Isadora, PhD
@1sadora.bsky.social
Political scientist—hire me!
Surveillance and privacy, deputized policing, public opinion and cybersec, self-censorship.
Quant (R) who also does theory building.
Surveillance and privacy, deputized policing, public opinion and cybersec, self-censorship.
Quant (R) who also does theory building.
UK and it's former 1st tier commonwealth dominions, Canada and Australia, at the same time. What's up with New Zealand missing from this coordinated joint announcement? How will this affect the Five Eyes intel handover to US and will Canada's C2 Cloud Act give activists' data?
September 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
UK and it's former 1st tier commonwealth dominions, Canada and Australia, at the same time. What's up with New Zealand missing from this coordinated joint announcement? How will this affect the Five Eyes intel handover to US and will Canada's C2 Cloud Act give activists' data?
I already said the journalist(s) own the company. there's no investor. Actually the opposite, readers are subscribers. Wired is also paywalled after a few articles. What kind out outlets do you read? AI slop and hallucinated content theft? Or is it all just knee-jerk reactions to headlines with you?
June 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I already said the journalist(s) own the company. there's no investor. Actually the opposite, readers are subscribers. Wired is also paywalled after a few articles. What kind out outlets do you read? AI slop and hallucinated content theft? Or is it all just knee-jerk reactions to headlines with you?
FinDoxx as chilling effect, must add to the "dissent is not allowed" tactical repertoire for future study. Weird that the Democracy Dies in Darkness newspaper doesn't include how much did Bezos donated, not just the headline amount, but the dark money SPACs, shell corps, etc., in every single story.
June 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
FinDoxx as chilling effect, must add to the "dissent is not allowed" tactical repertoire for future study. Weird that the Democracy Dies in Darkness newspaper doesn't include how much did Bezos donated, not just the headline amount, but the dark money SPACs, shell corps, etc., in every single story.
Seeing how the only device they make that has sold are surveillance glasses, and given how it Facebook was basically a surveillance-run advertising vehicle, my answer has been and remains: surveillance.
June 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Seeing how the only device they make that has sold are surveillance glasses, and given how it Facebook was basically a surveillance-run advertising vehicle, my answer has been and remains: surveillance.
Consider subscribing to Joseph Cox's co-owned 404 media, which broke the news, instead of linking to a different outlet recapping their scoop and depriving revenue from them
www.404media.co/airlines-don...
www.404media.co/airlines-don...
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
www.404media.co
June 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Consider subscribing to Joseph Cox's co-owned 404 media, which broke the news, instead of linking to a different outlet recapping their scoop and depriving revenue from them
www.404media.co/airlines-don...
www.404media.co/airlines-don...
Can't wait to read what kind of breakfast bagel he likes and whether it is even a bagel, as any hard hitting journalist would ask!
June 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Can't wait to read what kind of breakfast bagel he likes and whether it is even a bagel, as any hard hitting journalist would ask!
What about a canary in the coal mine badge you can only get if you can authenticate periodically to signal that you haven't opted into Recall so anyone chatting with you knows what you're settings are like and take precautions or avoid you like the plague.
May 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What about a canary in the coal mine badge you can only get if you can authenticate periodically to signal that you haven't opted into Recall so anyone chatting with you knows what you're settings are like and take precautions or avoid you like the plague.
We were worried about AI "hallucination" (euphemism for bullshit), we forgot to worry about humans hallucinating non-existing situations into being. Besides the whole legality of using a personality tests in the workplace to begin with...
May 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We were worried about AI "hallucination" (euphemism for bullshit), we forgot to worry about humans hallucinating non-existing situations into being. Besides the whole legality of using a personality tests in the workplace to begin with...
Too little too late, why did Hassan vote for her?
Full list of Yea Dems:
Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Full list of Yea Dems:
Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
May 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Too little too late, why did Hassan vote for her?
Full list of Yea Dems:
Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Full list of Yea Dems:
Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Too little too late, why did Kim vote for her?
Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
May 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Too little too late, why did Kim vote for her?
Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Hassan and Kim (also in your clips) voted for Noem. Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
May 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hassan and Kim (also in your clips) voted for Noem. Full list of Yea Dems: Fetterman (D-PA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Hassan (D-NH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kim (D-NJ)
Peters (D-MI)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Dems who abstained:
Merkley (D-OR)
Schatz (D-HI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warnock (D-GA)
Wyden (D-OR)
Also, smaller point but I'm 37 and I was taught how to look up index cards so you weren't the last generation! They were definitely around for a bit longer in schools than public libraries and universities before it all went digital.
April 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Also, smaller point but I'm 37 and I was taught how to look up index cards so you weren't the last generation! They were definitely around for a bit longer in schools than public libraries and universities before it all went digital.
Starting my day with this piece, I am also not nightmarish about card catalogs going feral. It's the totalizing edits made by people claiming bibliomancy and their ability to remove any democratic dissent that I'm nightmarish of. It's the people and the politics for me, always.
April 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Starting my day with this piece, I am also not nightmarish about card catalogs going feral. It's the totalizing edits made by people claiming bibliomancy and their ability to remove any democratic dissent that I'm nightmarish of. It's the people and the politics for me, always.
"having recently listened to a webinar sponsored by the American Bar Association that discussed the use of AI in the legal world" bad AP for proving no context of what webinar and what it said. What's ABA's role in AI proliferation, or were they warning lawyers and it went over plaintif's head?
April 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"having recently listened to a webinar sponsored by the American Bar Association that discussed the use of AI in the legal world" bad AP for proving no context of what webinar and what it said. What's ABA's role in AI proliferation, or were they warning lawyers and it went over plaintif's head?
Is this offer still valid?
April 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Is this offer still valid?
The Info claims "Meta erected guardrails around how it develops new products to better protect users' privacy. Now it is lowering the rails to release products faster"
Guardrails like what? Sarah Wynn-William's book belies this claim. Were those guardrails documented or just yadayada? A real loss?
Guardrails like what? Sarah Wynn-William's book belies this claim. Were those guardrails documented or just yadayada? A real loss?
March 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Info claims "Meta erected guardrails around how it develops new products to better protect users' privacy. Now it is lowering the rails to release products faster"
Guardrails like what? Sarah Wynn-William's book belies this claim. Were those guardrails documented or just yadayada? A real loss?
Guardrails like what? Sarah Wynn-William's book belies this claim. Were those guardrails documented or just yadayada? A real loss?
Also: "if we aren't nice to moderate Republicans they won't vote for us" how's that working out? They didn't even save their own party, they're gonna bail out Dems?
March 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Also: "if we aren't nice to moderate Republicans they won't vote for us" how's that working out? They didn't even save their own party, they're gonna bail out Dems?
The one he sold to an LLC holding company in 2020 for totally not tax reasons?
March 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The one he sold to an LLC holding company in 2020 for totally not tax reasons?
One of the refreshing things about Careless People's author is that because SWW isn't American, she's clear eyed about Facebook leadership's tech imperialism. It comes through over and over in the book. It's not breaking news to anyone who isn't American.
March 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
One of the refreshing things about Careless People's author is that because SWW isn't American, she's clear eyed about Facebook leadership's tech imperialism. It comes through over and over in the book. It's not breaking news to anyone who isn't American.
Paging Chuckles Schumer.
March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Paging Chuckles Schumer.
Easy to do when DC has no Senators. Who needs Republicans with Democrats like these?
March 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easy to do when DC has no Senators. Who needs Republicans with Democrats like these?