Blake C. Stacey
@blakestacey.myatproto.social
physicist, they/them, www.sunclipse.org
This is a shockingly condescending news story about a thuddingly condescending law.
What parents should *really* be explaining is that the government are a bunch of wankers making a big deal about Doing Something by rushing through legislation at the behest of the Murdoch family.
What parents should *really* be explaining is that the government are a bunch of wankers making a big deal about Doing Something by rushing through legislation at the behest of the Murdoch family.
How to support your child through the social media ban – listen, be on their side and don’t try to justify the new rules
Experts weigh in on how to manage a teen or tween who is about to lose access to their accounts
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is a shockingly condescending news story about a thuddingly condescending law.
What parents should *really* be explaining is that the government are a bunch of wankers making a big deal about Doing Something by rushing through legislation at the behest of the Murdoch family.
What parents should *really* be explaining is that the government are a bunch of wankers making a big deal about Doing Something by rushing through legislation at the behest of the Murdoch family.
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You can read my coverage of the hearing here. TLDR: KOSA is widely popular in congress.
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
You can read my coverage of the hearing here. TLDR: KOSA is widely popular in congress.
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My summary of the hearing can be read here.
KOSA hearing shows broad support for censoring children’s access to the internet
This hearing shows that parental groups and tech lobbyists agree on the broad strokes of what children’s access to the internet should look like.
theneedlenews.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My summary of the hearing can be read here.
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My latest for @eos.org is up! a new study of exoplanet systems shows that yes, Sun-like stars probably do eat their planets up, nom nom nom, and that's probably what will happen to Earth in 5 billion years or so. 🧪🔭
Elderly stars just get hungry, and orbiting planets are *right there.* 🔭🧪
New research from Edward Bryant @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and Vincent Van Eylen @University College London, input from Sabine Reffert @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, story by @bowlerhatscience.org. eos.org/articles/pla...
New research from Edward Bryant @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and Vincent Van Eylen @University College London, input from Sabine Reffert @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, story by @bowlerhatscience.org. eos.org/articles/pla...
Planet-Eating Stars Hint at Earth’s Ultimate Fate - Eos
A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.
eos.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My latest for @eos.org is up! a new study of exoplanet systems shows that yes, Sun-like stars probably do eat their planets up, nom nom nom, and that's probably what will happen to Earth in 5 billion years or so. 🧪🔭
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We’re asking everyone to make a gift to PPLM. With the loss of federal funds, it’s been a tough year for our reproductive rights, but our doors remain open, and we’re committed to providing affordable care to anyone who needs it. Make your Giving Tuesday gift by midnight: buff.ly/okyG4bc
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We’re asking everyone to make a gift to PPLM. With the loss of federal funds, it’s been a tough year for our reproductive rights, but our doors remain open, and we’re committed to providing affordable care to anyone who needs it. Make your Giving Tuesday gift by midnight: buff.ly/okyG4bc
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During today's hearing, @cdt.org suggested the House version of KOSA is preferable over the Senate version because the knowledge standard is narrower.
That's not right. While the House version uses "actual knowledge" (which is narrower) it also includes "willful disregard" which is quite broad.
That's not right. While the House version uses "actual knowledge" (which is narrower) it also includes "willful disregard" which is quite broad.
December 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
During today's hearing, @cdt.org suggested the House version of KOSA is preferable over the Senate version because the knowledge standard is narrower.
That's not right. While the House version uses "actual knowledge" (which is narrower) it also includes "willful disregard" which is quite broad.
That's not right. While the House version uses "actual knowledge" (which is narrower) it also includes "willful disregard" which is quite broad.
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Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.
Once again, no one making these claims seems to understand the enormous hurdles in the way of getting a kid the help they need - in this case - I dare anyone suggesting this to go through an IEP process.
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.
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For patent trolls, this new USPTO rule proposal is a dream come true, but the public will suffer.
EFF Tells Patent Office: Don’t Cut the Public Out of Patent Review
EFF has submitted its formal comment to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) opposing a set of proposed rules that would sharply restrict the public’s ability to challenge wrongly granted pate...
www.eff.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For patent trolls, this new USPTO rule proposal is a dream come true, but the public will suffer.
Did anybody watch the House Energy and Commerce hearing today about "kids' safety" bills? Any take-aways?
December 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Did anybody watch the House Energy and Commerce hearing today about "kids' safety" bills? Any take-aways?
