Kate
lightningfield.bsky.social
Kate
@lightningfield.bsky.social
Online privacy, human rights, feminism, Liberation Tech, art.

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The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
October 2, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Republicans have made no secret they want to privatize TSA. By making working conditions intolerable, they hope to spur resignations and chaos, so airports will have to pay $$ for private security instead of using TSA paid for by airline fees. It won’t make travel safer or cheaper.
October 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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From an army of computerized resellers immediately buying up concert tickets to automated X accounts creating outrage cycles online, bots have transformed our experience on the internet.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/RQPXvh
How Bots Took Over Our Lives
During the 2016 election, much of the country was introduced to the concept of internet bots for the first time. Now, just a decade later, it feels like they’re everywhere.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
July 28, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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My mayor is Muslim
My bagel is Jewish
Christ is alive!
KNICKS IN FIVE
June 9, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American."

He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.

Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience.

www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...
Gay CECOT survivor rebuilds his life in Spain while speaking up for voiceless immigrants in America
The Venezuelan makeup artist who became the face of a controversial deportation case discusses life after release, lingering trauma, and the men whose stories he believes the world has forgotten.
www.advocate.com
June 5, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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On Bluesky? All of us
How many people know what kerning is, do you think? Lol.
June 6, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees.

Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?
June 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
March 7, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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ICE deported a 6 year old deaf child with severe disabilities to Columbia.

Before deporting him, they dragged him from camp to camp without providing his assistive hearing devices or a translator.

This innocent child had no way to communicate or understand what was being done to him:
Deaf 6-year-old boy is deported to Colombia without his medical devices, attorney says
A Hayward woman and her two young children were detained and deported to Colombia after they showed up earlier this week for an asylum appointment in San Francisco, her attorney said.
www.latimes.com
March 7, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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I don't think we went to war to cause a distraction, but I sure do believe that they are taking FULL advantage of the fact that war is distracting
March 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
March 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 8, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
March 8, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers. n.pr/4sy0uhE
U.S. Judge says Kari Lake broke law in overseeing Voice of America
He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers.
n.pr
March 8, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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So @anthropic.com can potentially change the landscape by offering all OpenAI employees a job, if they are willing to jump ship. Seems like the right time to make this sort of move
March 7, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Let's hear it for a wide mishmash of proprietary algorithms! #surveillance #silverlining (also, what a photo!)
NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.

Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.
DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies
Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.
www.wired.com
February 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM
@karaswisher.bsky.social Kara: A former Harvard freshman talks about her experience there the year Mark Zuckerberg started FB & Summers was president. It says everything about the culture that created Zuckerberg and also the "Epstein Class." It's horrifying. www.instagram.com/reels/DU3dIq...
Sim Kern on Instagram: "My year at Harvard, where the PDF file class are educated. Larry Summers was President of Harvard while I was there, directing our education."
51K likes, 2,171 comments - sim_bookstagrams_badly on February 17, 2026: "My year at Harvard, where the PDF file class are educated. Larry Summers was President of Harvard while I was there, directing...
www.instagram.com
February 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Should you get back into French? Yes. Here's a discount code to Preply, which is inexpensive (in some cases, very inexpensive) Zoom 1:1 tutoring: preply.com/en/?pref=MTc...
#french #languagelearning #languages
February 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM
When you're a sociopath with a LOT to hide and need something else on the front page:
#EpsteinFiles #climate
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM