Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is the dumbest damn timeline 6631872
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 192928543
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔 6529200
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus. 0245
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 17888391
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here: 131864907
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026imagining a dystopia where every rich person is a giant genetically engineered baby 37715
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776462129
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I don’t even care what your tech policy question is, the answer is restore the Office of Technology Assessment 🔥 2217
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271468750
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Hannuska2109 @hanuska2109.bsky.social · 24/09/2026People are not understanding what Zelensky said. To give you context Zelensky was asked by a Russian news reporter would he be going to Moscow. Zelensky reply was priceless. "On a rocket bitch!" 03413
Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her) @gattakat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fat Bear Week, Russian Edition! 🎉 020
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and… 1637688
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remember, an election is upon us and the tech oligarchs have weaponized their AIs for information warfare. They have automated their attack on democracy. The bot flood is a psyop to make it look like Trump has more support than he really has, to intimidate you into not voting. 515033
Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her) @gattakat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hello from Day Two of BlueHat Asia live from Singapore! V excited to hear from @thedarktangent.bsky.social as he kicks off the morning before the keynote from @msrc.microsoft.com VP Tom Gallagher #BlueHatAsia 121
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026Reminder that Kanye West performed in Tampa in June and is scheduled to play at the Cowboys’ stadium in November. There’s been no pushback from stadium owners.motherjones.comThe Macklemore-Ed Sheeran Dispute is a corporate threat to free speechBillionaire Robert Kraft allegedly pressured Ed Sheeran to remove Macklemore—and all the other opening acts who dropped out in solidarity—from the tour. 20546172
Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her) @gattakat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Feeling this quote deeply today and recently Keynote for #BlueHatAsia on day one by Halvar Flake Thank you Tom Gallagher, @msrc.microsoft.com VP for kicking us off! 000
Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her) @gattakat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Greetings from @msrc.microsoft.com BlueHat Asia in Singapore! Excited for the kickoff of Day one and we’ll see y’all in the villages this afternoon… come play Medusa’s Memory Heist! #BlueHatAsia 030
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026*tiredly taps sign* insideevs.com/news/801020/... 041
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show... 4140291106
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable” 621292554953
Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her) @gattakat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026static.klipy.comTaylor Swift: I'm The Problem, It's MeAlt: Taylor Swift in her music video for Anti Hero singing, "it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me" 030
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToonature.comRewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal 182506843
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 08/09/2026The proto-Effin’ Birds was my Tumblr “Swear Trek”. It opened a lot of doors for me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. I don’t have plans to revive it (one daily comic is enough work), just wanted to thank it for getting me here on this 60th anniversary of Star Trek. 1053889791
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026In 2017, a group of knitters got together over a shared worry: government climate data might disappear 🧶 Nine years later, it's a global movement, local temperature records turned into hand-knit tapestries. New episode: how a knitting circle became a climate movement. climateactually.com 05519
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Reminds me of this print I found the other day:buffalonickel.coWishbone Print (3rd Edition) — Buffalo Nickel Co.• Giclée printing quality • Printed on thick matte paper. 122
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Lex Vaughn @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com · 07/08/2026PSA to any artists who live in rural parts of King County: This is a $15k grant to support your work from 4Culture: www.4culture.org/grants/arc-f...static.klipy.comCyanide and Happiness Artist PaintingALT: Cyanide and Happiness Artist Painting 13119
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Can't help but think of this hiker-rescue story I saw earlier today 862098586
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026Ok what the actual fuck, @wired.com!!!! Calling perimenopause a “buzzword” is wild, misogynist work that minimizes a decades long feminist movement to raise awareness about women’s health This article could have been good but instead is … very very badwired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy. 551830338
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026this is probably one of the most bewildering parts of the whole story - if you try and google these hallucinated references to see if they're real, often Google's AI summary will give you a summary as if it's a *real paper* making the whole issue worse 06936
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Kurt Opsahl @kurtopsahl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Downgrade a movie: Strangelove, M.Sci. 061
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)ACLU @aclu.org · 26/08/2026Numerous studies, including from the FBI itself, show that invasive mass surveillance tech like Flock and Axon's automatic license plate readers don't help police fight crime. Surveillance is not safety.futurism.comFlock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data ShowsNew FBI data shows case closure rates for the Atlanta Police Department have not improved despite thousands of ALPRs installed since 2021. 14445192
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Lana 🌺 ❤️💛💚💙💜 @mahalomalama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026No caption required… 17480802771
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me 382280468
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Jake Laperruque, a Tech Policy Press fellow and deputy director of the Security and Surveillance Project at CDT, says there's no real evidence automated license plate readers like Flock are driving crime down. The real danger is what mass video surveillance becomes next, he says.techpolicy.pressUnless Flock is Reined In, Mass Video Surveillance Will Grow Even More PervasiveAutomated license plate reader (ALPR) systems are facing a moment of public reckoning in the US, writes Jake Laperruque. 37134
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Tired: using torrents to download the latest Harry Potter movie. Wired: using torrents to download the Amnesty International report that JK Rowling wants to censor. 332741699
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...stripes.comNavy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusionThe evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs. 4530201425
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Jeremy Whitley @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I want to be very clear here: if learning about the existence of non-binary people causes a child to identify that way, they were not "corrupted". They were feeling something they didn't have a word for and they learned there is a word and they're not alone. Denying them that makes you a bad person. 05229
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬middleeasteye.netJason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his deathClaims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found 542689909
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 20/08/2026@seattletorrent.bsky.social are absolutely rocking this week with girls hockey camp. Anyone want to guess which kid is mine? www.instagram.com/reel/DcPFGG1...instagram.comSeattle Torrent on Instagram: "These campers have taste 🤩🤌"552 likes, 17 comments - pwhl_torrent on August 19, 2026: "These campers have taste 🤩🤌". 1141
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🇺🇦 ✈️Our community has many friends among the pilots who keep Ukraine’s skies safe. One of our friends sent us this message straight from the cockpit of his MiG-29. 🔗 Let’s finish this campaign for those protecting the sky above us: www.help99.co/patches/spec... 739183
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I'm pretty upset. Accountability is not to be found in a media and big social media accounts hounding someone to death. 745770
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/08/2026“This is not a matter of a few people engaging in aberrant behavior,” @evacide.bsky.social told @19thnews.org of police abusing Flock ALPRs to stalk people. “These are just the people who have gotten caught, and who have gotten caught so blatantly that they have experienced consequences.”19thnews.orgFlock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk womenThe technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem. 216775
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Funny how no one asked russia to halt strikes on Ukrainian civilians. 1292209066453
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face. 7763701313
Reposted by Katherine Pratt, PhD (she/her)Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Please stop paying for anything Harry Potter. This is where your money is going. At this point, you're not an ally, you're an abuser and we're your victim. 5347052318
