Jillian C. York 🍉

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Writer and activist, author of Silicon Values. Views here are mine, all mine. Work @EFF, teach at College of Europe Natolin, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com

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All of this and I Swear by All4One, I will always love you, Nothing Compares 2U, and Proud Mary. And that cover of Mad World, and the Placebo cover of Running Up That Hill

“Torn” is a cover and it’s a banger. Jose Gonzales’s “Heartbeats”. “Because the Night” technically not a cover but you can count the 10000 Maniacs version. One must not exclude “All Along the Watchtower”

most boring match so far, thanks ronaldo…the joe biden of football.

It's really fun watching this live version of the West Wing but ffs can we get on with it and run a real candidate?

Congrats to the UK. Turns to the US: Welp, I see things are going well. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Disney heir joins other Democrat backers to pause donations until Joe Biden steps asidewww.theguardian.com Abigail Disney says choice to suspend donations is based on ‘realism, not disrespect’, and suggests Kamala Harris as an alternative

What a fascinating take from Brits who clearly can’t see how Germany’s dedication to human rights and indeed its own Basic Law is selective www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Germany is learning the lesson of history. Are we? | Letterswww.theguardian.com Letters: Readers respond to Barney Ronay’s account of touring Germany for Euro 2024 football games

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🚨 New video: on our DSA Civil Society Roundtable, feat. Tim Hughes of Open Government Partnership, our Asha Allen, Eliska Pirkova of Access Now & Chantal Joris of Article 19. 👉 They discuss why the #DSA is so important for rights & how civil soc must be involved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oze...

CDT Europe Hosts DSA Civil Society Roundtable - Participant Interviewswww.youtube.com On the 17th of April, CDT Europe and Open Government Partnership held the Fifth #DSA Civil Society Roundtable Series event in Brussels. As the #DigitalServic...

Türkiye is KILLING IT

I'm taking part in a lecture series to a group of artists from mainly southern Mediterranean countries and it's so fascinating to hear their different perspectives on censorship and free expression, largely framed by their experience of the governments they grew up under.

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It's true, us bitches do

All us bitches need Signal

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With anti-LGBTQ+ bills restricting free expression and privacy to content moderation decisions that disproportionately impact LGBTQ+ users, digital spaces that used to seem like safe havens are, for many, no longer so. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The Global Suppression of Online LGBTQ+ Speech Continueswww.eff.org A global increase in anti-LGBTQ+ intolerance is having a significant impact on digital rights. As we wrote last year, censorship of LGBTQ+ websites and online content is on the rise. For many LGBTQ+

I was really excited about getting to have dual citizenship but after this week I may just give up US citizenship after all.

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its like a choice between a flaccid, day old egg white omelet and a flaming tower of arsenic cheetos

i’m the girl who brings campari to the festival.

I spent a lot of time researching this piece, I hope it’s helpful.

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a little behind on this one, but uh... please don't rely on Tesla's "Dog Mode" to keep your dog from dying insideevs.com/news/724121/...

Some Tesla Owners Report Malfunctioning Dog Mode In New Updateinsideevs.com Be a little extra cautious when enabling Dog Mode in Tesla's recent software update.

Christians terrify me. www.jta.org/2024/06/26/u...

Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus,’ ‘The Fixer’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint - Jewish Telegraphic Agencywww.jta.org The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were "filthy and evil."

I'M SO TIRED

the greatest gift i've given myself over the past couple of years is to stop caring about what's being said on social media about things i care about.

that article about "rawdogging" long plane rides. first of all, are men remotely ok? second, I've flown more long hauls than most people and I can sit perfectly still for 12 hours minus some stretching and peeing time because I comfortable with my own thoughts.

Context: I was at a gala where Germany's foreign minister had a kumbaya moment where she listed every German political party except the AfD, then Democrats and Republicans, to say "we're all just people."

Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass sie dasselbe sind wie die Republikaner, nur dass letztere ihre Ziele tatsächlich erreicht haben. Jemand möge das bitte Baerbock sagen.

love this recent clip from a promo video of a conference that my band performed at (that's me in the middle)

new friends recently told me a story about someone getting a ticket to see a band and being really really excited and then ghosting after the first song because it turned out they thought they were seeing the pretenders but it was actually the proclaimers.

I read the whole article that contains the shoes on/off in the house bit and my conclusion is who the fuck are these people? I want to write the alternative guide on how to party, something I am very good at. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Everything Guide to Partying (Without Regrets)www.nytimes.com Forty-three highly sociable people, from Ivy Getty to Rufus Wainwright, offer tips on how to be a stellar guest and a gracious host. Read this before you say yes to the next invitation.

The "troubled youth industry" is a fucking travesty and you have Clinton and Biden to thank for it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Autopsy report rules 12-year-old's death at camp for troubled adolescents a homicidewww.nbcnews.com The boy, who died after less than 24 hours at Trails Carolina, couldn’t breathe in the tent where he was placed to sleep, according to an autopsy report.

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I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy. There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.

I draw a hard line against this as a tactic. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/0...

Portland State in midst of expensive, ‘marathon’ race to repair damaged library before fall classes beginwww.oregonlive.com The university expects to pay around $750,000 to fix the building.

Berlin has designated a stadium as a safe space for queer folks to watch football. I appreciate this but it says a lot about the fans