A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.

Fall is here. I like this time of year. Leaves go floating to the ground. The moon at night is big and round. Fall, fall is here.

EU receives Google’s proposal for fixing adtech antitrust abuses

Exactly. As I've argued, polling that asks, "should illegal immigrants be deported, yes or no," tends to get a "yes" answer because it codes as "should the law be enforced, yes or no." (NYT does this and it's absurd). Once pollsters ask *who* should get deported, Trump's agenda is roundly rejected.

I miss having a dog.

"The choice is straightforward: Make it easier for the world’s best AI minds to work in America, or watch them build the future elsewhere." Jakub Kraus explains the importance of foreign-born AI researchers to American AI leadership.

The whole world can see that these boat strikes are murder. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Live from Bluesky Prison

On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com spoke to @superwuster.bsky.social about about his new book, “The Age of Extraction," how platforms have evolved, and what he sees as the future solution set for the problems that have developed in the digital era. youtu.be/SBTOdJpaZNY

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

I wish more people would pay attention to this part: "to push the message to minors every 30 minutes is annoying and likely counterproductive. Unwanted government-compelled disclosures breed reactance, especially among minors, and minors would surely develop blindness to the disclosures"

The New York Times has quietly sued for access to video footage of Trump's flagrantly unlawful boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I get mail.

"Other voices point at recent reporting by Politico, that Virkkunen's message to US businesses in direct meetings was that the EU will review its rules and become more business-friendly." Left-leaning EP groups should call for resignation and ask her why she's prioritizing noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...

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Judge Mark Wolf resigns from the District Court of Massachusetts and writes why in a powerful piece in the Atlantic. One thing he doesn’t mention in his list of reasons but I’m sure is a factor: Erez Reuveni was one of his law clerks. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Nelly Mensah, @klonick.bsky.social and @nabiha.bsky.social with a fascinating discussion of AI and the future of E-Commerce at #mozzfest 2025...

Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations. Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it. F the patriarchy.

Dubai Chocolate is not a thing and was never a thing and is just marketing-gaslighting me into thinking it is a thing, right!? … Right!?

Just generally I wish there was more enforcement around scams and fraud. Maybe it’s a drop in the bucket, but enforcing the laws that protect our most vulnerable Americans from financial ruin seems like it’s always a good idea.

Tylenol took another one

cyberinsider.com/precise-loca... This #databrooker business must be stopped. FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social

So bummed to miss this. Happy 25 years @talkingpointsmemo.com and @joshtpm.bsky.social !!

Mamdani hasn’t even been mayor-elect for a day yet and @dens.nyc is bringing back the peak-era Foursquare energy of NYC innovation and city exploration with @djbeebot.com: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to... I’m excited to check it out!

On Rational Security, @sranderson.bsky.social, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @klonick.bsky.social talked through the week’s big national security news stories, including the Trump administration's airstrikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, and more.

Everyone should have a friend who messages them first thing in the morning with "I was trying to remember how Winnie the Pooh mispronounces the word 'nasturtium.' The answer is 'mastershalum.'"

On Lawfare Daily, @klonick.bsky.social spoke to @rickpildes.bsky.social about his article, “Political Fragmentation in Democracies in the West,” the link between social media and threats to democracy, and the unique way this technology is now impacting the United States political system.

This year’s SF sticker is really pretty and chose its local icons well. Though usually “Ya voté” is more prominent. This might have been a good year to lean into that.

Historic day in my hometown. Local town government will go Democrat for the first time since the civil war.

Today's "One First" dives into the question #SCOTUS is now asking in the Illinois National Guard case—and why "regular forces" *does* mean only the military; why the Trump administration should therefore *lose*; and why that *won't* necessarily provide a justification to invoke the Insurrection Act:

I want journalists and authors to get paid for their work. And I know that AI is part of the problem. But the problem I personally experience multiple times a day is that it takes 500 frustrating steps to view content, even when I am a paying subscriber. 1/

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WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE PRESIDENCY??? #WITAOTP

📅𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆! On November 2, 1988, the Morris Worm became the first major computer virus to spread across the Internet. 𝙁𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 by @scottjshapiro.bsky.social , covers the #MorrisWorm as one of its five infamous hacks. Our review ➡️ tinyurl.com/r2b3zc2u (1/3..)

So good it hurts.

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The French call a bat🦇 "une chauve-souris" which means "bald mouse" and I'm every time I hear it I'm just baffled that someone thought that it was definitely the BALDNESS that distinguishes a bat from a mouse.

Fascinatingly, the Ferrara Candy Company went from <$50M in annual sales with just Nerds to +$700-$900M in just a few years once they invented Nerd Rope/Gummy Clusters. Which is all to say, ain't nobody making a billion dollars on candy corn.

Someone in a group chat just suggested candy corn > Nerds and I might have to block him.

I wonder if scientists will learn to let go of reductive, quantitative "impact" metrics before there is no science left to quantify.

the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep

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My students: But I *own* an NFT Me:

Isaac Chotiner: public intellectuals :: Pete Wells : celebrity chefs

Absolute bless to the man next to me filling out his COVID vax release at the pharmacy who asks “Do I answer ‘yes’ to pregnant if my partner is pregnant?”

I never feel more like an adult than when I’m standing in the Halloween display at the super market and realizing *I* get to pick which candy we hand out.

Everything I know about legal formalism I learned from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries

Great play-by-play dispatch from Letitia James’s arraignment, via my Lawfare colleague @mollyroberts.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tria...