NEW: Trump's claims that attacks on civilian boats are curbing the drug trade are "laughable," experts say. “We don’t use missiles to address a public health problem,” IPS scholar @sanho.bsky.social tells @nickturse.bsky.social in @theintercept.com. "Being tough is not the same as being effective.”

This is so cool!

AI reads his kids bedtime stories

But it’s worse than that. Because the bill preempts state laws and has no private right of action, it actually takes us backwards. Consumers would LOSE rights we currently have.

"Poll after poll shows that Gen Z uses AI the most and has the most negative feelings about it. A recent Gallup poll found that only 18 percent of Gen Z was hopeful about AI, down from an already-bad 27 percent last year. At the same time, anger is growing..."

Captures the situation well: medical marijuana patients wondering if they can stay in their houses while the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition trade association celebrates “improved margins and stronger cash flow.” www.wgbh.org/news/nationa...

I can’t imagine a worse time to be tripping.🫣

Reminder if you support us to sign and share if you can! ✍🏻 We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and national support against AI. Thank you! openletter.earth/open-letter-...

“Now the company has announced ‘c. ai Books,’ a bizarre feature designed to turn books into ‘choose your own adventure’ novels.”

Good overview if you’re trying to understand the concerns with the governor’s social media legislation by @ampressman.bsky.social, featuring comments by @evangreer.bsky.social and even some parent advocates with questions: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/19/m...

I wonder if some leftists and liberals will pay attention to this. I've seen folks overly praise Rightwing organizing as if it is not subject to the same social forces and interpersonal dynamics as Left organizing. In fact it is: we often just don't have the same visibility into their groups.

Zephyr Teachout signed our letter 😍 In case you need help figuring out what side is the right side of “should we experiment on kids?” Join us: fairplayforkids.org/pf/pause-gen...

Still quietly getting my bearings on this topic, but this piece of it is an important no-brainer. The MA Data Privacy Act should have been passed first, before we got to the social media issue, and second best thing would be to pass it now.

As someone with a long career being proven right on things, I am least looking forward to being proven right on this one. That said, proud to be one of the authors of this letter and I hope you’ll sign on

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

AI and the classroom: for me this summed up the entire argument

If you’ve ever sat in an airport food court and thought, this isn’t dystopian enough: you’ll love the new restaurant Wonder

When I tell students that sleeping with your phone in your bed is a sign of addiction, very wide-eyed expressions wash over their faces. It’s the most sincere tell that they are thinking and reflecting on their own values and behaviors, realizing how normalized it’s become to sleep with surveillance

I can't tell you how disappointing this is in a single post, so for those who choose to resist talk of inevitability, here's a resource:

WIN: The court ordered the Trump Admin to temporarily halt the federal government's illegal attempt at strong-arming schools into sharing students' private data. This decision makes it clear: Trump can't threaten higher ed institutions into providing student data within their rushed timeframe.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Chinese government decides to regulate AI from the right to personal likeness, child safety and addiction angles. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

But I was told that AI was inevitable.

We'd like to legalize marijuana. "EEK! Potency limits! 1,000 ft from a school! Rigorous ID checking! Nothing that looks like gummy bears! Only eight companies can grow it behind bars with 24/7 cameras!" We'd like 24/7 unfettered access to your children's brains. "Oh, of course. Go right ahead."

probably more people will be blocking attie than ICE by the end of the day tomorrow.

“Mom, what were you like in the 90s?” “Don’t worry about it”

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

Googling “was jersey mike’s bought by private equity” because my bread is a little stale

The Sora implosion is the first big breakthrough moment with AI that gives Metaverse vibes, or at the very least Dot Com Bubble vibes.

Y’all can react how you want, but I’m going to take joy in every win against tech oligarchs, no matter how small it seems.

Meta promised to make all messages across their platforms (including Instagram DMs) end to end encrypted by default. Now they're doing an about face and removing encryption from Instagram DMs, probably because they want to use your messages to train AI and make money. This will get people killed🧵

NEW: Lawmakers in 16 states introduced bills this year to cap how much time students are allowed to use laptops in school, or which apps schools can use The ed tech industry is pushing back, insisting educational screen time isn't the same as recreational screen use www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

There was a time when Patch hired one reporter per community, and they actually went out and covered stories. This is an abomination. #journalism www.cjr.org/feature/hype...

I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

Among the many nauseating aspects of this story, Google is using its philanthropic arm to foist its products into schools, with the intention of creating a “pipeline of future customers.”

Writing this Ten Black Heroes list for High Times felt like a love letter to the movement, just the way I want to remember it. Thank you to everyone on it. hightimes.com/activism/ten...

The really naive move of the past 20 years was to entrust the private sector with the direction of public education—and to assume that the purpose of school is to prepare kids for that sector.

“At every point, invasions of privacy don’t just risk revealing something intimate about you to the world, they shift the balance of power toward whoever holds the most data”

From our paper (w/ @smw.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social) in 2024:

NEW: The Trump administration is planning to use AI to write federal regulations despite the risk of hallucinations. “We don't even need a very good rule,” the Transportation Department’s top lawyer said of the plan, per meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. “We want good enough.”🧵

And it's boring! If you are writing or speaking to the public about AI, leave these cliche intros out: *It's "here to stay" *It "presents both challenges and opportunities" *It's "unavoidable" *It "can be a tool but it has risks" Just skip to whatever you have to say that's interesting.

One takeaway from this event for MA parents: the state is only providing recommendations, so if you want to have input into decisions about AI in your kids' school, you should be contacting the administration and organizing with other parents to talk to your school site council and school board.

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

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...