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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon. "You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet." www.mozilla.org/en-U...

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Last week Big Mouth Productions attended the European Film Market at Berlinale for development meetings and a market screening of The Easy Kind. What a great way to kick off 2025! @kchevs.bsky.social #berlinale #fictionfilm #theeasykind

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MY BOOK IS ON SALE TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pre-order link and book tour dates here: maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/ A little bit about the book's journey: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/cinema-her...

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For everyone interested in detangling their lives from invasive tech companies, you may find the The Opt Out Project by Professor @cyberlyra.bsky.social useful!

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We can point a lot of fingers at just what has caused society to come apart at the seams, but I'm pretty sure calling them "food hacks" deserves more of the blame than we've allotted

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New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it: www.404media.co/all-50-state...

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Your job is now up to AI, thanks to your unelected robot overlord. Join a #TeslaTakedown protest or create one at Teslatakedown.com and make your voices heard!

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69 million American women change their names at marriage and do not have birth certificates that reflect their married names -- they will not be able to vote under the SAVE Act. A very handy way of writing women out of the world

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bluesky posters of austin tx.. a reminder that the mood machine book tour arrives in town this week, including a stop at First Light Books saturday march 1. please share with anyone in the austin area who might be interested: thethirdplace.is/event/liz-pe...

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James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

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This is the future of work that "AI" has enabled and continues to implement: www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/24/1...

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96-98 St. Marks Place, NYC, in 1975, 1981 & 2020

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Adam Curtis-ass reality

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New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

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Fantastically brutal review of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's new book, The Technological Republic by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Website run by Federal Workers fired by DOGE (pronounced as "Douche). www.wethebuilders.org

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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white smoke pouring from my chimney indicating i have chosen Lunch

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did not expect to be attacked like this at the art museum

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Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

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Journalism teachers, did you know the Freedom of the Press Foundation has a FREE digital security curriculum for J students? Get it get it get it. J Students, if your teachers won’t get it, self-organize and teach it to each other. freedom.press/digisec/g…

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ICE raided a home up the block from me last week. My neighbors had attended a community ICE watch training with @siembranc.bsky.social and did exactly what they'd learned: verified, challenged, and witnessed. truthout.org/articles/tru...

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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! micahflee.com/2025/02/not-...

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man this is so bleak www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet...

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We (@knightcolumbia) are launching a new research initiative on "Federal Funding and the First Amendment"--a topic that has suddenly become hugely significant. The call for proposals is here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-fo...

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Does letter writing make people lovely or are lovely people letter writers? Either way thank you so much for all the loveliness towards my forthcoming visit to a local care home in March. This batch makes 21 in total. Still time to send a card or letter if you’d like to. 🥰💌❤️

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Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees. Thankfully, @propublica.org has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names just added to the list today.

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Condé staff work overtime to break news about Elon Musk’s government takeover at WIRED, develop new recipes at @bonappetit.bsky.social + cover the Grammys for Vanity Fair. We go beyond for our jobs, but Condé Nast is making us commute 4x/week just to check a box—& can’t even provide enough workspace

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Buying a gun

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Happy 92nd Birthday to the mighty Yoko Ono. ‘I could have been squashed by that incredible amount of hatred. But then I found a way of transforming it into love.’

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check out what I've been working on! soon, using @cyd.social, you'll be able to migrate all your old tweets directly into bluesky. so you can delete everything from X/delete your X account, but still have a place to reference all your old stuff

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Dear Meta Employees, Contacting Sheera is great and if you think you got a case in the public interest, reach out to Whistleblower Aid @wbaidlaw.bsky.social They saved me when I needed help after execs at Meta sought to influence my academic freedom at Harvard Kennedy School.

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"Musk and DOGE Might Soon Have Access to the Most Lucrative Defense-Contract Database of All" A scoop for Zeteo from @attackerman.bsky.social on how the USXports database could be used by Elon Musk to undercut competitors to his SpaceX in the defense sector. Read/share/subscribe:

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Baltimore Is Fighting the Right-Wing Takeover of Its Iconic Newspaper

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Hundreds of former US Attorneys have signed an open letter showing solidarity with current DOJ staff. "You have responded to ethical challenges of a type no public servant should ever be forced to confront with principle and conviction." www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

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State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

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so i think i've settled on kolab.org as the collaboration suite.

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everyone get woke again before i have to fly on a plane in 3 weeks please

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If you're coming to Perugia this year, run, don't walk, to this master class.

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Air pollutants and the public health costs of AI: "The total public health burden of US data centers in 2030 is valued at up to more than $20 billion per year, [...] comparable to that of on-road emissions of California." arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06288

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This is quite a thing to find 18 paragraphs down in a story. wapo.st/4hW2xGI

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In case you missed it, the US far-right is holding a convention in London, along with British hangers-on and representatives of fossil capital:

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Football’s injury crisis, how it might yet distort this season… and put performance staff up with recruitment gurus. A big thing is the calendar and the ludicrous politics around it Another is how clubs handle it, and how performance-led they are www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Trump gutted the National Labor Relations Board and things are already getting grim. The new board’s first memo signal its intentions to hamstring organizing and worker mobility, allow captive audience meetings, and deny college athletes’ right to unionize. www.nlrbedge.com/p/acting-gen...

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“Sometimes when things go wrong, cinema creeps in to show up the paucity of an overarching plan.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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