From Aracelis Girmay's book, Kingdom Animalia: bookshop.org/a/862/9781934414620

#poem #booksky #writing

Tech Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175% Published Wed, Apr 15 20269:25 AM EDTUpdated 1 Min Ago thumbnail Lola Murti @in/lolamurti/ @lolavkm Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email Allbirds made a surprising announcement Wednesday that it is pivoting to artificial intelligence. Shares of the company were up as much as 200% pre-market.

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

Uber is an awful lot of being in cars you can't afford driven by people who deserve benefits and a union and a living wage that they don't receive.

For LGBTQ+ People in Egypt, the Internet is Both a Lifeline and a Trap - Untold Social media offers connection for queer Egyptians, but also exposes them to surveillance, entrapment, and harassment under expanding cybercrime laws

When companies underinvest in T&S in non-EN langs, they're only exacerbating existing vectors of risk posed to the communities speaking those languages. This is laid bare in @untoldmag.org on the coupling of online and offline risks to LGBTQ+ communities in Egypt untoldmag.org/egypt-lgbtq-...

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holy shit he actually conceded

folks, they tell you they’re invincible

they tell you they’re inevitable

they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting

and absolutely none of that is true

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

A fundamental friction exists between secure messaging apps and the OSes upon which they sit. Turn off push notifications for Signal or at least restrict their content.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

new yorker headline: THIS EASTER, AN AMERICAN POPE CONFRONTS AN AMERICAN WAR

*movie trailer guy voice*

Coisa mais linda de se ver 😍

Pls help spread the word:

"Scholarships are open to investigative reporters & editors living & working in Africa, Latin America (Central & S. America & the Caribbean), and Asia."

journalism.columbia.edu/summer-inves...

(And, yes, I'll be teaching the Reasoning About Risk & Security session.)

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

I'm glad someone is calling out this trend. It's particularly pernicious in tech.

Illinois and Iowa US Senators back ending law that offers protections for internet platform providers, claiming companies are negatively impacting children Senators including Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin support legislation that would sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects internet providers from liability for content posted on their platforms. Communication professors and legal experts say the removal could stifle information sharing, as providers would face a deluge of lawsuits.

Doing away with Section 230 “and really removing a fundamental piece of architecture from the Internet is a really ham-handed blunderbuss way” of trying to address online child exploitation, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told WVIK. www.wvik.org/wvik-top-st...

A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

It's fucking heartbreaking seeing so many applications from aid workers in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East who were running incredible on-the-ground projects which all ended in 2025.

What DOGE did is unforgivable.

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It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

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