Taylor Lorenz

Thousands of X users have posted about Ali Nasrati, a 30 yr old IT tech for Walmart, claiming he made insensitive comments abt Charlie Kirk. But Nasrati has never posted about Kirk. Now, he's been suspended from work and forced into hiding. I wrote about people being falsely targeted by the right

SO thrilled to publish this fantastic piece outlining the problems with age verification and "child safety" by Pratika Katiyar and Rebecca Williams at the ACLU and Cynthia Conti Cook who leads the Surveillance Resistance Lab.

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It was such a massive honor to get to chat with Cindy Cohn, former executive director of the @eff.org about her career taking on big tech and fighting mass surveillance. Please listen, comment, and share!!

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Love to see people using vibe coding tech to build tools to fight back against the government. For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched.

How Democrats Are Embracing Dark Money Democrats are creating obscure new nonprofits to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into politics, raising concerns about ethics and transparency.

Surf combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into customizable open feeds on the web. I’ve been using it and love it. Let’s bring back the open web!

As someone who does vax outreach, this shows why govt vax messaging has been such a failure. Ppl were given this freedom framing & told that health is a personal choice. In reality we don't have sterilizing vax for Covid & and so the idea that getting vaxed means total personal freedom is harmful

This is very silly, no one is saying infinite scroll is "speech", we're saying that these features are only "problematic" for their ability to deliver speech, and it's speech u have an issue w not the feature. We know that bc a zillion other apps have the exact features and u have no issue w them!

People do you can do things on your laptop other than go on social media right....? I spend 9-10 hours just in Premiere regularly

I'm featured in WIRED again this week, (this time in their print issue!!) Had such a great time chatting with them about AI agents, inbox infinity, how I use my phone