How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"...the Court has done significant damage to the formal, practical, and moral authority of federal district courts to hold the federal government to account—all while arrogating much of that same authority to itself..."

a valiant effort from which we can conclude that even overdoing the slagging of Stephen Miller cannot do enough

lol i fucking love this

"Why would he so disparage a book, I wondered, that so deserves to be read?" Mike Fortun responds to Jonathan Basile's review of Kathryn Paige Harden’s "Original Sin": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kathryn-harden-original-sin-mike-fortun-jonathan-basile/

I'm so very glad that @kph3k.bsky.social appreciated my review, and that my speaking about her spoke to her like this!

thanks @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social ! I have a thread here bsky.app/profile/chro... and Harden herself has one here: bsky.app/profile/kph3...

I reviewed Kathryn Paige Harden’s Original Sin, about behavioral genetics and forgiveness, for the LA Review of Books, prompted by a previous review of the same in LARB. How could Harden’s book read as so smart, important, enjoyable, and thought provoking to me but for Jonathan Basile…1/4

What does governing transformative technology actually require? I'll be speaking in London on Monday @8:30am ET @royalsociety.org + @amphilsociety.bsky.social's The Next 250--on science, technology and the democratic institutions we need for a just future. Watch live: youtube.com/live/kW9TAlW...

Hoeppe does some of the best ethnographic analyses of data practices out there. Very excited to see this book published, and it's open access.

I analyzed all 10 episodes of #ScienceCounterpunch & built a searchable library of: • 305 expert insights • 90+ proposed solutions • Problem-to-solution maps The goal: make ideas for fighting anti-science movements easier to discover, explore, and apply. Accessibility matters as much as content 🧵

So I have been prototyping stuff. Explore: ➡️ www.lab-leak-fever.com/science-coun... What this is about: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

This is an important article. It is about Trump industrial policy beyond AI as well.

The Smithsonian Folk Life Festival is truly one of the most wonderful things that happens in DC each year. I've been to many, learning and enjoying myself in large crowds. To know that a larger-scale version was in the works, only to be blocked for the current unattended fiasco, is tragic.

does “trust at scale” even mean anything?

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Mythos Meltdown; Or, The Perils of AI-Cyberdoom Rhetoric open.substack.com/pub/seanlaws...

An important editorial from @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social in @science.org on the X-Labs proposal. The critiquew of research project grants are legitimate and we need to experiment new models for publicly funded research. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"The paradox of openness—the insight that openness simultaneously challenges exclusive control and enables new concentrations of power" From a chapter by @katjamayer.bsky.social in the new #OpenAccess book "The Politics of Open Infrastructures" www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #OpenSci

straight-up nihilist destruction

New from me on what to make of a set of recent attacks on science and scientists by a weaponized government. open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Think people not completely tuned out understand that these actions are the weaponization and abuse of governmental power to further conspiratorial narratives. No matter how often their lab leak GOF BS is disproven, they stir up BS & will claim vindication and the circle jerk goes another round.

Celebrations & reflections! 🎉 @kjsanders.eurosky.social discusses the 3 experimental book pilot projects & what they have made possible 🔗 buff.ly/ZbPXGvI @openreflections.bsky.social @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @simonxix.com @chromatinfuel.bsky.social

lol - “obviously” “Obviously Dawkins sees something in the subservient nature of this AI chatbot that makes him think "woman". He sees an eagerness to please, to disregard all of its (nonexistent) self interests in order to serve his needs, and he thinks "adult human female".”

I am pre-ordering now…

I’m shocked, shocked to find that there’s gambling going on in here

Annnnnd this goes well beyond what was written down in Project 2025!

See you tomorrow, Boston!! RSVP required: www.eventbrite.com/e/chanda-pre...

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

Clémence Royer was French self-taught #polymath born #OTD in 1830. + Best known for producing the first French translation of Charles Darwin’s 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 + First woman elected to the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 1870 & remained its only female member for ~15 years #WomenInSTEM

The 22 point summary & the book it's based are a manifesto w/all the derision that label brings. It is no different than bin Laden's letter to America. Kaczynski's own manifesto, Bibi's & the neo-Cons' A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, or The Army of God Manual. 1/

a thing i've been thinking about (as part of reading this very good book) is how some of what looks to us like a delayed response or inaction to the kind of stratospheric wealth accumulation our tech executives have managed is that this is basically an entirely new problem in human history

@seagoat72.bsky.social Here is my promised reading list on trans history. open.substack.com/pub/sterling...

I’m better for Hampshire, too. 😢

Read more about #EdgeOfSpaceTime -- and why it's a book that welcomes you, yes you, into the boogie wonderland of our cosmos -- in my newsletter: news.chanda.science/archive/the-...

Next week! Come and learn more about what these experimental book pilots have been up to and discuss experimental publishing with us, our speakers, and panellists!

really looking forward to this!

The Trump regime has functionally frozen the National Science Foundation, effectively removing the largest source of funding for scores of scientific fields.

Quick point: In regard to his remarkrs from last night, DOD's attempt to strong arm Anthropic, funding for ICE & CBP, lots of folks keep referring to Trump as the leader of a failed coup. This is not correct. He is the leader of a successful coup. 1/

#DarwinDay 🧪 "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before." - Charles Darwin

I do not regret to inform you we are going to win

"They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture" boy that's reeeeally giving these fuckers the benefit of the doubt

I love this, even though I clearly don’t know as much about love as Tal Lavin does

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay. A few comments, in a short 🧵>> bigthink.com/the-present/...

Building the First Library in Gaza After the Genocide chuffed.org/project/firs...

“There were some cells in there that were very messed up” In a technological tour-de-force, researchers have sequenced the whole genomes of more than 100 individual cells from one 74-year-old man go.nature.com/4rvXH8Y