Talita Pessoa

This is exactly right.

Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.

We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.

Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.

sigh

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

God bless America 💛💙💚

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

I don’t think he code switched once, for real. Respect. 🫡

Sign me up for that america

Leave it like this! Fall of empire! Wabi sabi! Don't fix a damn thing.

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Beyond the Hype: Making Sense of Generative AI’s Rapid Evolution

Join our livestream on Thurs, Feb 19th at 1pm ET for a conversation w/ authors Maggie Engler and Numa Dhamani.

We'll explore the evolving landscape of AI development, risk, and governance, and what it means to engage with these systems responsibly.

events.zoom.us/ev/Aq2Z31mYy...

‘Red team’ students stress-test NYC health department’s AI | Cornell Chronicle People usually strive to be their true, authentic selves, but this fall, five master’s students at Cornell Tech adopted not only alter egos but also “bad intent,” in an effort to make AI safer for hea...

Hello!

This is a reminder that @cornelltech.bsky.social runs a Red Team Clinic that provides a *free* safety consultation to nonprofits / public sector orgs that are developing a public-facing AI tool and want to stress-test it for possible abuse vectors.

Applications welcome on a rolling basis:

This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.

How *should* age verification technologies balance risks to rights and important child safety goals? Here's what we think: #AgeVerifyFTC

One of the weirder dialogues since 2016 has been the “is it Fascism or not?” thing. It’s not like categorizing terrible shit activates some secret option to fight the terrible shit. I don’t know what the “technically not Fascism yet” crowd has been waiting for when *pre* Fascism *is* the *crisis*!

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

A mom who wrote poems, a preschooler with a Spider-Man backpack , a nurse who cared for veterans — these are the people they’re afraid of.

one thing about immigration reporting at this particular moment is many US news organizations actively do not interview or hire non-Americans and the ones who do, don't make it easy for them to stay in the country, don't understand the process or constant stress or consider it a "bias"

Woodblock snowscene of Tokyo about a century ago. Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920, from Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)]

All this impending snow.
Reminds me that now we enter into the 24th of 24 micro-seasons: “Greater Cold” #大寒 - the coldest period of the year. Yet also, a period anticipating the beginning of spring and the warmth of the coming lunar new year.

[Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920]

Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills

“Pillars of international law designed to regulate collective security, discipline world trade and promote human rights are being undermined all at once,” argues Celso Amorim. “The erosion, once begun, is hard to reverse” econ.st/4benDjP

Illustration: Dan Williams

Isabel Linzer (@isabelalinzer.bsky.social) Elections & democracy @ CDT. Probably posting about human rights, tech, authoritarianism, transnational repression, etc. Opinions my own.

The U.S.’s withdrawal from dozens of international multistakeholder fora is a serious misstep. In a new Lawfare op-ed, CDT’s Aliya Bhatia & I@isabelalinzer.bsky... warn it undermines human rights, global governance, and U.S. strategic interests. www.lawfaremedia.org...

"Researchers found that Yoti’s app and website are filled with trackers, so the fact that you’re verifying your age could be not only shared to Yoti, but leaked to third-party data brokers as well."

How Digital Sovereignty Will Lead to The Slow and Fast Erosion of The Internet Sovereignty is not a synonym for autonomy; it is instead the uncompromising authority to impose a single will upon others.

Stop whatever you're doing and read @farzdusa.bsky.social rejoinder to "digital sovereignty" at @futurefreespeech.org's Bedrock Principle: