Very proud to be making my @assignedmedia.org debut with this fascinating & farcical exposé! Someone — we don’t yet know who — has been bombarding the US government with blatantly machine-generated comments. All of them ask for one thing: make it harder for trans people to legally buy firearms.
Assigned Media
Before July 21 the response to the Trump administration's anti-trans gun rule was overwhelmingly negative. Almost overnight it changed. But 96 percent of influx of comments supporting the rule appear to come from bots. New EXCLUSIVE investigation by Io Dodds. assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/swarm-of-bots-p…
Aug 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
From Non-consensual Pornography to Image-based Sexual Abuse: Charting the Course of a Problem with Many Names
Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
From Non-consensual Pornography to Image-based Sexual Abuse: Charting the Course of a Problem with Many Names
Every day, people’s most intimate moments are recorded, uploaded and circulated online without their consent. This gross invasion of privacy – commonly known as ‘revenge pornography’ – has become p...
Local-First Conf 2026
Mike Stabile (@mikestabile.bsky.social)
First Amendment rodeo clown. Policy Director at Free Speech Coalition, co-founder SWR Data, among other things. Personal account, all outrage / nonsense here is my own.
You Can Form a Part of Yourself Online: The Influence of New Media on Identity Development and Coming Out for LGBTQ Youth
Internet-based new media are increasingly utilized by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth, yet little is known about the ways in which it influences their identity developm...
Very proud to be making my @assignedmedia.org debut with this fascinating & farcical exposé! Someone — we don’t yet know who — has been bombarding the US government with blatantly machine-generated comments. All of them ask for one thing: make it harder for trans people to legally buy firearms.
Assigned Media
Before July 21 the response to the Trump administration's anti-trans gun rule was overwhelmingly negative. Almost overnight it changed. But 96 percent of influx of comments supporting the rule appear to come from bots. New EXCLUSIVE investigation by Io Dodds. assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/swarm-of-bots-p…
I recently had the honour of speaking at @publicspaces.net — an amazing community — about what we can do and how we can hope. It's called "We Build On Hope" and the video is now online: video.publicspaces.net/w/e4FiBfh23Xp2MivCLws79W?star…
We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026
video.publicspaces.netI'm excited to announce another guest post on the atproto.com blog! This time, we're featuring @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, the maintainer of the popular For You Feed (bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.so…)! atproto.com/blog/serving-the-for-you-feed
Serving the For You Feed - AT Protocol
atproto.comExcited to announce that I'm a speaker in MIT Media Lab's upcoming AHA Seminar Series! I'll be presenting on @blackskyweb.xyz's moderation and how we are navigating the nuances around automated content moderation that is community-governed
AHA Seminar Series: Rishi Balakrishnan | Who Moderates? Community Control of Automated Content Moderation – MIT Media Lab
media.mit.eduThis feed built with love by your local #FAccT2026 publicity chair and #1 fan of @graze.social. If you're interested in fairness and ethics of tech, then like, subscribe, and enjoy all the paper threads and discussion!
ACM FAccT
It's almost time for this year's conference! 🎉 To follow along with all things #FAccT2026, you can "pin" this feed to your homepage. It matches all uses of the hashtag, tags of @facct.bsky.social, and use of the text string "FAccT" (not case sensitive). Enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y32vdst3y7r4f…
Do you like bookmarking things and losing them in the Bookmarks hole? Or not knowing what your Bluesky peeps are bookmarking No? Then try semble.so (built on ATProtocol) and use social bookmarking to learn from the academic hivemind.
#ATProtoScience tools can enable sensemaking and maybe some nerdy jobs in the near future: "Similar to how social media made influencers... maybe there'll be influencers [as scholarly] sensemakers... [attendee: high need for cognition people]..." Yep, that's my dream job, @ronentk.me
From Social Network to Sense Making
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