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Our people are better than our leaders, example #2421: Neighbors in Springfield, OH are sheltering Haitian neighbors from ICE in their basements and attics, risking felony charges in the process: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
I wish that's all it was, Steven. I worry that even with a smoking gun that proved that Trump had sexually abused girls, there's a system of power that would defend and protect him. I don't know that even a smoking gun ends this.
There's more to say but not from me. I had a lot to say about leaving MIT almost seven years ago: ethanzuckerman.com/2019/08/20/o... . I continue to learn from people working to understand this horrific situation and especially those who suffered directly.
Patriarchy does not reward loyalty from people who are not patriarchs. Patriarchy is a pyramid scheme. Patriarchy funnels the rewards of male violence towards the elite while collectivising the shame, the pain and the frustration"
lauriepenny.substack.com/p/temporaril...
Finally, the wonderful @pennyred.bsky.social wrestles with her own dismay over Noam Chomsky's involvement with Epstein into an analysis of how patriarchy doesn't just encourage violence against women, but damages the vast majority of men in the system: "men do not owe allegiance to patriarchy.
An appropriately angry reflection comes from @anandwrites.bsky.social who reflects on being let into - and thrown out of - Epstein adjacent circles. I know the events he writes of, and can confirm not only the accuracy of his report, but the value of his analysis: the.ink/p/epsteins-n...
traps people in dependent relationships, while "upstream reciprocity" builds fields, and communities, not just careers: natematias.medium.com/the-manacle-...
My favorite reflection on the Epstein files comes from dear friend @natematias.bsky.social, who - like me - is fielding endless requests to talk about why we left MIT in the wake of Epstein and why others didn't. Nathan writes about "reciprocity", how simple, binary reciprocity
from Epstein and others. Her autobiography details how shitty men traumatize her for half her life, how she spends the next 20 years recovering from the trauma, and her disorientation when she beyond that cycle. Heartbreaking and mandatory reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody%...
The most important thing I've read is Virginia Giuffre's "Nobody's Girl". While so much of the reporting is about the powerful people who are finally facing some consequences (or not) from their relationships with Epstein, Giuffre explains how she - and so many other girls - fell into abuse
In the midst of the geopolitical horror, I've been doing some processing around the most recent wave of Epstein files. While there's been no single presidency-destroying bombshell (could Trump even be destroyed that way?), there's a pattern of impunity and willful ignorance that's hard to accept.
A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them
www.politico.eu/article/age-...
Easily one of the top charts of all time
Anyone remember Ginger? That was the new transportation tech so overhyped that The Simpsons parodied it with a Mr. Garrison invention with an unusual user interface. My Prospect column asks why we so often succumb to these hype cycles: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno... (Ginger was Segway!)
Excited to be joining friends in Ottawa on March 11 to talk about technology, governance and policy solutions to online youth safety.
If you know Anil, you KNOW which one that is...
Strong piece from Elizabeth Lopato on Epstein's "associates" and elite impunity: www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
It's even worse. You're taught to actively have contempt for that sort of work and there's rivalry between those who move into management and those who continue to be managed.
📝 Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. 📝
"If, however, Trump is a fascist president, that does not mean that America is a fascist country." Excellent Jonathan Rausch essay, "Yes, It's Fascism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The latest Prospect is out now! Our new editor Philip Collins leads on the collapse of two-party politics, plus @isabelh.bsky.social on Greenland, @jenstout.bsky.social on treason in Ukraine, @ethanz.bsky.social on servers in space, and Ralph Fiennes' operatic debut:
bsky.app/profile/pros...
"Pravda Network" published 6.3 million pieces of pro-Russian disinfo in the past year... and experiments with AI chatbots demonstrate that disinfo in those stories is being echoed by AIs: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/newsguards...
“If your state doesn’t help us we will be forced to murder its citizens” is an argument that only works on people who are already subnormal bootlickers.
This is a great paper. SCOTUS was not just wrong to uphold the TikTok ban but deeply, consequentially, historically wrong. Holmes and Brandeis are turning in their graves.
When a Country Turns the Gun on Itself: morgangold.substack.com/p/when-a-cou...
You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.
Huge thanks to everyone who has supported @globalvoices.org! You have helped to keep us going during this extremely difficult time for media organizations, human rights, & non-profits of any kind!
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
"We should understand billionaires’ imagined tech futures as projections of their hopes and fears," writes D&S advisor @ethanz.bsky.social. In "waxing lyrical about space," they are signaling their desire "to exit a world of connection and consequences.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...