Ross Schulman

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Father, husband, lawyer, coder. Senior Fellow, Decentralization @EFF. Guardian of the Matrix Foundation. RT ≠ Endorse.

If you want to reach me, Matrix is often the best way to do so: @rschulman:westwork.org

I'm also on Signal at rschulman.06

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YAAASSSSS!! The DCist is back baby 🔥 (gift link) wapo.st/3Y5v8CN

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwapo.st The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

Can we stop for a minute to recognize that it's 2024, ChatGPT is writing interactive VR movies using cryptocurrencies (or whatever), but checks are still a thing and still take three days to clear??

I've been on a plane most of the day, but this seems like 100% the correct take.

look, I hate the NYT with all my soul, but what good does it do literally anyone to harass Jamelle Bouie into quitting his job (or more likely into quitting bsky)? You're only doing it because he's Black. Go harass Michael Powell or the Bretbug instead, those fuckers deserve to be unemployed.

Look, I'm a firm believer in individual liberties, but also people who drive louder-than-absolutely-necessary vehicles should have their licenses revoked.

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Hickey drastically underestimates the impact of static type systems on program correctness, especially those derived from categorical laws? You got that from r/Haskell, right? Yea I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter?

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Electric vehicle rebates never "fill up" (they shouldn't!) E-bikes achieve our climate, health & road safety goals better than EVs, but politicians drive everywhere & see people who bike as Others tl;dr subsidies for rich are Incentives (good!); subsidies for working class are Handouts (bad!)

In just 18 minutes, Minnesota received 10,000 applications for e-bike rebates. The website crashed. This happens pretty much every time a state or city offers e-bike rebates for the first time. www.startribune.com/minnesota-e-...

For all that the Star Trek universe couldn't say no to a time travel plot, they never really dealt (to my recollection) with the causality implications of FTL travel.

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It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?

Kevin, I am not a historian, so IDK, but has there ever been a President in American History who used a mobility aid? And, if so, would you say this president who was so weak as to need, say, braces or a wheelchair, is considered to be one of the top President’s ever?

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Listen as Cory Doctorow, Cindy Cohn, and @thejasonkelley.com discuss how antitrust actions provide hope that megacompanies can still be forced to do better for users, on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet.”

Podcast Episode: Fighting Enshittificationwww.eff.org The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of things, protect your privacy, control your experience. The problem was that it took a fair amount of

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Great interview with @ournetworks.ca organizers Dawn & Garry The theme for this year is "Does not (cloud) compute", drawing on practices of local-first , solar-powered servers, folk software , and permacomputing. Thanks @chadkoh for the great write up! writing.dwebyvr.org/...@ournetworks.ca organizers Dawn & Garry The theme for this year is "Does not (cloud) compute", drawing on practices of local-first , solar-powered servers, folk software , and permacomputing. Thanks @chadkoh for the great write up! writing.dwebyvr.org/...

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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

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BIDEN: (mumbles something unintelligible) TRUMP: (vigorously says something completely insane) DANA BASH: Thank you. Let's turn now to marginal tax rates.

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Missouri jawboning for me but not for thee

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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

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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.

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I am profoundly honored to say that today I joined the @eff.org board of directors. Here to fight for digital rights and the future of the open internet. www.eff.org/press/releas...

EFF Welcomes Tarah Wheeler to Its Board of Directorswww.eff.org SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today that Tarah Wheeler — a social scientist studying international conflict, an author, and a poker player who is CEO

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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

Dammit. It might FINALLY be time to really actually learn about lifetimes in #rust...

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Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could even after it was abolished, finally couldn't keep up the lie anymore.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])hachyderm.io Juneteenth does not celebrate "When news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." Juneteenth celebrates when the racist people in Texas that tried to hold on to slavery for as long as they could...

What is absolutely amazing about both this case and this article is that it clearly states that he's been clocked going 100mph in urban Seattle and yet the next sentence isn't "It is unclear why this guy still has a driver's license and his car has not been impounded."

It is hilarious that this motherfucker, who has been terrorizing the outside of my building for months/years, got a Times write up. It’s also sad that judgment or not, this won’t stop anything because Seattle is a shit town run by imbeciles. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/u...

In Legal Peril, Seattle’s ‘Belltown Hellcat’ Is Ordered to Yieldwww.nytimes.com A driver whose roaring Dodge Charger has plagued Seattle residents said he was working to modify the car. Still, city officials won an $83,000 judgment against him.

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If you're asking "when did The Boys get woke" or "when did Star Wars get woke" or "when did Star Trek get woke" or "when did Doctor Who get woke" or "when did X-Men get woke" it might be time to face facts: you don't have the basic mental capacity to be able to handle watching TV or movies.

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If you're a fan of REALLY WEIRD MUSIC, nerds, women, neurodivergence, rebelliously independent spirits, or triumphing over historical erasure, I highly recommend Lisa Rovner's "Sisters with Transistors" doc on female electronic music pioneers, now on Amazon Prime. [Daphne Oram in her DIY rig]

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No, Bellingcat is really not The CIA’s Journalism Wing, and perhaps you should spend like 2.5 seconds considering who out there might really want you to think that they are.

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It’s still early for ActivityPub and AT Protocol, but we broke down some current differences and what directions they might go in.

What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?www.eff.org The ongoing Twitter exodus sparked life into a new way of doing social media. Instead of a handful of platforms trying to control your life online, people are reclaiming control by building more open

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The video of "The #Fediverse, What Policymakers Need To Know" is now online, along with transcript. The expert panel featured Amy James, @mmasnick.bsky.social, Hillary Brill, and @rbs.io @eff.org. 📺 Watch youtu.be/B9YMvDeJM2U 👓 Read Transcript dfcouncil.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/u...

If you see this... Post a photo you took at sunset. (Santorini, Greece, September 2010)

If you see this … post a photo you made at sunset (Caribbean, March 2024)

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The FTC on AI: "Don’t misrepresent what these services are or can do. Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods."

Succor borne every minutewww.ftc.gov

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(corollary: everyone who gets in the way of those folks coming here is an unamerican POS who cares more about racism than America being the best, and the country and world would be better if they just did us all a solid by walking into the sea)

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That foreigners want to come to America, and that some of those foreigners are the best in the world at the things they do, and then because of that, America gets to be the best in the world at the things those immigrants do on behalf of everyone, is literally the super power part of the super power