@blakestacey.myatproto.social
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So, Massachusetts' @repauchincloss.bsky.social is a member of the Congressional Equality Caucus, but he's joining with a Republican booster of #KOSA to start a new caucus for "Kids Online Safety", i.e., hand power to Donald Trump's FTC to decide what's safe for kids to read.
How exactly does a kids online safety bill threaten queer and trans culture on the internet? Harvard Cyberlaw expert @esqueer.net breaks it down.
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
#KOSA #Censorship #Boston
@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
So, Massachusetts' @repauchincloss.bsky.social is a member of the Congressional Equality Caucus, but he's joining with a Republican booster of #KOSA to start a new caucus for "Kids Online Safety", i.e., hand power to Donald Trump's FTC to decide what's safe for kids to read.
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Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features
This report examines the gap between child safety policy proposals for social media and how teens and parents — the people these policies are meant to protect — experience and view them. While the top...
cdt.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Age verification is not the way to keep kids safe on the internet. CDT has some thoughts about what kind of child safety policies and features might actually be effective: cdt.org/insights/wha...
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One of the worst aspects of the Commission's final report is a call for universities to prohibit boycotts against countries.
The aim is obviously to prohibit boycotts of Israel. But the same language would also prohibit boycotts of Russia over Ukraine invasion, or of South Africa over apartheid.
The aim is obviously to prohibit boycotts of Israel. But the same language would also prohibit boycotts of Russia over Ukraine invasion, or of South Africa over apartheid.
The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism.
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
CJFS Commission Shadow Report | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One of the worst aspects of the Commission's final report is a call for universities to prohibit boycotts against countries.
The aim is obviously to prohibit boycotts of Israel. But the same language would also prohibit boycotts of Russia over Ukraine invasion, or of South Africa over apartheid.
The aim is obviously to prohibit boycotts of Israel. But the same language would also prohibit boycotts of Russia over Ukraine invasion, or of South Africa over apartheid.
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Layered ink paintings with neuron images and half-legible quotes from Hildegard of Bingen artologica.etsy.com
You're not gonna find this at Macy's #sciart
You're not gonna find this at Macy's #sciart
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Layered ink paintings with neuron images and half-legible quotes from Hildegard of Bingen artologica.etsy.com
You're not gonna find this at Macy's #sciart
You're not gonna find this at Macy's #sciart
Roblox is horrible... and made worse by the dead certainty that every politician's proposal for regulating them will be another "you need to upload your driver's license to read Wikipedia" law.
Also, Kevin "latecomer's guide to crypto" Roose gabbing with tech CEOs about prediction markets is cursed
Also, Kevin "latecomer's guide to crypto" Roose gabbing with tech CEOs about prediction markets is cursed
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Roblox is horrible... and made worse by the dead certainty that every politician's proposal for regulating them will be another "you need to upload your driver's license to read Wikipedia" law.
Also, Kevin "latecomer's guide to crypto" Roose gabbing with tech CEOs about prediction markets is cursed
Also, Kevin "latecomer's guide to crypto" Roose gabbing with tech CEOs about prediction markets is cursed
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The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism.
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
CJFS Commission Shadow Report | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The MA Antisemitism Commission has approved its final report conflating Judaism with Zionism.
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
We respond: "The Commission has done more to fuel rising authoritarianism and antisemitism than to create the conditions that promote Jewish safety"
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/commission-s...
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@edmarkey.bsky.social if you really want to support trans people, start by withdrawing support for dangerous censorship Bills like the Kids Online Safety Act.
KOSA is a Trojan Horse- promising ‘safety' when it will actually harm LGTBQ kids by blocking life-saving resources online.
KOSA is a Trojan Horse- promising ‘safety' when it will actually harm LGTBQ kids by blocking life-saving resources online.
This Transgender Awareness Week, we come together to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the transgender community in the face of relentless attacks.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
My message to you is simple:
I am with you. I love you. I will never stop fighting for you.
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
@edmarkey.bsky.social if you really want to support trans people, start by withdrawing support for dangerous censorship Bills like the Kids Online Safety Act.
KOSA is a Trojan Horse- promising ‘safety' when it will actually harm LGTBQ kids by blocking life-saving resources online.
KOSA is a Trojan Horse- promising ‘safety' when it will actually harm LGTBQ kids by blocking life-saving resources online.
@paultaske.bsky.social Rahaeli of Dreamsky suggested that you're a good person to reach out to. The Virginia social-media bill is on my radar as one of many things to worry about.
I'm a co-moderator for a Lemmy instance, and I'd be happy to sign a thing saying that I can't tell whether SB854 applies to us or not! Anyone can "Populate a public list of other users with whom such user shares a social connection" by making a post saying that some other users are their friends!
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@paultaske.bsky.social Rahaeli of Dreamsky suggested that you're a good person to reach out to. The Virginia social-media bill is on my radar as one of many things to worry about.
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the transgender members of our community whose lives were taken by hate. As we remember those we have lost, we recommit ourselves to building a Commonwealth where every transgender person is safe, affirmed, and able to live openly and joyfully. 🏳️⚧️
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the transgender members of our community whose lives were taken by hate. As we remember those we have lost, we recommit ourselves to building a Commonwealth where every transgender person is safe, affirmed, and able to live openly and joyfully. 🏳️⚧️
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NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics
plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis
juliaserano.medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
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“I promise you, NCOSE would gleefully move to silence many RIAA-label supported artists, claiming their music is "obscene" and must be stopped. It would be nice if artists on RIAA labels spoke up about how they feel about the RIAA supporting NCOSE's attacks on speech.”
Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!?
That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.
Let me explain...
That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.
Let me explain...
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
“I promise you, NCOSE would gleefully move to silence many RIAA-label supported artists, claiming their music is "obscene" and must be stopped. It would be nice if artists on RIAA labels spoke up about how they feel about the RIAA supporting NCOSE's attacks on speech.”
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Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
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Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
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Repeatedly! When I was researching for my article on Trump and the Supreme Court's latest threat to the Clean Water Act, I learned the Cuyahoga River caught on fire not once, not twice, but over a dozen times
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Repeatedly! When I was researching for my article on Trump and the Supreme Court's latest threat to the Clean Water Act, I learned the Cuyahoga River caught on fire not once, not twice, but over a dozen times
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
In which @mmasnick.bsky.social explains how Democratic Senator @captmarkkelly.bsky.social is, unaccountably, trying to hand more power to the Trump administration, in order to honor Charlie Kirk (whom everyone except pundits has forgotten)
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/b...
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/b...
Bipartisan Senators Want To Honor Charlie Kirk By Making It Easier To Censor The Internet
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly and Republican Senator John Curtis want to gut Section 230 to combat “political radicalization”—in honor of Charlie Kirk, whose entire career was built on …
www.techdirt.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
In which @mmasnick.bsky.social explains how Democratic Senator @captmarkkelly.bsky.social is, unaccountably, trying to hand more power to the Trump administration, in order to honor Charlie Kirk (whom everyone except pundits has forgotten)
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/b...
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/b...
Hey, remember Grokipedia?
Its article on Newton's law of gravity is, like, 50% rendering errors by weight.
Its article on Newton's law of gravity is, like, 50% rendering errors by weight.
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Hey, remember Grokipedia?
Its article on Newton's law of gravity is, like, 50% rendering errors by weight.
Its article on Newton's law of gravity is, like, 50% rendering errors by weight.
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Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
![Dear [Professor’s Name],
I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs6z2b756buwsdsjkle6utfi/bafkreiecvhzfgr4tlwyy2mvpbvjncqkysytwsxvidaoressh7peonoso3y@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"
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so how's that tiktok ban coming along......... www.theverge.com/policy/82216...
Even the lawmakers behind the TikTok ban have no idea what’s going on
TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US 10 months ago.
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
so how's that tiktok ban coming along......... www.theverge.com/policy/82216...
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I really need folks to call their reos and yell about the high priority bills. Things are moving along and legislators are getting a surprising amount of SUPPORT for these policies
Please do not assume this cannot happen. Please call, get your friends and family to call. Please.
Please do not assume this cannot happen. Please call, get your friends and family to call. Please.
now that the govt shutdown is over, y'all will need to really yell and scream about these bills because many of them are going to be pushed again.
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
tell your representatives to OPPOSE these shitty policies!
www.congress.gov/members/find...
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I really need folks to call their reos and yell about the high priority bills. Things are moving along and legislators are getting a surprising amount of SUPPORT for these policies
Please do not assume this cannot happen. Please call, get your friends and family to call. Please.
Please do not assume this cannot happen. Please call, get your friends and family to call. Please.
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Data Center Watch worries anti-AI activism is working
making AI haters seem very cool and effective
(send this to an AI data centre hater you know!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbT... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251117-dat... - podcast
time: 6 min 29 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/d... - text
making AI haters seem very cool and effective
(send this to an AI data centre hater you know!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbT... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251117-dat... - podcast
time: 6 min 29 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/d... - text
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Data Center Watch worries anti-AI activism is working
making AI haters seem very cool and effective
(send this to an AI data centre hater you know!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbT... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251117-dat... - podcast
time: 6 min 29 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/d... - text
making AI haters seem very cool and effective
(send this to an AI data centre hater you know!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbT... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251117-dat... - podcast
time: 6 min 29 sec
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/d... - text
Dear @chrismurphyct.bsky.social: I get the impulse to keep young people away from chatbots. Really, I do! I've been critical of the "AI" industry perhaps longer than anyone in Washington. But the GUARD Act is so badly drafted that it could apply to how Google search worked in 2005, or ELIZA in 1967
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dear @chrismurphyct.bsky.social: I get the impulse to keep young people away from chatbots. Really, I do! I've been critical of the "AI" industry perhaps longer than anyone in Washington. But the GUARD Act is so badly drafted that it could apply to how Google search worked in 2005, or ELIZA in 1967
OK, it looks like most of the amicus briefs are in (some after the technical deadline). Not all are viewable yet. I'm guessing 2 are in favor of Massachusetts (Common Sense Media & co., and the Attorneys General)
CC @ericgoldman.bsky.social @jmiers230.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social
CC @ericgoldman.bsky.social @jmiers230.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social
Is anyone other than @techfreedom.org filing an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Meta (SJC-13747)? It looks like there's 1 week before the deadline. As a MA resident, I'd cosign a brief urging the Court not to create a regulatory regime that Meta can survive but small sites can't
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
OK, it looks like most of the amicus briefs are in (some after the technical deadline). Not all are viewable yet. I'm guessing 2 are in favor of Massachusetts (Common Sense Media & co., and the Attorneys General)
CC @ericgoldman.bsky.social @jmiers230.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social
CC @ericgoldman.bsky.social @jmiers230.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social
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hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)