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A secret federal subpoena publicized by @WendyFry_ and @kharijohnson dramatically vindicates their stellar reporting—which the governor of California trashed as "lies... manufacturing fear and panic." Great work on a serious and growing privacy issue. calmatters.org/economy/techn…
So excited to have the extremely talented @ScrawlGirl on board at CalMatters/The Markup! Today with a great story on pro-data-center lobbying wave, with @kharijohnson: calmatters.org/economy/techn…
It looks like the company that owns Canvas reached an "agreement" with their hacker that covers their data and all users. We got the email about it from University of California. calmatters.org/economy/techn…
Ryan Tate retweeted
He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin.
The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.
💝 link: nytimes.com/2026/02/14/techn…
Oura is Finland's most valuable growth company by revenue and market cap and "a national treasure" as the American CEO puts it. It's also now officially a US company with its operational HQ there. While insisting it is still Finnish at heart. Hmm. @HelsiginSanomat :
The million dollar question for people who follow tech policy is, how much of U.S. outperformance of European tech is down to lax regulation vs other factors? Tech investors have their answer (a lot) but there are many other differences between the markets
I could imaging Oura being held up by some US commentators as evidence of a EU->US corporate "defection" and ammunition against tech regulation in the US. We shall see. Here is the HS article: hs.fi/visio/art-200001179435…
There is so much potential to cover the intersection of national security, foreign affairs, and tech right now — kudos to Sharon, she’s just the person to create something innovative
“America’s greatest enemy is itself — losing faith in its core values and its fighting spirit.”
nytimes.com/2025/12/18/busin…
"If you ask people in the security teams at these companies 'would you welcome this regulation,' the answer is yes. But every time we try to pass it lobbyists come in and say it's too onerous." @nicoleperlroth on cybersecurity legislation 54:04 youtube.com/watch?v=8uIgLkks…
“I mention all these details, I must admit, out of spite. Jim would often taunt us about past decisions by asking, ‘How'd that work out for you?’”
New media postmortem by investigative Makers Mark journalist @zseward.
zachseward.com/what-was-quar…
Ryan Tate retweeted
That time a famous person's wife read me for filth in the Gawker comments and Nora told me to tell everyone. So I do. Kinda. eahanks.substack.com/p/the-p…
Artificial intelligence is bringing nuclear power back from the dead — maybe even in California - great reporting from @AlexShultz
calmatters.org/economy/techn…
OpenAI is under investigation by California’s attorney general for its planned conversion to a for-profit company — with the state citing a need to protect charitable assets. One expert thinks the company could owe $30 billion. calmatters.org/economy/techn…
Obama fought for seven years to enforce a subpoena against an NYT reporter,
who faced jail time for refusing to testify about an alleged intelligence source. Journalists must protect themselves against all factions unfortunately. Better late than never 🤷♂️nytimes.com/2010/04/29/us/29…
This is an utterly unbelievable NYT article. It claims media outlets are now going to start using encryption to protect against Trump spying on them.
As if Obama didn't build a system of mass surveillance used against everyone including media outlets.
nytimes.com/2025/01/13/busin…
“Bob Dylan isn’t unknowable. He’s plenty knowable. You just have to want to know.”
Factor in to this reaction the knowledge that I generally hate biopics and Timothee Chalamet makes me wince, plus I find young Bob Dylan to be a highly punchable personality: jacobin.com/2025/01/chalamet…
I had fun contributing two small improvements to #babashka - importing classes for file extended attributes and POSIX attributes (including unix file permissions). A cool and inclusive project 🙏
