Daphne Keller

By contrast, I find the galloping digital horse on freedom.gov bizarrely mesmerizing.

Wanna join the fight against the spread of mandated online age restrictions? We have a whole resource page here: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

But @cgoanta.bsky.social is probably down there somewhere with a headlamp and knows exactly what's going on.

I can't even tell what is grift and what isn't down there.

YouTube Syndication Networks: What Google Actually Wants - Semantic Mastery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDk0Oxj9q48&feature=youtu.be

That's how I feel when I am researching a legal issue, reading cases, reading laws, reading TOSes maybe... and then suddenly all my search results start being about the mechanics of SEO and content production and attention and money.

Like this.

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Have you ever hiked in a snowy forest in springtime, and fallen through the snow in places where it has melted out from beneath (like around a fallen log)? And down beneath the neat white crust is all this mucky organic dirt and decaying leaves and bugs?

Like if that whole Faust thing was about making a bargain with someone incredibly persistent and annoying

I think the glasses that undress others still lie in the future? Or maybe that also is now. Huh.

I don’t hate tech and I actively like glasses. But, really. What were people expecting to happen?

Calif. lawsuit accuses Meta of sending nude video from AI glasses to workers An investigation by Swedish and Kenyan journalists prompted the lawsuit.

When you use Meta’s glasses, will anything you see — from documents you review to those super sexy hookups where you keep your stupid glasses on — potentially be reviewed by underpaid workers in Kenya?
🤷

Doh! Sorry. Sometimes I make some mental tradeoff and skip alt text on purpose but this time I just forgot.

Ignore if you are tired of hearing what's going on on X.

I go periodically to look at stuff, but am not active enough for real notifications. So today, right at the top of notifications, I got this loathsome garbage.

For that matter I’m pretty sure @rollingstone.com was, for a while during Trump’s first term, doing the best reporting out there about him pressuring social media companies to take content down.

I’m happy to subscribe all the same

tech journalism is a complicated category these days

Run The Jewels - JU$T [ft. Pharrell Williams and Zack de la Rocha] (Art Video) YouTube video by RunTheJewels

I like this one. Partly bc hearing Pharrell Williams in rage mode is a good reminder that artists contain multitudes.

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100%

I came to it via DJ Shadow and can only take so much RTJ at any given time. But this is the perfect combo.

I don’t think I have it in me to grift, but I bet I could be a great monster if I really tried.

The people at @wired.com are kicking ass. The people at @404media.co and @techdirt.com and @theverge.com are, too.

We should all be subscribing, donating, or in other ways GIVING THEM MONEY if they ask for it and we have it to give. Same goes for so many other journalists and news sources.

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?

I found him to be a perfectly nice young man.
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Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032 Epic CEO is muzzled.

Amazing. This is why you need the DMA. App developers shouldn't have to make deals written by Rumpelstiltskin to be able to effectively distribute on Big Tech platforms.

www.theverge.com/news/889595/...

“the bear is only a baby, but at the same time, it’s a bear” — this guy is basically describing YOU @natecardozo.bsky.social.

“written by Rumpelstiltskin” is 🤌

The genius annotation on this song is amazing.

DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels (Official Video) YouTube video by Mass Appeal

Since I have had this song in my head for like two months now, I would rephrase the little-known fact as “I will punch a baby bear in his shit”

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Probably not what you’re asking for but the last pic I took and zen by some definitions.

I believe my class slide called this “asset seizure with Austrian characteristics” and contrasted it with “asset seizure with Brazilian characteristics” aka taking money from Starlink to punish X.

We all owe SO much to John Peel

Heard of it enough to name check and then move on, apparently…

Exactly what I told my students to do!

The transatlantic battle over free speech EU efforts to regulate the digital sphere are under attack from the Trump administration and, increasingly, Silicon Valley

Quoted alongside the great @daphnek.bsky.social, @klonick.bsky.social, and @hutko.bsky.social in this Financial Times piece on 'The transatlantic battle over free speech' - www.ft.com/content/37d4... via @financialtimes.com