Matt Bailey

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Democracy, elections, civic tech, open gov, cybersecurity, free expression _but also_ literature, art, music, code
Websitehttps://mattmattmatt.org
Mozilla just sent me an email saying that according to their tracking, I haven't opened their emails in over a year, and to please click their tracking link to confirm that I want to keep hearing about their efforts to protect my privacy. 🎺

Platforms say kids are protected.
Research says otherwise.

In a new Superbloom piece, @veszna argues that harm doesn’t come only from what children see online — but from how platforms are designed around them: defaults, friction, dark patterns, and “safety” features that exist on paper but fail in practice.

The real question isn’t whether platforms have safety features, but whether those work for children.

https://superbloom.design/learning/blog/2026-the-year-we-choose-to-protect-childrenor-fail-them/

#DigitalRights #PlatformAccountability #ChildSafety #DSA

From Content to Interface: Rethinking Platform Transparency Through Design

A few weeks ago, a photo on LinkedIn from the TikTok For You(th) Summit in London caught my eye. Baby pink background, cheerful branding, adults discussing safety and …

Superbloom

Kipling apparently wrote a poem about #undersea #telegraph cables. He's the worst, but this is pretty good and super weird!

https://www.poetryverse.com/rudyard-kipling-poems/deepsea-cables

The Deep Sea Cables - poem by Rudyard Kipling | PoetryVerse

Read Rudyard Kipling's The Deep-sea Cables, a classic poem about the mysteries of deep-sea communication.

In general, @Vivaldi is so great. So great, in fact, that I find myself with endless UX quibbles.

Examples:
- why can't I add a tab to my reading list when not on mobile?
- why don't browser configurations like putting your tabs on the left sync between devices?
- why don't workspaces and pinned tabs sync between devices?

Is there a word for an uncanny valley of great software - where you have such a solid product that it actually generates *more* feedback from users?

To advance the Trump administration’s deportation and immigration enforcement priorities, the Republican budget bill is set to fund a substantial expansion of federal surveillance, with broad implications for the rights and privacy of all Americans. Dean Jackson and I spoke to experts about what to expect: https://www.techpolicy.press/republican-budget-bill-signals-new-era-in-federal-surveillance/
Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance | TechPolicy.Press

To advance the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities, the Republican budget bill is set to fund a major expansion of federal surveillance.

Tech Policy Press
CalyxOS community update: we have made progress in building and running Android 16 on Pixel 6 and newer Pixels in the past two weeks. The team is assessing our development processes and making necessary improvements. Full progress report: https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/26/community-update-android-16/
Community update - our progress on CalyxOS after the release of Android 16

Community update - our progress on CalyxOS after the release of Android 16

Many companies and individuals are trying to mislead people about the future of GrapheneOS to promote their insecure products and services. GrapheneOS is not going anywhere. We've made it clear we're shipping Android 16 soon and that the supported devices will remain supported.
There are only 3 plots: a person goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and "here is how I set up the static site generator for this blog".
“Lying in Politics”: Hannah Arendt’s Antidote to Anticipatory Despair - Public Books

Four months in, the new Trump administration is already moving from self-deception and deception on to “image making” and “ideologizing”; it is fast approaching complete “defactualization.”

Public Books

Una strana macchia nel cielo: come la Silicon Valley sta preparando un colpo di stato contro la democrazia

(TL;DR: Non comprendiamo piÚ la realtà che ci circonda e viviamo in uno stato di crescente confusione. La colpevole è la Silicon Valley, che sta preparando un colpo di stato distopico contro la democrazia.)

https://allr.cat/a-strange-stain-in-the-sky/

@eticadigitale

A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy

(TL;DR: We no longer understand the reality around us and live in a state of growing confusion. The culprit is Silicon Valley, which is preparing a dystopian coup against democracy.) Wherever you go these days, everyone expresses in one way or another that reality seems to have stopped making sen

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