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The White House joins Bluesky When a government joins a platform for the purpose of trolling

on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to troll

Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

I've now moved to @jdp23.thenexus.today as my primary account. I'm keeping this account around as a backup, at least for the time being.

Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts.

doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Something that I think we need to be clear about is that internet scholars (critical and otherwise) have made this clear for at least two decades and the rest of the academy (and the public) responded with a collective "what happens online isn't real," so forgive me if I'm like "water is ALSO wet."

Seems like there's a lot of chatter among folks looking to migrate off of bsky.social as a PDS, and out to other options.

Friendly reminder for white people like me, that Blacksky is for Black folks. There's a related PDS for people that aren't Black too, but Blacksky isn't for us white people.

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse."
– @lopatto.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Like I said ...

Think twice before you amplify thinly-source stories. Even if you're expressing skepticism, you don't want to give them more oxygen. One alternative: take a screenshot and draw a couple of big red question marks over it. Or, just don't amplify it!

So I’ve been banned from Reddit for three days by automated moderation for making a racist post…

…paraphrasing Kirk’s final words.

From the #youcantmakeitup files.

I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️

This is what solidarity looks like Part 2 of "Decentralization" and Erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere

This is what solidarity looks like

thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidar...

Part 2 of “Decentralization” and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere

Here's a thread with some highlights (🧵)

reminder that bsky.team only has jurisdiction over what happens on their servers. If you self-host or are hosted by blacksky.app they cannot remove your posts.

they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere.
signups and migrations are open.

None of my friends have *become* fascists. No one.

No, Chicago is not using salt trucks to block ICE, despite viral claims The city told NBC News in a statement that the salt trucks were there “to support public safety efforts related to a planned protest and the Taste of Chicago.”

Lots of accounts sharing misinformation for clicks + shares. This doesn't help anyone.

"Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

book cover is yellow with colorful square icons. Coming soon Jonathan Lazar, University of Maryland, College Park, Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder, Brian Wentz, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Raja Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University, Washington DC Foreword by Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania Publisher: Cambridge University Press Expected online publication date: December 2025 Print publication year: 2025 Online ISBN: 9781009093989

I'm guessing this is news to most of you but I have a book coming out. :) I and three co-authors (all of whom are HCI researchers with law-adjacent degrees) wrote Human-Computer Interaction and U.S. Law, which will be out from Cambridge University Press in December. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

Although "Massive Cognitohazard Zone" would be a great band name!

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?

Just setting up my blacksky-comra.de ...

I'll be slowly shifting my presence to this account. I tend not to migrate accounts; instead, I prefer to recreate my network based on my interests today, not two years ago - and leave the baggage of old posts behind

"a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect" hmm a Lost Cause, one might say

Also when I was in high school I was a country music DJ. That or McDonald's were the only two options for summer jobs.

Accessibility in the ATmosphere? - The Nexus of Privacy Suggestions for resources and tips? Ideas for improvements?

Accessibility in the ATmosphere?

The current state of accessibiilty on Bluesky leaves a lot of room for improvement. So, let's start making things better!

thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3lxxyg36k5s2t

As a first step, let's focus on gathering information ...

#accessibility. (🧵, 1/N)

It would cost @blackskyweb.xyz $160K annually to do automated video and image moderation for every post in the Blacksky feed.

This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com.
I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe.
My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.

What accessibility problems have you encountered on Bluesky or other ATmosphere software – bugs, missing documentation or functionality, whatever? 🧵

all the cool kids are doin' it!

💯 yes please, it's incredibly useful on other platforms where it exists!

mysqld randomly dies, whenever somebody points it out to me it seems like i'm in the middle of something else and say "oh yeah I should look at that, i'll just restart for now and get back to it soon" and then i don't.

but i really should look at it. i'll get back to it soon.

thanks! i restarted it. software, smh.

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on???? Just setting up my Leaflet

Let's see how this works ...

Yeah, I feel differently about whether Bluesky is decentralized (i can see arguments both ways, it basically depends on what aspects people focus on and how you define "Bluesky") as oppose to whether the ATmosphere is decentralized (clearly yes, Blacksky's existence is proof)