"I take the first sentence..." Ah, but: have you passed the infamous "read the very next sentence" challenge?

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.

Pro-Trump media bias: frame world events as a reality show with Trump as protagonist. As @larryglickman.bsky.social explains, it’s absurd to cast the Pope saying war is bad as a “punch” Trump is responding to. But also, he didn’t take any action. He just said words nonsensically insulting the Pope.

We need a Nuremberg-style tribunal for Trump and his enablers. Ignore pardons. Strip federal jurisdiction to hear any case related to the tribunal’s work. Make defiance of the jurisdiction strip a crime to be prosecuted before the tribunal.

Important reporting from NYT AI overviews above search results are wrong about 10% of the time, but the scale of this is so vast that it really matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

We are not in the "AI era." We are in the "source: trust me, bro" era.

That's not the worst of it. Google AI overviews decimate clickthroughs from Google search results to websites. That wrecks commercial viability of those websites, which are the actual source of data. I'm a very small fish, but traffic to railmaps.com.au fell 95% since AI summaries were introduced.

Trump Attacks On Public Media Blocked By Judge (But It’s Too Little, Too Late) A federal judge has ruled that President Trump’s executive order last year defunding PBS and NPR violated the First Amendment, and has issued a permanent injunction insisting that executive branch agencies cannot…

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

This isn’t a lamentable side effect of these products. It’s the actual reason they exist.

This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.

when is bluesky adding this feature

They own it, folks!

That‘s the headline: “Donald Trump telegraphs war crimes in profanity-filled Easter Sunday Iran threat” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Nearly an hour and a half after Trump’s unhinged post, the NY Times finally gets on the board with a blog post that doesn’t quote his “Open the Fuckin’ Strait” line nor cite his reference to Allah. Can’t wait to see what headline they write.

If this was AI, boosters would claim selfiehood.

This

Regulating Manipulative Design is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment ssrn.com/abstract=558... another round of edits/updates ... publication in May 2026

The fear mongering about the demise of cda 230, free speech, social media and of course the internet itself is so exhausting. Holding tech companies liable for manipulative design will not destroy the internet, disable all forms of digital communication and social media, destroy encryption, …

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

the thing thats just not coming through in the coverage of, well of anything but particularly the war, is that theres literally no reason for any of it and republicans are making your life worse but cant explain why or what the payoff is supposed to be

Hashing isn’t a magic incantation that anonymizes your data.

Lesson for other knowledge commons. @profmrs.bsky.social @michaelmadison.bsky.social

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Trump's newly announced council of scientific advisors is a startling departure from precious PCASTs: Instead of academic researchers or industry scientists, nine out of 13 members are billionaires, who have a combined wealth of over $900 billion. My reporting:

Daughter’s anti-AI campaign ongoing at art college. Zine made with friends. Management and teachers are unsure how to react.

What wonderful timing for an incredible and important book! Landmark cases against big tech over the past few days

Huge result here - the idea that social platforms can be defective products that cause harm is going to send shockwaves through an industry that has claimed essentially blanket protection from liability by saying everything is speech

This needs to be shared and reshared. It should not be difficult to develop a non-profit alternative to Canvas, which adds hardly any value to our instructional and curriculum design work, while being ideally positioned (and designed) to extract both the value we create and our students' data.

“WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as ‘a search engine for the best webinars,’ is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit.” Everyone’s business model is just crime now.

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

most of Carr's cyber security solutions are weird xenophobic performance theater that has nothing to do with cybersecurity

Very interesting and disturbing paper Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs arxiv.org/pdf/2603.16567

Incredibly important and difficult work.

Here we see what folks like @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and @evanbernick.bsky.social have been warning about: An aspect (perhaps a pathology) of the success or failure of legal thought is reflected in how well you're able to market your ideas, even if those ideas are flawed.

Communalytic, a no-code computational social science research platform for studying online communities and public discourse on social media, includes 20 easy-to-use social media data collectors and a full suite of built-in data analyzers. communalytic.org/about-us/ #medsky #comsky #polsky #phdsky

also this one, I think! let me know if it's not clear how to adapt these for artists, but I think it's directly obvious olivia.science/cheating/

Every "AI strategy" meeting in 2026: [Cartoon by Tom Fishburne]

Join us for the Third Edition of the Frictional Design in Hybrid Human-AI Systems Workshop. Details, including the Call for Abstracts: sites.google.com/view/frictio... Share widely!

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/

this is a radical position but I believe that if you are a person of integrity you should not be using far right wing propaganda websites owned by sociopaths

Some of the most effective efforts to counter disinformation have come from infrastructure that supports deliberation and the independent verification of narratives, and where disinformation messengers are personally held accountable when they harm others. intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G68...

So what would warrant articles of impeachment at this point?

What I am reading slowly today: The Re-Enchanting Machine: Animistic Cognition, Youth Development, and AI-Influenced Psychopathology www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/6/...