Governing AI starts with user control To keep AI open, competitive, & user-centred, we need real data portability — no more platform lock-in, writes @mchrisriley.com, Data Transfer Initiative, in a new blog: www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/governi...

👀 And don't miss the closing line of their announcement: "If you would like to bring your memory details over from a different AI tool or export your memory from Claude for backup or migration, you can follow these instructions." (link goes to: support.anthropic.com/en/articles/... )

... wow

Chris Riley offers a set of principles for personal AI data transfers, and proposes that technologists begin to immediately develop AI data transfer tools, starting with a concrete and yet valuable data model: generative AI conversation histories.

"think harder" not smarter apparently...

I am dying omg.

just this headline is disturbing me. maybe i should go back to bed...

umm www.404media.co/constitution...

Another excellent piece from Rosie Spinks: rojospinks.substack.com/p/does-where... Read through to the end, the bit about how AI will remove more friction, which will undercut our thriving and sense of life's meaning. Great stuff.

And yet, there will be (many) mainstream Democrats hemming and hawing about whether this is an intellectually sound or fair argument to make, on the grounds that allegedly Trump and friends are paying for the costs, as if that distinction mattered any more.

I can see this, particularly in 2025, yeah. But my greater concern is that we will put AI in charge of everything, and then everything will break.

This feels like an Onion article.

Sam Altman says "don't use GPT for therapy" (techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/s...), meanwhile "therapy/companionship" is literally the #1 use case (hbr.org/2025/04/how-...)

I know approximately one million. Paul is good people, for those who spot this.

"vibe physics" lol gizmodo.com/billionaires...

This, from @404media.co, is very good “The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work” www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

This is only the beginning. And I don't know what to do about it. (... which makes it exactly the sort of problem that interests me ... who wants to chat?) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Lately I feel like the internet was a mistake. Here are some cool websites to help you find joy on the internet. It's much harder to find cool stuff these days. Here's some stuff I've discovered lately. Please feel free to share more in the thread. Mac OS 9 emulator: macos9.app

This. Also, I'm designing a course on technology law and policy for computer science students, slotted just after ethics. Getting close to full approval to teach it at UW Tacoma in the spring!

Still awaiting the Senate Parliamentarian review of the proposed federal moratorium on state AI laws.

The New York Times magazine made a bizarre random math error? In their article about the new Pope's ancestry. How do you calculate 2^15 and be off by exactly 2?

Colonize the galaxy in 2030... give me a break.

Apropos of nothing, today I remind you all that the "S" in "IFRS Standards", used for international accounting, stands for "Standards" and thus double-counts "standards" in the name. www.ifrs.org/issued-stand...

Does this align incentives with creating useful and accurate content online? That would be big. "Second, AI providers like ChatGPT should build an auction mechanism that pays out content sources based on the frequency with which they are cited in AI answers." From: stratechery.com/2025/the-age...

oh god it's june

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Utterly unsurprising: futurism.com/ai-models-fa... The future of AI is blindingly obvious, no? Stop scraping whatever data can be found (and rewind the models by a few months!), and do more of this, structured deals with legitimate, mostly human-powered sources: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...

the people here probably already know this but really spread this far and wide: tell your normal offline friends and family to stop using ChatGPT for legal advice. it's happening constantly now. I'm always explaining to people why the advice this silly thing gave them is not real legal advice.

I really thought AI systems would get smarter before they turned evil, but hey, this is Season 2025, and we all know Earth's script writers are just mailing it in. techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...

I wrote a book on influencers, so I have opinions, and one of them is that the juggernaut was not run through explicitly political influencers. A “Joe Rogan of the left” would not be a political creator. Most of the pods Trump did weren’t pol creators. MAHA was also hybrid - started in wellness.

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So, who's making a web browser plug-in that will display what portion of an e-commerce item's price is attributable to tariffs? And then distributing screenshots of the results? I have to assume that is coming.

brilliant

wow that's dark but ...

If the future of AI portability is ever, EVER held back out of any shred of concern for what the AI wants, I'm going to lose. my. shit. ... reads further. "Effective altruism," of course. I swear some people read Ursula LeGuin and think it's a roadmap. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...

I'm planning on going to MyData 2025 and excited for it. Check it out!

I cannot believe I saw this on Threads before Bluesky. velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

This is honestly maybe the most joy I've ever gotten from a law review article.

I honestly can't tell if this is a joke. Could have been the Onion.

... what

These are adjacent LinkedIn recommended jobs for me. (No I'm not looking, but I load them for amusement+to look for others.) 1) "Advance Practice Provider - Cardiac ICU" at Seattle Children's Hospital. 2) "Virginia Beach SAT Tutor" in Virginia Beach (remote). ... I don't understand that algorithm.

Real hard for me to channel my inner optimist today. John Nichols on Bob McChesney: "Like Paine, Bob believed that with information and encouragement, grassroots activists could carry Paine’s legacy forward into the 21st century." There's still time, I guess. But. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

As a dear friend, comrade, mentor, and hero, Bob McChesney has meant the world to me. I am heartbroken by this irreplaceable loss, but Bob's vision for a truly democratic media system lives on. To honor him, we must continue the struggle. Here's a wonderful tribute by @nicholsuprising.bsky.social

LOOOOOOOOOL The same judge who is overseeing the case where the government is invoking "state secrets" to avoid telling the court when the planes took off (which is public) & who was on the planes (many of whom the media have reported) has the case about the admin sharing war plans with the media.

Time is an illusion.

On Tuesday I edited a story about the FTC firings. Readers took issue with our framing — not just us, but other publications as well. And you know what? Y'all were right. www.theverge.com/policy/63339...

Full statement of @bedoyaftc.bsky.social, in my opinion the best FTC commissioner ever to commish, who was just fired by Trump

This piece is, justifiably, panic attack inducing. "I put it to this [DOGE-y] individual that tearing out the decision making capacities of government would not be good for America’s ability to do things in the world. Their response (paraphrased slightly) was: so what? We’ll have AGI by late 2026."

this is the kind of stuff i used to love Twitter for. thank you, Bluesky.