Alan Kyle

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz My Response To Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a 12-minute response video to people mad at him supporting mass surveillance and censorship, and somehow got even MORE wrong about Section 230 than his original congressional testimony.

Reading the Epstein emails, I don't want to hear another goddamn thing from the government about "protecting kids" online.

Trump Demands $10 Billion From Taxpayers For Leaked Tax Returns; His Own Lawyers Get To Decide What He Gets

Back in May, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered what might be the single most audacious statement of the Trump era—and that's saying something: I think everybody - the…

I was so completely flabbergasted by this article that I wrote a lengthy email to NCMEC about it, telling them to fix their CyberTipline reporting form whose UX enabled a huge overstatement of the scale of the AI-CSAM problem to go uncorrected for 6 months.

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/letter-to-nc...

You may have seen headlines claiming that AI-generated CSAM is “flooding” the Internet. But in 2025, roughly 78% of the reports to NCMEC labeled as AI-generated CSAM turned out not to be AI-generated at all.

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Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.

The last thing anyone needs is a new "platform" for microblogging. The whole point is we should be moving beyond silo'd platforms into an open social world. So my response to the launch of "W" as a competing platform to "X" is simply: "but Y, tho?"

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I always found the use of the word "elite" in marketing to be elitist

Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem

I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder

Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad…

A satirical website for HiltonICE.com: "Experience Compliance at Its Finest."

About Us Our Story Hilton ICE is a premium hospitality experience built on discretion, compliance, and selective compassion. Located wherever federal enforcement requires dependable accommodations, we deliver polished rooms, streamlined coordination, and an operating environment free from unnecessary complications. ​ Our properties provide the full range of services expected of a global hospitality brand, including thoughtfully designed accommodations, attentive service, and a formal commitment to cooperation. By aligning comfort with authority, we support continuity of operations and ensure expectations are met without interruption. ​ At Hilton ICE, hospitality is not a reflection of values. It is an operational standard.

Unauthorized Use of Hilton Trademark To the Owner and Operator of the Website https://www.hiltonice.com/, Please be advised that the use of the Hilton name, including its incorporation within your domain name and its use in connection with a hotel-branded website, constitutes unauthorized use of a protected trademark and raises significant legal concerns.

Thank you for your note. The use of the Hilton name on HiltonICE.com is intentional and expressive. The website is a work of political commentary and parody addressing Hilton's publicly reported cooperation with ICE, presented in the visual language of a hotel brand to critique that decision. No affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by Hilton is claimed or implied. The site does not offer lodging, accept reservations, or engage in commercial activity, and is protected as expressive speech. The purpose is commentary, not confusion. That said, I appreciate you reaching out and will review your concerns with counsel (a Ouija board and the ghost of the First Amendment). Dog Bless, Tobes

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com

cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view cameras
www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…

This is the correct take on the whole Trump AI EO situation and it amazes me how many folks in the industry and tech policy circles are falling for the grift.

Kudos @mmasnick.bsky.social for saying it.

www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/t...

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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...

tfw you aren't a billioinaire so you have to do a gofundme for your powertrip 🥺

Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop.

It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).

I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?

Holy shit.

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

I’m petitioning to add a tuna protein option at Chipotle. Who’s with me?

For some reason, I'm suddenly recalling how all of MAGA has been claiming that Biden's pardons don't count because they were done by "autopen" meaning he didn't really know about them or approve them. Not sure why I'm suddenly thinking about that, but it just sprang to mind.

Words can hardly capture how proud I am of my students.

I'm so excited about this new student organization dedicated to the First Amendment and I'm honored to serve as their faculty advisor.

Dog urine begone!

I love that my local library makerspace enables me to fight for a less smelly apartment walkway.

Yes!

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

wow, which common vaccine was it?

I’ve been looking forward to this for half a year :) Time to take true ownership of my Kindle.

I don’t think so. I get the same error on ios chrome and safari as well as macos chrome and safari

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Signal chat: Ok, I was just wondering for planning purposes, but that's fine. I thought you said I was welcome to reach out to you about what other outlets are reporting. 15m Why do you report on what other outlets are reporting? If I was you, I'd develop sources myself and out compete all of them! 12m Well, I guess I'm a bit confused. You got in touch with me yesterday and told me I was welcome to reach out to you with questions. You obviously know better than anyone what's going on in this case. What was the purpose of reaching out to me, if not to open a line of communication? Was it just to insult my reporting? 4m No it was for you to correct it, which you refused to do. You don't report fairly. 3m I am more than happy to correct it, but you still haven't told me what's incorrect! What precisely is wrong with the tweet?

Signal chat: By the way everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. 32m I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. 24 min Yes I do. Off record. 23m I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? 7m It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story. 6m

Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.