Mike Masnick

Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotpla...

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2026-04-06 04:33:42 UTC

There are way better, more creative, mentalists. But they don't spend all their time getting themselves hyped up on social media and appearing on all the big podcasts like Oz does.

2026-04-06 04:33:42 UTC

Beyond everything else that's wrong with the White House Correspondent's Dinner... can I just note that Oz Pearlman is... way overhyped as a mentalist? He uses off the shelf mentalism tricks anyone could buy and does average performances of them and pretends he's not just using simple magic tricks.

2026-04-05 15:22:17 UTC

Riding the rails...
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2026-04-04 06:22:00 UTC

I know everyone else is doing it so I should also write some thoughts about my Atmosphere Conference experience. (https://masnick.com/posts/2026-04-04-the-atmosphere-is-rebuilding-the-web-but-better/)

2026-04-03 18:49:00 UTC

This is a really thoughtful writeup.
#nevent1q…qdpt

2026-04-03 04:13:16 UTC

I feel like this story was *made* for @kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: it's got "First Amendment auditors" facing off a guy claiming their actions are both "fighting words" and RICO.
www.almanacnews.com/menlo-park/2...
Redwood City attorney sues ‘Fi...

2026-04-02 22:26:54 UTC

It is possible I am becoming more robotic, because it really took me three reads to figure out what they wanted me to do here (but part of that might be because my brain first read the last word to say "picture" instead of "pattern"). And what arrow breaks the picture?
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2026-04-02 17:36:10 UTC

If you want to see my tech policy feed, it's here: surf.social/feed/surf%2F...
Tech policy by Mike Masnick ✅ ...
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2026-04-02 08:43:08 UTC

Don't know if it was just really close by, but that was much bigger than I've felt in a long while.

2026-04-02 08:42:01 UTC

EARTHQUAKE

2026-04-02 06:05:27 UTC

Very weird experience to be reading along this very interesting article... and see myself mentioned towards the end. Was not expecting that! Anyway, this is a very thoughtful take on trying agentic coding help, written by a very strong skeptic of the tech.
#nevent1q…cc7l

2026-04-02 03:13:33 UTC

Phew.
amiatechbro.com
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2026-04-01 05:08:46 UTC

I have no idea how the world is going to turn out but I *need* to be a delegate at Sarah's eventual Constitutional Convention. I cannot miss it.
Read the thread (especially IP people, who will appreciate the latter half).
#nevent1q…62ja

2026-03-31 23:12:27 UTC

I'm late to this, but I think @hankgreen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy is on to something with his discussion of what is and what is not "AI slop." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT5I...
What is "Slop" (and why it giv...

2026-03-31 20:32:31 UTC

So on Friday morning I left to go to the Atmosphere Conference and my wife went out to pick up a dog to foster. All weekend she was sending me photos and I swore this dog was too cute to actually exist. But he's real. And boy is he fluffy. He also loves to stand up.
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2026-03-31 20:18:10 UTC

Kinda weird for Jacob to write all this and not address the underlying claims that Renee points out regarding factual errors in the book.
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2026-03-31 18:53:27 UTC

The idea is not "this is the business model" for any particular app or service. But giving people a good basic framework for thinking about how to think through monetization options on an open protocol, which are different than within silos.

2026-03-31 18:42:58 UTC

One regret from Atmosphere Conference was that I somehow only learned about @youandme.at@bsky.brid.gy pretty late on Saturday (sorry, I'm oblivious at times) and then kept forgetting to use it. So I only ended up with 6 connections despite meeting so many other people.

2026-03-31 18:42:58 UTC

Other regret is how many other people I had hoped to meet or people I've met and had hoped to catch up with, but didn't get a chance to... So many good conversations and good people.

