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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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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Andrea Grimes

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.

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This sounds bad, and I trust Brandy's reporting. I just wish Whistleblower Aid didn't have such a terrible record of totally distorting, misrepresenting and exaggerating claims for publicity, which makes me immediately distrust anyone they represent.

Exclusive: A whistleblower is coming forward, alleging Airbnb weakened its policies against extremists and hate groups last year and dissolved its team tasked with removing them. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Whistleblower alleges Airbnb weakened its policies on extremists and hate groupswww.nbcnews.com Airbnb said that it remains committed to removing members of violent extremist groups and that it has hired additional people to do this work.

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Judith Butlerian Jihad

Most importantly, when trees do grow tall, they are not selfish. Height is a responsibility. The tallest share freely, nurturing those below.

I was waiting for Blake's take on this and now that he's written it up, I agree - albeit from the position of less knowledge and expertise with this issue than he has!

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Sarah J. Jackson

I've said many times I do not begrudge some folks for staying on Twitter because of the important community connections it continues to provide. But I find academics who study mis/disinfo or social justice staying there really odd. and no, I won't go back to help promote your event on *those* topics

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Holy SHIT, y'all.

this is completely tangential but I googled the book and got this which I think if anything proves your point:

This play looks amazing and I'm sad I'm not in Chicago to go see it. www.jackalopetheatre.org/the-singular...

The Singularity Play | Jackalope Theatrewww.jackalopetheatre.org

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Me: I teach college, my students are full grown adults, not “kids” & thus are collaborators in their learning. I am Guide On The Side, learning as much from them as they do from my material. Me, when a former student does well: THAT’S MY LITTLE BABY DUMPLING I’M SO PROUD OF YOU

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I'm hiring a postdoc with expertise in computational methods and group identities (e.g. race, gender, religion, nationality, etc.). Please share with anyone you think might be interested. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Researcher in Communication, Group Identity, and Computational Methodswww.asc.upenn.edu

"History and tradition" is spreading, virus-like, to other areas of the law.

I hate it here.

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yes and my hunch is that this is going to be more systemically gutting for the press than fighting about OpenAI scraping etc but the latter seems to be getting way more attention

I don't mean to be repetitive but "AI" is being abused by the brunchlord extraction class to replace real truth-to-power journalism with hollow automated, engagement-chasing infotainment simulacrum in a bid to make money and distract the public from widespread corruption and societal decline