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Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia Wikipedia is facing another threat.

Wikipedia is the ground truth of the internet. It has over 260000 dedicated people engaged in radically transparent content moderation and that’s why it’s the last best thing on the Internet. Targeting it says more about the one doing the targeting. www.theverge.com/news/656720/...

Once in a lifetime!

Fun fact: I was on the investigation & trial team for Round 1 (while in law school 4 nights/week, for 2 years). I look forward to watching Round 2 from the sidelines.

"Over-the-top, odd, and often disturbingly attractive" is my whole vibe.

Massive New Study, Covering 72 Countries, Nearly 1 Million People, Finds Zero Evidence That Facebook... Professor Andrew Przybylski from the Oxford Internet Institute is one of the best, most important researchers out there providing thorough, comprehensive, empirical evidence that every tech moral p…

For many people it has become accepted, unquestionable, wisdom that social media like Facebook is bad for mental wellbeing. Now a massive study, looking at data on nearly a million people across 72 countries says the evidence does not support this.

wooo, congrats!

Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage We’ve talked a lot about just how bad the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is. Yet some people (including people who, frankly, should know better) keep trying to tell me how well meaning it is. It’s ...

Seriously, call your Senators now. This needs to be stopped before it goes any further. They want to drive LGBTQIA+ off the internet entirely, and Democrats are on board.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/

Sorry I haven't been posting more, but I've been knee deep in the hoopla.

A Real Wedding Website in a Fake Gay Wedding Website Case An archive shows that the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case did once design a wedding website, contrary to what her lawyers presented during her legal challenge.

So—the Colorado website designer in the fake same-sex wedding website case, 303 Creative, it turns out, had made a wedding website, before filing her legal challenge.

New reporting from me, thanks to a stellar tip:

FBI Searched U.S. Senator’s Name in Foreign-Spying Database Federal court flags wrongful searches while noting improvements in agency’s compliance with rules

News: Declassified FISA Court opinion reveals FBI improperly performed 4 warrantless queries of data using a U.S. senator's last name. Also queried a state senator and state judge. Admin also disclosed spy tool is used to vet immigrants for terror links.

Done

All of these + when you're in a cast or otherwise recovering from a bad injury, & can't move or do things normally w/o potentially extending or totally derailing your recovery

Her sister was a witch

Have you already seen the Gospel According to Andre documentary?

anti abortion is femicide
there is no compromise with people who want women to die
and live surveilled and suffocated lives
there is no discussion
there is no debate
no common ground
only the fight to defeat them and get our freedom back

I'm curious—what is your "home" feed on here?

I'm in house at a tech-adjacent non-profit & love it—interesting work, super smart & passionate colleagues. I previously worked in a DA's office for 8 yrs & while I gained once-in-a-life
time work experience, culture was overwhelmingly toxic for many non-male/white/well-off employees.

3 days after my kvetch-skeet, I got one with < 100K miles & no mechanical issues for < $10K aka a unicorn in this market.

Is this ~manifesting~?

yes I'm an old and never understood snapchat, and I watch tiktoks on instagram with a few weeks' delay like any self-respecting millenial.

trying to buy a used car in 2023 is like a full contact sport

A close-up of Luna—a black cat with a purple collar—slung over my shoulder, looking off-camera, & drooling a bit.

Luna also hates the camera & tolerates early-AM affection.

My heart rate doesn't spike within mins of opening the app so, big improvement!

As a heavy reddit and twitter user for a decade the loss of both in such a short time as open and reliable services is really upsetting. Feels like the open internet at all grew up with is descending into terrible walled gardens with everything else being seo and ai slop.

Hiii @herong.bsky.social! @notcharles.bsky.social is here too :)

Thanks for the follow—I am queer, trans, & AuDHD, as well✌️

Autistic LGBTQ community seeks louder voice in debate Autistic LGBTQ people are pushing back against those invoking autism as a way to limit LGBTQ rights, calling it a misunderstanding of both communities that denies their autonomy.     Political figu...

Wrote about why there are so many autistic LGBTQ people, and how implying you can't be both is an attack on autistic people's very self-determination.

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4069745-autistic-lgbtq-community-seeks-louder-voice-in-debate/

The bird app was the best place to find/share up-to-date info on student loan stuff—including new PSLF regs that go into effect *today*

Bold leadership. Thank you, President Biden

& in all the media interviews/ADF-produced videos AFTER oral argument, they started saying it was a "preemptive challenge" to the CO law...idk what they said in papers but