Not pedantic at all when you consider Trump squeezed $15M out of ABC because an anchor mixed up rape and sexual abuse.

Agree with all of this, and would only add that, by engaging in "good faith" efforts to try and mollify these critics, the universities played right into the hands of their adversaries, legitimizing a bogus narrative about rampant antisemitism in campus protests.

We need a web3 video hosting site.

Just for context, it was an international scandal when YouTube erased documentation of Syrian government war crimes. Now it's just the Intercept and tech outlets who care. apnews.com/article/d9f1...

Hopefully Canadian policy-makers are watching this, as it significantly undercuts the wisdom of any further concessions to the Trump administration in order to secure tariff-relief.

Remake of The Big Short except instead of Christian Bale as the lone person who sees a bubble the entire industry screams about for a year, but for some reason that does nothing to prevent the horrible fallout.

There has been-ahem-a lot going on in international law. in this brief chapter, I tried to take stock of the past two years and what they mean for critical IL. TL;DR: the old moves REALLY don't work anymore: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

There's a number of reasons why this is a dumb take - but chief among them is that the report in question actually does describe the situation as a genocide, as one can plainly see from other media coverage.

AT service operators and moderation thinkers: I put together an early proposal around infra abuse notices across organizational boundaries. really looking for feedback on this one, it is bait for counter-proposals and references to prior work!

Pretty cool how, during the first Trump administration, folks were shocked at how much democracy depends on norms and guidelines, and how it exposed the system to massive abuse, and then the Democrats gained power for four years and did absolutely nothing to fix that and now we’re here.

Really is striking how many of the Trump administration’s worst excesses are grounded in expansions of Obama and Bush-era policies. Sadly vindicating for those who argued at the time that these were creating dangerous precedents.

By all accounts, the Trump administration has had a catastrophic impact on America’s advanced research capacity. They’ve defunded Nobel prize winners and Fields medalists and deported the world’s best PhDs and post-docs. It’s so insane to be asking them about how to improve university research.

I remember scoffing a few years ago at the idea that Musk was buying lasting cultural influence because it was so obvious he was going to run Twitter into the ground and then people would leave - and man, I did not understand the lasting power of network effects, especially among elite accounts.

We use the term “influencer” to capture how accounts with large audiences play an outsized role in shaping online discourse. But influence works both ways, and the audience’s (and other influencers’) power in shaping the views of elites (including electeds) is probably the most meaningful dynamic.

The funniest thing about this DeSantis quote is his exhortation that we REALLY need to look at what’s going on with America’s schools. As if nobody’s ever studied that problem, and as if he and his colleagues haven’t spend decades eviscerating the public school system.

Oh those poor pension fund members.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

"Today, as we see the American civic space becoming more hostile to protest, and weapons of state power wielded aggressively against dissenting views, it is time once again to demonstrate that Canada’s Charter values are distinct, by recognizing the importance of protest to our democratic order."

In my latest post, I look at what the report actually says, and why the case for lawful access still doesn’t add up. robertdiab.substack.com/p/do-csis-an...

Obviously Trump's reaction is ridiculous, but I can't help but wonder what Doug Ford was possibly hoping to achieve with these ads. We're six months into this trade war and it's utterly unacceptable a Premier still thinks he can just freelance foreign policy. He should leave this to the PM.

It’s certainly a problem that our information environment is dominated by billionaires, but the real problem is that there are billionaires.

If President Bernie Sanders imposed a $130 million wealth tax, this guy would be screaming bloody murder, but for some reason he’s fine lighting that money on fire as part of some weird publicity stunt.

Really bizarre how much money some people are willing to spend to avoid paying higher taxes.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers skips out on his teaching duties to engage in an act of disruptive protest. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The point of the Internet is it’s meant to make it difficult, nigh impossible, to control the public discourse in the way Trump wants. I’m curious as to how effective or otherwise crony takeovers of CNN, CBS, the Post, and especially TikTok will be in light of his broader unpopularity.

I am begging news orgs not to uncritically repeat the claim Reagan's remarks were "edited without permission" before you talk to a 1A lawyer, or just follow up with the Foundation to ask what legal theory holds that a public address from a former president is their IP. apnews.com/article/trum...

One of the biggest concerns with these assessments is they can become a box-checking exercise. Tough to think of a clearer example that offloading the work to AI. To the extent these reviews are legally mandated, regulators need to make clear that automated assessments are insufficient.

The problem is that AI actually does things that, superficially, do look rather useful and impressive. Quantum technologies are very far from offering those kinds of flashy demonstrations, even if the ultimate potential for impact is quite high.

The problem is that AI actually does things that, superficially, do look rather useful and impressive. Quantum technologies are very far from offering those kinds of flashy demonstrations, even if the ultimate potential for impact is quite high.

In case you think this is a joke

It really is just the classic private equity model of buying up a strong brand and then slashing quality to squeeze whatever profits can be had from the reputation before consumers figure it out and it all goes bust. Except in this case, the harm is ultimately to democracy and our public discourse.

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There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/trump-admini...

According to @rcfp.org, 24 donors gave a total of $1,094.95 in honor of my reporting and lawsuit against MPD! Let’s keep it going! www.rcfp.org/donate/

This is obscene and regulators around the world need to make it clear that, wherever these assessments are legally required, automated reviews are absolutely not sufficient to discharge that obligation.

'The court finds that the local population has been inadequately supplied and that Israel has obligation to provide humanitarian provisions. The court notes that there is no evidence that UNRWA has breached the principle of impartiality'

To me, this also takes away any pretext about the payment being done under color of law or legal proceeding. He really is just cutting himself a cheque from the Treasury.

Man. I’ve done a lot anticorruption work in a lot of very problematic contexts. I have never seen anything this brazen. Mf is literally announcing his intention to steal the money in the national newspaper of record.

Serious question: how is this not literally just embezzlement?

Lotta people to be proud of today, but especially thrilled for the talented @chinmayiarun.bsky.social who has managed as Executive Director of the @yaleisp.bsky.social while also finishing her dissertation -- and turning it in today! Congratulations, Chinmayi!

It's been less than a year since they literally invited Netanyahu to visit. Either these warrants mean something or they don't. If Poland wants to attack Putin's plane, fine - but let's not pretend this has anything to do with the government respecting its responsibilities under international law.

AI is just trickle down economics with extra steps.

This administration remains 100% on OPSEC.

I know it’s not the point but I feel like a fighter jet dropping a full cargo load of poop onto a crowd at speed would cause a non-trivial number of casualties.

The irony of ironies is that the distinct feature of Mexican Coca-Cola is that it still uses real sugar as opposed to the high-fructose corn syrup that Trump apparently hates.

Are you impacted by the AWS outage this morning? It seems to have taken out a lot of online services and apps. Hosting on your own infrastructure? No issues .. of course Remember "the cloud" is just somebody else's computer ... #hosting

This is such a good point. The internet was designed to be resilient against precisely these types of failures/attacks. The whole idea is its decentralized: one node goes down but the traffic marches on. But the big players have consolidated power in a way that effectively recentralizes everything.

The reason American media frame this as a “test of the ceasefire” is because Israeli bombing of Palestinians as accepted as part of the status quo. It’s same reason we heard an endless refrain that “there was a ceasefire on Oct 6” despite the hundreds of Palestinians killed by Israelis that year.