Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

In just 10 days, more than 800,000 people in Lebanon have been displaced by an Israeli military offensive, just over a year since the last conflict uprooted over a million Lebanese from their homes. That’s one in every seven people in the tiny country.

I continue to insist that the great scandal of AI is the one nobody talks about all these outsourced workers in the global south who don't get any of the participation in the success of the companies, but have to eat shit doing these essential data labeling tasks

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "This technology disrupts humanity's train, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working class, often male voters. These disruptions are going to disrupt every aspect of our society."

“Rights advocates said they were alarmed by the proposal, which they saw as part of a drive by the administration to place homeless people in institutional settings against their will.”

We at @mlexguild.bsky.social and @law360union.bsky.social made the same demand of our employer, LexisNexis. Stand with us bsky.app/profile/nygu...

Everyone's data, from every industry, is everywhere. Including with ICE. There was time and Congress had so many opportunities to prevent this kind of shit. As usual, monetary interests prevailed over people's interest and rights. It makes me so mad because not preventing this crap was a choice.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

I need you to know that Israel has violated the ceasefire with Lebanon 15,400 times since it was struck in Nov 2024. That is 31 times EVERY DAY on average. This barely gets reported by western media. Why do you think that is? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

So we just live in a Black Mirror episode now huh

I'm not surprised by this news, but I am sad for what Israel's retaliation will mean for the Lebanese people. I worked in beautiful Beirut for a short time about 20 years ago, leaving right before war broke out. That city is always rebuilding.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

“But Anthropic has concerns over two issues: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens… Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons, and there are no laws or regulations yet that cover how AI could be used in mass surveillance.”

LLMs are a weapon. And not only a weapon; an unpredictable weapon, which is why it is coveted - its proponents wants to use it not only because of potential speed and scope, but because it helps avoid accountability if the LLM makes the wrong decisions.

The chapter from Ferguson's book YOUR DATA WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU is here just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/you...

In our name. Using our tax money.

@sorayachemaly.bsky.social strikes again:

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

this may be a radical take BUT I think we should proceed cautiously with the rushed integration of half-cooked automation into problematic business sectors in a broadly-corrupt country without functional regulatory oversight

It's always baffled me that athletes who do every little thing to gain a competitive advantage fail to mask. Great to see this group of Olympians being smart and safe!

ICYMI: 950+ Google workers signed a petition demanding that executives "disclose all contracts and collaboration with DHS, CBP, and ICE, and to divest from these partnerships." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

"Instead of a blanket shutdown, Galloway is calling for Americans to focus on major tech companies by unsubscribing from — or opting out of — services like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Amazon's Prime Video, and Microsoft Office."

well fortunately for us our country is too corrupt to pass even baseline federal internet-era privacy legislation

@datarescueproject.org is collecting images of signs at National Parks as well as other data. Visit their profile to find out more about their work and that of other organizations preserving history and science.

The overfunding of AI hurts us all, in very real ways

Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth

Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

As a founding member of @who.int, the United States of America has contributed significantly to many of WHO’s greatest achievements, including the eradication of smallpox. WHO has always engaged with the US, and all Member States, with full respect for their sovereignty. 1/4

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. @josephcox.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch our latest episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-QH...

MN Doctor: I learned that Renee Good still had a pulse 8 minutes after she was shot by an ICE agent. Yet the offer to administer aid from a physician on the scene was denied. I can't say how much that stirs the blood of everyone here as we try to fulfill our oath to care for the people of Minnesota

The Black Panthers are back and they're patrolling Minneapolis. #PowerToThePeople

Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”

I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities. Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness. 1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

Somewhere in Minneapolis, there’s a teenage girl hiding in an attic, writing in her diary.

I don't expect it given the company's track record as of late, but sure would be nice if Target spoke out against this propaganda being filmed in one of its stores.

I also ask teachers to explain why Adobe is so expensive or why we pay so much for terrible Msft or Google accounts in education, but somehow this stuff is free? Or maybe £2 an account? None of it has a good answer when you realise you are the product and you will be replaced

There's just too much free speeching going on here. Yes, you've got the right to protest, just know that if you do we'll fucking murder you. So maybe don't exercise that right