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I wrote about my takeaways on TrustCon last week, and how basically everyone from all sides are making the lives of trust & safety professionals more difficult, rather than helping them make the internet better. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Everyone Hates Trust & Safety. Everyone Needs Trust & Safety. This Is AΒ Problem. Here's the contradiction at the heart of the internet: everyone ...
It's a card game, not a book, but 44% of our backers came directly from Bluesky, and the only reason our crowdfunding project actually succeeded. RE:
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Laura McGrath (@lbmcgrath.bsky.social)
Is there *any* evidence that presence on bsky contributes in any way to book sales? I’ll take anecdotes! Who here has bought a book bc they heard...
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Wrote something about Axios laundering extreme MAGA framing and talking points as "neutral" and "objective" RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
What Liberal Media? Axios Thinks Being Neutral Means Kissing Trump’sΒ Ass The news org Axios launched in 2017, just as the first Trump administr...
This is ridiculous and based on a crazy stupid false conspiracy theory about what CISA did. RE:
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David S. Bernstein (@dbernstein.bsky.social)
Overnight, West Point announced Jen Easterly, fmr CISA chair, as distinguished prof in soc sciences. MAGA types balked, b/c she was part of Deep St...
AI is going to revolutionize cryptography at this rate. RE:
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K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen.bsky.social)
Lmao this rules so hard
Once again, vindicating my belief that you have to be incredibly stupid to pick up the phone when Isaac Chotiner calls, because he is the absolute best in letting you use your own words to prove to the world how utterly stupid you are. RE:
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Isaac Chotiner (@ichotiner.bsky.social)
New Interview: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-the-israeli-right-explains-the-aid-disaster-it-created
Summing up the Bove story in one sentence: RE:
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Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.xyz)
A millennial who believes courts have no authority over the president of the united states is now a CCA judge for life because Nevada's two Democra...
Just a reminder that many people warned the UK government how this would go, and they insisted we were all exaggerating and then smeared us as not caring about kids. RE:
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Sam Cole (@samleecole.bsky.social)
getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted https://www.404media.co/spotify-uk-age-check...
Always appreciate regulators making me safer by... [checks notes]... making the workout app I use less functional and making it so only big expensive apps have the features people rely on. Great job all around. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreifab6okkjeqw5w3ja7rsv6inf3wplla7dhbayavzzk3ef5cmvro7m