@cyberlass.bsky.social
In tech and tech is in me. Ethics in biohacking. ❤️ InfoSec. Writer. Cyborg/human augmenter/grinder. Here to help. She/her. Makes it rain during a brainstorm.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
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Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
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What’s crazy is people have been waving a red flag about Substack profiting on health disinformation for years. It was actually the original problem before Substack courted and began profiting from Nazism. I don’t get why anyone who does work on the information ecosystem can justify publishing there
Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem.
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
Substack has a Nazi problem AND a health disinformation problem
Substack creators and Substack audiences are supporting a platform that profits off of promoting dangerous antiscience content – at the expense of public health.
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What’s crazy is people have been waving a red flag about Substack profiting on health disinformation for years. It was actually the original problem before Substack courted and began profiting from Nazism. I don’t get why anyone who does work on the information ecosystem can justify publishing there
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
ICE kidnapped a 17-year-old U.S. citizen named Christian Jimenez. Jimenez, a high school senior born in Newberg, Oregon, was driving on his school’s lunch break when ICE/CBP agents stopped his car, smashed his window, and abducted him on November 21, 2025.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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omfg it gets so much worse 💀
slight correction: Jimmy Chen is a cis gay man who has allegedly plagiarized the work of @seattlevoicelab.com after being fired for misconduct.
him being part of the queer community makes this predatory behavior even worse imho
reddit thread here:
him being part of the queer community makes this predatory behavior even worse imho
reddit thread here:
From the transvoice community on Reddit: It's time we address Trans Voice Lab
Explore this post and more from the transvoice community
www.reddit.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
omfg it gets so much worse 💀
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Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Welcome to Decoherence Media!
We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
decoherence.media
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
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When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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"Netanyahu and Dermer's approach has backfired. The catastrophic war in Gaza reduced Israel to a U.S. protectorate. Now, Israel's fate increasingly rests in the hand of an American right that sees Israel as not as an asset but as a burden"
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel's right wing bet the country's future on U.S. Christian nationalists. It backfired
Benjamin Netanyahu and Ron Dermer Failed to Account for a White Supremacist Takeover of Their Cherished MAGA Evangelical Base. Now, Israel's Fate Lies With an American Right That Increasingly Embraces...
www.haaretz.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Netanyahu and Dermer's approach has backfired. The catastrophic war in Gaza reduced Israel to a U.S. protectorate. Now, Israel's fate increasingly rests in the hand of an American right that sees Israel as not as an asset but as a burden"
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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“What once sounded unthinkable is now being said openly: Tehran is not viable; and evacuation orders are imminent.
As I wrote before, President Masoud Pezeshkian himself said that it might be necessary to relocate Tehranis in large number.” open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
As I wrote before, President Masoud Pezeshkian himself said that it might be necessary to relocate Tehranis in large number.” open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
Makran or Bust: Tehran's water crisis gets worse
Ten days ago I wrote that Tehran was approaching a point where warnings, pressure cuts and appeals to save water would no longer be enough.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“What once sounded unthinkable is now being said openly: Tehran is not viable; and evacuation orders are imminent.
As I wrote before, President Masoud Pezeshkian himself said that it might be necessary to relocate Tehranis in large number.” open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
As I wrote before, President Masoud Pezeshkian himself said that it might be necessary to relocate Tehranis in large number.” open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
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Oh wait this is actually a good idea
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Oh wait this is actually a good idea
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I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.
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Solid reporting by Texas Observer:
Small lakes in East Texas are being filled in with petrochemical-laced drilling mud, classified in Texas as "non-toxic" meaning mitigation to prevent spill-off is minimal.
What they can't say is that the elected Texas Railroad Commissioners are probably profiting.
Small lakes in East Texas are being filled in with petrochemical-laced drilling mud, classified in Texas as "non-toxic" meaning mitigation to prevent spill-off is minimal.
What they can't say is that the elected Texas Railroad Commissioners are probably profiting.
Our top story, from @liseolsen.bsky.social and @psskow.bsky.social: East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near Louisiana—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations, and a worker’s death.
