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Kendra Albert
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They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. Proud Philly resident. More at kendraalbert.com

"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Ursula K. LeGuin
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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · Aug 9
Look I can’t help that one of my hobbies is “reading PDFs”
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lainenooney.bsky.social
Ask not what game history will do for you, ask what you will do for game history
February 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
Amidst everything, I'm going to be participating in ROMChip's fundraiser stream on Saturday (full schedule: donate.romchip.org/2026-schedul...) and man, do @lainenooney.bsky.social and I have a treat for y'all!
2026 Schedule
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499).
donate.romchip.org
February 18, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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kslater.bsky.social
elated to announce my participation in the Library Futures Research Network, where my project “Sites of Power: Information Work & Data Centers” will “contend w/ what data centers, cloud storage, generative AI, & environmental harm mean for the work of collecting, preserving, & sharing information.”
February 17, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Go birds
“Something inside of me said, ‘Go up there and stand with these people,’ ” said Zobel, a 36-year-old school coach who said he’s never been to a protest before in his life. “I wanted to stand for what is right.” As he dashed out, Zobel also grabbed one thing — the American flag he flies in front of his house most of the time (except during football season when an Eagles flag replaces it).
February 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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sumokirby.bsky.social
FYI to anyone reading this, Benj Edwards said Kyle had no role in this error:

bsky.app/profile/benj...
benjedwards.com Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 2d
Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick)

I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below

arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...
I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026 I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026 I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026
February 15, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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benjedwards.com
Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick)

I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below

arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...
I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026 I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026 I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026
February 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
I read this book in like 2013 and I think about it at least once a week.
wrigleyfield.bsky.social Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 3d
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN

Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous

It will immiserate so many
aselrod.bsky.social Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6d
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
February 14, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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kevindeliban.bsky.social
Opening for a CA-based lawyer with @techtonicjustice.bsky.social! Pay $100-130K. Great benefits.

Looking for ~3-5 years experience in civil legal aid. Involves path-breaking work at the intersection of anti-poverty advocacy + AI. Full details in link.

Deadline=Sunday, 2/22, by 11:59 pm PT.
Staff Attorney (Licensed in California) at TechTonic Justice, Inc.
jobs.gusto.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:25 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
So uh Ars Technica ran an article that had a bunch of fake quotes in it and now seems to have taken it down rather than issue a correction? web.archive.org/web/20260213...

Page is now down: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...
arstechnica.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Academic: Torment Nexus Studies provides us with tools which help us to recognize & deconstruct the implications of the Torment Nexus imaginary having been always already operationalized & implemented in society.

Tech CEO: *furiously scribbling notes* always… implement… torment nexus… in… society…
June 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
"Cause there ain't no room for fascists in our community."
evangreer.bsky.social Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 5d
Getting hundreds of death threats and hate comments from transphobes and bootlickers on Instagram for this one so I guess we gotta sing it even louder
Evan Greer - "You Will Have to Come Through Us" [Tiny Desk 2026]
YouTube video by Evan Greer
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d
The Atlantic is indistinguishable from Compact.
I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today.
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
kendraserra.bsky.social
"The world is too on fire for anyone to meaningfully oppose us."

Oy.
benforward3.bsky.social Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 5d
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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lizzieohreally.bsky.social
Just a reminder that the Dino Store exists at the grand army plaza 2/3 stop.

[Ernie Hudson voice] I love this town
The dino store - a public art project like an old newsstand, in the grand army plaza subway station
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
Personal jurisdiction saves the day!

www.xbiz.com/news/295933/...
Judge Dismisses NCOSE-Backed Suits Against Adult Sites Over Kansas AV Law
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed lawsuits brought against two adult websites in Kansas for alleged violations of the state’s age verification law.
www.xbiz.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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gastrognome.bsky.social
This is the most Encyclopedia Brown-ass shit I've ever seen in real life and I fucking love it.
coyotemedia.org COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 7d
Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.
How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI
The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.
www.coyotemedia.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
"A whistle will not stop a bullet, or many. But it can do away with isolation. It cannot shield a body, yet it can draw bodies near, transforming vulnerability into presence and presence into power."
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
This game is really really good!
bushmonkey.bsky.social Bushmonkey @bushmonkey.bsky.social · 19d
my new game The Red Pearls of Borneo is out a week early and available for free on itch.io

You are a clairvoyant investigator in 1948 London, exploring the psychic echoes of a tragedy that occurred eight years prior on a remote plantation in Borneo.

Game link: bushmonkey.itch.io/the-red-pear...
February 12, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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nyamakop.co.za
“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
If you're on the side of "mass deportations and a reign of terror," you're a shitty First Amendment attorney.
February 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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bloggeronpole.bsky.social
V concerned to see great research orgs partner up with NCOSE to repeal Section 230. This article has is a v good history of NCOSE (once Morality In Media) & their campaigns against… literally any depiction of anything but conservative values on TV / the internet. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics - Zachary J McDowell, Katrin Tiidenberg, 2023
A growing body of academic work on internet governance focuses on the ‘deplatforming of sex’, or the removal and suppression of sexual expression from the inter...
journals.sagepub.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:59 AM
kendraserra.bsky.social
I walked 9 miles today in feels like -5 degree weather and nobody can tell me nothing for at least 48 hours.
February 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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jeanketterling.bsky.social
Was your pornographic, lewd, erotic, NSFW, or sexual game hosted on Steam or itch.io in July 2025? If so, consider participating in our online survey about the impacts of the changes to NSFW platform policy. More info about the project, the research team and how to participate at www.pppproject.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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runasand.bsky.social
If you've been laid off by the Washington Post this week and have any questions re: digital security, please email me on runa@granitt.io. I'll help you pro-bono for the rest of the month.
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
kendraserra.bsky.social
Transformative work of the day. :)
joshuaraclaw.com Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 12d
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM