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Fago Milfoy

@dia.bsky.social
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they/them/he; it's good to be back thoughts on human rights, content moderation, tech policy, and politics. Lot of writing on Tech Policy Press, though my articles are all over! www.techpolicy.press/author/dia-kay…

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you were in St Paul today, thank you. We need more observers. There’s a thin line between protesting and observing. You don’t have to be on the front line! If you see staging activity, call a response hotline! Describe what you see. Resources and upcoming trainings here.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I guess I should have been on here saying to everyone "please leave, please leave, if you can if you don't need to stay for family if you can afford it please leave."
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SMEX @smex.org · 12/11/2025
Sub-Saharan African migrants in Tunisia are being relocated to rural areas where internet access is weak and online hate speech flourishes with impunity. SMEX and the International Justice Clinic expose how, under international law, Tunisia’s actions violate its obligations to protect its migrants
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Pushed to the Outskirts: Tunisia Must Actively Protect the Digital Rights of sub-Saharan African migrants in Rural Areas, Cultivate a Culture of Digital Literacy, and Combat Online Hate Speech to Fulfill its Responsibilities Under CERD – International Justice Clinic
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Members of the community yell towards Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and federal officers while they conduct an immigration enforcement action Friday in Waukegan.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
In the Encryption and Feminism session & just had a flashback to the "real names" debate (framing anonymity as dangerous). Wild we still have to fight that security vs. privacy framing, but Mallory is right. #MozFest2025 www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Facebook's 'Real Name' Policy Can Cause Real-World Harm for the LGBTQ Community
There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than that which they were born with. For some, these reasons could mean life or death—for example, political dissidents voicing un...
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Cheney is dead, but the horrible architecture he wrought is in Trump's hands. If you are a technologist or you work in tech policy, I challenge you to commit to building movement relationships and fighting the structures that have enabled men like them. www.techpolicy.press/its-time-for...
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It’s Time for Technologists and Tech Policy Advocates to Get Radical in Fight Against Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press
Dia Kayyali says in the face of the authoritarian threat, the fight for justice and rights for all is systemic, and requires creativity and coordination.
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Mela Yela @melayela.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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your mom (jumpscare) @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
You talk about how people fall for Fake Black people But your article doesn’t interview a single real one
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Rough afternoon/early evening. I'm not sure how many ICE abductions in our area. Too many. Sending love to everyone impacted by this violence. Grateful to everyone who patrolled and documented. They're not done, and neither are we.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is the piece I wanted to read tonight. You should too. I wasn't 14 or a hijabi when 9/11 happened, but it was a foundational (and scary) moment, one I've been thinking about it a lot (related article for TPP coming soon). Thank you Heba for writing this one.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/11/2025
Hey Democrats: Schumer wouldn't even endorse Mamdani or say who he voted for. Maybe, just maybe, stop letting him lead the Senate Dems?
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This person took this when they called the race
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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Illinois lawmakers pass legislation in response to ICE activity
After weeks of heightened federal immigration enforcement in the greater Chicago area, the Illinois General Assembly approved House Bill 1312 on Oct. 31, strengthening immigration enforcement protecti...
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC) @apc.org · 04/11/2025
States should refuse to sign or ratify the Convention. Those that have already committed to signing should adopt concrete human rights safeguards. Read our full statement 👇 www.apc.org/en/pubs/join... #Cybercrime #CybercrimeConvention
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Joint statement on the signing of the UN Convention on Cybercrime
APC and other civil society organisations remain deeply concerned that the UN Convention Against Cybercrime (UNCC) will facilitate human rights abuses across borders. The UNCC obligates states to esta...
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Excited for my #MozFest2025 session on "Reimagining content moderation" with @jillian.bsky.social. Content moderation advocacy has become more difficult just as human rights online and offline are under attack. Let's talk about ways forward together! schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/19
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Mozilla Festival Schedule
For 15 years, Mozilla Festival has been the home for big ideas, bold conversations, and the movement for a better internet. From November 7th to 9th, we’re bringing that energy back to Barcelona, and ...
