@jkohlmann.bsky.social
He / him · #Manhattan #NYC · Staff software engineer · Design+eng, #HCI, #DesignSystems, listening, empathy, #house #music, video #games, #photography, #cats, Black feminism, trans rights, Palestinian liberation, antiwhiteness, broken systems, #union labor
In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.” Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.
💀💀
23.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 98 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 4
By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege: Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
23.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 311 🔁 111 💬 5 📌 33
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
23.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 279 🔁 126 💬 3 📌 11Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
In the US, Muslims are seen as antisemitic by default. I've experienced this my whole life.
23.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 323 🔁 42 💬 7 📌 0Google in 2015
www.bbc.com/news/technol...
I mean it’s not like @jacky.wtf didn’t call this out ten years ago with Google Photos and them matching Black people to Gorillas
And nothing was actually ya know real done but a cottage industry of experts who now claim “users don’t know how this works”
www.bbc.com/news/technol...
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
23.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 3908 🔁 1381 💬 50 📌 34
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
23.11.2025 12:49 — 👍 1030 🔁 558 💬 16 📌 54
Episode 4 of our Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories let's play is live! Everyone's getting dumber by the second and people are getting shot in the ass by a Level 3 Donald.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV1T...
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
Tired: single-use webpages
Wired: single-use OSes
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
23.11.2025 13:52 — 👍 1302 🔁 260 💬 13 📌 10
Sunday reading from me over at @inverse.com on the ongoing strength of "friendslop" and the ways in which players continue to expand online spaces beyond developer intentions.
People feel isolated and anxious RN but keep seeking fresh ways to connect online.
www.inverse.com/gaming/frien...
Man I finally watched the video at the top of the thread: incredible, great capture there 😌
23.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lmao / welp 🫠
23.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0PLEASE this.
And also to scientists writing press releases, too - calling something "AI" when it was actually your student spending 12 months fitting and validating a model is disingenuous
He’s about to hit “Send” on a 10,000 word takedown post online
23.11.2025 06:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0you alright bro
23.11.2025 05:26 — 👍 131 🔁 17 💬 8 📌 0
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
23.11.2025 05:57 — 👍 11212 🔁 1697 💬 143 📌 94
🤔
22.11.2025 09:51 — 👍 1881 🔁 627 💬 25 📌 38
OK so wait. Trump talked to Bolsonaro last night and was planning to meet him “in the very near future”? Sounds to me like he was in on the escape plan. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
23.11.2025 04:51 — 👍 764 🔁 201 💬 34 📌 25Technical question only: JPEG, RAW, or both, Brett
23.11.2025 06:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Save bud for the Holy Spirit
23.11.2025 06:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My fave game at No Quarter: Ride a Citibike thru 3D low-poly NYC to a destination while audience checks Google map to tell you which way to go. The ride is more parkour than Tour de France, climbing walls and obstacles, and defying physics.
#noquarter #nymakesgames @nyugamecenter.bsky.social
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
really baffled at elon's decision to confirm that most of twitter is just a poorly organized foreign influence operation
23.11.2025 02:14 — 👍 1767 🔁 238 💬 20 📌 14
The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but their heads are now: Guy - a wide-eyed cat Girlfriend - a cat tree Red dress woman - a Christmas tree
It's that time of year
22.11.2025 11:54 — 👍 5367 🔁 1318 💬 4 📌 0