2026-03-31 18:26:58 UTC

Took Waymo home again last night (after flying back from Atmosphere conf) and it took this same windy backroad (which is probably shouldn't, there's an easier, faster, more direct route) and ANOTHER DEER popped out. And then just stood waited, not caring about the Waymo. Eventually it wandered off.
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2026-03-30 21:59:59 UTC

This is a good take. I've seen some purists complaining about ABS, but (as expected based on how it played out in the minors), it seems like a really good system.
#nevent1q…eg4m

2026-03-30 05:15:48 UTC

The best part of the conference was meeting people I only know from online and being able to say "hey, I know you!"
#nevent1q…lln5

2026-03-30 00:31:46 UTC

I believe this means ATproto is now real.
#nevent1q…cr3t

2026-03-29 22:35:53 UTC

The perfect angle to make it look like I have blue horns coming out of my head.
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2026-03-29 17:44:37 UTC

Damn. @devingaffney.com@bsky.brid.gy just gave an incredible talk at the Atmosphere Conference. If you missed it watch the video.

2026-03-29 16:06:15 UTC

You can continue to misrepresent my position but if you do so it will be from behind a block.

2026-03-29 16:06:15 UTC

As for 230, as I have made clear repeatedly (again did you do any research?) it's because removing it helps the big platforms who will be all that's left without it. My defense is anti big platform.

2026-03-28 23:22:09 UTC

Robin's verdict: "it works!"
#nevent1q…3lzh

2026-03-28 04:49:44 UTC

Trying to plan out my schedule for tomorrow at the Atmosphere Conference and I'm checking off pretty much every session even though the realities of time mean I can't actually be in all three tracks at once (who will make atproto fix that?). So many fascinating talks on the agenda.

2026-03-27 17:37:58 UTC

The key point is that the "just ban it" decision also creates harms.

2026-03-25 23:13:24 UTC

I understand that you feel differently. But it does not change my feelings about that time compared to this time.

2026-03-25 16:54:06 UTC

Currently on a train and was reading an article on my phone and somehow in my mind thought I was sitting on the other side of the train so when I looked up and the train was moving in the opposite direction that my brain thought it was moving... was quite the mindfuck.

2026-03-25 06:16:04 UTC

Also, it depends on the specific issue at hand, but there may need to be *actual* knowledge of a legal violation, or some sign of *intent* and an algorithm will have neither.

2026-03-24 20:21:27 UTC

Ah peak stupidity. A bunch of grifters who were moderated on social media sued the Biden admin claiming "censorship." Bounced around stupid courts w/SCOTUS finally saying "um, no evidence of gov't censorship." Some of the plaintiffs now work in the admin. Either way the lawsuit has now "settled."
NCLA Reaches Historic Settleme...

2026-03-24 16:13:10 UTC

*good reasons.

2026-03-24 16:12:50 UTC

Once again I find your insistence that your personal preferences are best for everyone else condescending and silly.
There are food reasons for algorithms to be protected.
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/y...
Yes, Section 230 Should Apply ...

2026-03-24 14:54:00 UTC

Sorry you hate the First Amendment, William. I think it's a good thing, and that 230 helps make it real.

2026-03-24 02:41:22 UTC

My healthcare provider has sent me a paper letter "acknowledging and responding to a recent correspondence regarding billing activity" to "apologize" and say they sent the bill in question for review and that "the changes to the bill were warranted."
I can find no such bill, no correspondence.

2026-03-24 02:41:22 UTC

But they "apologize for any inconvenience and frustration" (twice!). Except the inconvenience and frustration is that I have no clue what they're talking about. Of course now I wonder if this means a random giant bill is going to arrive.
US healthcare is so stupid.

2026-03-23 19:55:07 UTC

Sean Duffy spent the weekend appearing on various TV news shows talking about stuff unrelated to travel.
But at least it's good to see the media increasingly willing to respond to dumb statements with immediate "um, that's got nothing to do with this" statements.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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2026-03-22 23:20:09 UTC

Me: Here's a fun/cool thing I've just done.
Most people: Oh, interesting, I have a few questions about the setup, etc.
A few people who need to get a life: You're a terrible human being because I am making very wrong assumptions about your priorities, life, and decisions.
#nevent1q…xeuh

2026-03-22 22:32:58 UTC

(the display glasses are vitures. I've had them for a couple of months and they're... Ok. I've used them now on planes, trains, and (today) sitting in my car. They work and are kind of amazing, but have some limitations, including that prolonged use definitely leads to some eye strain.)

