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Zeno's Constitutional Crisis

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Get ready to see a ton more takedowns like this if Congress passes the half-baked legislation like the TAKE IT DOWN and NO FAKES Acts.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

dang patreon kind of blowin it for THE TINGLEVERSE. my 'accidental tromp admin text story tingler' was taken down for 'deepfakes that incorporate an individual’s image or likeness in sexualized contexts in which they did not partake.' i have asked which part of it was 'deepfaked' and no clarity yet

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Really great short thread here, accompanied by helpful resources.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Copyright protection under 17 U.S. Code § 105 is not available for any work of the United States Government. The White House is the People’s House. Content for every @WhiteHouse is in the public domain, never copyrighted with “All Rights Reserved.” Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.

submitted 9 days ago • 103 comments

100%. Messaging needs to be clear and forceful. This is bad and it will not help workers.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

In this moment of constitutional crisis, at least we know the Supreme Court will save us.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I've been as critical of Chief Justice John Roberts as anyone, but under his leadership, the Supreme Court has emerged as a powerful and important institutional check on Donald Trump ballsandstrikes.org/very-serious...

submitted 15 days ago • 158 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 18 days ago • 673 comments

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

submitted 19 days ago • 300 comments

Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

submitted 20 days ago • 72 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 23 days ago • 814 comments

💡 If we want to ensure that America stays at the forefront of AI development globally, we need policy that drives innovation by encouraging openness and competitiveness — not dominance by a select few firms.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Open, flagrant, unambiguous defiance of the court.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Independent agencies are good, actually publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: As world leaders gather for the Paris AI Summit, I hope we're reaching a turning point, towards a "new politics of AI". Politicians should not just accelerate AI, but they also need to actively steer it towards social good. (1/8)

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Today is Fork in the Road Day, and we should be thinking about legacy code all over government. www.eatingpolicy.com/p/jed

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

I am not of the progressive left, but this plea is very much directed at them. They must cast aside their hesitancy about patriotism and realize that their interests, bound to our democratic republic, are embodied in this flag. A flag that embodies the POSSIBILITY of moral progress.

submitted 70 days ago • 25 comments

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

submitted 80 days ago • 2204 comments

My colleague @mwils.bsky.social says it better than I could here, but the Supreme Court has made a huge mistake in allowing the TikTok ban to proceed. publicknowledge.org/supreme-cour...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

People don't really think any of this! Overestimates of small proportions are a quirk of general innumeracy, not genuine misperceptions. See research by @brianguay.bsky.social et al: —PNAS forthcoming: www.brianguay.com/files/guay_2... —Psychonomic Bulletin 2017: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

submitted 92 days ago • 9 comments

This is a monumental day for the future of the open web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-... and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: freeourfeeds.com

submitted 93 days ago • 19 comments

As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."

submitted 98 days ago • 37 comments

Dispatch from the AI oligarchs war: Zuckerberg camp works to counter narratives about China and Meta's Llama models. insideaipolicy.com/share/17352

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

SCOTUS has declined to hear a challenge to NY State's law requiring ISPs to offer an affordable broadband speed for low-income subs. This is a big deal. www.scotusblog.com/2024/12/cour... The fight around broadband now effectively shifts to the states, unless 6th Cir upholds Title II. /1

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

internal screaming

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

This is driving me crazy also. Both because the cons barely even take into account the policy arguments of American states when making constitutional evals, and also because as the SG and Jackson made clear, that's for application!

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

THREAD First up in US v. Skrmetti is the Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar with a strong and clear start about how Tennessee's law infringes on equal protection and facially classifies based on sex www.c-span.org/video/?54017...

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

Was cool to speak with @justinhendrix.bsky.social at @techpolicypress.bsky.social about getting thrown out of the Project Liberty Summit for speaking out against Nancy Mace's bigotry, and what kind of conversations I hope it sparks withing the tech policy space www.techpolicy.press/evan-greer-a...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

submitted 140 days ago • 63 comments

🚨 MAJOR ALERT 🚨 The people wanted verification badges on Bluesky and @guan.dk and I have teamed up to bring you verification badges. Behold! It is the Official Verified Labeller! bsky.app/profile/veri...

submitted 141 days ago • 256 comments