Reposted by Daniel NazerCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Everyone follow and support @eff.org pleeeeeease pretty please! 39419
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026As someone who sets all my personal running and swimming fitness goals at "twice the world record", time to update my chart: www.nytimes.com/athletic/751...nytimes.comMen’s 1,500-meter freestyle world record demolished by Germany’s Johannes Liebmann at EurosLiebmann, 19, added 1,500-meter gold to his 800-meter win and lowered the previous record by almost four seconds. 010
Reposted by Daniel NazerMeredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Patent peeps: I've forgotten where my crazy patent folder is & I'm having a hard time remembering some of them. My students didn't believe me that there are odd ones, so help refresh my memory. I'll start on the ones I've got: USPN 5443036 issued for a method of exercising a cat. 8172
Reposted by Daniel NazerDaniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Just to get you started: 37624re 440263des 587161des 3216423 4195707 5616089 6025810 6293874 8609158 031
Reposted by Daniel NazerElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/05/2026Observa cómo Reddit empodera a sus moderadores para que gestiones tus propias comunidades. Valora este modelo de autogestión como una herramienta esencial para mantener la salud y la diversidad de los espacios digitales. www.eff.org/pages/inter...eff.orgInternet sigue funcionando: Reddit apuesta por la moderaciónReddit es una de las plataformas de contenido generado por usuarios más grandes de Internet, construida en torno a miles de comunidades independientes conocidas como subreddits. Algunos subreddits 0286
Reposted by Daniel Nazersarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/04/2026lfg let's bring back donation of constantine discourse 626423
Reposted by Daniel NazerMike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/04/2026Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted. 372279615
Reposted by Daniel Nazersarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 01/04/2026the librarian of congress is absolutely immune for acts commited in office. the register of copyrights is required to marry the head of the USPTO, and any issue thereof is legally entitled to run the RIAA. federal patents no longer preempt state patent law. monkeys are allowed to own copyrights 871523
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026As an EFF staffer it was common to get email from people with mental health issues. It was always sad and a reminder of how precious mental health is. I imagine the volume has gone up lately … 112
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026So I'm doing a routine managerial task in a SAS platform (e.g. approving a leave or entering a performance rating) and the UI gives me a screen burst of confetti. When did it become okay to gamify serious workaday tasks? It's absurd & infantilizing. 010
Reposted by Daniel NazerSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 08/02/2026When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech. 291471401
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Swimming from San Francisco to Alcatraz: Medium Swimming to Alcatraz without a wetsuit: Hard Swimming to Alcatraz without a wetsuit and without consulting the tide charts: INSANELY Hard Though perhaps I should not assume the coyote didn't review the tide charts. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comStay or go: What's next for coyote that escaped to Alcatraz?The canine is surviving on a diet of birds after swimming to the isolated prison island. 010
Reposted by Daniel NazerMike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/01/2026Holy shit, this thread is incredible. 2253487
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Lotta people making fun of the tangerine toddler here, but before you bring up the ICP and say you learned about magnets in elementary school, you 100% need to know special relativity to understand the fundamentals of electromagnetism. Coming from Trump, I would rate this as a rare "mostly true." 120
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Revisiting one of my favorite pieces of writing, Colson Whitehead's "Finally, a Thin President" from November 2008, and wow ... 010
Reposted by Daniel NazerMike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/10/20259th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now. We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov 12884222
Reposted by Daniel NazerMike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/09/2025Ah so it's not just Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen, but the Murdochs too? Remember how the Democrats went all in supporting this idea based on a moral panic? Any of them want to admit they fucked up? 15381103
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Overdressed for my first day at Reddit as I’m giving a talk at the Practicing Law Institute later. Didn’t wear a suit though, so at least I’m only slightly overdressed (and slightly underdressed for my talk). 000
Reposted by Daniel NazerRebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 31/08/2025The linked headline's "unexpected" is ridiculous. Every person who worked in this space (specifically, not legislators) said, correctly, that this would happen. It should be replaced with "predicted" or "standard" or "obvious." This is not an untried policy! See also FOSTA/SESTA. 29830
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025As someone whose main thought about Eric Adams during his first mayoral campaign was, wow, he is a really, really WEIRD dude, I personally don’t feel let down by him at all. If anything, I feel like he’s exceeded expectations. 010
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I published a blog post on my second last day as a Mozillian 😢. A long-running lawsuit in Germany is considering whether ad blockers violate copyright law -- a bad ruling would undermine user choice and create serious risks for privacy and security. blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/20...blog.mozilla.orgIs Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. – Open Policy & AdvocacyAcross the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control .... 152
