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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's International Access to Information Day. Article 19 says you have the right to seek and receive information. The platforms say you have the right to see what the algorithm picks for you. I wrote about Australia's attempt to change that. alt-text.eu/my-feed-my-w... #RightToKnow #IDUAI

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Australia's "My Feed, My Way" Reform & Algorithmic Control

Australia's proposed Digital Duty of Care introduces "My Feed, My Way". We examine algorithmic feeds, user agency, and lessons from the EU DSA.

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

thanks Australia for subsidising Belgium's drinking habits

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At DW Akademie's event "Solutions for Independent Journalism in the Age of AI".. So much optimism about the future of journalism here. But turning that optimism into a sustainable reality raises a few questions: - What regulation do we actually need to protect public-interest media? #AI

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—compressed to run cheaply. USC's Emilio Ferrara argues this compression is treated as a safety nonevent, when it should be treated as a change to the deployed system. This has policy implications, he says.

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The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship

Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—with under-appreciated ramifications for AI safety, writes Emilio Ferrara.

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@edzitron.com just listening to your podcast and an ad for michael rapaport's podcast was played before everything. i'd check that out

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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom @ecpmf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

👀 ECPMF is #hiring a Digital Comms Intern to support content for our social media channels, websites and newsletters while gaining practical experience in communications for a European press freedom org. Apply by 22 June: ecpmf-sce-mbh.jobs.personio.de/job/2648080?...

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

looks like Objection AI has put the coming soon page on. Wonder what happened...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Mpls Emergency Mgmt Director Sayre: "I can't underscore enough how much Operation Metro Surge is impacting our city. Families with loved ones detained and those who are afraid to be in public lneed help accessing most basic necessities, like food, housing, rides to school. Businesses are shuttering"

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/01/2026

His brother's a billionaire, so he's practically slumming it at "only" $600k. Common Sense Media should stick to their useful guides for parents, and stay out of trying to push regulations they don't understand.

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Media Diversity Institute @mediadiversity.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

@yungonion.bsky.social from @mediadiversity.bsky.social spoke at #WPFD2025 on two key panels: one on uplifting migrant voices through the MigraVoice platform, and another on rising threats to media freedom in Georgia, including FARA. Press freedom needs action now. #MediaFreedom #MigraVoice #Georgia

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Miazia Schueler says "Knowing what I know, if I was to take a neutral stance on tech, I would be complicit" and urges us to further #techliteracy MDI session Open season on the oppressed: can diversity survive? @journalismfestival.com #perugia

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

masculine energy = less protection for your flock

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 05/02/2025

One reason I have so much respect for Rachel is because she is driven by a real understanding of democracy I’ve heard Rachel talk about her time in Tunisia watching a democracy collapse in real-time before. This is something that shapes her journalism and one of the reasons she’s so fearless

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/02/2025

Worth reading.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions. "About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors." dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

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Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroup

Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government. Photo: DCMediaGroup Washingt...

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 17/01/2025

"If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires." #FreeOurFeeds custodians @eli.bsky.social & Deepti Doshi explain why enriching & protecting the AT protocol is essential for a billionaire-proof web: www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...

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We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

pretty gross. xitter's notifications screen gives me andrew tate (whom i have never followed) updates. haven't checked it in a long time but it's time to nuke the account

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Who thinks there'll be 50% less journalism jobs in 10 years?

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

As someone who has a PhD in studying misinformation, I can professionally say that this is a fucking stupid idea.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵

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WIRED @wired.com · 04/12/2024

At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success. Read more: www.wired.com/story/big-in...

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Mollusk never did anything quietly. Forbes is really le pire.

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

Musk's lawsuit against GARM was always a meritless #SLAPP suit painted as an #antitrust one www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/242...

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Ad group sued by Elon Musk reportedly disbands

Chilling effect go brr!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

This is the equivalent of your dealer saying "maybe you should try talking to someone"

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Luc Steinberg @yungonion.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

This is so true of everyone I know who subscribes to conspiracy fictions: "If a story is either plausible or proved, it seems, they don’t want to know." Also the part about freeing us from civic responsibility bc they frame the problem as remote. Great read! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’: George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist

Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

Here's the letter that @knightcolumbia.org just sent to President Shafik about free speech at Columbia (with corrected URL) knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-...

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 09/03/2024

Granted, it was written in a...simpler...time (2002), but man oh man did the author of this student comment get this one wrong.

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