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Senior Reporter covering the people, power, and politics of tech . former . she/her. Send tips to ilapowsky@protocol.com. DM for Signal.

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    NEW: Alondra Nelson is the country's first deputy director for science and society. I wrote about the pathbreaking research she's done on the impact of technology on people of color and what her appointment could mean for Biden's tech policy.

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  2. Jan 30

    Note: this doesn’t count friends’ books I’m bringing with me on my Kindle!

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  3. Jan 30

    Packing for a move and bringing my friends with me

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    I warned you! My Plaintext newsletter is now subscriber-only. But wait! Follow this link, subscribe for $10, read my sizzling attack on Covid websites, get Plaintext in yr inbox every week--and ALL OF WIRED. All for about a month $ of someone's Substack!

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  5. Jan 29

    A good Friday afternoon read for ya. You've heard of the PayPal mafia. And the GE mafia. Now, brings you: the Mozilla mafia, the group of ex-Mozilla employees trying to spread the privacy gospel through the rest of tech

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  6. Jan 29

    "It is a very crucial, important job for everyone. If that is to be kept safe and done well, we need to take care of the employees." - Facebook content moderator Ibrahim Halawa on asking Ireland's deputy PM to push Facebook to let moderators work remotely

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    Jan 29

    very intrigued by this research from and crew as part of 's legislative work on whether it's possible to develop a national gun registry that's strongly encrypted, but also highly decentralized to address federal overreach concerns

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    Jan 28

    Imagine that it is January 2019, and this headline is your only glimpse into the future.

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  9. Jan 28

    Honest question though, do we have any hearings yet scheduled to talk about how the Capitol insurrection was planned by domestic extremist groups in broad daylight on social media? Or are we just on to GameStop now?

    Here come the hearings
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  10. Jan 28

    Here come the hearings

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  11. Jan 28

    NEW: Google botched a blog post about its cloud servers in Saudi Arabia, then tried to edit it without people noticing. People noticed. Now, even more attention is being paid to Google's plans in Saudi Arabia and the human rights concerns they raise

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  12. Jan 28

    Look up the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Youth for findings on the impact of monthly cash payments on poor kids. (Or you could just read my WIRED piece on it and how it became one of the country's most important natural experiments in basic income)

    Democrats want to send cash each month to tens of millions of low-income people with children.
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  13. Jan 28

    Headlines have a very short shelf life in this market.

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    Jan 28

    At least five more Muslim prayer or similar apps worked with data broker X-Mode, which has sold location data to military contractors and by extension U.S. military intelligence, according to multiple technical analyses.

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  15. Jan 28

    "I found myself in a position of having to recommend my abusive boss for a promotion at the height of his abuse after having followed the chain of command available to me to report his abuse and being left in the cold."

    Every word of this is true.
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  16. Jan 28

    Facebook's Oversight Board overturned four of Facebook's prior decisions and upheld one. Not the flashiest cases, but an early window into how the Board works.

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    Jan 28

    The Oversight Board has announced its first five decisions, overturning Facebook's judgment in four cases. These decisions demonstrate our commitment to holding Facebook to account. Decisions are binding on Facebook.

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  18. Jan 27

    I regret to inform you folks that my story makes the very points you think you’re dunking on me with.

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  19. Jan 27

    NEW: Yes, GameStop is a content moderation issue for Reddit. It's easy to root for a bunch of underdogs sticking it to the man right now, but it's also easy to see how this model could be abused by bad actors if Reddit doesn't have a plan later on.

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  20. Jan 27

    Folks, meet Mark Zuckerberg, antitrust crusader. (from just now on FB earnings)

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