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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/03/2026
The last text message Zuck ever sent me was the night before they renamed the company to Meta, telling me to pay attention in the morning because he thought I'd be really excited by what they were going to announce. The next morning I kept waiting for the thing he thought I'd be interested in.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
I can vouch for Marisa, she's fantastic and will handle this story with the care it deserves.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I'm honored to join the Cato Institute and my wonderful co-panelist today at 2:35pm ET to speak about Section 230 and Generative AI! Livestream here: www.cato.org/events/secti...
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Section 230 at 30: The Past, Present, and Future of Online Speech and the 26 Words That Created the Internet
Join us for a day featuring panels on the history of Section 230, the current impact, debates, and legal challenges around the law, and how it might interact with future content moderation strategies ...
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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.
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My Response To Joseph Gordon-Levitt
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Reading the Epstein emails, I don't want to hear another goddamn thing from the government about "protecting kids" online.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 30/01/2026
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…
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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 American public believe it's absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency. Anyway, in unrelated news, Donald Trump just filed a lawsuit against his own IRS…
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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...
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Letter to NCMEC about AI-CSAM Report Statistics
Today, Bloomberg issued a jaw-dropping report about the hundreds of thousands of CyberTipline reports with a generative AI component that Amazon filed to the National Center for Missing and Exploited ...
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/letter-to-nc...
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Letter to NCMEC about AI-CSAM Report Statistics
Today, Bloomberg issued a jaw-dropping report about the hundreds of thousands of CyberTipline reports with a generative AI component that Amazon filed to the National Center for Missing and Exploited ...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/01/2026
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?" cybernews.com/tech/europe-...
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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.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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...
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Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 08/01/2026
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…
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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 daylight, shooting her multiple times at close range in the head. She had stuffed animal toys in the glove box of her SUV that rammed into another car after she’d been killed for no reason at all.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/01/2026
So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
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.

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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.

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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
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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...
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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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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…
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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...
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.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
tfw you aren't a billioinaire so you have to do a gofundme for your powertrip 🥺
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Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/11/2025
Holy shit.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 18/11/2025
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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
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Alan Kyle @alank.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I’m petitioning to add a tuna protein option at Chipotle. Who’s with me?
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/11/2025
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.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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.
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Alan Kyle @alank.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I love that my local library makerspace enables me to fight for a less smelly apartment walkway.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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 ...
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
wow, which common vaccine was it?
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Alan Kyle @alank.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I’ve been looking forward to this for half a year :) Time to take true ownership of my Kindle.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/10/2025
Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.
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.
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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
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 20/10/2025
President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…
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President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth." —George Orwell, 1984 This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.
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Politico @politico.com · 20/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
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Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/10/2025
Please tell me a First Amendment lawyer is willing to step up here and defend this woman.
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Alan Kyle @alank.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Normalize riding your bike to Costco.
First-person view looking down with a hotdog in hand and a bike leaning on knees.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2025
The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.
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Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch and others slam Saudi comedy festival
The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Will be exciting to see World Cup games limited to Jacksonville, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Fresno, Bakersfield and Tulsa
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This weak, brazen attempt by Stephen Miller both to chill free speech and to set up a premise to criminalize it — and, to be clear, this is the very type of speech most central to First Amendment protections — would be laughably embarrassing if this man did not have the power that he has.
Stephen Miller &
@StephenM
This language incites violence and terrorism.
America
@america • Sep 24
California Governor Gavin Newsom calls ICE arresting illegal aliens
"authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government".
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wait till they give me tenure.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This is an abuse of government authority from Rep. Clay Higgins. It's jawboning. It's a violation of the First Amendment. And Americans on the left and right *must* condemn it. The government using censorship to "protect" speech is utterly repulsive. clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
For 17 years working in trust and safety, I've watched talented people burn out on impossible tasks. The problem isn't the people, it's the systems. Traditional moderation requires months of retraining for every policy change. Only big companies can afford it, and even then it works poorly. 🧵 1/9
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/07/2025
Wrote about the DOJ's investigation into the faculty at George Mason for daring to... support their President after a series of bogus DOJ investigations into him and the school. And I wonder where all the "but mah academic freedom" people are, noting that Bari Weiss's Free Press is silent...
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My piece in @techdirt.com commends South Park for their bold and unapologetic political clap-back at Trump. Today's tenuous climate around the First Amendment makes it a huge risk, especially with a federal deepfake law on the books that carries criminal charges. www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/o...
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Oh My God, TAKE IT DOWN Kills Parody
Donald Trump is a notorious media bully. He uses lawsuits, executive power, and political pressure to punish critics and bend institutions to his will. Disney, Meta, and Paramount have since paid o…
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 28/07/2025
Oh My God, TAKE IT DOWN Kills Parody Donald Trump is a notorious media bully. He uses lawsuits, executive power, and political pressure to punish critics and bend institutions to his will. Disney, Meta, and Paramount have since paid out multi-million-dollar settlements over content disputes. CBS…
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Oh My God, TAKE IT DOWN Kills Parody
Donald Trump is a notorious media bully. He uses lawsuits, executive power, and political pressure to punish critics and bend institutions to his will. Disney, Meta, and Paramount have since paid out multi-million-dollar settlements over content disputes. CBS News leaders resigned. Colbert’s show was canceled. The AP was barred from the White House. Even Rupert Murdoch is now being sued…
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/07/2025
Seems bad that the head of the DOJ's "civil rights division" is cheering on Elon Musk using SLAPP suits to silence non-profit media orgs. But what do I know? But tell me again how MAGA is the "free speech" party.
Harmeet Dhillon tweeting "Is there a way to set this to music and have it lull me to sleep at night? Is there an app for this?" in quote tweeting a screenshot of the NY Times article about how Media Matters is struggling to stay afloat due to Elon Musk's scorched earth SLAPP suits against the non-profit.
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#TeslaTakedown LA @teslatakedownla.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📢 @teslatakedown.com 🚨 ALL HANDS ON DECK in LA We're calling on ALL SoCal crews to come together at the newly opened TESLA DINER this weekend. Elon thinks he can destroy democracy, take innocent lives, and celebrate with a milkshake? We say HELL NO ✊ 📍 actionnetwork.org/events/tesla...
Tesla Diner SoCal Protest (#TeslaTakedown All Hands on Deck)

