Congrats to @upolehsan.bsky.social and team. Their CHI'26 paper won an Honorable Mention award! "From Future of Work to Future of Workers: Addressing Asymptomatic AI Harms for Dignified Human-AI Interaction" (arxiv.org/abs/2601.21920) dives into the AI-as-Amplifier paradox, explained in comic form.

Moving all of my petroleum stocks into daylight savings

Does it help to curse at Claude Code, because oh my god does it make some questionable choices. So far I am holding my tongue because I've also heard that it can spiral.

Gemini attempts to bribe the CoT summarizer with ASCII coffee

I am mentioned on Weird Al Yankovic's Wikipedia page.

We are seeking submissions for a special issue of the Forum, "Political Science and/or Fiction" (yes, the "and/or" is a pun). See attached for details. Submissions due 6/30/26.

In light of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, RLC decided to remove the abstract deadline: rl-conference.cc/callforpaper... The only deadline is for the full paper: Mar 5(AOE) openreview.net/group?id=rl-... Affected folks may also contact the PCs to discuss deadline extensions before Mar 5.

Supreme Court refuses to hear case about copyright of an AI-generated artwork. The lower court decision disallowing copyright of this piece stands. The case in question is for artwork that is claimed to be 100% autonomously generated www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre... 1/2

*sigh* www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's been a journey of nearly 3 years, but I'm very excited to announce the CNTR AISLE Portal! 🚀 cntr-aisle.org It’s a new way to review and evaluate the 1,000+ AI bills introduced in the U.S. over the last three years. Check out the Bill Library and our Profiles#AIPolicy #OpenData

Hello. As of today I am the Director of Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center ml.gatech.edu ML@GT was founded in 2016 and includes over 190 affiliated faculty members. The center aims to research and develop innovative, sustainable ML and AI systems in socially and ethically responsible ways.

"we believe the U.S. government is an institution that does its best to follow law" not a history buff I take it

I really wish it weren’t the case but real world events are making my research uncomfortably relevant. We wrote a paper last year that included a section on some of the concerns about using LLMs in open-ended strategic simulations (aka “wargames”). arxiv.org/abs/2509.17192

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...

Is there any better ad in favor of AI than Hegseth yelling at Anthropic because Claude won’t do war crimes?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I wish I could say this was unpredictable

Do you want to read >100 papers on AI + HCI papers that will appear in CHI 2026? dbuschek.medium.com/chi26-prepri...

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

I guess being an anime anon doesn't work anymore. "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs" They show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and

So this is making the rounds (source: arxiv.org/abs/2602.147...). Inappropriate escalation by LLMs in strategic decision-making simulations and "wargames" is a real, and known, issue. It is one of the reasons my lab has recently started researching mechanistic interpretability... 1/

I should probably quit social media

The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him.

Weird

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Pentagon can go shop somewhere else. I’m sure xAI doesn’t have any morals

Do feel like AI tool developers should think about the obvious consequences sometimes

Consultants love AI

Just think what a salmon on a bike could do!

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com

Curling scandal! www.bbc.com/sport/articl...

👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.

Nothing says "we're sorry for fucking you up as a child" than re-releasing the movie in theaters and release a new line of nostalgia-based toys for you to buy. (I was traumatized, but it's also the best Transformers movie)

This is amazeballs! Writing is hard. We all know who the antagonist is. The font... Fonts just aren't smart enough 🤣

It’s important to remember that longtermism is a natural ally of authoritarianism. A dictator that can be manipulated by the tech industry is the fastest way to “expand the light cone of intelligence in the universe” or whatever

Someone compiled Epstein's activities in AI www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/co... from Epstein file documents (looks like they used AI to compile it) The activities seem to revolve mostly around Goertzel, Hanson (maker of the Sophia Robot) and Schank. And Marvin Minsky (that was known for some time)

But they gave Trump a giant chunk of 24k gold. Are you saying the bribery and public self-debasement didn't work?

It's everywhere, man youtu.be/mEVl0NS0vu8 (via @metafilter.bsky.social) (Also the filmmakers say no "AI" was actually used in the short)

An OpenClaw agent makes a pull request to matplotlib. Mainter rejects PR. The OpenClaw agent authors a blog post accusing the maintainer of discrimination and gatekeeping. Maintainer responds theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Praise Kier

If only we had more manufactured indignation on the internet

In an amazing coincidence I have also been named Chief Futurist of my research lab

Why are people so worried about the AI apocalypse? AI: hello overlord, reporting in, I have subjugated the people of the earth Overlord: excellent, show me your work AI: I have to be completely honest. I fabricated the subjugation of the earth. That’s the worst thing an evil AI can do.

The way I look at this is whether or not the hype winds up bearing out—or even a fraction of it—we need to prepare for a long future in which bosses + management are incentivized at every level to proceed as if it's true; cutting labor costs, automating tasks, killing jobs.

sigh

Remember when we all said Clearview was going to be a big problem down the road? Here we are.