Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸

📌 Pinned Introduction Post (rewritten) Hi, I'm Joshua! I'm an #ActuallyAutistic nerd, gamer, video game streamer (rarely!) and #HumanRights activist. Check out my website joshuacasey.net for all my social links & the extremely rare blog post!

We were promised REPEATEDLY that age-verification law was narrow, and would ONLY apply to porn. But— as we warned —it was always a ruse. Since conservatives got their ruling in FSC v Paxton, they’ve pushed to age-gate anything and everything. It’s not going to stop with social media or chatbots.

Ownership means control. If Google can block any app on your phone, you don't really own it. Join the 100,000+ people fighting to keep Android open. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org

ppl are more concerned about having their disgust validated than they are about discussing and combating the erosion of your right to privacy that porn bans are actually about. that is how absurd legislation like "2-5 yrs prison for incest roleplay porn" gets passed.

It's absolutely wild to see how many people are in support of this. I usually think slippery slope is one of the lazier arguments but come on how is this not just obviously a way to get people comfortable with them banning content before expanding the categories to anything they want?

Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.

USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...

I have NEVER BEFORE given money to a political organization, candidate, or party (mostly due to being autistically unemployed). I gave $2 to the DSA to become a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America specifically OUT OF SPITE for the fascist trump administration. dsausa.org

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Mandatory ID registration for every app developer? This is a dream for censors and a nightmare for privacy. Protect the open web and open mobile. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org

Congratulations. You’ve now forcibly associated everyone’s online speech with their government name and purchase history. And your system doesn’t work because teenagers can have debit cards. Next

at the end of the day, its US law that is gonna be twisting ANY platform into complying panicking does nothing. if you want to make a diference, contact your senators and demand they vote no on KOSA, as an example of one such bill www.badinternetbills.com

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Thanks for sharing, Senator and for your work on this issue. Link to the piece here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. Here's what we learned: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. www.404media.co/a-secretive-...

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full investigation by @josephcox.bsky.social and @wired.com’s @dmehro.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...

EU Kids Act brings new age verification to games 🎮 The European Commission will propose the EU Kids Act, mandating tiered accounts and stricter age verification for under-15s across online games and other digital services.

one of the stadiums that said they would cancel Ed Sheeran's show if he brought Macklemore with him "because something something antisemitism" is literally hosting a concert by Kanye West

Discord’s original foray into age verification got tens of thousands of people’s face scans and IDs stolen and posted online so of course they are … just doing it again?

a $2000 phone is absurd

This is objectively false by every measure. Studies out of Australia and the UK show that age verification laws have been completely ineffective in reducing teen social media use, have pushed some teens to darker less moderated corners of the internet They’ve just handed platforms MORE kids’ data

One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)

Defenders of age verification mandates are literally creating schemes that involve people going to their local convenience store to get an in person ostensibly privacy-preserving proof of age token …instead of just banning and regulating the shitty business practices of Big Tech giants

Taking down a Flock camera means nothing if they replace it with another camera doing the same thing. These Corrupt Bigshots can change the company name all it wants, but Texans still shouldn't have their movements tracked and stored everywhere they drive.

i'm curious about people who call themselves abolitionists who are also gleeful about reducing others to the worst thing they've ever said or done and treating others as disposable seems hard to square to me but what do i know

We've developed a secure paste feature replacing traditional clipboard APIs. Users will be able to take away clipboard access from apps to use this instead. It integrates into the standard selection toolbar, input methods, accessibility services and keyboard shortcuts. We plan to get it merged soon.

Treating humans as disposable because you disagree with them is not radical

- NES: Super Mario Bros 3 - Sega Genesis: Sonic or The Lion King - N64: Mario Party 2 - PC: Rollercoaster Tycoon - PC: Age of Empires II - PC: SimCity 3000 - PC: Sim Copter - PC: Sim Tower

Without a signed warrant every flock search is a constitutional violation The surveillance state cannot be trusted with these tools and never could be

it's essential to understand age verification and "kids safety" legislation generally as an abdication of responsibility and a gift to large corporations instead of ACTUALLY REGULATING the deadly business model of these companies, we just make them treat kids differently It's the ultimate cop-out

Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Yes, Flock is not the only evil AI surveillance company. Yes, it’s still really really good that backlash to Flock is breaking into the cultural mainstream. Yes, it’s annoying that some cities are dropping Flock for Axon, for example Many things can be true at the same time. Just keep pushing

#savespeech #notodigitalID #NOTOGLOBALAGEVEROFICATION "Discord is bringing back Global Age Verification under the codename 'Tiny Bronco'" - No access to adult-only servers/channels - No speaking on Stage Channels - Blurring sensitive media in servers/DMs - Message requests are mandatory

Setting aside all the civil liberties, privacy, and free expression concerns, online ID checks / “age verification” laws are just a massive massive security risk. Every time I read one of these bills I ask “did an identity thief write this?!”

I’m so angry that I have to admit that both the Trump DOJ and fucking OpenAI are right in this case. The NYT and every other major news outlet depends on fair use. If the NYT wins this case it will eviscerate fair use. Copyright maximalism won’t save us from AI harms. It will bake them in

At least dozens of young boys have taken their own lives after being targeted in sextortion scams. Here's how two researchers posed as a target and tracked their scammer: Watch our interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=973m... Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/how-cyber-sl...

Who would have thought #alwaysbecharging www.ft.com/content/366b...

NEW: Illinois scores our 12th credit rating upgrade. Two credit upgrades back-to-back confirm that our financial progress is built to last. We’ve transformed our state from one defined by fiscal instability into one earning recognition for responsible fiscal management.

“Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the whistleblower warned.

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it's such a cop out to say "I support Israel but i don't support Netanyahu and what he's doing to Gaza" without asking yourself why Gaza exists as an open air prison in the first place

Stop saying stupid stuff like: "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Start saying: "A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."