I knew my distrust of spellcheck would be validated one day! Seriously, though, this is bad news.

I missed the vertical integration aspect of this in earlier reporting I’ve read. It makes this story even worse.

We need to do more work to divorce free speech from content moderation. The world without content moderation would be a much worse world, and we don’t want to live in it. Sure, social media platforms are too powerful, but this is not the answer.

This is a gross idea for a TV show, and I’m glad people are pushing back against it.

This isn’t the first article I’ve read comparing Q to an ARG, but I may still send it to my students next semester. I’m also interested in the book this comes from…

I am very much here for Matt Potts criticizing Hogwarts for not embracing the humanities and the importance of the humanities.

Trump’s leaning into Q is not a good sign for the future.

Look, Parler isn’t as bad as Gab, but this kind of softball, uncritical approach to the platform is not helpful. WSJ should know better.

What a cheap, cynical about-face. The fact that candidates think this is something they can do to drum up voters and then change strategy is worrying.

Good article on an important subject. I may have to assign this to my students next semester!

I loved the original book and hope to pick up the second. This was a good interview on how surprisingly many important things this kind of weird project overlaps with.

Caring about privacy ought to be common sense. It’s difficult to push back, but that doesn’t mean those of us who do are crazy.

I hope the Fairphone will be sold in the U.S. one day. It’s an awesome project.

Maybe it’s because of my area of research, but I think the headline here is misleading. Being a teacher on TikTok is one thing, and I’m not opposed to that. Putting your students on TikTok is entirely different, and I struggle to see that being ethically justified. Josh’s research is absolutely the right reference point here.

Americans should be more worried about the NSA than they are.

This is a tragic detail in an even more tragic story. Government can absolutely be good, and our allergic reaction to spending, laws, and policy only makes these situations worse.

It isn’t that TikTok doesn’t pose a real threat, it’s that it’s not alone in doing so. In particular, I appreciate that this article points out that U.S. border agents REGULARLY SEARCH COMPUTERS AND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS. So, yes, raise concerns, but be consistent instead of creating a moral panic around thus one app (which, by the way, would be a privacy threat even if it were totally owned by a U.S. company).

A good case for why the edit button probably isn’t as good as everyone thinks.

This is a cute story—hat tip to Boing Boing for recommending it.

Ashamed to say I hadn’t ever thought about this possibility.

Intellectual property is a social justice issue.

What a story. I knew how awful the TSA could be to passengers, but I never knew how bad it also was for its own employees.

This is very interesting—it gives me some hope that I haven’t had over the past couple of months.

Speaking personally, I’d be happy to pay extra taxes to better support our local schools.

This ‘Black Mirror’ class comes out of my department—happy to see a colleague get credit for such an interesting class!