Max LeibmanPeople need to stop saying Elon Musk is worth a trillion dollars. He HAS a trillion dollars. On paper. He isn’t WORTH a trillion dollars. If something happened to him, we wouldn’t pay a trillion dollars to get another one.
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mhoye"Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."
Oakland PrivacyThe app would be used by agencies participating in ICE's 287(g) program, effectively extending immigration enforcement powers to local police. ICE acknowledges the system may scan U.S. citizens because officers often do not know someone's citizenship status when they first encounter them.
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Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱We only have a "Kennedy Center" because JFK was assassinated. If Trump wants his name on the building, he knows what he needs to do.
"Lawmakers and political professionals are grappling with about where to draw the line on what types of #AI uses are ethical and which ones are misinformation. Candidates have used the tools in obviously satirical ways, but in some instances, the line between #satire and #misinformation is fuzzy" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/01/california-is-drowning-in-internet-campaign-slop-2028-is-next-00943641
Over the weekend, take a minute to object to an #ICE facility at the former federal prison at #Dublin. Toolkit at the link. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v1y2fa81fgCopzD3dzbTaT-YoEvWgk9U1J6f3WHRJx4/edit?tab=t.0
ICE Out of Dublin's Toolkit - Environmental Assessment
TOOLKIT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT: KEEP FCI DUBLIN CLOSED, KEEP ICE OUT OF DUBLIN! [Action Network for Non-Anonymous Submission] [Haga clic aquí para español] Thank you for participating in our campaign to make sure that the notorious FCI Dublin prison remains closed and cannot be used for immigratio...
John Mark OckerbloomFrom LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....
The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
"More than 340 local news sites across the US are now limiting the #InternetArchive’s ability to access and preserve their stories due to concerns that #AI companies might scrape the nonprofit’s repositories for training data" https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-archives-access-to-their-journalism/
evacideNo matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.
Dan Gillmor"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."
