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Matthew Taber

@matthewtaber.bsky.social
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Matthew Taber | Healthcare Consultant & Advocate | #AISafety Policy Developer | #DirectPrimaryCare | | #HealthPolicy | #ElvisAct | | Background Actor 🎬 |

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly, you were magical.🙏 Dolly Parton performs "Jolene" with Pink, Annie Lennox, Pat Benatar, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Rob Halford, Simon Le Bon and Dave Stewart at The 37th Rock & Roll of Fame Induction Ceremony (November 5th, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles).
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Dolly Parton - Jolene (Live at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2022)
YouTube video by A. L. Media
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 24/07/2026
@markruffalo.bsky.social Listening in on the Paramount merger press conference. News: Merger is delayed til up to June 2027! Great work to all!! 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🎸😎 #BlockTheMerger
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Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for Months (Gift Article)
The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 11/07/2026
Public outcry works! 👏
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Meta Removes AI Muse Image Feature After Backlash
Days after rolling out its Muse Image AI feature on social media, Meta has heard the overwhelming backlash from users.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 04/06/2026
💥Audiophiles! 💥 🎙️Listen in to early mystery radio drama. 🎧Hear the original audio as those who listened from their living rooms in the early days of radio. Himan Brown was a true pioneer, beginning his career at just 16 years of age. #HimanBrown #CUNYTV #RadioDramaNetwork #cbsradiomysterytheater
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Please sign : AB-412, The AI Copyright Transparency Act offers us the opportunity to lead by example as it empowers artists and creators to exercise their rights as copyright owners. #aisafety #AB412
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Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW!
Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 20/05/2026
Incredible performance by David Byrne on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Dance, Stephen, Dance!
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 14/05/2026
If you love radio mystery! This is your next podcast! Himan Brown was the original pioneer of Radio Mystery Theater! With Orson Wells, Bob Hope and countless others on his original live broadcasts, this is where it all began. Please subscribe on #YouTube www.youtube.com/@radiodraman...
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 17/04/2026
“The AI revolution has begun, and I need to learn as much as I possibly can about AI and share it with all of you. Also, FYI: the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average. We don’t want to be left behind.”
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Reese Witherspoon Doubles Down on Telling Women to Learn AI: Jobs We Hold Are ‘Three Times More Likely to Be Automated By AI’
Reese Witherspoon is again advising her followers that there's no time like the present to start learning about and using artificial intelligence.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 14/04/2026
Italy has become the first in the world to legally recognize that caring for a domestic animal can justify an authorized absence, in some cases, a paid one.
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Italy Implements a New Labor Leave that Allows Workers to Care for Sick Pets - Italy
Italy has implemented a new labor policy that allows employees to request leave to care for their sick pets. In specific cases, the leave will be paid.
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Creative Content Coalition for AI Safety | CCCAIS 🌎💧🐬 @cccais.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“What we found pretty consistently was irregardless (sic) of the wind direction, there was always a downwind warming that we could measure,” Sailor said. “And it was on the order of several degrees Fahrenheit.”
azfamily.com
Arizona data centers warming neighboring communities by ‘several degrees’
A few degrees of warming could elevate health risks.
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Creative Content Coalition for AI Safety | CCCAIS 🌎💧🐬 @cccais.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Lawsuits are piling up against Elon Musk’s company after its Grok AI image generator enabled mass production of deepfake porn based on images of non-consenting women and children.”
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Baltimore is first U.S. city to sue over Grok deepfake porn as legal pressure mounts on Musk's xAI
Following international regulatory probes, lawsuits are piling up in the U.S. against Elon Musk's xAI and its Grok chatbot.
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Creative Content Coalition for AI Safety | CCCAIS 🌎💧🐬 @cccais.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“A study led by MIT researchers found that agentic AI developers seldom publish detailed information about how these tools were tested for safety.”
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AI Agents Are Getting Better. Their Safety Disclosures Aren't
A study led by MIT researchers found that agentic AI developers seldom publish detailed information about how these tools were tested for safety.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 21/01/2026
Artists on Bluesky, inc., Karla Ortiz, called out the policy as harmful to human creatives. Backlash spread quickly, with threats to boycott the event. The reversal is viewed as a victory for artists amid broader debates on AI in the industry. www.msn.com/en-us/societ...
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 09/01/2026
Time to ask for removal from the App Store “Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.”
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Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
PLEASE demand APPLE remove. It produces CSAM. Apple has removed others with CSAM. Demand #apple remove from #AppStore. We shareholders demand it! www.wired.com/story/x-grok... #CNBC @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social @cnn-news.bsky.social #Grok #technology #socialmedia
wired.com
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
California Senate Judiciary still has not scheduled official hearing on AB 412. Official hearing needs to take place in order to move bill forward. Please ask @senatorumberg.bsky.social to schedule a hearing #copyright #AB412 #California #artist #actors
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
“It’s already getting more difficult for university students to get jobs…”
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
🆘 We have begun crowd-funding to get us to the next hearing which will be placed on the calendar sometime prior to January 23rd. 🆘 We have lots of work to do and we are up against billion dollar companies. 🆘 We will need at least 250 people at that next hearing. 🆘 Please consider a donation.
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Donate to Guardrails for a Safe AI Future, organized by Protect Digital Identity
Our Future is at Risk Unethical AI has stolen years of human work without co… Protect Digital Identity needs your support for Guardrails for a Safe AI Future
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 13/12/2025
WGA and SAG-AFTRA say they will closely monitor the conditions of the $1 billion licensing deal and plan to meet further with the studio.
thewrap.com
Unions Raise Flag on Disney-OpenAI Deal's Infringement Concerns: 'Built Its Business Off Our Backs'
WGA and SAG-AFTRA say they will closely monitor the conditions of the $1 billion licensing deal and plan to meet further with the studio
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@governor.ca.gov @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov The new Executive Order blocking state AI laws is a direct violation of California’s authority to protect innovation, privacy, and jobs. Please take action and file suit to defend our state’s right to regulate AI responsibly. #CA #AISafety #StatesRights
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Trump signs executive order seeking to block states from regulating AI companies
Congressional efforts to regulate AI at the federal level this year have fallen short.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Heather-Ashley Boyer @heatherashleyboyer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
🚨URGENT🚨 ** If you live in the U.S. and want to have laws that regulate A.I. please read this, submit an online comment ASAP, and share! **
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
For AI, copyright is kryptonite.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Join us Dec 8 @stanforduniversity.bsky.social to stand up for #AB412 and protect #Copyright! Creators’ rights are under attack by AI stealing their work. We need strong rules NOW! Don’t let tech giants erase our future. ✊ #SaveCreators #AIRegulation #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHcU...
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CA-AB412 Matters
YouTube video by Project Digital Identity
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“Critics of OpenAI’s multibillion dollar corporate restructuring want to bring the matter to California voters, launching two different ballot initiatives as well as a campaign website that calls on billionaires like Elon Musk to pitch in on halting the business expansion.”
politico.com
‘Calling all billionaires’: OpenAI critics urge Musk, Zuckerberg to fund ballot effort
The ChatGPT maker faces at least two different California ballot initiatives, targeting its multibillion-dollar corporate restructuring.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We need you! Join us @stanforduniversity.bsky.social on December 8th. #actor #musician #artist #Stanford #author #AISafety
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 People needed! Sign up at march2testify.org to stand up in person for Your Rights as an artist, creator for your Copyright December 8th at Stanford U 9am We have one chance to get this right. #protectdigitalidentity #March2Testify #EsaiMorales 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 Boots on the Ground! Sign up at March2Testify.org to stand up in person for Your Rights as an artist, creator for your Copyright December 8th at Stanford U 9am We have one chance to get this right. 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 #CAAB412 #March2Testify @xojodilong.bsky.social
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Lydia Cornell Official @lydiacornell.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 People needed! Sign up at March2Testify.org to stand up in person for Your Rights as an artist, creator for your Copyright December 8th at Stanford U 9am We have one chance to get this right. @protectdigitalidentity #protectdigitalidentity 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 21/11/2025
🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 Sign up at March2Testify.org to stand up in person for Your Rights as an artist, creator on December 8th at Stanford U 9am We have one chance to get this right. 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘 🆘
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Protect Digital Identities | Support Digital Identity Rights Legislation
Your Digital Identity Is YOURS. Support AI legislation to protect against deepfakes and identity theft.
