Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 06/03/2026None of that turns the speaker into a therapist, doctor, lawyer, or financial advisor. 281
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 06/03/2026But a law that treats any discussion touching those subjects as potentially the “practice” of a licensed profession arms plaintiff attorneys to interrogate any output as possibly giving "information" that a licensed professional would give. 181
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 06/03/2026People recommend diet changes, share workout routines, explain how to dispute a parking ticket, or talk through whether someone might be depressed. 181
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Friends talk about relationship problems. Coworkers give each other career advice. Someone posts about anxiety online and strangers respond with coping strategies. 181
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Wrong, @jmiers230.bsky.social is right here. Forums are full of this kind of speech, friends and family exchange it too. Personally, I've found a lot of my medical issues on forums first and an LLM just helped me overcome a major mistake made by a doctor. Gatekeeping information is not good. 3152
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 20/04/2025If you care so much why won't you pay me for the desired outcome? 0150
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 20/04/2025For $20,000 I'll agree to go. Please write a check to my office. 5250
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Really good @schatz.bsky.social interview. IMO it's underrated how forthcoming he is about his own thinking, which I think is a good thing for people to know about who represents them. Also appreciate how he resists confirmation bias www.politico.com/news/magazin...politico.comBrian Schatz to Democrats: Please, Stop With 'Center' and 'Making Space'As the Hawaii senator charts his path up the Senate hierarchy, he reflects on his party’s major challenges. 5332
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I love shitposting, but for R Street Institute I oversee all our digital and manage a lot of social media. Another Twitter-type platform is exhausting, but I hate to lose out on people here who I like a lot too! Twitter is more important for work at the moment but here is increasingly too 14691
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 22/11/2024ALRIGHT I'll be here too sometimes I am so tired 211183
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/06/2024Thinking a bit more about this and... really, kinda amazed that no one at OpenAI thought that maybe this might look really bad at this particular time. Like, read the room. 5886
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 21/05/2024Repealing Section 230 without a plan to replace it is a bipartisan idea—and a terribly reckless one. www.wsj.com/articles/buy... @wyden.senate.gov ilysm and need u to know i have an ungodly amount of s230 jewelrywsj.com 2328
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 09/05/2024Sorry/you’re welcome 433423
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 09/05/2024I came here to tell @wyden.senate.gov that i came up with a genius idea. Then I found an FTC report on that idea. Turns out that report was mandated by the CAN SPAM Act 20 years ago. Who wrote that, I wondered Love to be beaten to an idea by Wyden by 20 freaking years 2850
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Moist Owlet (Flushable) @g-sharp-major.bsky.social · 26/03/2024When someone proposes to @senatorshoshana.bsky.social 0112
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 28/03/2024I'm so sorry I haven't been on here more - I really want to but I'm so underwater with tech legislation and I reach more electeds on Twitter :( I want to be here! But we'll see 7390
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 26/03/2024get thee to @rstreet.bsky.social's series by @senatorshoshana.bsky.social "The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation" and inject it into thy veins www.rstreet.org/commentary/t...rstreet.orgThe Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation - R Street InstituteState and federal legislators across the country are introducing well-intentioned, but flawed, legislation to protect kids from what they perceive as harm from social media. This legislation would, or... 1206
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 16/11/2023Hey all! I'm really sorry I'm not here more but I'm just so slammed with work these days that keeping up all the accounts is pain. But I wanted to share here -- for all those mad at Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity, uh check out all the age verification laws/proposals being enacted 411433
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 16/11/2023Those outraged at Haley’s comments would do well to look at how Congress and the states are already violating our rights with similar proposals at this very moment. @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrstreet.orgHere's what is wrong with Nikki Haley's proposal to end online anonymity - R Street InstituteThis analysis is based on breaking news and has been updated. To connect with the author, please e-mail pr@rstreet.org. Presidential candidate Nikki Haley recently received extensive backlash for a p... 0179
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 14/11/2023In ACLU v. Mukasey, the Third Circuit found that COPA was impermissibly vague for various reasons, including not defining the standard of “knowingly.” A current federal proposal similarly does not define a “knowingly” standard. @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrstreet.orgCurrent age-verification methods threaten our First Amendment rights beyond anonymity - R Street Ins...Current conversations around age verification often forget that the United States has tried to mandate age verification several times in the past. Throughout these previous attempts, the Supreme Court... 043
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 10/11/2023Current laws and proposals would endanger minors’ access to health information @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialtechdirt.comSocial Media Was Useful For Me, As An Ill, Nerdy TeenagerLately, concerns about allowing minors to use social media have been front and center in the public discourse, but ways in which they use it productively have been absent from the conversation. My … 112
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Under the pure text of this legislation there are four scenarios in which verifying whether a person has used the pilot program to confirm their age is permissible—and sometimes, that is all it would take to unmask a user. @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrstreet.orgSocial media platforms and age verification services can also be connected to existing data and serv...Much of the concern with how age verification methods remove anonymity online applies not only to hackers and to the way in which it chills speech, but also to the government itself. Any level of remo... 023
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 07/11/2023"Even something as simple as filling out a form that will be filed in court may constitute the practice of law, which usually precludes non-lawyers from giving assistance." rtp.fedsoc.org/paper/the-wo... @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrtp.fedsoc.orgThe World Needs More Lawyers - Regulatory Transparency ProjectExperts identify problems and suggest improvements to federal, state, and local regulations, improving life for small businesses and ordinary people. 011
