issie lapowsky

NEW: The number of lawsuits trying to circumvent Section 230 by charging tech companies with selling defective products has been growing steadily. Now, a spate of early rulings in those cases over the last few months suggests it may be a winning approach. fastcompany.com/91008367/court…

In 2018, California became the first state to let DAs revisit old prison sentences that seemed unjust. Another 5 have since passed similar policies. But of the 1,000+ people resentenced, almost none are women. I wrote about an effort to change that. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/hea…

Axios: “Senators kept blaming the tech executives for the Hill’s failures. Tech lobbying is powerful in Washington — but lawmakers are ultimately responsible for transcending the influence of money in politics and getting legislation passed.” axios.com/newsletters/ax…

NEW: Why the actual impact of these big tech hearings is all the little product and policy changes companies make right before they testify. They add up! To be clear, this is not the reform we need, but for now, it's the one we've got. fastcompany.com/91021113/big-t…

Covering @JudiciaryDems hearing with Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord CEOs discussing their handling of child sexual abuse material this morning. The room is full of sexual exploitation victims and families who have lost children who are holding up photocopies. room is silent

These AI-generated Le Creuset giveaway scams are still making the rounds, despite widespread coverage. nytimes.com/2024/01/09/tec… Just got this Selena Gomez one run by what seems to be a hijacked account for a school board candidate

Everything old is new again

“In many cases, being on electronic monitoring can create many of the same harms as being in jails and prisons.” New Vera research shows the number of people on electronic monitoring has more than tripled since 2015. Via @issielapowsky in @FastCompany: fastcompany.com/91019210/vast-…

Just a note to any reporters who have been laid off recently: If you want to talk a bit about what full-time freelance life is like, please reach out. People always seem to describe it as a slog, but in my experience, it's actually been great, and I'm happy to discuss/help.

I am aghast!

How's a girl to get any writing done when there's a new Justin Timberlake song out?

"The more the internet has consumed our lived reality, the easier it's been to ignore the physical infrastructure required to power that reality" I'm definitely late to it but I'll be thinking about this piece for a while, must read by @issielapowsky: businessinsider.com/ai-data-center…

A new front in the abortion fight: Anti-abortion groups say the next president has the power to ban abortions everywhere – without a vote of Congress - by blocking the shipment of all medical implements used to induce them. notus.org/policy/the-con…

I truly cannot make heads or tails of my notifications on here these days. It's just all this everyday.

NEW: The FDA cleared an AI-powered device for detecting skin cancer on Wednesday, giving primary care physicians a new way to evaluate troubling skin spots. statnews.com/2024/01/17/fda…

If you missed it, spend the long weekend with this by @issielapowsky: she digs in the physical infrastructures powering the AI boom, focusing in on the Prince William Digital Gateway in VA - home to one of the largest data center clusters in the world: businessinsider.com/ai-data-center…

I love this story (and all of @kashhill's stories). But mostly it's amazing how foreign this iPhone-free existence she describes feels, considering I didn't even get an iPhone until I was 27. (I held on tight to that Blackberry Curve)