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Jan🧘‍♀️ @jfx9.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We feed 200-300 people every Saturday in Tompkins Square Park, you want to buy us some hot cocoa mix don't you, you sexy minx! www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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Tompkins Distro Needs... | Amazon Gift List
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/10/2025
they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 30/10/2025
Smash your Ring doorbell to pieces first thing today if you haven’t already.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I've never been more inspired to get involved with Wikipedia. New winter project- becoming a part of the Wikipedia community and editing pages, because screw grokipedia.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I'm so sad to be missing the joyful return of #BreadAndNet to an in-person format, but I will be watching online. For everyone there in person- please enjoy this precious opportunity to be with each other unfiltered through screens or platforms, and welcome newcomers wholeheartedly.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/10/2025
and may we present you with:
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How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Just like most other things wrong in our world, the loneliness epidemic has its roots in capitalism. Thinking relationships should never have any discomfort and that always prioritizing yourself is "good boundaries" is capitalism. Revolution has to be rooted in relationships, or we will lose.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Shout out to everyone else who like me who left the US with some privilege but still a lot of sadness. It sucks. I never thought I'd miss anything in the US as if it were home, but I wasn't thinking about the people. I miss my people, and I worry about a lot of you too.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2025
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Also, she has the super creepy cult of personality vibe that authoritarians have.
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Oh okay
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
💯, say it again. Katrina is right next to 9/11 in terms of things that showed Amerikkka's ass. It's been out there, folks, why are you surprised at how pasty and unwashed it is now?
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
HELL YEAH! Welcome to the team! Get ready for second puberty and feeling unwanted sympathy for teenage boys friend, and invest in good deodorant.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is important. It's ridiculous to try to use material support in this case, but it was also ridiculous to callHumanitarian Law Project's peacebuilding efforts material support too, yet it happened.
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jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
just putting it out into the universe that if you are trans and have had issues with any of the age verification implemented in the US or the UK, i'd love to hear about your experience. DM or signal me at jsmn.01
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New from me on productivity, AI, and the problems in how we measure it: “AI’s core function is completing goals as if they were a yes/no checkmark: having a text, rather than writing the text; having a numbered list of ideas rather than finding a good idea.” www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...
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Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press
People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.
FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Ratio me? I think sometimes people think they are being edgy but they aren’t. It is not edgy to support the head of one of the largest news organizations in the world. Like. It’s okay to just say you like adjacency to power! Own it!
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Not me sitting here crying over a preview of a country song.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Very into this energy. never underestimate the power of being annoying.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Not if its caffeinated and you’re drinking it to work more ;P
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Consider taking a break from social media and looking up from your device. Also, when was the last time you had some water?
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
PS: Bluesky has not been interested in engaging with civil society meaningfully yet, and a 2 week timeline for commenting on their standards when a lot of people were probably not working doesn’t cut it., before someone bemoans the people “harassing the CEO.”
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Oops, CEO of Bluesky mocking people asking why dangerous transphobes aren’t being banned. Starting the countdown in my mind to this site being unusable for me. Glad I didn’t get too comfortable, and I hope I‘m wrong.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Canada and the UK's new immigration laws are blatant attempts to suck up to the fascist United States dictator, and it will not end well for us.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Incredible that these little fascist toddlers are passing laws to protect lawmakers (who have access to security) from doxxing. Many of the people they are so “scared of”, like myself, survived doxxing attempts with no help at all ten years ago and the same people tried to gaslight our concerns.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.” ― Assata Shakur
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
About Joint Terrorism Task Forces; I mentioned them months ago. They directly enlist local law enforcement to the FBI chain of command, and blur federal/local lines. Some cities pulled out of JTTFs, but most likely yours hasn’t. <5/?> www.techpolicy.press/ai-surveilla...
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AI Surveillance on the Rise in US, but Tactics of Repression Not New | TechPolicy.Press
Resistance sends a message that intimidation tactics won’t work and to those targeted that they are not alone, writes Dia Kayyali.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Anyway, more historical legal context later but for now I’ll just say, uh….cool to see extremism on gender explicitly included. <4/?> youtu.be/fR1jCY-i5fc (english lyrics: genius.com/Dam-whos-the...)
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YouTube video by DAM - Topic
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