A digital surveillance bill dressed as yet another child safety bill was introduced April 13 with bipartisan support.
H.R. 8250 is MUCH WORSE than KOSA because it's at the OS level. You will have to submit your own PII, probably including biometric data…
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#USpolitics #CurrentEvents
So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
I'll plug this. While Bob McKnight's work fell a bit outside of my sphere of experience growing up, knowing the depth of his legacy even adjacently now is enough to make its preservation absolutely top priority, especially during this ongoing period of unspeakable larceny against our industry
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I miss the time when I tried resprite Undertale
( How tf do you make a back sprites, help 😭 )
Besides which, if parents really don't want their kids having access to certain platforms, or whatever - those are boundaries and rules for them to set in their own homes.
call them reps
So, you are just trying to backdoor your way into speech regulation by making the product liable for whatever harm. There’s a part of me that buys this, but Casey, I know you think you can pull the two apart. CN: I agree that this is tricky and we should be careful and lawsuits are often not the best way to work through this stuff, because in general, I would rather have lawmakers and policymakers writing really careful versions of this. At the same time, why is infinite scroll speech? Why are streaks speech? Why is autoplay video speech? At a certain point, you can get yourself all the way to like, “Why do we make Ford put seatbelts on their cars? You’re compelling speed.” No, you’re compelling a seatbelt. You should be able to compel product safety features once it becomes clear that you actually have a product safety issue.
This is very silly, no one is saying infinite scroll is "speech", we're saying that these features are only "problematic" for their ability to deliver speech, and it's speech u have an issue w not the feature. We know that bc a zillion other apps have the exact features and u have no issue w them!
Yes, they are trying.
Don't let them.
Report that the Catholic Cardinal of Jerusalem has been prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday mass for the first time in centuries by the Israeli police.
This looks grim. But it’s also an interesting test for all the grifters who use the meaningless phrase ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as a euphemism for hatred of Muslims.
Many in MEMPHIS are pointing out this @DailyMemphian headline runs cover for what actually happened, which was the police escalating for no reason
GLP-1 drugs are saving lives and AI is provably killing people so how about "no" and furthermore "go fuck yourself"
Im somewhat having the same problem
There will probably be a hearing on Section 230 tomorrow. As always, call your reps and tell them to oppose any attempt to repeal or change Section 230.
Don't sunset Section 230 you old piece of shit. How about you pass a fucking privacy law as well as antitrust reform instead.
Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:
A single panel comic of Barret Wallace from FF7 disgustedly gesturing to a screenshot from nvidia’s atrocious DLSS 5 slop showcase, showing a photo of what was once Grace Ashcroft from Resident Evil Requiem standing in a dark foggy street, but now is a generic yassified AI model standing in a flatly lit Instagram environment. Barret’s text box reads “We’re killin’ the planet for THIS shit?”.
I fear we’re gonna get a lot of mileage out of this Barret meme.
i oppose KOSA and i hope you will talk to your less politically engaged friends and family about why they should too
#privacy #savespeech #censorship
don't stop, never stop rising a fuss about your freedoms, your privacy, your rights, it only makes it easier to find allies
KOSA Laws don't protect children, they attack them.
And, as a handy bonus, they create lists of people who are too old for the people who write KOSA laws. Because these are pro-pedophile laws.
#savespeech #notodigitalID #NOTOOSAGEVERIFICATION
So due to the hearing date being moved to March 25 & 26, witness slips OPPOSING HB 5511 might be invalidated
I suggest everyone resubmit for both hearing dates here:
ilga.gov/Legislation/...
File as "opposition," "self," & "witness only"
They don't really care exactly what you say. You're leaving a message, sending an email, taking to a staffer. They'll record your sentiment; they're not taking extensive notes.
....well I should've figured
the cool new Flash alternative? vibecoded AI slop made with Claude, ie chat gpt with a less embarrassing veneer
what a goddamn shame. The actual flash is available to download and run as abandonware these days, here:
animatearchive.neocities.org?home