START:
Saturday, July 26, 2025
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05:00 PM
END:
Sunday, July 27, 2025
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07:00 PM
LOCATION:
Tesla Diner
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7001 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038 US
HOST CONTACT INFO:
takedowntesla@gmail.comWe, the People find Elon Musk guilty of:

Aiding and abetting the effective dismantling of American democracy
Unilaterally killing hundreds of thousands of US-allied innocents around the world
Allowing his "Full Self-Driving" fraud to kill hundreds of his own paying customers
Stoking hate against vulnerable groups and boosting dangerous conspiracy theories 24/7 on his rightwing extremist propaganda siteWE SAY HELL NO

We're calling on ALL #TeslaTakedown SoCal crews to come together outside Elon's Diner this Saturday 7/26 AND Sunday 7/27 between 5pm-7pm to send a clear message that Elon is STILL guilty; that we STILL demand accountability; and that we WILL NOT REST until the world has internalized the truth that TESLA FUNDS FASCISM.

To Tesla's impotent, bought-and-paid-for Board of Directors:

Hell no, we won't go!

Time to fire your CEO!

Important: Tesla Takedown is a 100% peaceful protest movement. We oppose violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of our First Amendment right to peaceful assembly.

#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk #MuskMustFall
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/06/2025
Technically reverse chronological is an algorithm... *ducks*
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I thought the TikTok ban was an idiotic moral panic and a gross curtailment of expressive freedom, but I’m at least as uncomfortable about a scenario where a platform with 170m US users exists entirely on the personal sufferance of Donald Trump (or any president).
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: www.404media.co/lapd-publish...
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LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a Waymo Driverless Car
Police are starting to realize they can demand footage from driverless cars.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
According to the official White House account, the US is in the midst of an "insurrection" that warrants federalization of the National Guard, which is why the President is attending a UFC fight and hanging out with Dana White.
The White House has tweeted a video of Trump at UFC hanging out with Dana White right after retweeting Stephen Miller saying the US is experiencing an insurrection in LA.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My thoughts on the Take It Down Act as someone who used to handle copyright takedown (and other) requests at Google. 🧵 As many have said, this law will be used as the ultimate weapon for the Trump Admin to censor speech from their political opponents (and more). www.theverge.com/policy/62497...
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The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon
It’s not a law, it’s a weapon.
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nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I am not at IAPP GPS, but reading my LinkedIn feed right now, I'm seeing /so many/ posts from privacy friends who are outraged at the keynote from Sam Altman, who was apparently expected to talk about AI and privacy and instead spent the whole time doing a sales pitch for Worldcoin.
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