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A little piece of my soul shrivels up every time I get a message laying out how another company plans to use personal data in ever encroaching ways for AI training. I got one of those emails recently from Google and blogged about it for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

The world of computing is and will remain far larger, more impactful, and far more vibrant than the narrow subdomain of genAI.

Trump on an executive order he's about to sign that he clearly has no clue about: "Quantum ... cryptography. Does anybody know what that is?"

rec letters used to be so different..

fun archival material: 1978 conference, “the reevaluation of existing values and the search for absolute values” 7th international conference on the unity of the sciences run by international cultural foundation… which was chaired by… sun myung moon ???

It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:

🚨 BREAKING: Sources w/ Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 at @umich.edu have informed me that "This morning around 7am, the FBI executed arrest warrants at several locations across several states targeting pro-Palestine activism in southeast Michigan. The situation is evolving." @therealnews.com

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

hoooboy... "the creation of a new corporate category in Argentine law: the non-human corporation. These are entities operated by AI agents or robots... Human shareholders may participate, but are not required." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Leiden Declaration site (leidendeclaration.ai) is down presently, but you can still read it on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/2030...). 🧮

Mandelson arranged a private meeting between Keir Starmer and Palantir (which was represented by his own Global Counsel firm). Downing Street insist no records were kept of what was discussed at the meeting

It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org

Insightful discussion...love the section on Moore's law, 80s computing, and the fantasy of endless growth on a finite planet that, amongst many others, Bezos and Musk suffer from as they misread the purpose of fiction and strive "to make Star Trek real" (fyi it's fiction boys).

was a blast to chat with Adam about physics, computing and how the tech state emerged from the cold war state among other things

This week we have @susglickman.bsky.social for a wild ride - why we have more power over the future than we might think, Moore's Law, quantum computers, a rocket-ships-and-chrome vision of the future, and problems with the "Great Man" theory of history. Tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0sf...

was a blast to chat with Adam about physics, computing and how the tech state emerged from the cold war state among other things

"The ECB study simulated a 'severe shock' to global private credit markets and found that there would be 'limited' direct losses to Eurozone financial institutions. But it warned that 'broader spillovers would be larger', particularly for insurers and pension funds."

BREAK: The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of a vital Dutch supplier to a widely used online identification tool, which was set to be acquired by a U.S.-based company. open.overheid.nl/details/ec64...

The Forest Service is preparing to spray glyphosate, an ingredient in Roundup.

The US/Israeli strikes on Iran don't just hurt Iran. SO2 (the stuff in acid rain) & likely many other toxic chemicals from the March 7 attack reached as far as China. www.newscientist.com/article/2527...

"Bezos, echoing conservative commenters, claimed last week that the top 1% pays 40% of taxes and the bottom 50% only 3%... But this claim is misleading. It captures just one tax – the federal income tax – and ignores all the rest:" @gabrielzucman.bsky.social gzucman.substack.com/p/why-do-bil...

UK universities warn of cuts for impoverished students if dire funding issues continue

the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...

“Understand right now, history has reached a turning point again. Not just Jim Crow 2.0—it’s freedom forever,” said Reena Evers-Everette. Her father, voting rights leader Medgar Evers, was assassinated by a white supremacist in the family's driveway in 1963.

Shocked that Dr Antonis Vradis, a co-author I have previously worked with, has been illegally captured in international waters by the Israeli state. His whereabouts is currently unknown. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

I'm fundraising again on @kpfa.org today. Help us cross the finish line tomorrow with our heads held high! And support Behind the News. support.kpfa.org

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

NEW: Opponents of AI surveillance cameras keep getting wins in Wisconsin. Dane County added to the cascade of jurisdictions pulling out of "Flock Safety" contracts a few weeks ago, and several more towns have followed. Bolts' @pascalsabino.bsky.social looks at what's going on:

great investigation into Opus Dei's network of front operations on colleges campuses. www.ft.com/content/6175...

Coast Guard announces Special Missions Command.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

so many cool things happening in financial markets it’s hard to keep up!

“Forcing”

thank god we’re allowed to do financial innovation again

I need a drink 🙄 "'A new asset class will be buying futures of compute,' Fink said during a panel discussion Tuesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills"

If you vote in NYC, you've probably wondered: "Who are these people running to be judges? Why doesn't it feel like I have much choice about voting for them? How were they selected? Why do many judges seem to be... bad?" May I present to you @hellgatenyc.com's latest big project: Courts of Contempt.

Breaking news: The sweeping move from Wall Street’s top watchdog has the potential to shift the balance of power from shareholders to chief executives. ft.trib.al/3ECqhXA

It’s bad there isn’t more concern about the Caribbean Sea murder campaign.

uhhh : "California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach" www.latimes.com/environment/...

Today, Joanna Wuest explains how conservative campaigns are transforming the economic value of diversity through shareholder activism, consumer boycotts, and litigation.

There are so many liberatory promises and admirable acts and impulses in the history of this country and this rw elite movement is all abt desecrating the dead who fought for that vision, erasing their historical memory, legacy and hard won victories

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

BREAKING: 870 Registered Nurses in Madison, Wisconsin are unionizing with @seiu.org @seiuwis.bsky.social

The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study is pleased to announce its 2026–27 Members. This exceptional cohort of 21 scholars was chosen from a pool of more than 600 fellowship applications. www.ias.edu/sss/2026-202...