AI supposed to scan résumés and identify recruits instead resulted in recruits hired and assigned to field offices without adequate training. The mistake was not identified until mid-fall. How many of those 10,000 officers entered American streets with only four weeks of training? trib.al/PplUFW7

since we no longer have working federal regulators states will all rush to to step in and fill the void at which point the same people and companies responsible for destroying the federal regulatory state will whine about "an inconsistent patchwork of state enforcement" they created

Senate Commerce Committee hearing today 10am ET “Plugged Out: Examining the Impact of Technology on America’s Youth.” Details: www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/1/chair...

What Trump learned from Iraq is you don’t need to send in millions of troops & do all that building democracy nonsense, you can just do a private equity - take just enough control to steal what you want, then abandon the rest

Ring normalized surveillance with all of those cute videos of heartwarming moments that affectively primed us to see surveillance as no big deal. Wearable AI just mash this together with sousveillance and a dash of algorithmic bullshit to usher in yet another layer of the WORST cyberpunk dystopia.

I cannot WAIT to find out the results of this poll! So psyched I might old school live-tweet it

Parents need to make sure their districts understand THIS is the normie pro-tech position, not the one the tech salespeople are selling

"The baby was released to her family. Her grandmother says she had a bruised cheek, but is otherwise OK." oh ok, the baby had bruising but was otherwise fine other than the bruising, otherwise, being randomly abducted by ICE, otherwise the baby was fine, just the bruising

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Thank you to everyone who came out!

This line from ChatGPT encouraging him to take double the cough syrup is making my blood boil: "Honestly? Based on everything you’ve told me over the last 9 hours, that’s a really solid and smart takeaway. You’re showing good harm reduction instincts, and here’s why your plan makes sense."

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

I'm irrationally upset about Tim Walz. I really like him. I think about that video of the kids hugging him after the free lunch law, his beautiful kids standing up at his speech, and the way the campaign muzzled him and I'm pretty close to tears every time. He deserves so much better

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

This is so weird for me as a marijuana regulator because even with all the diversity of opinions and research, the one thing everyone agrees on is to keep it away from kids. Why is it so different with chatbots?

I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

we are one tech bro donation away from Trump saying he thinks people who criticize AI should be arrested and that the term "slop" should be considered hate speech

If you are in the Boston area, come out to this event I am moderating on January 7 with some of the nation's top experts protecting critical thinking.

If you need a book to read on an airplane soon, make it Enshittification by Cory Doctorow. The best thing about it is that unlike similar books, a full half is devoted to a detailed plan of how we are going to fix this (Lina Khan, unions, and tech workers who make workarounds all get their due).

Earlier this week, 42 state attorneys general sent a warning letter to the major AI companies regarding the dangers and harms created by AI chatbots. It's as forceful an indictment of what's happening that I've found, so here's a short thread to walk you through the evidence they've compiled... 🧵

From Parabola Center's launch this week. We also have a nice follow-up to our High Times piece on fair markets; a definitive hemp framework by Dr. Rachel Knox; insights on the dwindling medical market by Dru Ledbetter, and a discussion on cannabis hot topics. Sign up if you want!

I have a little piece coming out on this tomorrow in Parabola Center’s new substack parabolacenter.substack.com

This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday. AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.

Reading other people’s writing I notice AI is like makeup. You can wear none; wear a little and almost make it look like you’re not wearing any; wear alot and look good; or go at it until your face is a chalky thick smear a different color than your neck with muddy raccoon eyes and pink clown lips

You know that dumb thing in Gmail that tries to finish your sentences? Google recently turned it on for school Chromebooks so that it pops up for kids who are trying to write. Some parents asked our district to turn it off for our kids, and they decided to turn it off for everyone. Ask yours too!

What I’ve been up to! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Being an author of a peer-reviewed paper was very much like having a baby in the sense that I am so glad I did it once but after experiencing the whole process I have no desire to ever do it again

It’s actually up to governments to regulate AI and stop it from destroying lives.

As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help

Two absolute masters of creating content. A collective posting supernova. Electric firestorm of making little videos

This is our community's letter!! It was written by Josie Morway, a local artist and parent. After we started asking questions, the district slowed way down and starting holding forums, creating workgroups, and taking student privacy more seriously. Talk to us if you want to do the same!

This book is amazing and this event was so good I'm looking up everyone I used to love on Twitter and committing to re-addict myself to screens as soon as possible

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

Knowing how despondent I felt about young people, especially young men, a year ago, what an amazing thing to see that Mamdani won men age 18-29 by FORTY POINTS.

“'The first thing I was wondering was, was I about to die? Because they had a gun pointed at me,' Allen told WBAL, saying about eight cop cars' pulled up to the school. 'I was just holding a Doritos bag...'"

consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

COVID vaccines are now available to everyone, no prescription needed, and insurance will cover them. IMO between now and Nov 1 is the best time of year to get one. (Source, John Hopkins newsletter: mailchi.mp/217244f2e75e...)

Big Tech's A.I. data centers are turning into a political flashpoint in VA & NJ. Voters are pushing back as Amazon, Google, and Meta server farms drive up power costs and eat up local grids — a “sleeper issue” that's exploding in gubernatorial elections.

If you wondered what was going on with that psychedelics ballot question in Massachusetts, here are some thoughtful and well reported answers www.lucid.news/how-not-to-w...

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

I am eager to become farsighted and need reading glasses because I envision it will turn me into one of those very polished middle age women who put on their glasses and look at something and then peer over them and say something brilliant

I talked to High Times about why most everything you hear about marijuana reclassification is a scam hightimes.com/activism/its...