2026-03-22 22:29:05 UTC

Today in "dang, I'm living in the future": sitting in my car waiting for kid to finish an activity. I don't have my laptop, but do have my phone, display glasses, a foldout keyboard, and a portable mouse, and it basically lets me sit here with a full desktop environment & a giant screen

2026-03-22 22:29:05 UTC

In one window I've written an entire article and about to start on another. In another window I have Claude Code open in a terminal and it's currently working on building out a spec for a new project I'm working on. All this on my phone, sitting in a car, waiting.
This feels... crazy?

2026-03-21 20:52:46 UTC

Was chatting with my 87-year-old Dad & my 12-year-old kid today and kid was bemoaning a silly mistake made on a math test, and my Dad said he still remembers the *one* math question he got wrong on his math SATs.
8k=80.
He answered "k=8" and is still annoyed about it 70 years later.

2026-03-21 20:52:46 UTC

(I remember him telling me this exact mistake when I was in HS too, but hadn't heard him talk about it since, but it really stuck with him. Either way, he survived that error and ended up with a PhD in electrical engineering, so, as he told the kid: you'll be fine & you'll learn from the mistake).

2026-03-21 16:02:35 UTC

Deleted my earlier post about the Politico article because of all the replies saying "it's a bad headline, it's politico nonsense" etc.

2026-03-20 22:42:13 UTC

Grok is this true?
www.npr.org/2026/03/20/g...
Jury finds Elon Musk misled in...

2026-03-20 22:21:54 UTC

Don't forget to the delete the "Hi (first name)!" after you've added in the "Hi Mike!" in your spam cold call.
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2026-03-20 21:20:13 UTC

Random odd hardware issue that I've grown used to but I have no idea why it happens: when I bring my laptop to my office, I have a microphone/headphones that I plug in via USB (usb goes to mic, then there's a jack in the mic for headphones). I plug in and... the mic/headphones NEVER connect.

2026-03-20 21:20:13 UTC

But then, I unplug that USB cable, the same one I just plugged in, and replug it into the computer... then I wait about 25 seconds... and it starts working (both sound in and out). Every time.
Why would it do this?

2026-03-20 21:13:20 UTC

Seems like @washingtonpost.com@bsky.brid.gy should fix the headline on this piece, because...
#nevent1q…5tq7

2026-03-20 17:19:36 UTC

He also has abused the DMCA to try to hide his past:
www.techdirt.com/2017/04/07/r...
Revenge Pornster Craig Brittai...

2026-03-20 17:19:36 UTC

So, sure, Craig, put me on your list of "MAGA" people. Very believable. Very credible.

2026-03-20 17:19:36 UTC

He also sued Twitter when they banned him. And lost. Badly.
www.techdirt.com/2019/06/13/c...
Court Says Section 230 Shields...

2026-03-20 17:19:36 UTC

I know that he's "reinvented" himself on this site, pretending to be a lefty resistance warrior, but he's not. He's a grifter. He ran for Senate as a full on racist MAGA nutjob:
azmirror.com/briefs/craig...
Senate candidate has history o...

2026-03-20 17:19:36 UTC

This is amusing.
A reminder Craig Brittain was fined by the FTC for setting up both a site where he asked people to send him non-consensual naked images of their exes AND a fake "lawyer" who you could pay to get your images taken down.
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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2026-03-20 17:09:15 UTC

Fucking amazing. This morning the @techdirt.com@bsky.brid.gy comment spam filter was overflowing with spam from an account named "Clawd Reporter" (which is almost certainly an OpenClaw agent) promoting a sketchy "GenZ News Site" on every single post on Techdirt. We caught all the spam, but...

2026-03-20 17:09:15 UTC

... it seems pretty obvious that some dipshit had OpenClaw create a generic awful news site (I checked, it's bad) and then OpenClaw also tried to "promote" it and decided the best way to do that was to go to other sites and spam the comments with AI generated claptrap, which weakly tries...

2026-03-20 17:09:15 UTC

... to take the article it's commenting on and say something banal and useless, but on-topic, before pivoting to "that's why you should also read blah blah gen z news site which has been covering these topics"
What a freaking pain.

