Lisa LeVasseur

“The moral crisis we are facing is not just a matter of the war itself, but also how we, the observers, view violence, for war now has become a spectator sport or strategy game.…What a profound moral failure, for gamifying strips away the humanity of real people.”

A small marker of our times: this phrase in a news story (rather than opinion) and it being completely accurate.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

I‘m over the moon that my paper on digital product safety as an adaptation and evolution of historical product safety strategies is out. can this show a harmonizing, holistic and more effective way forward? www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

The administration is engaged in norm destruction while installing new assumptions about and practices for how AI should be steered and regulated.

Consider: $10 billion in equity stakes in tech firms and a "golden share" granting veto power over corporate decisions. This is not deregulation.

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope said.

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.”

“‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

…*and* I feel like focusing on shitty wrongheaded definitions of "intelligence" directs the collective attention away from asking better, more actually important questions.

…Also also, I'm frankly disappointed that the idea of "human-like/-level intelligence" is still being used or taken seriously as a metric At All. It's a meaningless cipher that Looks like it should mean something but which adds up to nothing, the more we examine it. Its roots are eugenic and racist…

So I was curious to see if the Falcon LPR cameras had a visibly different design than their Condor human surveillance cams. The pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) is visibly different but the “fixed“ cam looks identical to the LPRs. flocksafety.com/products/video-cameras

"Perhaps the most substantive change is that the US government has achieved its own kind of “golden share” of unfettered TikTok user data. In short, it might be the worst of all possible worlds."

By @lalevasseur.bsky.social Irene Knapp and Bryce Simpson

If they ban whistles switch to cowbells. It'll be fun for all the Gen Xers.

Because we need more cowbell.

We need to agree as a society that the selling of personal information is immoral and ban it outright. meanwhile please be aware of our tool appmicroscope.org that shows safety labels for apps and our efforts to lay bare invisible app behaviors @internetsafetylabs.bsky.social

Right wing billionaires now control TikTok. It's unsafe.

(FYI Padlet is a leaky by design app- feeding the global commercial surveillance infrastructure. appmicroscope.org/app/843/ dm me if we can be of more support.)

Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech Instead of respecting how most parents guide their kids towards healthy and educational content, KOSMA hands the control panel to Big Tech. That’s right—this bill would take power away from parents, a...

Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and kids.

Dehumanizing == Authoritarian playbook.

EFF at DistrictCon EFF is excited to be participating in DistrictCon for the first time! Join EFF Staff Technologist Lena Cohen at the Policy Roundtable for a discussion on, "How a Handful of Location Data Brokers

Next week 🪩 Join EFF's Lena Cohen at DistrictCon for a discussion on "How a Handful of Location Data Brokers Actively Track Millions, and How to Stop Them." www.eff.org/event/eff-d...

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

We love to see it!

Community-created harm reduction infrastructure to contest the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ♥️

github.com/zoicware/Rem...

snapshot of Microsoft Office Options menu open to the "Advanced" tab, highlighting a default file called AI Agent AI Spy.docx for two options.

What fresh copilot ai hell is being once again foist upon us? all of the settings in MS Word Advanced that apply at a file level, apparently default to [the obnoxiously truthfully named? ] "AI Agent AI Spy.docx".

This is exhausting.

AI Agent, AI Spy - Signal Talk from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress - Internet Safety Labs Once again, great minds at Signal strike at the heart of impending catastrophic collapse of privacy. I love this talk from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (December 2025) by Meredith Whittaker a...

@meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social 's CCC talk was so inspiring I wrote a thing about it: internetsafetylabs.org/blog/insight...

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

💯 this ⬇️

Watching The American Revolution and it’s fascinating. So far, both the English army and the us militia under Washington seem like keystone cops. (How didn’t Washington get fired? He seems to have misjudged every major move of the oppo.)

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The latest issue of In Formation starts off with a bang. No notes. 🧑‍🍳💋

The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches Another year has come and gone, and with it, thousands of data breaches that affect millions of people. The question these days is less, Is my information in a data breach this year? and more How

Data breaches affect everyone, and this year we saw plenty of them, ranging from the novel to the predictable. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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#bloomscrolling

I want to drive a dump truck of cow manure to the Microsoft headquarters and drop it off in the lobby as a thank you.

They didn't ask for it, they didn't want it, but maybe they can figure out how to get rid of it.

Also thank so much for the heads up on this! 🙏