Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 16/12/2025Not exactly a "Who Targets Me Wrapped", but a bit of a round up of what we've been working on over the last few months of 2025 (and are looking forward to in 2026): fulldisclosure.whotargets.me/p/who-target...fulldisclosure.whotargets.meWho Targets Me in 2025: What we’ve been working onNew tools, UK electoral policy proposals, a book, and our plans for tracking digital campaigns worldwide in 2026 053
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The richest man in the world nodding along to @cumlasagna1 962057283
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 16/12/2025omg have we finally achieved Adtech Bluesky???? where can I find it??? 120
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social 163093477
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential 62143854040
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 06/08/2025me (trying to sound normal): ah, i just help look for lost cats sometimes 🥰 also me (holding a $1000 thermal hunting scope irresponsibly bought specifically to find cats): 2808569796
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I mean privacy aside (and this is /me/ saying "privacy aside" y'all), this sounds like literally the worst coffee meeting in the history of coffee meetings. I don't know any of these people and I know everything I need to know about them from this paragraph and I am already miserable by proxy. 4368
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/08/2025I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer. 834493958
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2025and it’s so *articulate* about what it says I’m feeling!!!! Surely that counts! 020
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2025it’s just so much easier to outsource any kind of mildly uncomfortable introspection to a robot who can do your soul-searching for you!!! 140
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I don't think there's much use in asking users of a social network to behave differently — platforms are too big for norms like that, people mostly aren't posting to debate — but similar charges of meanness/insularity accompanied Twitter's rise, and arguably described a reason people *liked* it! 8906
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵 308145223315
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025great point from @maxread.info regarding "regarding white genocide," and one that relates to the weird ChatGPT sycophancy thing from the other week: crude interventions like this break the AI illusion maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-... 37824
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/05/2025*crab-walked 405170842873
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025have i been missing out on croissant trees all this time 1470
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/05/2025The Problem With Young Men is that they don't have 24/7 wake island bf1942 64 player servers where they can healthily engage with peers and mentors 621026161
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025man why’d you need to point that out 050
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025this means we gotta start calling any other social interaction an IRL-ationship 030
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025thebeemagazine.com/terminus/thebeemagazine.comTerminus**“So if you ask me what motivates me to write about buses, it’s that so little attention is paid to the significance they have for people who have no other means of getting around. The quality of the... 073
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025who has *time* to read all those papers????? 020
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025if you think they’re not just running that shit through some kind of LLM you’re out of your mind 130
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/04/2025When you buy groceries, who benefits more, you or the supermarket? It's... sort of a weird question, isn't it? 911517
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025this would be so funny if it was happening to anyone else 110
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025i only hope someone hires me before these get into lil bub territory 1110
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025nobody did! i had to keep it “””under wraps””” 170
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025and then you need to launch into a tirade about cheems supremacy 2160
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025the worst part of being DOGE’d is needing to explain the entire meme history to your parents when they ask why the hell you were laid off 323715
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025There is some good news. Like Mr. Rogers says, look to the helpers, such as @teslatakedown.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 14961117
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 04/04/2025god I’m so sick of living in “unprecedented times” 0290
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/12/2024The use of Mozilla's "do not track" feature was apparently, instead, *Able To Be Used As A Metric By Which To Track People*. Y'know, eventually my brain is just going to flash boil and shoot out my ears as steam like I'm a cartoon. 13423151
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/12/2024There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...digitaldefensefund.orgGuide to Abortion Privacy — Digital Defense Fund 19748515
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 14/03/2024This is some great forensics work 131
Reposted by shoshana wodinsky (she/her)Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/12/2023I think about this a lot www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-jonath... 231020223
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2023the funniest part of this article imo is how yahoo gets *so close* to articulating why this idea is terrible, while also describing how they’re confidently barreling ahead w/ it anyway 060
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2023turns out i’m not insane lol www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/t... 250
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2023reposting from the other site: am i insane, or did google get a ton of flack for doing p much exactly this in like 2017 www.adexchanger.com/ai/yahoos-ne... 1111
shoshana wodinsky (she/her) @swodinsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2023reposting from the other site: am i insane, or did google get a ton of flack for doing p much exactly this in like 2017 010