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Thread 🧵 STOP THE AI MORATORIUM IN THE NDAA” Let them know your state has the right to legislate on AI Reps in 🧵 #March2Testify #RespectCopyright
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“Intense irritation.” Thompson told Colbert about AI. “Because I write long hand on a pad, because I believe that there is a connection between the brain and the hand.” 12/8 Testify @ Stanford U for copyright protection. march2testify.org Sign-Up. Donate. #RespectCopyright #CAAB412 #March2Testify
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The largest IP theft in history and we are fighting back! Stanford University, December, 8th California AB 412 matters. Go to March2Testify.org Sign-Up. Donate. Share! #RespectCopyright #CAAB412 #March2Testify
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 21/10/2025
Kenny Loggins demanded his song ‘Danger Zone’ be removed from an AI video of Trump dumping feces on protesters, which the president shared online
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Kenny Loggins Demands Removal of 'Danger Zone' From AI Clip of Trump Dumping Poop on Protesters
Kenny Loggins demanded his song 'Danger Zone' be removed from an AI video of Trump dumping feces on protesters, which the president shared online.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
A MASSIVE thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social for standing up to Big Tech. Signing #SB53, #AB316, #AB621, #SB683, and #AB853 into law is a game-changer. California’s showing the world that our voice comes before corporate algorithms. Proud to see real leadership! #AISafety #ProtectDID #California
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 24/09/2025
Dozens of nurses hit the picket line early Tuesday morning to denounce recent layoffs at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. "Nothing can replace the hands of a nurse," said Eric Newsom, an ICU nurse. "We are trained to take care of you. We're trained to take care of your family members.
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Kaiser Permanente nurses hit picket line to protest recent layoffs and AI
Dozens of nurses hit the picket line early Tuesday morning to denounce recent layoffs at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A very cool Starter Pack!
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Yikes! This is a big problem that is only likely to get worse. We were warned!
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 21/08/2025
“The traditional path from classroom to entry-level job to long-term career is crumbling . This has created a chasm between academic learning and workplace readiness, where students are expected to somehow bridge the gap themselves.” More: thehill.com/opinion/educ...
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"Houston we've had a problem!" Jim Lovell has passed away. #Apollo13 #BreakingNews #NASA #JimLovell
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 01/08/2025
“Will Forte talks about almost being a financial advisor, his checkered writing career, #SNL MacGruber, The Groundlings, Last Man on Earth, having kids late, seeing shrinks, frats, & Val Kilmner being the weirdest roommate of all time.” #DontBeAlone #JayKogen #WillForte @jaykogen.bsky.social
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Will Forte Says, “Everyone Follow Your Dream” But Maybe Not Jay
YouTube video by Don't Be Alone with Jay Kogen
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thank you Sen Hawley for speaking out on this.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Let’s pass SB53 !
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
ELVIS lives!!! ELVIS (a law in TN) and other digital protection laws were saved this morning by Sen Blackburn(TN) and US Senate Dems! Thank you @cantwell.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov !!! #AISafety #ELVISAct #Nashville #Music #SAGAFTRA #BreakingNews
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 13/06/2025
The United States of America 🇺🇸 will always be a democratic nation. We do not bow to kings here. Stay strong. Stay safe. We are the voice of the nation. Vetted pack of wonderful humans. Smash the Follow All tab! #NoKings
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New article: Why the EFF is wrong about digital identity protection. A checksum isn't censorship—it's binary consent verification. Without standards, anyone can be deepfaked. With standards? A $425B authentication market. bit.ly/44cgXgH #DigitalIdentity #AI #ContentAuthenticity #NOFAKES #Deepfakes
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The Digital Rights Paradox: How the EFF's "Anti-Censorship" Kills a $425 B Trust Market
Here's what "informed consent" looks like in Hollywood right now.
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Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is a good thing. I applaud it!
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Protect Digital Identity @protectdid.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Hollywood's AI concerns so far have mostly been from actors and writers trying to defend their name, image and likeness from being leveraged by movie studios without a fair value trade. Now, those studios are trying to protect themselves against AI tech giants.” #AIEthics
axios.com
Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.
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Erik Passoja @bigbaderik.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Excited to join @DigitalHollywood's AI Entertainment Summit panel on state AI regulation! Discussing how different state approaches to deepfake protections impact performers and creators. July 21-23, 2PM PST / 5PM EST, virtual event. #DigitalHollywood #AISummit #PublicPolicy #TechPolicy #AILaw
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