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Riana

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Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Dum spiro spero. she/her

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attempts have been made

www.jenkemmag.com/home/2022/09...

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I do, every Xmas: family in Palm Springs. Camped in Death Valley for the big millennium NYE, and it was a very pleasant temp! City tour dates are mid-May to mid-Nov; picking summer dates as top choices was my strategy to increase my odds of getting a slot this year (no dice last year) - it worked.

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*last Wednesday rather

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Yesterday’s tour was supposed to be an afternoon tour (4:30-7:30pm), right up until last Tuesday, the afternoon before a federal holiday, when I got a nervous voicemail asking if we’d be OK with moving the tour to dawn so we wouldn’t die

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You can!

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City

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We are kicking off our livestream series on July 18 with a dive into the impact of recent U.S. Supreme Court opinions. Join David Greene, Mike Masnick, and Daphne Keller for "The U.S. Supreme Court Takes on the Internet" eff.org/livestream-scotus

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Jess Miers 🦝's avatar Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social
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Things about the tech industry and tech policy as a former insider who now has the freedom to talk openly about it 🧵

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Are you an enterprising law student with a demonstrated interest in First Amendment law and tech policy?

If not, do you know one?

I'm hiring a legal intern for the fall semester to work on free speech, platform/intermediary liability, and artificial intelligence: techfreedom.org/were-hiring-...

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There’s a lot to critique about City — this Hyperallergic piece did a good job — but it was an awe-inspiring experience and I’m so glad I could do it (and bring a dear friend with me): being outdoors, in my body, in the moment, immersed in something bigger than me.

hyperallergic.com/820815/why-w...

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City is unnatural yet in nature, which is making the site its own and will do so for ages. Pungent sagebrush surrounds City. We saw birds, mice, hares, antelope. A coyote running by the road; a vulture on the wing. Big black beetles, the remains of scorpions. Joshua trees along the highway to Vegas.

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The site is big, a mile and a half across. You feel tiny in it, ephemeral. It’s the product of half a century’s work by dozens of workers and its creator. He’s now too old and ill to visit it—the elevation disagrees with him—but it will outlast him, and me, and you.

www.tripleaughtfoundation.org

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Visited Michael Heizer’s City today in a remote part of Nevada, not far from Area 51. We arrived before dawn to avoid the record heat; the rising sun cast changing shadows on the curves & angles of the site. It was silent but for the crunch of gravel underfoot and the occasional lowing of cattle.

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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for those who were following along with this conversation, Amy is heroically running point on a research/writing/design project to build social media shareable graphics to educate the uninformed persuadable voter about Project 2025. sign up here if you want to share your skills!

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Now that SCOTUS is done with decisions, I'm doing some deep-dive reporting at Law Dork on big legal issues confronting us in the months and years ahead. If you can get a paid subscription, that helps give me the time and space to do this necessary work. If you already have one, share this! Thanks.

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Jennifer Stisa Granick's avatar Jennifer Stisa Granick @granick.bsky.social
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The Ford Foundation’s Technology and Society program seeks a Program Officer to help ensure that the internet and digital technologies are increasingly equitable and designed and governed to advance social and economic justice:

www.fordfoundation.o...

#jobs

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The happiest of birthdays to you! It can only get better from here after that wild of a week!

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[Sugar Daddy Ken intensifies]

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Decided just now to start rereading Hitchhikers Guide for the first time in many years and uh

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LPL has a new article about social justice and tech and abolition. We spent a lot of time on it and tried to draw on critical theory and from Black ecologists, anarchism theorists etc. We hope you all like it and share it dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Might have been the same event I attended in SF where someone in the audience asked him the URL for his campaign website and he did not know what it was.

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I’m not even saying “joy is an act of resistance” or “don’t despair, act,” etc., I’m just saying it is physically not feasible. “You must stay super freaked out or you’re not taking things seriously” is no more helpful than “you must view photos of atrocities to prove you’re taking them seriously.”

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Reminder: it is not doable to maintain a state of abject terror 24/7, so when your attention turns to something else, it doesn’t mean you’re sticking your head in the sand about the future. Right now, at this moment, you are (probably, if you’re reading this) safe, and your mind & body need a break.

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At SF Pride, and I just had to explain to two teens complaining about the creepy nuns who the SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE are. They’re a queer community service group that dress up like nuns. They cared for AIDS patients when no one else would. They’ve earned respect in the community.

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I keep on thinking about how John Roberts messed up nitrogen oxide with nitrous oxide in a ruling on how the courts were better suited to provide expertise than experts.

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Pride weekend is a marathon, not a sprint

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I love Pride weekend

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The young man had this tiny coin purse printed with pictures of Chihuahuas and Papillons. Like a little girl’s coin purse. I said what on earth can you fit in there, it is too small for a phone, so he opened it up to show me. The purse contained one (1) item and it was: poppers

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A Youth mistook my AbFab T-shirt for a Hacks T-shirt and now I kind of want a Hacks T-shirt

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Raza Panjwani's avatar Raza Panjwani @tabularaza.bsky.social
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Apropos of nothing other than the judiciary seizing the right to second guess all of federal administrative and regulatory rule making, I note that there are currently 46 vacant federal judgeships, 27 of which don’t even have a nominee. 🤷‍♂️

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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.

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“Can you pick up some mayo on the way? About 5 jars should do it”

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In honor of Martin Mull’s passing, you owe it to yourself to watch the underrated classic The History of White People in America, starring MM, Fred Willard, Harry Shearer, Steve Martin, Michael McKean, Mary Kay Place, and Teri Garr, among others.

youtu.be/Nx5fsOHML1I?...

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A true artist and a truly sweet man. RIP, MM.

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NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch made it more difficult for the federal government to operate on Thursday. Law Dork, on Thursday at SCOTUS —>

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If you're curious about the SCOTUS decision in Murthy v Missouri — and you should be if you care about social media, moderation, disinformation, censorship (or "censorship") — then you should read this article. TL;DR: The foundations of the case were bullshit. www.techdirt.com/2024/06/26/s...

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your book and @noupside.bsky.social’s came out at the same time which felt like an attack on me personally by the Publishing Industry

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Ok, I need everybody to read Section III-A of Alito's dissent in the Idaho abortion case. He says - explicitly and specifically - that in cases where the amniotic sac breaks before the 24th week of pregnancy, abortions should be prohibited. HE SPECIFICALLY NOTES THE DANGERS. He points out that...

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My colleague Jeff Hancock at Stanford University. This is the focus of his research (and that of his lab, the Social Media Lab) and he has repeatedly presented research showing that the picture is far more complex than “social media & phones are 100% bad for all youth everywhere.”

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