Kat Duffy
@rightsduff.bsky.social
Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.
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BREAKING
@knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism
This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended.
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@knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism
This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
BREAKING
@knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism
This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended.
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@knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism
This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended.
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A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA.
I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better.
She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better.
She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA.
I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better.
She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better.
She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Exceptional, important, and well worth the watch. Come for the defense of free speech and stay for the turtle.
Great great great @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social on the whole Kimmel thing and the importance of fighting for free speech.
I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...
I will note that even though the first 30 minutes don't seem to be about Kimmel, they're (1) hilarious and (2) set up the Kimmel stuff... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYd...
This Kind of Freedom Will Leave You Speechless
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Exceptional, important, and well worth the watch. Come for the defense of free speech and stay for the turtle.
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While terrible, this is entirely unsurprising. If you hold serious safety efforts in contempt, this sort of thing is inevitable.
This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material.
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...
Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content
Workers say they've faced sexually explicit content while xAI has marketed Grok to be deliberately provocative. Experts say the company should be cautious.
www.businessinsider.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
While terrible, this is entirely unsurprising. If you hold serious safety efforts in contempt, this sort of thing is inevitable.
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Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾♀️
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾♀️
Someone behind me is arguing intensely that 7×5 = 35, and I am so curious about the origin of this fight.
September 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Someone behind me is arguing intensely that 7×5 = 35, and I am so curious about the origin of this fight.
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I’m out of words.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.
Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops
A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
nyti.ms
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m out of words.
One of the tiny but great joys in life: a cookbook you’ve used so often and loved so well that it effortlessly flops open to your favorite recipes. ❤️
September 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
One of the tiny but great joys in life: a cookbook you’ve used so often and loved so well that it effortlessly flops open to your favorite recipes. ❤️
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New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences
The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.
wapo.st
August 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
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The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
August 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
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It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.
NEW: Credit reporting giant TransUnion has confirmed a data breach involving more than 4.4 million customers' personal information. TransUnion claims "no credit information was accessed" in the late-July breach, which it said involves its U.S. consumer support operations.
TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers' personal information | TechCrunch
The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers.
techcrunch.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.
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Periodic reminder that Trump decimated the National Park Service’s staffing and budget, and the GOP imposed a $1 billion budget cut on D.C. municipal services.
That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!
That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Periodic reminder that Trump decimated the National Park Service’s staffing and budget, and the GOP imposed a $1 billion budget cut on D.C. municipal services.
That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!
That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!
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OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
August 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
OSINT folks, the bar has been raised
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"I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)"
Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)"
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Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6.
How will the next legally required transition of power go?
How will the next legally required transition of power go?
August 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6.
How will the next legally required transition of power go?
How will the next legally required transition of power go?
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We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change.
The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.
The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.
August 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change.
The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.
The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.
The most unrealistic aspect of War of the Worlds has gotta be that everyone is just out there answering Teams calls with no issues. Can you imagine how awful it would be to navigate the end of the world…on TEAMS?!??!
August 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The most unrealistic aspect of War of the Worlds has gotta be that everyone is just out there answering Teams calls with no issues. Can you imagine how awful it would be to navigate the end of the world…on TEAMS?!??!
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This is not the slightest bit surprising and it began prior to Trump coming back to power. As the idiot AG of Missouri was pursuing Missouri v Biden, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal sued me and my colleagues with the same forum-shopped judge and plaintiffs. Wake up: it’s a machine.
Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment.
For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is not the slightest bit surprising and it began prior to Trump coming back to power. As the idiot AG of Missouri was pursuing Missouri v Biden, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal sued me and my colleagues with the same forum-shopped judge and plaintiffs. Wake up: it’s a machine.
If I’d taken a shot every time I wrote the word “multistakeholder” (or some derívate thereof) today, I would - well, I’d be dead, probably. Very dead. Terrible way to go.
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If I’d taken a shot every time I wrote the word “multistakeholder” (or some derívate thereof) today, I would - well, I’d be dead, probably. Very dead. Terrible way to go.
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The world’s first anti-deepfake wearable is here👀
Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now)
Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com
Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now)
Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com
The Box — The World's First Anti-Deepfake Wearable
Feel safe in public again. Our elegant, full-size wearable has you covered.
wearthebox.com
July 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The world’s first anti-deepfake wearable is here👀
Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now)
Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com
Created by #MozillaFellow @louisbarclay.bsky.social The Box is elegant, innovative & most importantly...100% fake 🙃 (at least for now)
Louis’ dystopian satire is a reminder of what happens when we let adult deepfakes run wild ⤵️ wearthebox.com
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if you're writing a story about "trump threatens to federalize dc," it's really worth including the fact that there is no mechanism by which he can do that, and perhaps noting what he might have been referring to instead (deploying the natl guard? presidential control of MPD?)
a) The president can't unilaterally federalize DC; Congress would need to repeal the Home Rule Act. Have fun trying to convince the parliamentarian that this doesn't actually require 60 votes in the Senate
b) Statehood please
b) Statehood please
🚨BREAKING: Trump says he might "FEDERALIZE" D.C.
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
if you're writing a story about "trump threatens to federalize dc," it's really worth including the fact that there is no mechanism by which he can do that, and perhaps noting what he might have been referring to instead (deploying the natl guard? presidential control of MPD?)
Paging @waldo.net. I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. 🤢
August 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Paging @waldo.net. I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. 🤢
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What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy
Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence
www.science.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Heading out on a weekend trip to camp visiting day and I have two novels, a full manuscript to review, and about 40 reports queued up, because I may possibly have six entire hours of reading time combined. Clearly this makes sense.
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Heading out on a weekend trip to camp visiting day and I have two novels, a full manuscript to review, and about 40 reports queued up, because I may possibly have six entire hours of reading time combined. Clearly this makes sense.