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Writer, lawyer, and artist exploring the internet. Privacy @ACLU.org, Board @MuckRock.com, Teaching @Pratt.edu. Signal: rebecca.411 Everything else: rebeccawilliams.info

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Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 👍 9290 🔁 2099 💬 87 📌 34
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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

I didn’t have this on my identity bingo card (and i thought I had everything on there)

07.03.2026 02:17 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

wow, I’m almost excited about the chaos but this can’t be good

07.03.2026 02:15 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

whenever I am out in public experiencing luxury candles (which make everything feel like luxury) I think of the dril tweet

07.03.2026 02:12 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

might coin an enduring sociological term tonight, if I feel like it

07.03.2026 00:08 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

the vibe everywhere

06.03.2026 19:54 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

the vibe everywhere

06.03.2026 19:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

noted!

06.03.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve been thinking about pitching a Borders & the Internet class and every day there’s 7 examples I could add to it

06.03.2026 18:48 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

you have to write it on the board sometimes!

06.03.2026 18:46 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Daniel Schuman (@americalabs.org) is right, "We should be able to clearly see and understand who is donating" to presidential libraries and foundations.

But we can't, and the secrecy is a breeding ground for "graft and propaganda."

06.03.2026 18:03 👍 26 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

it’s a bummer to live a life mediated through channels that will turn you in

06.03.2026 17:06 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

transparency reports can tell you the breadth of disclosures, but also specific things like what data was shared (for Proton, if you’re at risk & want to use it, don’t set it up w/ identifiable payment methods) bsky.app/profile/cris...

06.03.2026 17:01 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

^ it’d be nice if the above guides had transparency reports for these tools to point to

Proton provided account owner information (via payment info) to Swiss authorities (MLAT) for someone associated w/ Stop Cop City & on another occasion
someone from the Democratic Tsunami movement

06.03.2026 16:52 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

There are many ways that NYC residents can fight to fund our public libraries:
1. Send a letter to your city council member (30 seconds): actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

04.03.2026 20:51 👍 170 🔁 82 💬 2 📌 0
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A trillion webpages, saved. 🌐

To mark the milestone, Internet Archive x @GrayArea.Org commissioned new net.art created from within the Archive’s vast collections.

Ex. “alive internet theory” by @spencerchang.me

Learn more ⤵️
blog.archive.org/internet-arc...

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#Wayback1T

18.02.2026 16:44 👍 285 🔁 58 💬 3 📌 4
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Impact on Instagram: "Emoji 🙂 chain ⛓️‍ texts 📱 are 💭 actually 🤷‍♀️ nothing ❌ new! 🆕 This style of communication was used hundreds of years ago across various cultures. Rebuses are puzzles that repl... 7,669 likes, 24 comments - impact on March 4, 2026: "Emoji 🙂 chain ⛓️‍ texts 📱 are 💭 actually 🤷‍♀️ nothing ❌ new! 🆕 This style of communication was used hundreds of years ago across various cultures....

I always say this www.instagram.com/impact/p/DVe...

04.03.2026 20:19 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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there is such a thing as a “good bumper sticker”

here are some examples:

04.03.2026 19:57 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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🙏

04.03.2026 17:14 👍 126 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

added some new privacy/opsec guides for organizers here (as always tell me what I am missing) are.na/rebecca-will...

04.03.2026 16:14 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

23.02.2026 21:43 👍 19286 🔁 2923 💬 344 📌 1
Red Ed.

good websites:

cal.red/plain
actions.nyc
nyc-noise.com

04.03.2026 03:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

getting curious about permacomputing

04.03.2026 03:22 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The National Police Index’s brand new website provides unprecedented public access to police employment records from across the United States and allows users to track law enforcement employment records across 24 states — searchable by officer name, agency, and more. national.cpdp.co/

03.03.2026 19:05 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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Requester’s Voice: The Invisible Institute’s Jamie Kalven In this conversation, we discuss Kalven’s landmark public records win in Kalven v. City of Chicago (2014), how AI can be used to analyze data received through FOIA and hopes for the future of the tran...

Maggie also interviewed Jamie Kalven, the founder of the Pulitzer Prize-winning @invisible.institute on how AI can be used to analyze data received through FOIA and hopes for the future of the transparency landscape. www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

26.02.2026 16:03 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

add this to your When Waymos Go Wrong list

02.03.2026 19:04 👍 51 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 0

I’m on a group chat with an astrologist (they are a mathematician by day) who tells the members of the chat how transits are affecting them and every week it’s “tough week for Rebecca” — it’s so funny & explains a lot

02.03.2026 19:01 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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actually no, I’m gonna double down and only use my ig art account for art like originally intended, you should follow it www.instagram.com/rebeccawilli...

01.03.2026 03:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

used ig like it was bluesky today for some inexplicable reason

it’d be fun to shift every app, use linkedin like it was the group chat, tiktok like it’s bluesky, etc, keep everyone on their toes

28.02.2026 20:09 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

but I’ve been doing this today and it’s incredible, cloud 9

27.02.2026 19:01 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0