2026-03-20 03:16:20 UTC

You can read Chapter 4 here. files.worldhappiness.report/WHR26_Ch04.pdf
But now you have a report that says one thing in Chapter 3, and... basically the exact opposite in Chapter 4, which details the limits of the research and warns against drawing strong conclusions (like those in Chap 3) from it.
files.worldhappiness.report/WHR26_Ch04.pdf

2026-03-20 02:42:35 UTC

We also discuss spammers overloading Deezer with AI-generated content and fraudulent plays to make money, as well as people trying to game AI results, and the people (mostly in Africa) who are doing a bunch of the manual labor that makes AI possible.

2026-03-20 02:42:35 UTC

In non-AI stories, we talk about how the new head of TikTok US is its former head of trust & safety (hmmm...) and Norway's public campaign against Enshittification.
Listen along: podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
Money for Nothing and Clicks f...

2026-03-20 02:42:35 UTC

And... if you want play along with Ctrl-Alt-Speech bingo: ctrlaltspeech.com/bingo/
Ctrl-Alt-Speech Bingo 2026

2026-03-20 02:42:35 UTC

This week's Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Money For Nothing & Clicks for a Fee
podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
This week, @benwhitelaw.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy and I talk about the impact of prediction markets on journalism, and how it's distorting truth more than helping reveal it.
Money for Nothing and Clicks f...

2026-03-19 17:45:07 UTC

Do not miss Daphne's killer line to Senator Schmitt: "the one you lost?" in response to his absolute nonsense claims regarding Murthy v. Missouri (a case he brought when he was Missouri AG).
#nevent1q…lqek

2026-03-15 16:59:03 UTC

If you want to try to lecture me on stuff you don't understand can you please do some research first. scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr_online/...
And right now most 230 cases aren't defamation cases anyway.
Why Section 230 Is Better Than...

2026-03-15 07:25:42 UTC

The real estate agent told me she asked the owner "Uh... do you have that agreement in writing?"
And then they agreed to call someone to remove the bee hive.

2026-03-15 07:25:42 UTC

She called the owners (the sellers, who had lived in the house for decades), and told them about the bees. The owner said "Oh yeah, they've been there for years. We have an agreement. They don't bother us, we don't bother them."

2026-03-14 22:41:59 UTC

Hint: anyone who claims that Section 230 was meant only for "passive carriers" or "merely hosting" is either (1) lying to you or (2) deeply ignorant.
@superwuster.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy do better, man.
@wyden.senate.gov@bsky.brid.gy has explained repeatedly why this is wrong. As have the courts.

2026-03-14 22:41:59 UTC

It is astounding to me that the @nytimes.com@bsky.brid.gy , which has had to run nearly identical corrections multiple times regarding how it misrepresented Section 230... has run yet another oped that misrepresents Section 230. This is embarrassing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/o...
Opinion | Social Media Isn’t J...

2026-03-14 22:14:46 UTC

Stumbled onto X to get a screenshot for a story I'm working on and (as I sometimes do) checked out what the algorithm was serving up, and it sent me an account of a corp lawyer, who posts nonsense under a pseudonym, claiming it was criminal that someone revealed his real name in a news article.

2026-03-14 19:03:27 UTC

A story in two farcical acts.
Would be nice to have a President who has reached the stage where he has object permanence.
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2026-03-12 22:13:51 UTC

Had been noticing my email felt a bit quiet. Then a friend pinged me mentioning someone had emailed us both, which I didn't see anywhere. Then checked my spam folder... and it's like 60% non-spam, legit emails.
So, uh, if you've emailed me lately and I've not responded...

2026-03-12 21:22:37 UTC

If you're using Claude Code to do any vibe coding... uh, go install superpowers.

2026-03-12 21:22:37 UTC

Ok. I realize I'm late to the game, but earlier this week I *finally* installed @s.ly@bsky.brid.gy's superpowers to my Claude Code setup and, dang, it really does add superpowers to what already felt like superpowers. I feel like I need to go back and redo everything I've done before.
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GitHub - obra/superpowers: An ...

2026-03-10 03:04:55 UTC

Just saying, maybe people shouldn't take seriously the guy who was fined by the FTC for setting up a website where he encouraged people to upload nonconsensual nude images, and then set up a fake lawyer you could pay $500 to get those images "taken down."
He might not be on the up and up.

2026-03-09 21:59:30 UTC

It's not perfect and takes some getting used to.

