or do can be construed as “hostile” to this ideology, you will face the coercive power of the federal government.

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2 important topics here - DOGE and the commingling of personal data held by the fed gov AND the FAA, Musk, starlink and the tech oligarch vision for the future of governance heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-7-2025...

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Why did this woman in South Carolina have to wait two weeks to get a D&C after learning her baby didn't have a heartbeat? Thread below to explain why abortion bans are over broad and devastating miscarriage care. people.com/woman-forced...

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IMPORTANT new story in Bolts: Texas Republicans made a show of dropping language that criminalizes pregnant women from a bill they're pushing through the legislature. But Bolts reports that the language still exists in another bill that's passing through the legislature.

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Let's be very clear: The Trump administration is not "defending" mifepristone against a legal challenge. They're pulling a calculated move that will allow them to restrict or ban abortion medication without pushback www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

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Surprising news (to me): The Justice Department has continued to defend mifepristone against an assault by red states, telling Kacsmaryk that he must toss or transfer the case. (Doesn't mean Trump's FDA and DOJ won't try to restrict mife in other ways!) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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So incredibly pleased by the recognition awarded by Pulitzer to @propublica.org for the phenomenal and important reporting on the terrifying, harmful consequences for women in our post-Dobbs reality pulitzer.org/node/propubl...

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Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

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“Reddit was my doctor,” she said. “That was the scariest thing about this all. That was my only source of information.” 19thnews.org/2025/04/texa...

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