Jon P (moved)
@jdp23-alt.bsky.social
My primary account is now @jdp23.thenexus.today
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@jdp23-alt.bsky.social
· Sep 16
I've now moved to @jdp23.thenexus.today as my primary account. I'm keeping this account around as a backup, at least for the time being.
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on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to troll
The White House joins Bluesky
When a government joins a platform for the purpose of trolling
connectedplaces.leaflet.pub
October 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
on the challenges when an authoritarian regime joins a social networking platform to troll
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“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”
Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI
Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...
jacobin.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”
I've now moved to @jdp23.thenexus.today as my primary account. I'm keeping this account around as a backup, at least for the time being.
September 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I've now moved to @jdp23.thenexus.today as my primary account. I'm keeping this account around as a backup, at least for the time being.
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Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts.
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
September 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Read my latest commentary on Big Tech Authoritarianism, which discusses how Big Tech actively constructs authoritarian spaces – both within their organisational structures and across broader socio-political contexts.
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
September 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
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Something that I think we need to be clear about is that internet scholars (critical and otherwise) have made this clear for at least two decades and the rest of the academy (and the public) responded with a collective "what happens online isn't real," so forgive me if I'm like "water is ALSO wet."
"It’s no longer tenable... to delineate between the digital world and 'real life.' The bile we swim in daily, sometimes for hours on end, is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable."
@aselrod.bsky.social is right. From shooters to voters, the internet is driving toxic anger.
@aselrod.bsky.social is right. From shooters to voters, the internet is driving toxic anger.
Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.
Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Something that I think we need to be clear about is that internet scholars (critical and otherwise) have made this clear for at least two decades and the rest of the academy (and the public) responded with a collective "what happens online isn't real," so forgive me if I'm like "water is ALSO wet."
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Seems like there's a lot of chatter among folks looking to migrate off of bsky.social as a PDS, and out to other options.
Friendly reminder for white people like me, that Blacksky is for Black folks. There's a related PDS for people that aren't Black too, but Blacksky isn't for us white people.
Friendly reminder for white people like me, that Blacksky is for Black folks. There's a related PDS for people that aren't Black too, but Blacksky isn't for us white people.
September 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Seems like there's a lot of chatter among folks looking to migrate off of bsky.social as a PDS, and out to other options.
Friendly reminder for white people like me, that Blacksky is for Black folks. There's a related PDS for people that aren't Black too, but Blacksky isn't for us white people.
Friendly reminder for white people like me, that Blacksky is for Black folks. There's a related PDS for people that aren't Black too, but Blacksky isn't for us white people.
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🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse."
– @lopatto.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
– @lopatto.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation
The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.
www.theverge.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse."
– @lopatto.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
– @lopatto.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/politics/777...
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Like I said ...
Think twice before you amplify thinly-source stories. Even if you're expressing skepticism, you don't want to give them more oxygen. One alternative: take a screenshot and draw a couple of big red question marks over it. Or, just don't amplify it!
Think twice before you amplify thinly-source stories. Even if you're expressing skepticism, you don't want to give them more oxygen. One alternative: take a screenshot and draw a couple of big red question marks over it. Or, just don't amplify it!
Yep. And people who shared it -- even with commentary saying they were skeptical -- were boosting disinfo.
September 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Like I said ...
Think twice before you amplify thinly-source stories. Even if you're expressing skepticism, you don't want to give them more oxygen. One alternative: take a screenshot and draw a couple of big red question marks over it. Or, just don't amplify it!
Think twice before you amplify thinly-source stories. Even if you're expressing skepticism, you don't want to give them more oxygen. One alternative: take a screenshot and draw a couple of big red question marks over it. Or, just don't amplify it!
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So I’ve been banned from Reddit for three days by automated moderation for making a racist post…
…paraphrasing Kirk’s final words.
From the #youcantmakeitup files.
…paraphrasing Kirk’s final words.
From the #youcantmakeitup files.
September 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So I’ve been banned from Reddit for three days by automated moderation for making a racist post…
…paraphrasing Kirk’s final words.
From the #youcantmakeitup files.
…paraphrasing Kirk’s final words.
From the #youcantmakeitup files.
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I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️
OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”
September 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I got to share a stage with the incomparable Karen Hao this morning and she is The Truth in every way. ♥️
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This is what solidarity looks like
thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidar...
Part 2 of “Decentralization” and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere
Here's a thread with some highlights (🧵)
thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidar...
Part 2 of “Decentralization” and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere
Here's a thread with some highlights (🧵)
This is what solidarity looks like
Part 2 of "Decentralization" and Erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere
thenexusofprivacy.net
September 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is what solidarity looks like
thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidar...
Part 2 of “Decentralization” and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere
Here's a thread with some highlights (🧵)
thenexusofprivacy.net/what-solidar...
Part 2 of “Decentralization” and erasure: Blacksky, Bluesky, and the ATmosphere
Here's a thread with some highlights (🧵)
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reminder that bsky.team only has jurisdiction over what happens on their servers. If you self-host or are hosted by blacksky.app they cannot remove your posts.
they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere.
signups and migrations are open.
they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere.
signups and migrations are open.
Violence is always unacceptable, and threats of violence have no place in public discourse. Our thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family.
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
reminder that bsky.team only has jurisdiction over what happens on their servers. If you self-host or are hosted by blacksky.app they cannot remove your posts.
they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere.
signups and migrations are open.
they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere.
signups and migrations are open.
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None of my friends have *become* fascists. No one.
September 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
None of my friends have *become* fascists. No one.
