nabiha syed
@nabiha.bsky.social
Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
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I write about some interesting developments in the ATmosphere (and the broader universe of decentralised and federated social media). Very intrigued by #Eurosky, especially the idea of shared moderation infrastructure. I will be following (and hopefully writing about!) this with a lot of interest.
🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency.
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech ...
openfuture.eu
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I write about some interesting developments in the ATmosphere (and the broader universe of decentralised and federated social media). Very intrigued by #Eurosky, especially the idea of shared moderation infrastructure. I will be following (and hopefully writing about!) this with a lot of interest.
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Was doing some research around AI agents, and ensuring users' rights - and @anildash.com was really cooking here. In 2013! www.anildash.com/2013/03/19/t...
The Case for User Agent Extremism - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Was doing some research around AI agents, and ensuring users' rights - and @anildash.com was really cooking here. In 2013! www.anildash.com/2013/03/19/t...
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I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
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Another good reason to avoid being on X is that Isaac Chotiner could start asking you questions there at any time
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Another good reason to avoid being on X is that Isaac Chotiner could start asking you questions there at any time
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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The government is scooping data that you probably didn’t know you were sharing.
For thousands of families, that resulted in the UK tax agency HMRC wrongly suspending child benefit payments on the basis of incomplete and misinterpreted flight records.
privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...
For thousands of families, that resulted in the UK tax agency HMRC wrongly suspending child benefit payments on the basis of incomplete and misinterpreted flight records.
privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...
HMRC 'function creep' means spying on your travel plans to block benefits
Governments weaponising data against people is one of the top themes of 2025. In this latest example, tax agency uses post-9/11 era travel surveillance to administer tax benefits, and to wrongly…
privacyinternational.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The government is scooping data that you probably didn’t know you were sharing.
For thousands of families, that resulted in the UK tax agency HMRC wrongly suspending child benefit payments on the basis of incomplete and misinterpreted flight records.
privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...
For thousands of families, that resulted in the UK tax agency HMRC wrongly suspending child benefit payments on the basis of incomplete and misinterpreted flight records.
privacyinternational.org/news-analysi...
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Ayman Soliman was a beloved children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area.
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
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The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ayman Soliman was a beloved children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area.
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
Sign up:
zeteo.com/p/2pm-et-tue...
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
Sign up:
zeteo.com/p/2pm-et-tue...
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YouTuber “Schlep" built a huge following tracking down alleged child predators on Roblox before being kicked off. The platform is facing multiple lawsuits over child safety. www.wired.com/story/he-hun...
He Hunted Alleged Groomers on Roblox. Then the Company Banned Him
YouTuber “Schlep" built a huge following tracking down alleged child predators on Roblox before being kicked off. The platform is facing multiple lawsuits over child safety.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
YouTuber “Schlep" built a huge following tracking down alleged child predators on Roblox before being kicked off. The platform is facing multiple lawsuits over child safety. www.wired.com/story/he-hun...
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Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
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Developers, researchers, protocol nerds: the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM wants YOU!
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Developers, researchers, protocol nerds: the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM wants YOU!
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
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"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
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"The idea that China is no longer just catching up, but redefining the arc of development itself, is hard to absorb — especially for those conditioned to see the West as a permanent reference point, even when viewed critically."
(h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social)
(h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social)
The Thing We Still Can’t Say
SHAXI, 18 July 2025 — Adam Tooze came to visit me recently here in Shaxi, the little town in Yunnan where I spent the last month.
www.sinicapodcast.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"The idea that China is no longer just catching up, but redefining the arc of development itself, is hard to absorb — especially for those conditioned to see the West as a permanent reference point, even when viewed critically."
(h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social)
(h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social)
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
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Fucking awful, and also highlights why having independent local media that doesn't just reprint law enforcement press releases is essential for holding people accountable.
women in an SF jail were forced to strip while sheriff’s deputies watched and filmed on body cameras missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-s...
‘Nauseated’: S.F. supervisors demand action after alleged mass strip search of women in jail
Supervisors want action after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly strip searched en masse.
missionlocal.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Fucking awful, and also highlights why having independent local media that doesn't just reprint law enforcement press releases is essential for holding people accountable.
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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When OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings to appeal to more people, some users were left spiraling. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings to appeal to more people, some users were left spiraling. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
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With luck we'll never find out, because this week brings us Netchoice v Miyares, in which Netchoice once again picks a fight and invites us along for the ride.
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
NetChoice v. Jason S. Miyares, 1:25-cv-02067 - CourtListener.com
Docket for NetChoice v. Jason S. Miyares, 1:25-cv-02067 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
With luck we'll never find out, because this week brings us Netchoice v Miyares, in which Netchoice once again picks a fight and invites us along for the ride.
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
Docket: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71921...
Netchoice: netchoice.org/netchoice-v-...
I'll link my declaration when it's up!
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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An emerging global consensus says online harms are the predictable outcomes of platforms designed for attention, engagement, and data extraction, writes Lena Slachmuijlder, author of a new guide to “Prosocial Tech Design Regulation.”
How to Rethink Regulation with Prosocial Design | TechPolicy.Press
An emerging global consensus says online harms are the outcomes of platforms designed for attention, engagement, and data extraction, writes Lena Slachmuijlder.
www.techpolicy.press
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
An emerging global consensus says online harms are the predictable outcomes of platforms designed for attention, engagement, and data extraction, writes Lena Slachmuijlder, author of a new guide to “Prosocial Tech Design Regulation.”
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Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
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Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds.
wrd.cm/49u9pdF
wrd.cm/49u9pdF
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Really dark and necessary read on child farmworkers in California, many of whom are immigrants.
California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
capitalandmain.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Really dark and necessary read on child farmworkers in California, many of whom are immigrants.
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Described as worse than prison, the conditions at the largest ICE detention facility in CA are inhumane. With the lives of detainees at stake, KVP has joined Prison Law Office, the ACLU, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice in filing a class action: www.keker.com/news/news-it...
Keker Sues DHS, ICE Over Allegedly Inhumane Conditions at Calif. Detention Center
www.keker.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Described as worse than prison, the conditions at the largest ICE detention facility in CA are inhumane. With the lives of detainees at stake, KVP has joined Prison Law Office, the ACLU, and the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice in filing a class action: www.keker.com/news/news-it...
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Make good tech the norm.
Stand up for a better internet.
We have the power and change doesn't happen unless people stand up, roll up their sleeves and do something about it. That's the message of the Mozilla Foundation and its wonderful director @nabiha.bsky.social
www.mozillafoundation.org
Stand up for a better internet.
We have the power and change doesn't happen unless people stand up, roll up their sleeves and do something about it. That's the message of the Mozilla Foundation and its wonderful director @nabiha.bsky.social
www.mozillafoundation.org
Welcome to Mozilla Foundation
With over two decades of global impact, Mozilla Foundation continues to lead the movement for a better technology future—powered by people, open by design, and fueled by imagination.
www.mozillafoundation.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Make good tech the norm.
Stand up for a better internet.
We have the power and change doesn't happen unless people stand up, roll up their sleeves and do something about it. That's the message of the Mozilla Foundation and its wonderful director @nabiha.bsky.social
www.mozillafoundation.org
Stand up for a better internet.
We have the power and change doesn't happen unless people stand up, roll up their sleeves and do something about it. That's the message of the Mozilla Foundation and its wonderful director @nabiha.bsky.social
www.mozillafoundation.org