Kirsten Martin
Kirsten Martin
@kmartin.bsky.social
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News: Controversial company Clearview AI tried to purchase social security numbers and other PII for its facial recognition database by me in @404media.co

www.404media.co/facial-recog...
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
www.404media.co
March 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Oh my god.

They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.

"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"

WOW.
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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"Around 10,000 research grants have been flagged for review and distributed to various programme directors."
February 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.

It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.

I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.

Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Our new research paper just posted! It asks whether dark patterns (manipulative online interfaces) can thwart users who are trying to make privacy-protective choices on a video streaming site. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... We find that dark patterns are very potent even when users have that goal.
Can Consumers Protect Themselves Against Privacy Dark Patterns?
Dark patterns have emerged in the last few years as a major target of legislators and regulators. Dark patterns are online interfaces that manipulate, confuse,
papers.ssrn.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is,

this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.
January 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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1. Today, 81 Democrats voted for the NDAA, which pulls care from the trans kids of military service members, in what is seen as a betrayal of trans people by the Democratic party.

EITM has published a full, easy to read list of their names, and how to contact.
81 Democrats Voted To Pull Care From Service Member's Trans kids. Here Are The Names.
81 Democrats have voted for the NDAA bill, which has an anti-trans amendment pulling care from trans youth enrolled in TriCare, the first national anti-trans bill of the modern era.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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I’m quoted in @cfarivar.bsky.social’s story, staking out the “only in America does this need to be said out loud” stance that prosecuting children isn’t the answer:
“In November, students walked out to protest what they viewed as the school’s failure to investigate the scope and scale of the AI-generated media.”

Several parents are suing the school, “alleging that it failed to act when it was required to and that it failed to adequately protect its students.”
Almost Half The Girls At This School Were Targets Of AI Porn. Their Ex-Classmates Have Now Been Indicted.
The accused are alleged to have created 347 images and videos of 60 female victims, 48 of whom were previously their classmates at a small school in Pennslyvania.
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.

I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.

If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
December 5, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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1/X An important Equal Protection case, United States v. Skrmetti, will be heard by the SCT tomorrow (Wed. Dec. 4). For those who have not been following the case closely, a 🧵 about the case, why it is important & what to watch for. I'll do my best to explain in lay terms & stay away from legalese.
December 3, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Niemöllers poem starts after the Nazis came for the trans and lgbtq folks
If you are wondering what to do as American fascisms curtain starts to drop protect trans people. they are the first group targeted for the worst violence and if you do not protect them, you’ll be unable to protect anyone else
November 27, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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And there you have it.

Nancy Mace comes out and says, "It's offensive that a man in a skirt thinks that he's my equal"

That is what is driving them so mad. That a transgender person, duly elected to represent 1,000,000 people, could ever be her equal.
November 21, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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This kind of dehumanization is emblematic of 1934 Germany. She's calling transgender people subhuman.
November 21, 2024 at 4:01 AM
These days everybody on Bluesky should be interested in privacy law. Here is a Starter Pack including some of the leading scholars doing research on this timely topic. go.bsky.app/M6UkFtA
November 11, 2024 at 10:55 PM
A sobering empirical piece in JAMA.

Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.

Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 10, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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A sobering empirical piece in JAMA.

Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death.

Here they show:
* restrictions on divorce
* restrictions on abortion…
both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
63 algorithmic interventions designed to make #Facebook temporarily provide less polarizing and more reliable content likely distorted the data sets that #Meta fed to academic researchers and helped get published with Meta employees as co-authors.

x.com/scheufele/st...
Team Led by UMass Amherst Debunks Research Showing Facebook’s News-Feed Algorithm Curbs Election Misinformation | UMass Amherst
Though Facebook can limit untrustworthy content, the new research suggests it often chooses not to.
www.umass.edu
September 30, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
June 28, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Twice a week now a Silicon Valley company issued a press release like, “We have invented a new technology. It’s only use is for crime. Accordingly, we are all now billionaires.”
A new OpenAI tool can recreate human voices — from just a 15-second recording. The technology, called Voice Engine, is currently available only to a small group of early testers. nyti.ms/3TGZIyS
OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.
nyti.ms
March 29, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Media Matters and GLAAD looked at a full year New York Times coverage of anti-trans legislation:

🔴 Two-thirds of stories didn't include trans voices

🔴 18% quoted misinformation without adequate fact-checking

🔴6 articles obscured the anti-trans background of sources l
Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation
A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following public criticism for its handling of the topic. Media Matters previously reported that the Times helped fuel a right-wing anti-trans panic in 2022 by platforming anti-trans extremists, painting rising transgender identification as a social contagion, and fearmongering about the costs of transgender acceptance.   In February 2023, the paper received two separate open letters: one from a coalition of 150+ organizations and leaders, including GLAAD, and a separate letter signed by hundreds of Times contributors that criticized the outlet's contributions to a deadly anti-LGBTQ culture war. The newspaper attempted to conflate both efforts, dismissing all criticisms of its coverage as merely “protests organized by advocacy groups.” Between February 15, 2023, when those letters were separately delivered to the Times, and February 15, 2024, the Times published at least 65 articles that mentioned U.S. anti-trans legislation in either their headline or lead paragraphs. We counted how often the paper quoted openly trans or gender-nonconforming sources, cited anti-trans misinformation or talking points without context or adequate fact-checking, and accurately represented the records of anti-trans figures mentioned in its stories. Our findings:  66% of the articles did not quote even one trans or gender-nonconforming person. 18% of the articles quoted misinformation from anti-trans activists without adequate fact-checking or additional context. 6 articles obscured the anti-trans background of sources, erasing histories of extremist rhetoric or actions.
www.mediamatters.org
March 27, 2024 at 12:53 AM