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Lots of accounts sharing misinformation for clicks + shares. This doesn't help anyone.
"Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
No, Chicago is not using salt trucks to block ICE, despite viral claims
The city told NBC News in a statement that the salt trucks were there “to support public safety efforts related to a planned protest and the Taste of Chicago.”
www.nbcnews.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Lots of accounts sharing misinformation for clicks + shares. This doesn't help anyone.
"Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Salt trucks, routinely used in Chicago winters to combat ice on roadways, were not deployed this weekend to deter ICE, the city said, despite claims made on social media videos." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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I'm guessing this is news to most of you but I have a book coming out. :) I and three co-authors (all of whom are HCI researchers with law-adjacent degrees) wrote Human-Computer Interaction and U.S. Law, which will be out from Cambridge University Press in December. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
September 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I'm guessing this is news to most of you but I have a book coming out. :) I and three co-authors (all of whom are HCI researchers with law-adjacent degrees) wrote Human-Computer Interaction and U.S. Law, which will be out from Cambridge University Press in December. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
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Although "Massive Cognitohazard Zone" would be a great band name!
September 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Although "Massive Cognitohazard Zone" would be a great band name!
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Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?
Just setting up my blacksky-comra.de ...
I'll be slowly shifting my presence to this account. I tend not to migrate accounts; instead, I prefer to recreate my network based on my interests today, not two years ago - and leave the baggage of old posts behind
Just setting up my blacksky-comra.de ...
I'll be slowly shifting my presence to this account. I tend not to migrate accounts; instead, I prefer to recreate my network based on my interests today, not two years ago - and leave the baggage of old posts behind
September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?
Just setting up my blacksky-comra.de ...
I'll be slowly shifting my presence to this account. I tend not to migrate accounts; instead, I prefer to recreate my network based on my interests today, not two years ago - and leave the baggage of old posts behind
Just setting up my blacksky-comra.de ...
I'll be slowly shifting my presence to this account. I tend not to migrate accounts; instead, I prefer to recreate my network based on my interests today, not two years ago - and leave the baggage of old posts behind
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"a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect" hmm a Lost Cause, one might say
“Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among MAGA activists…We find [they] are not simply voters responding to policy preferences or culture-war appeals but are also participants in a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect.”
The Symbolic Politics of Status in the MAGA Movement | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Symbolic Politics of Status in the MAGA Movement
www.cambridge.org
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect" hmm a Lost Cause, one might say
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Also when I was in high school I was a country music DJ. That or McDonald's were the only two options for summer jobs.
September 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Also when I was in high school I was a country music DJ. That or McDonald's were the only two options for summer jobs.
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Accessibility in the ATmosphere?
The current state of accessibiilty on Bluesky leaves a lot of room for improvement. So, let's start making things better!
thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3lxxyg36k5s2t
As a first step, let's focus on gathering information ...
#accessibility. (🧵, 1/N)
The current state of accessibiilty on Bluesky leaves a lot of room for improvement. So, let's start making things better!
thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3lxxyg36k5s2t
As a first step, let's focus on gathering information ...
#accessibility. (🧵, 1/N)
Accessibility in the ATmosphere? - The Nexus of Privacy
Suggestions for resources and tips? Ideas for improvements?
thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub
September 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Accessibility in the ATmosphere?
The current state of accessibiilty on Bluesky leaves a lot of room for improvement. So, let's start making things better!
thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3lxxyg36k5s2t
As a first step, let's focus on gathering information ...
#accessibility. (🧵, 1/N)
The current state of accessibiilty on Bluesky leaves a lot of room for improvement. So, let's start making things better!
thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub/3lxxyg36k5s2t
As a first step, let's focus on gathering information ...
#accessibility. (🧵, 1/N)
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It would cost @blackskyweb.xyz $160K annually to do automated video and image moderation for every post in the Blacksky feed.
This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com.
I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe.
My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.
This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com.
I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe.
My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.
September 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It would cost @blackskyweb.xyz $160K annually to do automated video and image moderation for every post in the Blacksky feed.
This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com.
I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe.
My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.
This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com.
I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe.
My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.
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What accessibility problems have you encountered on Bluesky or other ATmosphere software – bugs, missing documentation or functionality, whatever? 🧵
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
What accessibility problems have you encountered on Bluesky or other ATmosphere software – bugs, missing documentation or functionality, whatever? 🧵
Let's see how this works ...
Hello? Hello? Is this thing on????
Just setting up my Leaflet
thenexusofprivacy.leaflet.pub
September 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Let's see how this works ...
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i don't think most understand how big this is.
currently, bsky forks do not give selfhosted PDSes the ability to use 2FA which leave users unprotected from brute force attacks; the fix below stops those attacks
it also stops me from rotating my password every 120hrs to a new randomized password 🫠
currently, bsky forks do not give selfhosted PDSes the ability to use 2FA which leave users unprotected from brute force attacks; the fix below stops those attacks
it also stops me from rotating my password every 120hrs to a new randomized password 🫠
2FA is now live on selfhosted.social 👀. Working on the documentation now to set it up.
September 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i don't think most understand how big this is.
currently, bsky forks do not give selfhosted PDSes the ability to use 2FA which leave users unprotected from brute force attacks; the fix below stops those attacks
it also stops me from rotating my password every 120hrs to a new randomized password 🫠
currently, bsky forks do not give selfhosted PDSes the ability to use 2FA which leave users unprotected from brute force attacks; the fix below stops those attacks
it also stops me from rotating my password every 120hrs to a new randomized password 🫠