Dan Arnaudo
@ipolitico.bsky.social
Working on and studying the series of tubes
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Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
Valuable reflections on AI and education, how do we learn to think in this new age? www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Valuable reflections on AI and education, how do we learn to think in this new age? www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
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Hang on, I seem to remember a campaign to villainize an effort to *create policy* for how to respond to “lies, smears, and AI deepfakes” at DHS. (I remember it because it endangers my family to this day.) Are they admitting that was a good thing now?
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
DHS playing 'whack-a-mole' shooting down made-up ICE stories
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up efforts to combat fake news, viral AI videos, and misinformation on ICE and Border Patrol.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Hang on, I seem to remember a campaign to villainize an effort to *create policy* for how to respond to “lies, smears, and AI deepfakes” at DHS. (I remember it because it endangers my family to this day.) Are they admitting that was a good thing now?
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
Cool early Internet music history
Y’all wanna hear a wild story? Charlie is right — this medley Prince made 30 years ago, blending many of his greatest hits & fan favorites into an extended mashup, is one of the most fun “only Prince could do this” things he made in the 90s. BUT: he told us he was gonna do it. In an AOL chat room…
Unpopular opinion: the Purple Medley is one of the best things Prince ever did.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nJE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nJE...
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Cool early Internet music history
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
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Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect & who gets heard. In partnership with Knight Georgetown Institute, we are launching a new series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. The series starts today, with an essay from KGI’s Leticia Bode and Peter Chapman.
Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data | TechPolicy.Press
Introducing a series from Tech Policy Press and the Knight-Georgetown Institute, exploring why public platform data access is vital in today’s digital world.
www.techpolicy.press
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect & who gets heard. In partnership with Knight Georgetown Institute, we are launching a new series, Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data. The series starts today, with an essay from KGI’s Leticia Bode and Peter Chapman.
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Despite the importance of data about what happens in public on online platforms, there is no shared framework for how research, journalism, and independent investigations should be conducted with public platform data. The Better Access framework we released today provides that. Incredible work!
📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Despite the importance of data about what happens in public on online platforms, there is no shared framework for how research, journalism, and independent investigations should be conducted with public platform data. The Better Access framework we released today provides that. Incredible work!
Excited to support this initiative as part of a working group that authored it! Companies need to share more on what is happening on their platforms, and this framework defines what should be the "gold standard" for data that is shared with researchers, academics and the public.
📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Excited to support this initiative as part of a working group that authored it! Companies need to share more on what is happening on their platforms, and this framework defines what should be the "gold standard" for data that is shared with researchers, academics and the public.
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📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📣 Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard, yet researcher access to public platform data is shrinking, while platforms monetize this data. Our new report "Better Access" offers a framework for accessing this critical data: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
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so many good pictures out there
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
so many good pictures out there
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Was at a Curtis Sliwa rally in Queens on Sunday, and while waiting for him, overheard two guys talking about "these teachers who were making fun of Charlie Kirk with bloody shirts."
The information environment these days is as healthy as deep-fried asbestos.
The information environment these days is as healthy as deep-fried asbestos.
Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Arizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anyway
Math teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.
n.pr
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Was at a Curtis Sliwa rally in Queens on Sunday, and while waiting for him, overheard two guys talking about "these teachers who were making fun of Charlie Kirk with bloody shirts."
The information environment these days is as healthy as deep-fried asbestos.
The information environment these days is as healthy as deep-fried asbestos.
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
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good to know that cybertrucks are tooling around on our roads driven by resentful dudes having their minds reprogrammed by a capricious demon
October 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
good to know that cybertrucks are tooling around on our roads driven by resentful dudes having their minds reprogrammed by a capricious demon
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
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If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.
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Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.
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And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
September 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
"It will not be possible for apps like Signal..to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS."😬 www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security
www.economist.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"It will not be possible for apps like Signal..to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS."😬 www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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I watched the DSA and OSA "Censorship" Hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today so you don't have to.
I have some questions.
A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular:
Why are we here?
1/
I have some questions.
A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular:
Why are we here?
1/
September 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I watched the DSA and OSA "Censorship" Hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today so you don't have to.
I have some questions.
A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular:
Why are we here?
1/
I have some questions.
A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular:
Why are we here?
1/
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"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Chicken Farage bans The New World
It claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending tells a very different story
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
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Every night, I say a little prayer before I fall asleep.
August 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Every night, I say a little prayer before I fall asleep.