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@markatlarge.bsky.social

I’m in digital marketing tech and app developer, specializing in creating innovative solutions like BingeWatch, a streaming sharing and discovery app, and Punge, an AI-powered NSFW image detector.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

VICTORY! EFF, our co-counsel and our clients have won our lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. A judge agreed OPM violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. The court will decide the remedy at a later date.

eff.orgVictory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is UnlawfulA federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. The court will decide the...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

A new Medicare program uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests. New records obtained by EFF show that this program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patients waiting in pain. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgNew Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior AuthorizationEFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of
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@markatlarge.bsky.social

Every AI model has false positives. I developed an app that detects sensitive images that runs on your device. I believe Apple’s model runs on device as well. Be interested if my model would detect or reject. markatlarge.com/go/?app=punge It’s worth a test @josephcox.bsky.social

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404 Media@404media.co

Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.

404media.coApple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as NudityApple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.
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@markatlarge.bsky.social

Every AI model has false positives. I developed an app that detects sensitive images that runs on your device. I believe Apple’s model runs on device as well. Be interested if my model would detect or reject. markatlarge.com/go/?app=punge @josephcox.bsky.social be a good test

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404 Media@404media.co

Apple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.

404media.coApple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as NudityApple’s Sensitive Content Warning is supposed to protect users from unwanted nude images. It accidentally blurred my friend’s dog video.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Just 10 days after the SpaceX IPO, the stock has plunged and the average investor has seen most of their initial gains disappear. And don't forget: rules protecting investors from volatile new stocks were gutted — at SpaceX's behest. The universe's largest Ponzi scheme?

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

New Yorkers need affordable homes. New Yorkers need great public libraries. So we're building both. Today, we took the next step toward creating a brand-new library and more than 200 affordable homes at the New Utrecht Library site in Brooklyn. Because public land should serve the public.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

Imagine waiting weeks for your wedding photos—because a platform has to review every image before posting. That’s what a world without Section 230 could look like. www.eff.org/pages/inter...

eff.orgThe Internet Still Works: SmugMug Powers Online PhotographySmugMug is a family-owned photo hosting and e-commerce platform that helps professional photographers run their businesses online. Founded in 2002, the company provides tools for photographers to

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Fred Guttenberg
@fredguttenberg.bsky.social

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

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@markatlarge.bsky.social

Who’s surprised. Google is the absolute worst of the worse. They will appease the government any way they can so they can keep harvesting your data for profit.

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org

Despite promising to tell users before giving their data to law enforcement, Google handed Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE in 2025 without giving him the chance to challenge the government's invalid subpoena. We're urging the AGs of CA and NY to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices.

eff.orgEFF to State AGs: Investigate Google's Broken Promise to Users Targeted by the GovernmentGoogle's Failure to Warn Users About Law Enforcement Demands for Data Is Deceptive

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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

This is performative hateful cruelty for the sake of cruelty. What is wrong with people that they feel the need to attack people just for being. No I'm not asking for an answer. It's a rhetorical question. I'm just venting at how disgusting this is.

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

erininthemorning.comKansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses"The legislature did not include a grace period."

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

Limiting access to photos means “protecting yourself from accidentally uploading multiple pictures you do not intend, & ensuring that the app can’t access more than you want, either by accident or malicious intent,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @HuffPost.com. www.huffpost.com/entry/phone...

huffpost.comExperts Say You Should Never Give Apps Full Access To Your Photos — The Reason Why Is DisturbingDoing this is risky, security experts say.

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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Listen to Senator Wyden. I wish more of his colleagues would do so.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov

When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.

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@markatlarge.bsky.social

Thank you @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social — thanks to your report, I got my account back. For most “nobodies,” recovery is impossible. You’re shedding light on how deeply broken this process is. Hope more people see it now. www.404media.co/a-developer-...

404media.coA Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For ItMark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
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@markatlarge.bsky.social

Unbelievable. See a pattern: medium.com/@russoatlarg...

medium.comGovernments Demanded Apple and Google Violate Your Privacy — Only One RefusedFor years, Big Tech has tried to convince us that all platforms are basically the same — that everyone “cares about privacy,” that…
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org

This kind of surveillance "raises legitimate concerns about privacy and academic freedom in a political climate that’s already chilling to First Amendment rights,” EFF’s legind.bsky.social told The College Fix. www.thecollegefix.com/extraordina...

thecollegefix.com‘Extraordinary intrusion’: Calif. professors demand halt to cybersecurity surveillance software | The College FixTensions between UC faculty and administrators have been growing for more than a year over the controversy.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

Police surveil everyone driving in San Jose and search that data thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It’s an unchecked police power, an end run around the courts & a blatant privacy invasion, EFF’s Lisa Femia wrote for @MercuryNews.com. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/...

mercurynews.comOpinion: San Jose’s vast surveillance network is watching you. Be afraid.The city’s license plate cameras are collecting revealing data that police nationwide are searching — all without warrants.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

A patent that never should have been granted can threaten thousands of people. That’s why Congress created IPR, and why the USPTO’s new proposal is so dangerous. EFF has filed our opposition. Add your voice now:

eff.orgEFF Tells Patent Office: Don’t Cut the Public Out of Patent ReviewEFF has submitted its formal comment to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) opposing a set of proposed rules that would sharply restrict the public’s ability to challenge wrongly granted pate...

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@markatlarge.bsky.social

At a time when unemployment is on the rise many people pick up app development only to get locked out by Google after investing significant time and money #technews #google medium.com/at@russoatla...

medium.comDéjà Vu: Google’s Using Its Monopoly to Purge 158,000 Developers, Just Like It Crushed Search…Google is wiping out independent developers at a historic scale — 158,000 accounts banned last year alone — and many weren’t removed for…
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@markatlarge.bsky.social

At a time when unemployment is on the rise many people pick up app development only to get locked out by Google after investing significant time and money #technews #google medium.com/at@russoatla...

medium.comDéjà Vu: Google’s Using Its Monopoly to Purge 158,000 Developers, Just Like It Crushed Search…Google is wiping out independent developers at a historic scale — 158,000 accounts banned last year alone — and many weren’t removed for…

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

"Google Chrome has failed to provide key privacy protections that other browsers offer," EFF’s Lena Cohen told @Newsweek.com; awareness of online tracking’s dangers “has led many consumers to switch to privacy-focused browsers, like Firefox and DuckDuckGo.” www.newsweek.com/google-chro...

newsweek.comGoogle Chrome's internet supremacy faces major threatsCompetitors are capitalizing on privacy and safety concerns to urge users to migrate to their in-home browsers from Google Chrome.
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@markatlarge.bsky.social

Unbelievable. Governments or anyone should have court orders to access our privet data. We all being treated like criminals.

CCC@ccc.de

If Apple breaks end-to-end encryption for the UK, it breaks it for everyone: The UK has issued a new secret order, again privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...

privacyinternational.orgThe Second Order: The UK Government's new secret order still strikes at Apple's securityToday we learned the UK has issued a new secret order forcing Apple to undermine iCloud’s advanced encryption again, but this time only for UK users.