Kat Duffy

If I’d taken a shot every time I wrote the word “multistakeholder” (or some derívate thereof) today, I would - well, I’d be dead, probably. Very dead. Terrible way to go.

That would be amazing plot twist. 😂

I saw it in upstate NY…

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Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now)

Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com

if you're writing a story about "trump threatens to federalize dc," it's really worth including the fact that there is no mechanism by which he can do that, and perhaps noting what he might have been referring to instead (deploying the natl guard? presidential control of MPD?)

Paging @waldo.net. I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. 🤢

Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence

What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

I officially offer to BUY you pierogis, in fact.

Heading out on a weekend trip to camp visiting day and I have two novels, a full manuscript to review, and about 40 reports queued up, because I may possibly have six entire hours of reading time combined. Clearly this makes sense.

This is the type of GOOD news I'm here for in 2025. Congrats @dwillner.bsky.social and @samidh.bsky.social!

And I am DEFINITELY 💯 no question a grown-up

"I'm calling on VOIP through a VPN"

Ofcom tomorrow morning.

Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

🪪 My concerns about the Online Safety Act remain the same as when I last wrote about it nearly decade a decade ago when it was proposed as the Digital Economy Bill:

1) It normalizes uploading sensitive documents such as ID scans to random websites, which will likely increase identity theft.

1/3

I wonder how many of us, with giant email backlogs on our In boxes, have figured out that postage stamps were congestion pricing for message-sending?

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋

Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

The comments 💀😂

Sending love.

If you wanna get HAMMERED, I give you this drinking game: take a shot every time Claude responds, "You're absolutely right!"

The cruelty And swagger show the influence of an extreme online movement that is polluting Republican politics — and coming for all of us.

It's tempting to dismiss all of this as a problem limited to the Republican Party. But its embrace of online politics, and its refusal to police the discourse, also means this antagonism could come to infect American politics as a whole. The writer Max Read has suggested that social media platforms like X are sites of "elite coordination," where journalists, politicians, business leaders and researchers go to understand public attitudes and gather information. A mediasphere overflowing with racist and reactionary slop promises to pervert this understanding. This echoes the warning made by the German social theorist Jürgen Habermas, who first proposed the idea of a "public sphere" decades ago. He argued that the public sphere, and the norms it establishes, is essential to democratic lawmaking. He argued, however, that it could become "distorted" or "deformed" by bad actors and unethical discourses, such as the racist attitudes promoted by the online right. As a result, "illegitimate" forms of democratic rule, reflecting the twisted desires of just a few, can be produced.

Trolls, they set the tone for the party! 🐸 2016 is oddly memory-holed.

That the WH is wholly debased (based, they’d say) at an official comms level is I guess new.

Why are memes effective propaganda? Bc the audience gets to participate, and that *activates* and commits. That part gets left out.

I've done a silly thing and I'm (mostly) happy to introduce you all to blahg, an ATProtocol blogging application that supports long-form content, attachments (images), and backlinks.

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a "LANDSLIDE!" Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin! What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have done to our Country in 4 years, is grossly indescribable! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Benz on John Solomon talking about a “plot” by “China”

The Mad King is calling for a Special Prosecutor to investigate election fraud…

Days ago Benz went on John Solomon and said FBI covered up Chinese interference. Said EIP helped conspire to “censor” it.

PAY ATTENTION. The bullshit machine is kicking into gear, trying to spin lies into reality.

Black Cycling Clubs: 'We Just Want a Safe Place to Park Our Bikes' - Streetsblog New York City Leaving a bike on the sidewalk overnight or while at work often results in a missing tire or gearset, but for most of us, it’s only a matter of time until the entire frame disappears.

This is simply one of the most thoughtful and nuanced explanations of the role that cycling infrastructure plays in Black and Brown communities. Definitely worth a read.

When I started Oonee I was shocked to see so many pols treat 🔒🚲 as 2nd tier issue. That was not my experience growing up in BK.

Having lost a good percentage of the college fund to Ring Pops in the name of independence and agency, I endorse this statement.

karaoke night with friends and Joe Frazier heard me, told me I had soul, and bought my table a round. As I apologetically explained that I’m from Louisville and so have to be an Ali fan.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her

Ever new rights- and privacy- violating applications for the AI surveillance net

a large rainbow flag is being flown in a crowded street ALT: a large rainbow flag is being flown in a crowded street

Happy happy pride, my loves!

Trump’s 'Big, Beautiful' Blunder on AI: Starving Science | TechPolicy.Press AI leadership requires a thriving scientific ecosystem, not just isolated investment, argue Kat Duffy and Sebastian Elbaum.

AI is a general-purpose accelerator, not an isolated technology. A federal budget that fails to understand that basic truth is a budget will fail to return meaningful benefits to taxpayers, and the world. Sebastian Elbaum and I break it down here.

www.techpolicy.press/trumps-big-b...