mayor of clown town 🤠✨

thrilled to be presenting my platform governance research at #ATmosphereConf!

the full paper, based on participatory design workshops with 33 content moderation experts, is available here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09076

(with apologies to new followers, as i mostly lurk around here... for now)

ATmosphereConf 2026 ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

looking through the list of presentations, talks and workshops coming up at #ATmosphereConf and I'm getting so excited!

atmosphereconf.org/talks

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves. Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.

"Flock left at least 60 of its AI-enabled Condor cameras around the country exposed to the open internet, where anyone could watch them, download 30 days worth of video archive, and change settings, see log files, and run diagnostics." www.404media.co/flock-expose...

what the actual fuck are these dumb motherfuckers doing

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

i have too much of it! but also not nearly enough

world's best bestie

the worst part of getting a phd is realizing how little we actually know about anything

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are you heading back today or here for a minute?

Never Forget What They've Done Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance  Listen to my podcast Better Offline if you haven't already. I want my fucking tech industry back.  Maybe you think I sound insane, bu...

"Big tech is sociopathic and directionless, swinging wildly to try and find new ways to drag any kind of interaction out of a customer they’ve grown to loathe for their unwillingness to be more profitable." www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...

elon’s real legacy is revealing that being a loser has nothing to do with material success but is instead an energy

Sorry I wasn’t around for your childhood, we got a really interesting spreadsheet at work

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i'll take it

is it better here yet or

Amanda Palmer is the Ghislane Maxwell of Ani DiFrancos

a whimsical and guiltless hunger

Yeah we had that same stupid policy at Facebook, where calling someone a cracker was as ban-worthy as the n-word.

It was not insightful, neutral or good. Policies that ignore oppression perpetuate it.

ruin your (")detroit(") friend's life by reminding him that kid rock grew up in a mansion in macomb county with a 5-car garage and a tennis court

(guessing they too are actually from the suburbs)

a green plastic visor that says CSAM on it

my doc friend is at a medical conference and when she told me the name i lost my shit because this means something VERY different in the mod/trust & safety world lmao anyway this is some of the swag she got

apparently in my neck fan era

haven't kept up with the julian assange situation in fact i think i have him mixed up with edward snowden and i have edward snowden mixed up with john mcaffee. not my problem. hope it all works out

meme of a smiling man labeled 'me' pouring a gigantic bottle of olive oil labeled with the quotation "the problem is capitalism: into a bowl of salad reading 'every opportunity i get'

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Remembering Steve Albini - Chicago Reader Friends, fans, clients, and coworkers share their memories of beloved and influential recording engineer Steve Albini.

I reached out to a dozen Chicagoans who worked for, hung out with, and loved Steve Albini for this Reader remembrance

a sandwich place near us exploded recently (everyone's fine) and now the only thing i wanna eat is those sandwiches

my mom called me for the first time in 5 years and it appears to've been a butt dial. lol