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 01/11/2023"Turning America’s children into federal criminals in the name of protecting them would be a clear policy and moral failure." @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrstreet.orgRegimes that run age verification through the government would allow prosecutors to make children fe...As already discussed in this series, the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would create a pilot program, run by the U.S. Department of Commerce, for use by social media companies that opt in to ve... 021
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy @egall.bsky.social · 26/10/2023Next veto: HB337, a licensing-related bill that passed the House unanimously. I guess what happened here was Sununu was just synthesizing the @jerusalem.bsky.social "actually public input is bad" take with the @senatorshoshana.bsky.social "actually professional licensure is bad" take... 111
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 24/10/2023Various levels of court precedent have upheld the rights of Americans to speak freely and anonymously online. But tying one’s full identity to accounts which they wish to remain anonymous will have a serious chilling effect. @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrstreet.orgR Street Institute Concerns about the Kids Online Safety Act - R Street InstituteThe Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is being marked up in the Senate Commerce Committee this week. Despite bipartisan opposition from over 90 human rights, LGBTQ+ and free-market groups, and a failure b... 065
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 20/10/2023"The court in ACLU v. Gonzales added that age verification also deters 'many users who are not willing to access information non-anonymously … from accessing the desired information.'” @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrstreet.orgCurrent age-verification methods threaten our First Amendment rights beyond anonymity - R Street Ins...Current conversations around age verification often forget that the United States has tried to mandate age verification several times in the past. Throughout these previous attempts, the Supreme Court... 041
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social · 19/10/2023"Some may be skeptical that children would be held accountable in court for violation of laws meant to protect them. However, consider examples around the common practice of teen 'sexting.'" @senatorshoshana.bsky.socialrstreet.orgRegimes that run age verification through the government would allow prosecutors to make children fe...As already discussed in this series, the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would create a pilot program, run by the U.S. Department of Commerce, for use by social media companies that opt in to ve... 033
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥grooveholmes.bsky.social @grooveholmes.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Him: *asks you about experiences with sexual assault* You: what's your farm put out? Him: Whoa whoa whoa that's personal we just met 1305
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Yesterday a guy got into a shared rideshare with me, and shook my hand. So I knew it was going to be a whole thing. He wanted to talk and during the course of the conversation asked if I've ever been sexually assaulted. He then asked me to have lunch with him 25615
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 16/10/2023The House is releasing smoke after days of deliberation, showing they made their pick. The problem is that that's how you pick a POPE NOT A SPEAKER. Gonna be another few weeks at LEAST. 350
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 15/10/2023"I didn't vote for 'im!" 5110
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 15/10/2023New Substack that people have asked me to write about for years. Here's how I went from near immobility to hiking 14ers Hiking 14ers with Three Stooges Syndromeshoshanasummits.substack.comHiking 14ers with Three Stooges SyndromeFrom immobility to endurance hiking. Here's my journey. 2141
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 13/10/2023www.instagram.com/p/CyV68EDOXE... 3100
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 13/10/2023NEW: My first piece in @bloomberg.com Law on occupational licensing reform for lawyers!! We Can Improve Access to Justice With More Paths to Law Practice news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/... 1111
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 12/10/2023I have been pondering this a full 24 hours lmao. Why is he standing up? 262
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 12/10/2023Turns out Menenzed has been running a Pyramid scheme 6161
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 12/10/2023I have 3 people I'm mentoring just out of college looking for policy jobs! 2 in DC, 1 wants to be in tech policy and the other wants to do int'l human rights/tech/trade but is flexible 1 in Wisconsin, has GREAT brain for tech policy All center-right but not super partisan Reply w jobs for them ❤️ 043
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/10/2023So, look, Musk is an idiot and has put in place policies that definitely encourage disinfo on exTwitter, but @thierrybreton.bsky.social sending smug "censor or else!" letters is garbage. EU taking pages from the Chinese censorship playbook is a problem. www.techdirt.com/2023/10/11/s...techdirt.comSure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding CensorshipSome of us have been warning about the dangers of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in the EU for quite some time, and pointed out that Elon Musk was effectively endorsing censorship in May of 2022 (a… 3317632
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/10/2023"Something must be done" does not mean that censorship will work. 1163
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Judge Stephen Dillard @judgedillard.bsky.social · 11/10/2023If you pass the bar, are awarded tenure, run a marathon, or accomplish any other significant life goal, and I see your tweet noting that achievement, I am going to congratulate you—even if I don’t know you. We need to encourage and celebrate each other. 2650953
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2023DUNE part 2 (2024) bsky.app/profile/sena... 513012
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥The Handlen, The Zack, And The Crypt @zhandlen.bsky.social · 11/10/2023GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE: 1315
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 11/10/2023God Emperor of Dune (1981) 094
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 11/10/2023 3301
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 11/10/2023The final boss of hiking 1419718
Reposted by Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social · 10/10/2023Spot on from @caseynewton.bsky.social 161024281
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana.bsky.social · 19/09/2023OKAY I'm back from hiking. It was heaven. But now I'll be back here more. I also have a new Substack. Not writing for its own sake. But niche, specific hiking knowledge about performance, guides, recovery, and more My first: Depression at altitude and why creatine may be the answershoshanasummits.substack.comDepression at altitude and why creatine may be the answer"Our studies thus indicate that improving brain energetic function by treatment with bioenergetic compounds such as CRMH may be a valid approach to improving MDD status at altitude." 3150
