Highly recommend this piece explaining how irresponsible it is to anthropomorphize LLMs, how Musk and other execs/companies do this to deflect responsibility. But it also seems like if companies treat “AI” as something that *generates content* they undermine their liability shield from section 230

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

With no algorithm here, I'm especially grateful to all who reposted this & also to those of you who pre-ordered (info is in the thread)! Since I am not Stephen King, unlikely bookstores will stock my academic book in physical form. Can you please ask your public or academic library to order? Thx.

Soliciting explanations for how text generated by LLMs fits into the liability framework established by Section 230. I’ve seen some legal scholars on here say chatbot outputs are only created by users, so companies remain shielded from liability but that seems false to me

my theory of Jan 6 is that nobody (except for a few weirdos) likes to think about it. from 2021-2025, the investigations/prosecutions meant that Biden was the guy who was making people think about it (which they hated). now Trump is the guy making them think about it and they also hate that

Last night, watching a Fallout trailer. K: maybe we should watch this E: yeah it has your guy in it K: Walton Goggins? E: no K: (excited but confused) Jack Lowden?! E: no the twin peaks guy K: KYLE MACLACHLAN??!!

truly what could a satirist make up that would be dumber and funnier than the White House East Wing sponsored by Roblox and defense contractors

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

Cancel culture is when you get to make a lot of money censoring horrific news stories to benefit the most powerful people in the world

Gen Alpha knows Seth Rogen as “the guy who plays Donkey Kong” just thought everyone on here should know

DHS wants to make biometric data collection mandatory for everyone associated with any immigration benefits request. This includes US citizens involved in the application. I just submitted a Public Interest Comment criticizing this proposal. www.mercatus.org/research/pub...

I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US

And let’s be precise: universities have decreased TT positions while increasing PhD student enrollment and relying on grad student and adjunct labor, creating more people who feel screwed over when they graduate and can’t get a decent academic job From 2020 www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/...

“The excesses of the second Trump administration would not be possible without the intellectuals who have gathered in the MAGA movement.” Read @lkatfield.bsky.social on her new book Furious Minds in the NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

Wow I just found out you don’t have to post Atlantic articles here… pretty cool

“the digital and online policies & regulations Klein entertains would involve near-constant monitoring of children & young adults. The data-mining and policing powers involved facilitate not just predictable invasions of privacy, but also foreseeable abuses by authorities against minors & adults.”

As @abenewman.bsky.social and I might say, hegemonic enshittification has consequences www.wired.com/story/enshit...

No better way to end 2025—and get fired up for defending freedom and equality in 2026—with a discussion of Bill Galston’s book on the passions and liberal democracy, with the author, @lkatfield.bsky.social and yours truly next Thursday

The women are part of an ICE Alternative to Detention program that keeps tabs on ~200k immigrants using ankle monitors, smart watches & more. Tampering w/ the smart watch would alert ICE & the firm running the program BI Inc that someone might be trying to abscond www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

That’s right, LLMs are not search engines and I wish more people understood that. The East Wing thing is a recent event and Claude’s models probably don’t have that info in their training set yet.

Ah wow thank you I just can’t keep up with all the new books she’s been pumping out

bring back shame, combat vice signaling

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Hey folks, my first book is out in April! It's a narrative non-fiction account of five years of life in Berkeley Springs, WV after the "great replacement" fixated group VDARE bought a 19th century castle there. Get 20% off now with the code STRANGE20: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

Wouldn’t want any “interrogating” or “challenging” in education now would we

Really excited to serve as discussant for this event on William Galston’s most recent book on emotions in politics and the challenges faced by liberal democracy today! Come by if you’re in DC!

We did it! Hosted another Flock camera community discussion in my rural WA town, and the sheriff came to confirm they won’t be renewing the contract or considering them again. This is why I believe so strongly in neighbor-run town halls, especially trying it before ex: a lawsuit or ballot measure.

“These are censorship laws. In the South, where I live, these same proposals mimic a lot of the arguments that you see behind book bans and behind laws that criminalize gender-affirming health care or abortion information.”

1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature. How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP

Really great coverage from @wired.com about our week of action against online ID verification and how these bills are setting a dangerous precedent by making the internet more exploitative rather than safer. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

"[T]oday’s AI agents may resemble traditional products far more than is commonly assumed, and existing negligence and products liability doctrines can, with targeted adjustments, be well equipped to address AI-related harms rather than require sweeping reform," writes Maarten Herbosch.

writing that republicans "do not seem to be considering" a full-scale porn ban, despite your own sources for this story AND republicans themselves saying they want to ban porn, is sending me to outer space nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...

DC Statehood on demand and without apology. Every dem trifecta that has failed to secure this has led us to this point.

So angry that hearing about the David Austin Walsh discourse on twitter is the thing that got me to sign on there for the first time in months

Wow the Y2K era really is back

Lower-income people are less likely to vote than higher-income people, across racial groups - and that gap has been growing. That’s a real problem for the future of US democracy. It’s not apathy or ignorance - for many, it’s a sense that politics is not for or about them. In a report out in Jan +

It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Alright alright alright post-Thanksgiving full November #polisky eJobs update (11/1-11/30): November 2024: 99 total positions (50 open to assistant TT) November 2025: 69 total positions (22 open to assistant TT)

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

It’s all well and good, but honestly if someone hands you something as good as “no kings,” you shouldn’t look the gift horse in the mouth

“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?

How can ordinary people come together to protect immigrants from unjust deportation? Throughout the 1980s & early 90s, the Sanctuary Movement illustrated one way to do this. In a newly published paper, Karla Segovia, Molly Rovinski & I analyze this movement. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dueling adaptations of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, one directed by Robert Eggers and the other by Yorgos Lanthimos (Deep Impact vs Armageddon style)

"Don't care about what other people find interesting, because that's not going to be the thing that wakes you up every morning." Brilliant advice from my brilliant @cfr.org colleague, @inumanak.bsky.social.

About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem

'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along' 👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...