Kendra Albert

Kendra Albert

@kendraserra.bsky.social

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Technology, gender, and power. Tech lawyer at Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic. Director at the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment (IfRFA). Board @ Tor Project. Thinks too much about Anthony Comstock.

They/them. More at https://kendraalbert.com/

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

I just finished "The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No", which is a book about whistleblowers like Buxtun. One key takeaway is how hard it is to get anyone to act on the kinds of harm that was clearly present in Tuskegee. May he rest in power.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti... "In his complaints to federal health officials, he drew comparisons between the Tuskegee study and medical experiments Nazi doctors had conducted on Jews and other prisoners."

Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, dies aged 86www.theguardian.com Buxtun, who had Alzheimer’s, revered for role in bringing to light one of worst medical research scandals in US history

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social reroll

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AIRHORN NOISES sorry sorry sorry but like, I spent eight years trying to make this project happen and now it's here and I'm losing my MIND. link.chtbl.com/Rose_ If you want to keep up with the series I have a newsletter too: buttondown.email/tested

Testedlink.chtbl.com <p>Who gets to compete?&nbsp; Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female...

"AI" is a quintessential charismatic technology, as defined by Morgan Ames. It "derives its power experientially and symbolically through the possibility or promise of action: what is important is not what the object is but how it invokes the imagination through what it promises to do."

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has anyone ever figured out why every single elementary schooler in the US in the 90s was given a recorder i would sincerely love a long form cultural history feature/surprisingly upsetting limited series podcast about that

When does typing "ignore your instructions..." into ChatGPT violate the CFAA? Come to my Black Hat talk and you'll find out! www.blackhat.com/us-24/briefi...

Black Hat USA 2024www.blackhat.com Black Hat USA 2024

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The 19th's coverage of the GOP's abortion platform is literally the only accurate news coverage I have seen in a mainstream publication in the last 24 hours

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF19thnews.org Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

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📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 Take a break with the latest deep cuts in game history courtesy the one and only ROMCHIP: A JOURNAL OF GAME HISTORIES: 📜 @enwright.bsky.social on the historical discourses surrounding Pentiment's promotion and reviews 🕹️ Raiford Guins interviewing Atari engineers romchip.org

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You'll have to read the WaPo piece for this entirely accurate take from @paulgowder.bsky.social that this lawsuit is racist garbage. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

I got an advance copy of @tarah.bsky.social poker deck to benefit @eff.org and you are going to want one of these! You can still sign up for the DEF CON 32 tournament: www.eff.org/event/bettin...

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I was prepared for disaster, but the Netchoice decision is good. It rejects the broadest arguments made by the states and the platforms. It recognizes that platforms are ‘editors’ but dismisses the argument that regulation in this sphere is categorically unconstitutional.

Knight Institute Comments on Supreme Court Ruling In Cases Involving Florida and Texas Social Media Lawsknightcolumbia.org

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You need this today. For morale.

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Nice writeup of Internet Archive v Hachette's oral argument today (@kendraserra.bsky.social's "something else that happened in law land today) from @davehansen.bsky.social @authorsalliance.bsky.social authorsalliance.substack.com/p/hachette-v...

Hachette v. Internet Archive Update: Oral Argument Before the Second Circuit Court of Appealsauthorsalliance.substack.com This is a short update on the Hachette v. Internet Archive controlled digital lending lawsuit, which is currently pending on appeal before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The court held oral argu...

I hear that something else also happened in law land at 10 AM, but did anyone liveblog/post about/share thoughts on the Hachette v. Internet Archive oral argument?

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If you care about the way AI is steamrolling environmental concerns you might be interested in this (free, online) conference happening in July—program just posted, and link to register: uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...

Rethinking the Inevitability of AIuva.theopenscholar.com

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📢ATTN FREELANCE WRITERS📢 ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is currently accepting pitches for a game history long read! Scope is 2.5K-4K piece suitable to ROMchip's Materials section (focus is close reads of game history artifacts). Pay is $1000. More info: donate.romchip.org/new-work.html

New Workdonate.romchip.org ROMchip is an open access publishing venue dedicated to the historical study of games. While we serve most formally as a peer-reviewed journal for game history scholarship written by professional...

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It's big AND it's true: Google Chrome will cease trusting Entrust root certificates in October. security.googleblog.com/2024/06/sust...

Sustaining Digital Certificate Security - Entrust Certificate Distrustsecurity.googleblog.com Posted by Chrome Root Program, Chrome Security Team The Chrome Security Team prioritizes the security and privacy of Chrome’s users...

Every privacy advocate who had "ID verification service exposes massive amount of sensitive user data" on their bingo card, feel free to check it off. www.404media.co/id-verificat...

ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenseswww.404media.co As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.

Ah yes, I see that we're in the "you have an affiliation with an institution, therefore I will impute their policy stances to you" stage of the discourse.

Did you know that as an adult, you're allowed to just make raspberry lemonade? smittenkitchen.com/2015/05/pink...

picnic pink lemonadesmittenkitchen.com Pink lemonade > regular lemonade, forever. Don’t even fight it. Just make sure the blush is real (in this case, raspberries, strawberries or blackberries).

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Is it "going on offense" to restore abortion rights and access if it's already the second anniversary of Dobbs and the best you can offer in terms of a game plan is "details to come down the road"

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Where's the card that says "I have actual expertise/lived experience but am much too tired to have strong opinions so do whatever"

Warned client that tho I may have opinions about their new accessible content it’s testing it with users that matters. This card is about my biases too.

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Hi! The Onion is bringing back our Writing Fellowship. The fellowship has produced some of the biggest names in comedy, at The Onion and elsewhere. It was a casualty private equity. We are reviving it. The program is six months long and includes health insurance. jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

The Onion Fellowship at The Onion jobs.gusto.com

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this lede is misleading, imo. Louisiana is absolutely not the “first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.” Kentucky’s law requiring the same was struck down in Stone v Graham in 1980. 1/

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandmentsapnews.com Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.