That’s my oldest son youtu.be/wM8m-99LbxQ?...

LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text But... can they? We don’t actually know. In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test. And our findings are striking: LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

Budget robot vacuum that ran sophisticated mapping software phoned home with everything including info about the home network. When an engineer blocked the secret uploads the makers bricked it. Turns out paranoia about"smart devices is fully justified. codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...

A "close call" on deference to the executive's determination of an emergency? If trade deficits are an emergency, then so are Tuesdays. The word loses all meaning. See the brief signed by leading economists (and me): www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

"This has nothing to do with policy. This certainly has nothing to do with leadership. It’s just a Presidency that is there to troll people it doesn’t like. That’s literally all they do." Great column from @mmasnick.bsky.social at Techdirt that dovetails with what I've been thinking.

microsoft wants to use your linkedin data to train LLMs turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

What a fantastic paper!!! Really well researched, case studies, interviews, history, theory, genuinely adds new insights … and relevant Highly recommended

Excited that my new article is now out in the @yalelawjournal.bsky.social! The article takes a look at intramural research (R&D funded and performed by the government) from an innovation law perspective: yalelawjournal.org/article/gove...

Unitary executive theory is not wearing well, to say the least. Soon the judges and legal scholars who hatched it (based mostly on some tiny bits and pieces of constitutional text and a tendentious historical account) are going to be lepers. And they are going to richly deserve it.

Literally admitting that he's starving kids to put political pressure on his opponents.

Love your neighbors, cover your Rings if you have em

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

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notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

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Technology will recursively repair its way into every human space if we let it. Including the jury box. If we are to be saved from the cyberjury, it won't be by tech companies. Their profit motive will always press them to the next step, and then the next.

From Attention: Govern or Be Governed in Montreal, Day 2 Whistleblower Miles Taylor predicts that Trump will seek an unconstitutional third term in office ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/24/g...

Once again, beyond parody. Even absurdism has nothing on this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

These are the scientists fighting back against the Trump administration’s cuts to NIH and NSF funding. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪🧵2/6

Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...

Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.

Our amicus brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of former judges and government officials, including ones appointed by every Republican president from Nixon through Trump, argues that the President doesn't have the power to impose whatever tariffs he likes. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Going to go ahead and put this at the top of my reading list.

This country is allowed to have tariffs. You just have to convince Congress that they're a good idea. The President can hold tariff powers instead of Congress, if you can convince voters to amend the Constitution. If you can't convince anyone of anything, rethink your ideas.

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“Yes but in the full article…” It doesn’t matter. 0.01% of people who see the headline are getting past the lede of the article. Write your headline as though all the nuance in the actual piece is irrelevant, because it is.

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Oh look, Trump lied. And broke the law. And did something hideous. All to feed his own ego. This will be a bit continuing story for at least the next ten minutes, until the next time Trump lies and breaks the law, doing something hideous to feed his own ego. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Very interesting paper! ON TARGETED MANIPULATION AND DECEPTION WHEN OPTIMIZING LLMS FOR User FEEDBACK arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02306 (relevant to the engineered sycophancy idea I mentioned a few days ago)

Not necessarily just exposure. personal-data-driven algorithmic targeting is a manipulative design feature that might accelerate, aggravate, increase propensity, among other things. Notably, the design feature is content agnostic, engineered to manipulate user behavior for all sorts of content

This new reporting from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social is jaw-dropping and I think warrants a response from @cos.io given their ongoing collaboration with Meta. Jeff writes about how Meta identified content-specific harms as a key problem for teens on Instagram. 🧵 www.reuters.com/business/ins...

It does somehow sum everything up neatly. Trashy vulgarian unilaterally decides to tear up an iconic American building as though it’s one of his tacky private clubs, rather than a national monument he has very temporarily (and foolishly) been permitted to inhabit.

Italy’s Comprehensive New AI Law www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/it... #AI

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

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Throngs of protesters gather in an estimated 2,600 "No Kings" demonstrations across the country to object to Trump's presidency. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

"Better Digital Contracts with Prosocial Friction-in-Design" by Brett Frischmann and Moshe Y. Vardi digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/facpubs/229/

Great talk by Noah Apthorpe (Colgate) presenting our research at SOUPS 2025 - Measuring NIST Authentication Standards Compliance by Higher Education Institutions youtu.be/X9tziOswcKE?...