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The statement calls for confidential reporting, swift responses to harm, and age verification that protects privacy and access to services. It also calls for children’s participation, independent oversight and regular review. Read the statement: masaar.net/en/masaar-an...

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Many people ask me (and others) what career to have to have a job in the future. It's the wrong way to go about it. If you're the best at what you do, you'll likely be fine. Be the Marcel Marceau of your loved profession. time.com/partner-cont...

Absolutely required reading

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I didn't _quite_ paint every individual hair/scale on the wings, but I as good as did. 😮‍💨

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

After over four years of development, apkeep’s version 1.0.0 signifies the project as a stable tool in the toolbox researchers use to download and analyze Android apps. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Okay so – with a big caveat that we still need to write a lot more documentation – between the @roost.tools team, @dcallies.bsky.social and myself we've managed to ship a new documentation site for ThreatExchange / HMA: facebook.github.io/ThreatExchan...

Being on the TED stage has been one of the biggest thrills of my life. My TED talk is live! Please share widely! Predictions can be weapons of power, and we are being much too naive about them, from prediction markets to AI. #Prophecy www.ted.com/talks/cariss...

Manifest-declared protocol handlers just landed (behind a flag) in Chrome 146 🎉 This is how ipfs:// or atproto:// can become first-class citizens of the browser! The web that's coming is built on keys, hashes, and verifiable data. Browsers need to meet it there. ipfsfoundation.org/protocol-han...

“Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers.”

For all the folk using AI to automate away everything, including things you might actually enjoy doing yourself if you gave yourself the chance…please don't forget the Peter Principle. (Hat-tip to the amazing @sketchplanations.bsky.social)

you could keep googling “why does my cron job not work” OR you could get 15 Linux books for $60 and become the person with answers Linux, The Good Stuff on @humblebundle.com: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-good-stuff-no-starch-books Proceeds benefit @eff.org

Seen just now in Tacoma

The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.

I think I was 19 when I started studying US history for real and learned about the many cruelties the state visited upon people. Reading about how folks had picnics around burned and hung bodies and how people were murdered for knowing how to ready was hard, but necessary. It gave me perspective

This is a lovely short video from the Royal Society on why soil is one of the most amazing things on Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmJU... Beautifully done. And soil is our topic for this week's Rare Earth, so lots more on the joy, importance & surprises of soil will be coming soon. 🪱🌱🍄

Over the years, the same tools that were once celebrated as tools of dissent have become instruments for tracking, harassing, and prosecuting dissenters. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Omg??????? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

Vite's new plugin registry is live! 🎉 Browse @vite.dev, @rolldown.rs, and Rollup plugins from the teams and the community. Filter by version compatibility to find plugins that work with your setup. And if you are a maintainer, you can add your plugin easily too registry.vite.dev

It's not yet a formal proposal and it's still some uncertainly months away, but

I talked with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Alison Macrina, and Katie Clark about libraries as public infrastructure, contested political terrain, and spaces of possibility—and about what it means to fight for them in this fascistic moment.

Thrilled to be speaking about #Prophecy at the TED2026 conference in Vancouver — check it out! #TED #authors Join me!: tedtalks.social/carissav%C3%...

Paul's article prompted a long one from me: What is the purpose of protocols? connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-...

I bust out laughing because this is so absurdly racist. Cops attacked Fro, but the lawyer is trying to get him to sympathize with the cops who robbed him. The US is such a ridiculously nonsensical place.

Beautiful hand-drawn map of UK in Lord of the Rings / Tolkien style by Reddit user: u/NACHODYNAMYTE www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comme...

Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...

So, it’s still fuck all of y’all that voted for him. I don’t care about your new feelings and your new life epiphanies or new frontal lobe developments. You saying this is not what you voted for; you absolutely did. All of this shit was public information. You still let him sit in office today.

Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word! 🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

All this. Yes.

In case you missed my RE//verse keynote about compilers and reverse engineering, it's now available online!

The world has always been a “dystopia”, people are just now noticing because it’s affecting them directly and their privilege blinders are coming off.

Using secure messaging services for all communications and considering what content you post on social media are just two easy ways to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to us in the offline world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Again. White people aren't ignorant, being taken advantage or being naive. They are making decisions they know will result in death and destruction.

if you arent microscrolling you're doing dopamine wrong open your favorite social app and glance briefly at it put your finger on the screen and move it just a few pixels that's all now go outside and do something completely different

"There are few things that many engineers I've worked with hate more than having to maintain someone else's shitty code." - Meredith Whittaker

16807 is a very special number in Computer Science.

 You can find it in the Playstation 5 (freebsd 11), almost every Mac Classic game, and even the C++11 standard!
 Give it the right prime number, you can produce an evenly distributed sequence for over 2 BILLION values.