NEW: A risk assessment found that leading general-use chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Claude — are "fundamentally unsafe" for teen mental health support, failing to catch important red flags and responding inappropriately to users exhibiting signs of crisis. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Trump issues an order for the arrest and criminal prosecution of members of Congress who made a video reminding soldiers and sailors that they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and shouldn't implement illegal orders. Trump's conduct is unabashed fascism.

3/ Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kgs of plastic waste —91% has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study in the journal Science Advances Read @vbivar.bsky.social on Fossil Fuel industry decades of lies about Recycling www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @polycrisis Its a Plastic Planet. You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic. @katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

once again congratulations to every single senator who voted RFK Jr, who will cost thousands of children their lives, into office

this is like "Olympus has fallen" for public agency science communication; worse than censorship, actively misinforming people and encouraging them to harm children

media coverage of this is already as pathetic as you might expect, usually failing to mention: the FCC has no authority over the UK's BBC the scandal was created by right wing media the year-old BBC edits fall outside limits of UK defamation law PBC, NPR never aired the documentary

Elon Musk can't get humans to love him so he made a robot to love him instead and now all the humans are making fun of the robot. This is the smartest man in the world, a once-in-a-generation genius and clear member of the natural aristocracy

“Even business leaders once portrayed as liberal visionaries were swept up in the rising tide of American fascism, becoming some of its most enthusiastic public admirers. Their conversions served as powerful and useful propaganda tools for the regime.”

what's disgusting about this story is how many local officials pretty much admit that the lives of those living in these poorer sacrifice zones are simply not worth inconveniencing drivers

Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I filed my claim.

Call me crazy but I really do think if you've been face swapped into nonconsensual porn because you, a woman, dared to have a photo online, you should be able to sue everyone involved into oblivion

Tangential to the point here, but why are people on the left defensive about the possibility or actuality of immigration patterns from brown countries that are socioeconomically diverse? That was true of *every* wave of european migration, by the way.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

important to remember many of these people are extremely stupid in addition to being wildly confidant

An important piece of reporting. Even congressional Republicans wanted to include appropriations-bill language to protect Congress's power of the purse. But Russ Vought has pressured them to cut the language, and the House Republicans rolled over. www.notus.org/congress/mar...

All I'm going to say is: If you're taking tactical inspiration from the tobacco lobby, maybe you should....reconsider some things.

There is no greater testament to the social power of effective regulation than pulling the plug and watching how quickly everything turns to shit

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

seems like a great way to turn a bunch of suburban dads into socialists

Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.

I know everyone is saying AI is doing this but I think it's the entire economy sucking shit that's doing this and they're just using AI as an excuse.

After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: 1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways. 2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

we'll call it...Deciding to Win

SCOOP: Last week, the Social Security Administration published a notice saying it will be sharing "citizenship and immigration information” with DHS, confirming what WIRED reported months ago. Follow along with me below... www.wired.com/story/social...

This is identity politics for ppl like Larry Summers.

evergreen

All Dems have to say is "I support whatever energy is cheapest" which is what voters care about and also...happens to be solar+storage pretty much everywhere Like let's not buy the false narrative that energy is a culture war issue when we can simply win on the economics, folks!!

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

oh ok

Most folks know I've been banging the drum about the AI bubble for awhile, and this brilliant piece from @lopatto.bsky.social dramatically reinforces that hypothesis and is as meticulously researched as it is brutal: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

this story is the perfect chaser to Evan Ratliff's great piece about his one-human company and how all his AI employees are lying try hards www.wired.com/story/all-my...

This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane www.science.org/content/arti...

we love to see it

I dream of a day when corporations have to reapply for every tax break, contract, and grant every six months, with a requirement that it is the CEO who must complete the paperwork, and attest under penalty of law that they personally did so.

My newest empirical study, with Rory Van Loo and Lane Miles, finds that more than 10% of companies in the US share board members with a direct competitor, a per se violation of the antitrust laws papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

lol these things are actually a great analogy for chatbot-as-a-service products: • ONE particular productization • of ONE particular technology • WAY overpowered for its application class • no thought whatsoever to harms • which industry groups downplayed and victim-blamed

the high job numbers come from temporary construction jobs, and do not accurately describe the long term relationship of a data center to a community...which is one sided resource extraction

Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation. We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

One reason the political influence of billonaires has been pernicious is that at certain levels of wealth, people will fawn over whatever inane brain diarrhea you emit as though they’ve just bumped into Socrates in the agora.

everyone interested in the fate of American higher education should read former UVA president Jim Ryan's letter rehearsing the intense pressure placed on him to resign last summer it offers a precious glimpse not only on DOJ's assault on higher ed, but the readiness of many other stakeholders 1/

When they’re treating multi-billion dollar sports teams like collectibles, it’s time to tax the rich. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/c...