East Texans Fight Oil Waste Pits Run by an Operator Cited for Dozens of Violations
In bucolic areas near the Louisiana line, residents ask, "Why are Texas taxpayers liable for other states’ toxic waste?"
www.texasobserver.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Solid reporting by Texas Observer:
Small lakes in East Texas are being filled in with petrochemical-laced drilling mud, classified in Texas as "non-toxic" meaning mitigation to prevent spill-off is minimal.
What they can't say is that the elected Texas Railroad Commissioners are probably profiting.
Small lakes in East Texas are being filled in with petrochemical-laced drilling mud, classified in Texas as "non-toxic" meaning mitigation to prevent spill-off is minimal.
What they can't say is that the elected Texas Railroad Commissioners are probably profiting.
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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BREAKING: US Coast Guard will no longer classify swastika, nooses & the Confederate flag as hate symbols. Now they're just “potentially divisive.”
Genocide isn't "potentially divisive," it is horrific violence & must be condemned without exception. And MAGAs wonder why they're referred to as Nazis.
Genocide isn't "potentially divisive," it is horrific violence & must be condemned without exception. And MAGAs wonder why they're referred to as Nazis.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
BREAKING: US Coast Guard will no longer classify swastika, nooses & the Confederate flag as hate symbols. Now they're just “potentially divisive.”
Genocide isn't "potentially divisive," it is horrific violence & must be condemned without exception. And MAGAs wonder why they're referred to as Nazis.
Genocide isn't "potentially divisive," it is horrific violence & must be condemned without exception. And MAGAs wonder why they're referred to as Nazis.
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
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Cannot be stressed enough that Black trans women were immediately sidelined in the early 2020s. Just pushed out of the convo immediately, even though transmisogynoir has always been an emergency and Black trans women are disproportionately targeted
Read this piece I contributed to in 2017. This piece, talking with the friends and families of murdered Black trans women, still haunts me to this day.
Pieces like this are just not printed anymore.
www.thefader.com/2017/10/15/t...
Pieces like this are just not printed anymore.
www.thefader.com/2017/10/15/t...
Rest in power
So far in 2017, 21 trans people have been reported as murdered. These are their life stories.
www.thefader.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Cannot be stressed enough that Black trans women were immediately sidelined in the early 2020s. Just pushed out of the convo immediately, even though transmisogynoir has always been an emergency and Black trans women are disproportionately targeted
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Brain implant developer Paradromics has gotten FDA approval to test its device in a human trial.
The Austin-based company is aiming to give a digital voice to people who have lost the ability to speak due to severe motor impairment.
>> Story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/paradr...
The Austin-based company is aiming to give a digital voice to people who have lost the ability to speak due to severe motor impairment.
>> Story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/paradr...
Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People
The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement.
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Brain implant developer Paradromics has gotten FDA approval to test its device in a human trial.
The Austin-based company is aiming to give a digital voice to people who have lost the ability to speak due to severe motor impairment.
>> Story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/paradr...
The Austin-based company is aiming to give a digital voice to people who have lost the ability to speak due to severe motor impairment.
>> Story at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/paradr...
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NEW: Obscure companies in Russia and the UAE are involved in secretive exports of oil products to North Korea — in amounts violating UN sanctions that Moscow itself supported, financial and customs records show.
Here’s what @istories.bsky.social discovered:
www.occrp.org/en/scoop/lea...
Here’s what @istories.bsky.social discovered:
www.occrp.org/en/scoop/lea...
Leaked Russian Records Reveal Obscure Firms Helping Bust Oil Sanctions on North Korea
Companies in Russia and the United Arab Emirates are involved in secretive exports of oil products to North Korea — in violation of U.N. sanctions that Moscow itself supported.
www.occrp.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
NEW: Obscure companies in Russia and the UAE are involved in secretive exports of oil products to North Korea — in amounts violating UN sanctions that Moscow itself supported, financial and customs records show.
Here’s what @istories.bsky.social discovered:
www.occrp.org/en/scoop/lea...
Here’s what @istories.bsky.social discovered:
www.occrp.org/en/scoop/lea...