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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 3h

Strong First Amendment Council looking for the people the administration just silenced for their ICE-tracking.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3h

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and
social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing
their jobs. The Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 19h

Oh man but what about this one bsky.app/profile/thel...

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 22h

This is my favorite picture of you ever

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 22h

Fully hinged, I think.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 22h

Doh! Thank you!

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!

DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 22h

A correction to my premature celebration of DSA Data Access Day. There is still time to plan your party!!

unlibrarian.bsky.social @unlibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Eur-lex says October 29th, presumably since DARA (the Delegated Act on Researcher Access) says it comes into effect 20 days after it's published in the EU's Official Journal.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

My "practical postulates" piece, based on *lots* of experience trying to collect platform data from the inside, explains why doing that correctly is often complicated and iterative -- and, as a result, needs a lot of dialogue.

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2023/05...

Some Practical Postulates About Platform Data

Beliefs and expectations about what data platforms have at their fingertips vary wildly. That is about to matter a great deal, once new rules in the EU allowing researchers to access data held by plat...

cyberlaw.stanford.edu

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

After receiving an application, DSCs have 80 working days – that’s approximately forever – to act. Also if they want to take longer, they can.

I actually feel pretty bad for platforms TBH. They know the most about the data and Art. 40 gives them the least opportunity to talk about it.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

Belated happy DSA Data Access Day to all who celebrate!! October 2 was the first day that national regulators could start formally reviewing researcher applications for Art. 40.4 access to platforms' internally held data. (Bc that was 3 months after the Delegated Act came out).

FAQs: DSA data access for researchers

Under article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA), vetted researchers will be able to request data from very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines (VLOSEs) to conduct research on systemic...

algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d

If you see “ADF” and think “Alternativ dür Feutschland” that’s actually not so far off.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

trib.al

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

Which BTW also the Flopsy Bunnies were pretty Italian coded. She says, IIRC, “they had a large family and were very improvident and cheerful”

DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

Tastes vary but for me that’s too Beatrix Potter coded

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 2d

YES

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 3d

My teenager said "VLOPSEs" sounds like something Gollum would say, and now when I see it that's all I hear.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 3d

What if we all just agreed that "VLOP" stands for *both* Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines.

If we actually need to distinguish them, we can revert to saying VLOPSEs or VLOPs/SEs any time we need to! But in the meantime we can use simpler language.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 4d

I keep hearing this is over, is this the time it’s really over???

www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...

Germany’s no halts EU plan to combat child sexual abuse content online

The European Commission proposed the measures in 2022, but member states cannot reach an agreement, citing privacy and cybersecurity concerns.

www.euronews.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 5d

AI did not kill this free and open resource, but the AI goldrush did. AI companies are hungry for training data. Companies that control access to content are locking it down in hopes of cashing in.

The rest of us are bystanders watching the demise of the greatest information resource ever built.

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 5d

That post is from a competitor, but its explanation of what happened seems fine.

Casetext was acquired by Thompson Reuters. Here are Redditor lawyers talking about antitrust objections.

www.reddit.com/r/Lawyertalk...

From the Lawyertalk community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Lawyertalk community

www.reddit.com

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 5d

We're watching the open web die piece by piece every day and it sucks.

I had missed the death of Casetext. It was a great free resource to access some of the information that should most be free: the law.

callidusai.com/blog/casetex...

Casetext Shut Down: Here's What It Means—And Why Callidus Is Ready - Callidus Legal AI

The shuttering of Casetext has major implications for the attorneys that relied on it. Callidus Legal AI is here to fill the void.

callidusai.com

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 6d

nope

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry!

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