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Morning ride up to Mt Davidson with glimpses of Mt Diablo across the Bay through breaks in the fog. One of my favorite things about San Francisco is the city is like a natural gym. 020
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Drop bears are real though. theonion.com/australia-ad...theonion.comAustralia Admits All Those Animals Made UpSYDNEY—Saying the ruse began as a harmless prank about the continent’s mammals having pouches, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted Tuesday that all those animals like wallabies, numbat... 020
Reposted by Daniel Nazersam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 20/07/2025Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return 403253595611
Reposted by Daniel NazerChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I’ve been strongly criticizing the capitulating law firms, I’m sure as hell not OK with Paramount doing so. 1042463359
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025For those enduring the heat wave in the north eastern US you might like to know that it's so cold in San Francisco right now that my central heating just turned on. It's foggy, windy and 55F outside and my house's thermostat is set to 67F. #SummerInSanFrancisco 000
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Warming Hut to Aquatic Park swim (~3 miles). Much less current than expected so much much harder than expected. Took almost twice as long as last year. 🌉🏊♂️🌇 020
Reposted by Daniel NazerJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/06/2025It’s almost like there are really good reasons legitimate law enforcement doesn’t normally operate masked and in civvies. 201883368
Reposted by Daniel NazerFree Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 18/06/2025News! CourtListener now lets you keep up with everything that's happening in PACER. Save a query to CourtListener, and we'll tell you when there are new results. RECAP Search Alerts are finally live! Follow people, organizations, topics, and anything else you can imagine. Learn how below: 👇 711943
Reposted by Daniel NazerEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly. 7064636812020
Reposted by Daniel NazerFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/06/2025This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. 30666124
Reposted by Daniel NazerElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/06/2025If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.ssd.eff.orgAttending a ProtestFor quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountab... 216495
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I once met John Cusack when he visited EFF and I successfully resisted the temptation to ask him for two dollars. There should be some kind of award for this. He spent most of the visit happily playing with the office dogs on the patio. 020
Reposted by Daniel NazerThe Onion @theonion.com · 06/06/2025Please Like Metheonion.comPlease Like MeIt can be strange, sometimes, to be me. I’m the wealthiest man on the planet, for starters. Leaders across America, and indeed the world, look to me as a visionary driving technological progress in ar... 201120181412
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025With this news I think it’s safe that I will go down as, by far, the least famous or notable guest to have been on WTF. deadline.com/2025/06/wtf-...deadline.com‘WTF With Marc Maron’ To End After Over 15 YearsMarc Maron’s WTF podcast, which has had close to 2,000 episodes since its 2009 launch, will be turning off its microphones in the fall. 000
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Lol Just this week I did a comically bad job patching a hole in a wall in my house but in my defense my plan is to (hopefully) completely redo that bathroom before too long (and most certainly not do that myself) 010
Reposted by Daniel NazerEric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Ever wonder how many court opinions have (so far) addressed filings with AI-hallucinated material? According to this page, the tally is... 129 across the globe since mid-2023; of which ~90 are from the US 🤯 www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... 🤖😵damiencharlotin.comAI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien CharlotinDatabase tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings. 1315566
Reposted by Daniel NazerDani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more. 296113453719
Reposted by Daniel NazerMen in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Ange making history 🇦🇺🏆 321819
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025A better bit would have been to change the name to "The Aristocrats" and then, 2 years later, to "HBO The Aristocrats" 000
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I registered and still own malware.horse where I one day plan to put my personal website.malware.horse 011
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Sun Comes Up in East, Sun Sets in West, Watford Sack Head Coachbbc.comTom Cleverley: Watford sack head coach after falling short of play-offsWatford sack head coach Tom Cleverley after the team failed to reach the Championship play-offs. 000
Daniel Nazer @danielnazer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Well I for one am glad that all my practice at swimming to shore from Alcatraz is not going to have been for nothing. 010
Reposted by Daniel NazerDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp. 108111255043
Reposted by Daniel NazerAdam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 29/03/2025NOW A third major law firm, WilmerHale, wins a temporary restraining order BLOCKING Trump's executive order targeting it. "The injuries to plaintiff here would be severe and spill over to its clients and the justice system at large." Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 191376295
