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Mozilla Welcomes Raffi Krikorian as Chief Technology Officer | The Mozilla Blog Today Mozilla is excited to announce Raffi Krikorian — technologist, innovator and community builder — as our first-ever portfolio wide Chief Technolog

Very excited to welcome technologist, innovator and community builder Raffi Krikorian to #Mozilla as our Chief Technology Officer, leading our effort to develop trustworthy and open source AI 🚀
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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

When @wired asked me to look at Silicon Valley in the age of Trump, I saw the crash of the idealism that originally drew founders--and me--to the tech revolution. Selling out the dream will not serve those moguls (or us) well. www.wired.com/story/silico...

uh, so if I have this right, Tesla sent a Cybertruck owner a cease and desist for rapping about the truck, and then deactivated said truck on the side of the road until he signed it??

What Time Does The Tsunami Start

The thing I hate is that the internet didn't have to be like this. For a while, it let independent media flourish. It let people who would never get interviews at established papers have a voice. It shifted the overton window away from people who already had money. God fucking dammit.

Commission presents Roadmap for effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement The European Commission presented today a Roadmap setting out the way forward to ensure law enforcement authorities in the EU have effective and lawful access to data.

Well, this horrible idea refuses to die so we should refuse to let it pass and start organizing again.

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This is a partner in Sequoia Capital in Silicon Valley. Unacceptable. Will the company condemn this?

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made - through disobedience and through rebellion." - Oscar Wilde #quote

California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy o...

S.B. 690 isn’t tech policy — it’s a civil rights threat. It puts immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, and protesters at risk of silent surveillance. This Corporate Cover-Up Act must be stopped. #StopSB690

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

All those Dems who endorsed Cuomo now need to quickly endorse Mamdani. Gillibrand, Clinton, Ritchie Torres, everyone else - you're not going to back away from the general election just because your guy lost the primary right? Let's see that commitment of support ASAP. Thanks!

The guy who pushed the notion that people are being controlled by microchips pushed by Bill Gates, now wants people to wear tracking devices.

imagine if this worked. IMAGINE IF THIS WORKED. imagine if the Epstein Caucus is defeated in an absolute tidal wave of voters who want their electeds to CARE and DO THINGS. imagine primarying all the nation’s Schumers and Pelosis with people who understand they work for us and take that seriously

YouTube video by DinosaurVideoDV David Lynch - "INDUSTRIAL SYMPHONY No. 1" 1990 VHS Upscaled

Have you seen "Industrial Symphony No. 1"? youtu.be/fzW1ROIhRaA?...

35 Years for Privacy, Free Speech, and a Brighter Future Through July 10, new monthly or annual Sustaining Donors get an EFF35 Challenge Coin! With your help, EFF is here to stay.

Imagine a world where:
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!

AI agents, c 2025

Wishing a blissed eternity for the greatest single talent to come out of the Bay Area music scene in the later 60s, a man who showed Charlie Manson the door.

Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/DOGE Lawsuit NEW YORK–In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge today granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) disc...

📣A VICTORY FOR PERSONAL PRIVACY!📣

In our case against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and DOGE, A NY federal district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction. (1/6)

No but seriously, Fiona Apple making a protest song in support of Black mothers in pretrial detention in general and in the DMV area in specific?

I didn't think I could love this lady more, more here we are.
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If six months ago you'd told me that in autumn 2025 I'd have to go to Canada to get my annual COVID vaccine but I wouldn't do it because coming back through immigrations was too risky for someone who had criticized the government, I would have looked at you like you were having a stroke.

Musk’s SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield SpaceX-led group is pitching the Pentagon on a ‘subscription model’ for missile defense

Listen, we should not let the richest people in the world own a network of globe-spanning surveillance satellites connected to another network of satellites equipped with lasers and missiles that they "rent" to the US military. Come on.
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The gap between open and closed AI models is closing faster than most realize.

Per dollar invested, open models may soon outperform their closed counterparts.

It’s a great time to be working on open and decentralized systems.

Watching what's going on with US Gov IT and data, non-US governments shouldn't simply seek to make their IT systems more independent. They should be asking how they make them resilient to the potential of their own future DOGE-like actors. Moving more operations to independent NGOs, for instance.

What is wrong with these people?

Ida Rhodes immigrated to the U.S. from a Jewish village in Ukraine in 1913, rose to prominence in mathematics as an adult, went on to co-design the C-10 language for the Univac I computer, and designed the original program used by the U.S. Social Security Administration. #womenshistorymonth

EFFecting Change: Is There Hope for Social Media? Users are frustrated with legacy social media companies. Unpredictable censorship, hostility, and dodgy information collide on platforms that seem designed to exploit your emotions for ad revenue. Yet...

Is there hope for social media? Watch live on March 20 as EFF's David Greene and Jillian York speak with panelists from Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill.

RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’ “The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.

RFK Jr leading HHS is a disgrace.