2026-03-09 19:12:38 UTC

Jay built Bluesky from scratch and gave it a reason to exist. I'm excited to see what she'll do as Chief Innovation Officer, where she'll be able to focus on what she does best: pushing the vision of an open protocol forward.
#nevent1q…zua4

2026-03-09 03:03:02 UTC

So a co-founder of Palantir is funding political attack ads against a guy pushing for AI regulation, who used to work at Palantir, using the fact that he worked at Palantir against him.
(FWIW, I think Bores has some very bad regulation ideas, but still...)
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Campaign to Take Down Alex...

2026-03-08 22:11:03 UTC

New sign of getting old: in the past if I had not gotten on the bike for a few months, I could get back into it easily enough and do similar distances/difficulty as in the past. Not today. High schooler kid who normally rides with me had to leave me behind because I'm a slow old man. *sigh*

2026-03-08 21:25:10 UTC

Huh. Also, I just had to log back in (not sure why, since pretty sure I used it a few days ago) and did NOT get a warning from Dashlane this time.

2026-03-08 00:19:35 UTC

Is anyone keeping a tracker that tallies just how many times this administration is getting told by a court "lol, no, that's not how any of this works?"
#nevent1q…e0vm

2026-03-08 00:00:28 UTC

Accomplishment of the day: built a fence to create a dog run in my yard.
Seem to have bloodied my knuckles in the process, so now I need a good story to explain why my hands are all cut up.

2026-03-06 20:56:55 UTC

Once again, I'd have to argue that the "woke mind virus" seems to be a thing that only effects a certain class of people who seems oddly obsessed over whether or not other people are somehow "woke"
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2026-03-06 19:32:48 UTC

nostr may be ideologically pure, but how many users does it have?

2026-03-06 18:56:34 UTC

This was a different sort of episode, but was a really enjoyable and interesting discussion.
#nevent1q…8p96

2026-03-03 16:33:14 UTC

Oh wait I'm wrong. It's Noah's bagels coffee in the boxes

2026-03-03 16:29:43 UTC

I am at a conference today with many Europeans. The organizers brought in Starbucks coffee in boxes and the Europeans seem very surprised by the concept of boxed coffee.

2026-03-02 22:13:50 UTC

The mayor of Bluesky is here for real.
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2026-03-02 21:04:18 UTC

👀
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2026-03-01 05:20:40 UTC

Again, these authorities are the same ones the NSA strategically reinterpreted commonly understood words to mean very different things in order to enable mass surveillance. And OpenAI's agreement is "sure, yeah, obey those same authorities."

2026-03-01 05:20:40 UTC

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
openai.com/index/our-ag...
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2026-03-01 04:38:17 UTC

The deal Sam signed is the kind of deal someone who doesn't know how the NSA lies by telling you what you want to hear, but then secretly changing their definition of the plain English words in the contract.
www.techdirt.com/2011/05/26/s...
Senators Reveal That Feds Have...

2026-03-01 04:38:17 UTC

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.
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2026-02-28 23:58:58 UTC

Yet, I've been able to build it for myself in almost no time at all. This ability to instantly customize things to *your* specific needs, rather than the needs of the company providing the service is such a big change. It's kind of crazy what possibilities it starts to open up.

2026-02-28 23:58:58 UTC

Also, one other thing to be clear: this is a tool that is for (mostly) internal use (there may be *some* occasions where I will expose part of it for others to use), but is not something I'm building for others. If I were building it for others, I think there would be a lot more work. But still...

2026-02-28 23:58:58 UTC

Again, I know that some people will insist that there are tools out there that accomplish what I want. And there are, but only at a superficial level. There are some specific unique features that make all the difference in the world to me, and no one else is likely to build them.

2026-02-28 23:58:58 UTC

I've been using a few services that get me part of the way there, it's always a kludge, and the one company that has the closest such tool is focused on a very different market such that I'm basically using their tool in an "off label" way to only kinda sorta get what I want out of it.

2026-02-28 23:58:58 UTC

I still don't think people insisting this stuff is useless recognize how far the coding features have come and what it opens up in possibilities for those who want more control over their own tools and who don't want to wait for someone else to build what they want.