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Kat Duffy

@rightsduff.bsky.social
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Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 30/08/2026
"In addition to Fort and Lemon, the DHS also sought information on the YouTube accounts for the left-leaning outlet Democracy Now, conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and an independent journalist named Brendan Gutenschwager."
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sixtyish y-o male doctor whose pant size was ~46x32. sternly lecturing me, a thirty year-old woman, ~size 12, who ran 4-6 miles 4x a week, with ideal cholesterol and BP readings, and a BMI of 30, “Our top priority has to be getting your weight under control. You are dangerously, morbidly obese.”
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/07/2026
Ben and I are the final act of TrustCon with a live Ctrl-Alt-Speech, today at 4. Joined by special guests @rightsduff.bsky.social & @zoedarme.bsky.social. If you're at TrustCon don't miss it. And if you can track down Ben or I, we have gifts for listeners...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Good. And already the case in New York City.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🇺🇳 NEWS --> the UN Human Rights Council today approved new special rapporteurs, including Leopoldo Maldonado, an inspired choice for freedom of expression. Polo, director of @article19mxca.bsky.social for many years, has helped lead the fight for media freedom and journalist protection in Mexico. 🙌
letter from president of human rights council proposing new special rapporteurs, which the council approved today
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@samidh.bsky.social and I are releasing CoPE-B today, the next version of our policy-adaptive content classifier. It delivers at-or-better-than-frontier classification while being self-hostable, faster, and cheaper to run. Full writeup with benchmarks at blog.zentropi.ai/meet-cope-b-.... 🧵 1/9
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Meet CoPE-B: Frontier-Quality Content Classification You Can Self-Host
TL;DR: * Today we're releasing CoPE-B, our next-gen small language model for policy-adaptive content classification * CoPE-B-A4B (text-only) is open weights under Apache 2.0 and free to use * CoPE...
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
IT’S GOULASH FOR DINNER, KIDS!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Beautifully written and well worth the read.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The terms under which American AI tools are deployed in warfare are being set by some men in a room, with no democratic input and no durability beyond the next change in political winds, Kat Duffy (@rightsduff.bsky.social) writes.
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Anthropic’s Standoff With the Pentagon Is a Test of U.S. Credibility
The terms under which American AI tools are deployed in warfare are being set by some men in a room, with no democratic input.
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
(1) The Anthropic–Pentagon standoff isn’t mainly about AI, surveillance, or defense contracting. It’s about the exercise of executive power — and what happens when that power bypasses process. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/anthropic-pe...
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Anthropic’s Standoff With the Pentagon Is a Test of U.S. Credibility
The terms under which American AI tools are deployed in warfare are being set by some men in a room, with no democratic input.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
What's next in the fight between the DOD and Anthropic? Join us on Wednesday, March 4, to hear from leading experts @adamconner.bsky.social, Frank Kendall, and @rightsduff.bsky.social. www.americanprogress.org/events/wha…
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What’s Next in the Fight Between the Department of Defense and Anthropic
Join CAP for an event with leading experts on AI and defense to find out what is going to happen next between the DOD and Anthropic.
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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
1/ The dispute between Anthropic and DOD over the limits of using AI in warfare is escalating. I’ll have more to say on what these limits should be in a @brennancenter.org report out next month. But for now, here’s what you need to know, and what’s truly at stake 🧵: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...
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Defense Dept. and Anthropic Square Off in Dispute Over A.I. Safety
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 30/01/2026
Please support Molly’s vital work. She’s been core to shaping policy for the better, grounded the discussion for so many technologies in facts instead of fantasy, and done work that billion-dollar media orgs have overlooked. Independent tech journalism is more crucial than ever.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/01/2026
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
America's digital empire has a trust problem. U.S. hyperscalers' future may depend less on the commercial deals they strike and more on their commitment to protect the democracy that made their global dominance possible. My latest for @wpr.bsky.social www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-hyperscal...
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America’s Digital Empire Has a Trust Problem
One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, foreign nations are increasingly skittish about their dependence on U.S. tech companies.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
One year into Trump’s second term, foreign nations are increasingly skittish about their dependence on U.S. tech companies, Kat Duffy (@rightsduff.bsky.social) writes.
worldpoliticsreview.com
America’s Digital Empire Has a Trust Problem
One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, foreign nations are increasingly skittish about their dependence on U.S. tech companies.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A recent attack on Anthropic represents the dawn of a new era for AI agents in cyberattacks, Kat Duffy (@rightsduff.bsky.social) writes.
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China’s AI-Powered Anthropic Hack Is Just the Beginning
The breakneck pace of AI advances means the future is consistently arriving ahead of schedule—for better and for worse.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 18/11/2025
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive:

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6,204,444 followers
Promoted
We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al.

WELCOME TO
NVIDIA

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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If editors were ever to unite as a group to demand recognition and pay raises for the mission critical role they play at publications like, say, The New Yorker, Politico, New York Magazine, or Esquire — well, today would be a good day for that. Tip of the hat, ya’ll. SMDH.
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hell is EdTech
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
BREAKING @knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended. 1/2
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA. I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better. She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Two Supreme Court Cases That Could Break the Internet
A cornerstone of life online has been that platforms are not responsible for content posted by users. What happens if that immunity goes away?
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Exceptional, important, and well worth the watch. Come for the defense of free speech and stay for the turtle.
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
While terrible, this is entirely unsurprising. If you hold serious safety efforts in contempt, this sort of thing is inevitable.
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‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾‍♀️
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Someone behind me is arguing intensely that 7×5 = 35, and I am so curious about the origin of this fight.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I’m out of words.
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
One of the tiny but great joys in life: a cookbook you’ve used so often and loved so well that it effortlessly flops open to your favorite recipes. ❤️
Image of the cooks illustrated cookbook.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 31/08/2025
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
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‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences
The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
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Mike Rifer @thelifeofrifer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Periodic reminder that Trump decimated the National Park Service’s staffing and budget, and the GOP imposed a $1 billion budget cut on D.C. municipal services. That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)"
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Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6. How will the next legally required transition of power go?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The most unrealistic aspect of War of the Worlds has gotta be that everyone is just out there answering Teams calls with no issues. Can you imagine how awful it would be to navigate the end of the world…on TEAMS?!??!
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This is not the slightest bit surprising and it began prior to Trump coming back to power. As the idiot AG of Missouri was pursuing Missouri v Biden, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal sued me and my colleagues with the same forum-shopped judge and plaintiffs. Wake up: it’s a machine.
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If I’d taken a shot every time I wrote the word “multistakeholder” (or some derívate thereof) today, I would - well, I’d be dead, probably. Very dead. Terrible way to go.
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 14/07/2025
The world’s first anti-deepfake wearable is here👀 Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now) Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com
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The Box — The World's First Anti-Deepfake Wearable
Feel safe in public again. Our elegant, full-size wearable has you covered.
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Paging @waldo.net. I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. 🤢
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
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Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy
Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Heading out on a weekend trip to camp visiting day and I have two novels, a full manuscript to review, and about 40 reports queued up, because I may possibly have six entire hours of reading time combined. Clearly this makes sense.
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is the type of GOOD news I'm here for in 2025. Congrats @dwillner.bsky.social and @samidh.bsky.social!
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"I'm calling on VOIP through a VPN"
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Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Ofcom tomorrow morning.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 28/07/2025
t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.
Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids
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