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“Attacks on internet safety and security come at a moment when the stakes for democracy could not be higher,” writes Yoel Roth, former head of trust and safety at Twitter. “We should be worried about what happens next.” nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opi…

Parents of trans/gender affirming youth: Please consider signing this: transparentsletter.com Bills like KOSA won't help youth, but they will increase the harms to vulnerable youth, including those who are trans and those whose parents don't support them.

"The Screens are the Symptom" is a re-review of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in light of contemporary ideas of book banning, screens, children, and broader epistemic battles. zephoria.org/thoughts/archi…

For those interested in AI, this is a fantastic primer by AI Now Institute on the infrastructure needed to make AI work. Think: chips and compute plus the geopolitics, institutions, markets, and politics that make it all happen. ainowinstitute.org/publication/po…

Here is another of #KOSA's problems: its illusory faith in technology’s power to act upon and change society This op-ed is a glimpse of a research project with danah boyd and my first output of the #PublicVoices Fellowship on Tech in the Public Interest The OpEd Project MacArthur Foundation

The Kids Online Safety Act isn’t designed to help kids. Congress is using kids to hold Big Tech accountable. Kids will get hurt in the process. zephoria.medium.com/kosa-isnt-desi…

New paper by Janet is cyberlyra at hachyderm.io and I in a Sociologica special issue on failure looks at how constraining time/money in public sector orgs like NASA and the Census Bureau can introduce risk. In short, resource binds can trigger legitimacy crises. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/1…

Calling all science/tech folks: Do you have thoughts about xkcd? Parker Bach & I are trying to understand the role that xkcd plays in the scientific/technical community. Will you share your thoughts? forms.office.com/pages/response… And since we are doing a snowball sample, please spread

The myth that social media harms kids drives me bonkers. So I tried to frame my thinking of risks vs. harms in today's rant: zephoria.substack.com/p/risks-vs-har…

I finally got off my toosh and ported my newsletter. I only write sporadically, but it's free! Sign up here: made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io

Personal update: I'm joining Cornell as a Professor of Communication starting in Fall of 2025. ::bounce:: If you're curious about my thinking, see: zephoria.org/thoughts/archi…

Who needs Girl Scout cookies to cheer them up? Apparently they deliver in a few days if you order them online. My daughter is a cookie dealer: digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/nava5589…

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