Talita Pessoa

What a fantastic thread 👇

Yes! We need closure

I’m excited by the attention on free speech issues now. But we’d be remiss if we focused just on Kimmel. Or even the FCC chair Carr. The entire environment is retaliatory, affecting the most vulnerable who have the least infrastructure for support. That’s why speech for all matters more than ever.

He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again? Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.

Uruguay, y'all. I been sayin.

WIRED global editorial director on tech's growing political power under Trump For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. Katie Drummond, the magazine's global editorial d...

"For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. @katie-drummond.bsky.social explains what this shift means for Silicon Valley and for readers."

Nintendo I will go out and pay $600 for a Switch 2 tomorrow if you let your copyright lawyers go feral on the US government the way they go after someone doing a fanmade Mario game.

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else.

The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

can we get colbert back instead

A bit of James Baldwin today:
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power.

Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.

On the other hand, we should not go overboard fetishizing human decision-making. We suck, we are full of biases, we rubber stamp what the machines say. We get cranky right before lunch and make crueler choices than we will an hour later.

A "fun" issue my professional communities are dealing with recently is where to hold conferences, if non-US people can't safely enter the US, and foreigners in the US can't safely leave it.

There is no good answer, and the equilibrium is having fewer foreigners AND conferences in the US.

something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc

I remind myself regularly that courage is something we admire not just because it is good, but because it is rare.

I feel that way about a lot of virtues, these days.

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Picture of TV correspondent in Brazil

German TV correspondent smiles happily as she reports on Bolsonaro's conviction

Mentions of "God-given" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

I"n a Friday court filing, Google’s lawyers wrote:
'The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline.'"

People didn’t care when it was happening to sex workers, to PornHub, to DLSite, to adult content they didn’t care for. So paypro control over speech grew to this point. A lot of this is about silent consent to discriminate and abdication of responsibility

Verifying Trust in Digital ID Is Still Incomplete In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out different digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the second in a short series that...

it's hard to separate the rush by governments to adopt Digital ID systems with the rush to impose age restrictions online. But digital ID systems are still subject to abuse and a lack of trustworthiness, great stuff from @zoracon.bsky.social

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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

If you're a journalist interested in covering tech policy, we want to hear from you!

If you don’t have. A test case for an abusive parent in your threat modeling?

You aren’t threat modeling

Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.

thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

The linked headline's "unexpected" is ridiculous. Every person who worked in this space (specifically, not legislators) said, correctly, that this would happen. It should be replaced with "predicted" or "standard" or "obvious." This is not an untried policy! See also FOSTA/SESTA.

Now that we're experiencing life under authoritarianism in the US, I'm struck by how it's a lot like living in a high-crime environment. (I grew up in Rio de Janeiro.) 1/

I haven't seen it emphasized enough, but it's important to take a step back from Trump's ongoing seizure of autocratic power to see it's all emergency politics. All of it.

The Constitution is being suspended bit by bit the same way autocrats have always eliminated them: declaring fake emergencies.

O congresso aqui é tão disfuncional. Até antes dessa administração, para passar qualquer legislação já era regra ser um esforço gigante. Tanto que acabavam só passando uns mega pacotes com temas de orçamento + política internacional + política doméstica tudo misturado umas poucas vezes por ano.