Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 19mlike a moth to a flame (I’ve been thinking about this for years) like a month to a non-flame (I’ve shyed away from this, it’s too dark & cold) 000
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 23mhaters how you like me now (I’ve shyed away from you/I’m enjoying my desires) 110
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 26mI might have accidentally figured out the perfect life (by shying away from things that seemingly hate me & moving towards my desires) once again 110
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 4hI am so over optimized for words, the lyrics are my favorite part of songs, I love art with words all over it 020
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center? 652253665398
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026NEW: We made a continuously updating tracker to help everyone make sense of Elon Musk’s America PAC spending on the midterms. Tool built by @dell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, & @regret.bsky.social; reporting by @hugolowell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...wired.comElon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It DailyTo follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. 410859
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/10/2026we need a Goodreads scoring system where you can rate how much type 1 fun, type 2 fun, and type 3 fun a book is (sketchplanations.com/the-fun-scale) 010
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/10/2026It’s October and I filed and it was easy www.nyc.gov/main/click-t... 050
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 10/10/2026if you think about, pumpkin everything is one of the only modern popularized versions of seasonal eating, its ancient wisdom incarnate, we should all seek as much 061
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 10/10/2026a friend’s brother that works at a bank told them today that they were ordered to remove “AI” from the slide decks, not to replace it with “SI” just replace it with anything else if it gets us away from “AI,” I’m open to it 2303
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 10/10/2026I wish everyone that was anti-LLM went vegetarian but I guess the difference is that LLMs are not that delicious 030
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 09/10/2026everything feels uncertain but there are knowns, come sit by the fire and let me tell you about them 130
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 09/10/2026I’ve been noticing people make little faux faustian bargains with themselves: “I’ll take this bad thing instead of this worse thing” you can just state what you like 081
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.openomb.orgOpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easierOpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc... 810246
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 09/10/2026a quote that is so Anne Carson AND so the opposite of “AI discourse” drink it up, I know you are thirsty 1164
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 08/10/2026Some of my other reactions to this conversation: • “Recursive self-improvement” eliminates human accountability, it should be banned because we need accountability for democracy; many policy recs are missing this. • When Ezra puts on his “abundance hat” (& says don’t over regulate LLMs), I see red. 030
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026I saw many minds of my generation have a child and then go work for Big Tech to ostensibly fund that child 0111
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026there are a lot unknowns in this space, but knowing him from DC days I know David to be a measured reliable narrator (I’ll trust the facts mentioned in this as actual facts) 133
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026Mazzy Star’s Fade Into You playing in the background 070
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...jewishcurrents.orgWhat PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in PublishingMisleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression… 822484
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026little nonsense posts that barely contain any information are good for your feed and good for your soul 2182
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026this is the way to be anti/difficult/contrarian nowadays, I found it 010
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsForest Gregg @bunkum.us · 06/10/2026a mysterious note to myself: "rewrite the top so it's about the bottom" 092
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026they're all like podcasts but ephemeral and communal 000
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 07/10/2026before my meetup was my talk show, then the bookclub was my talk show, now my class is my talk show you just have to have a venue and an audience, then you can invite the people you want to talk to, it is that easy 120
Reposted by Rebecca Williamsthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026you’re half right. these are my clowns, but this still isn’t my circus 2280790
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 06/10/2026he’s a great communicator and deserves it, but every event I go to mentions @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s “Enshitification” 1200 times; it feels bigger than “Surveillance Capitalism” as a slogan for the moment 050
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 06/10/2026I’m gonna fight the ceaseless deepfakes by being a singular real person and it’s gonna work 061
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 05/10/2026having the internet lead on the terminology makes it all funny “I’m a expert in slopolicy with some background in deepfake remedies and algos” 010
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 05/10/2026this is fascinating though, I generally understood that folks need related priors or direct exposure to change their mind, maybe trusting the computer is the prior, maybe chatting feels like direct exposure 160
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 05/10/2026get you an LLM that can make you believe crazy things and then talk you down after 160
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026two additional different stations, maybe they’re like this everywhere 2346
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026I love satisfying my little whims whenever I can, it clears the cache/makes discipline later so easy — I already got what I want 140
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/10/2026In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgCourt Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a TechnicalIn a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our 115046
Reposted by Rebecca Williamsamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 10/01/2025could a robot do THIS? [fails to identify all pictures with bicycles in them, four times in a row] 115515
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026I will be in DC for approximately 1 second for this, if you are going, see you there 280
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026If you need to teach a class on AI slop, you can get very far with these tags and the paper below which includes slopolicies (policy responses to slop). • www.404media.co/tag/ai-slop/ • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop 24513
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsJonathan Gerhardson @jongerhardson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026made a thing to search meeting minutes/agendas across ~1,700 cities and towns at once. I'll maybe make the design of it less of a slop fest tomorrow jongerhardson.github.io/municipal_pr... 1106
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsJohn Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026great thread of common-person resistence at the intersection of tech & gov't data 001
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026lovely, this series: www.theguardian.com/us-news/seri... not this story 010
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 03/10/2026all of these examples are just an opportunity to uncover some preexisting psychological wound that needs tending to here the headline should be Parents Strapped for Cash Who Lack Aesthetic Discernment Are Grifted by Opportunists 236195
Reposted by Rebecca WilliamsElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/10/2026Site-blocking isn’t just theoretically dangerous. Italy’s system blocked hundreds of innocent websites. Spain’s swept up domains belonging to Greenpeace and Harvard. Now Congress wants to bring this to the U.S. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgCongress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNsCongress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection 4162108
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 03/10/2026NYC is a beacon of light weird esoteric internet things that I am into are a beacon of light there are less legal beacons of light right now, Chatrie and this are it 131