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Happy release major drug kingpin from prison after a few months of a 40 year sentence to all who celebrate
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon reut.rs/3Y3ziKg
Former Honduran president released from US prison after Trump pardon
President Donald Trump, who has painted himself as a fearsome warrior against illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
reut.rs
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Happy release major drug kingpin from prison after a few months of a 40 year sentence to all who celebrate
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Oh by the way, AI people or anyone who relies on scraping data from the web, this matters for you as well. It says site owners have a duty to try and stop you.
Even though a giant stack of GDPR guidance from regulators says some scraping is OK, including when it picks up personal data.
Even though a giant stack of GDPR guidance from regulators says some scraping is OK, including when it picks up personal data.
I'm pretty sure the CJEU in Russmedia just casually dismantled 80% of the DSA with one ill-considered judgment. As I read it, it substitutes in GDPR rules -- not notice and takedown rules -- for any platform where a user is likely to post content about people. 1/
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
CURIA - Documents
curia.europa.eu
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Oh by the way, AI people or anyone who relies on scraping data from the web, this matters for you as well. It says site owners have a duty to try and stop you.
Even though a giant stack of GDPR guidance from regulators says some scraping is OK, including when it picks up personal data.
Even though a giant stack of GDPR guidance from regulators says some scraping is OK, including when it picks up personal data.
On the possibility of ramming through #KOSA in the most ill-conceived manner possible:
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
![Nathan Leamer, a former GOP staffer at the Federal Communications Commission and executive director of Build American AI, a new pro-industry group, told POLITICO last week that Republican lawmakers are negotiating several potential online protections for kids as part of the AI preemption package they hope to shoehorn into a year-end defense bill.
“Is it KOSA or [the] SCREEN Act, or age verification, app-store verification? I think all of those are on the table,” said Leamer. “But I don’t know what the final package is going to be.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xkyhsucgalfnrkpwwkxs5zbl/bafkreid57fiaf4qua4ytfbg6xn3pw5pkw2trg2gv7r7xxrql3onamqeufe@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
On the possibility of ramming through #KOSA in the most ill-conceived manner possible:
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
I missed this story from the other day about #KOSA possibly being shoved into the NDAA. Because of course they'd try.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I missed this story from the other day about #KOSA possibly being shoved into the NDAA. Because of course they'd try.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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I put a more detailed and slightly more professional version of this post on LinkedIn, here. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I put a more detailed and slightly more professional version of this post on LinkedIn, here. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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I'm pretty sure the CJEU in Russmedia just casually dismantled 80% of the DSA with one ill-considered judgment. As I read it, it substitutes in GDPR rules -- not notice and takedown rules -- for any platform where a user is likely to post content about people. 1/
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
CURIA - Documents
curia.europa.eu
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm pretty sure the CJEU in Russmedia just casually dismantled 80% of the DSA with one ill-considered judgment. As I read it, it substitutes in GDPR rules -- not notice and takedown rules -- for any platform where a user is likely to post content about people. 1/
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
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Very cool radioactive fungus news
From @chelleraiser.bsky.social
www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...
From @chelleraiser.bsky.social
www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...
Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...
www.sciencealert.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Very cool radioactive fungus news
From @chelleraiser.bsky.social
www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...
From @chelleraiser.bsky.social
www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...
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ABC's kids news show BTN surveyed 17,000 9-16 year olds about the social media ban:
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
ABC's kids news show BTN surveyed 17,000 9-16 year olds about the social media ban:
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
- 70% said they think it's a bad idea
- 72% said they don't think it'll work
- of those with social media accounts, 75% said they plan to keep using it
- 190 said they were 67 (6-7) years old
www.abc.net.au/news/...
Anybody want to watch the livestream of Commonwealth v. Meta on Friday morning?
www.ma-appellatecourts.org/docket/SJC-1...
www.ma-appellatecourts.org/docket/SJC-1...
www.ma-appellatecourts.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Anybody want to watch the livestream of Commonwealth v. Meta on Friday morning?
www.ma-appellatecourts.org/docket/SJC-1...
www.ma-appellatecourts.org/docket/SJC-1...
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"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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#SaveSpeech
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
#SaveSpeech
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
tomorrow December 2nd, the Energy+Commerce Committee is having a hearing on a package of "online child safety" bills
A number of these bills are pro-censorship and surveillance
please call their office and tell them these bill;s are dangerous and unpopular! script below!
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With SCREEN Act and KOSA on the legislative block this week, there couldn't be a better time for Fight's "Stop Online ID Checks" Week of Action.
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
With SCREEN Act and KOSA on the legislative block this week, there couldn't be a better time for Fight's "Stop Online ID Checks" Week of Action.
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org
Today's action: Share and sign the petition.
Find out more here: www.stoponlineidchecks.org