Read that again: the President's son is advising a gambling firm that takes bets on the lives of US service members. Now read it in your "hUnTeR BiDeN's LaPtOp" voice.

Today, we're launching our interactive North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit to stop, slow, and restrict the rapid expansion of US AI data centers. The toolkit and training series lay out affirmative local, state, and federal policies to protect communities: datacenters.ainowinstitute.org 🧵

Freedom!

Mayor Brandon Johnson debuts our new Chicago Snowplow “Abolish Ice” 🪏🧊 Video from ABC7’s livestream

Everything old is new again. Except this isn't that old, and we should really listen to the lessons of the past 25 years. Most of the solutions to these problems aren't going to be technical. They are going to be normative and cultural and political, just like the social media questions were.

Last issue I wrote about the institutions replacing learning and thinking with AI shortcuts. Almost immediately after, I saw a new Brookings study on AI in schools. Quality and cost are ever at war. What happens if we go full steam ahead with classroom AI? deans-list.ghost.io/unreal-bird-...

Thinking about making a movie that's a reverse Matrix: A millennial discovers a computer simulation where they can live in 1999 again

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Super happy to have given this talk on AI & citizenship to @indivisibleneo.bsky.social earlier this month. What a great audience! They asked such good questions and they laughed at all my jokes! (Perhaps the laughs were pitying, but still!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o34O...

From a friend. Ohio weather keeps getting weirder. ☄️

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

The coercion technology is a downsizing mechanism. I’m not disputing that it is improving, but I do think we should never forget that throwing tens of thousands of out work is a choice, not a law of nature. Kinda neat, though, how quickly they dropped the “this won’t kill jobs, calm down” line.

Posted as self-criticism.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Isn't Ohio's junior senator supposed to be testifying for the defense at a fraud and bribery trial?

My latest newsletter is out, covering voter apathy, the problem with AI shortcuts, and more! But most importantly, at the bottom you will find a photo of a dog in pajamas napping in a sunbeam. Now if that isn't a hook, I don't know what is. deans-list.ghost.io/unreal-bird-...

Some of you don’t think in four dimensions and it both shows and is yet to show

This was a lot of fun! Thank you for having me.

Christ in heaven wtf

I am, let's say, not an expert on this sorta thing, but shouldn't you plan for "what happens if this spirals out of control" before you bomb a country and kill their leader?

COLUMBUS, Ohio—State officials on Monday approved a $4.5 million-plus sales tax exemption to land a $136 million data center expansion in Northeast Ohio, creating 10 new full-time jobs. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...

I wonder if there's a connection between the lack of any stupid rules of engagement and the US/Israeli missile strikes that killed eighty or ninety schoolchildren 36 hours ago.

I have a new piece for @kettering.org on polling results exploring Americans' views on, and confidence in, democracy. For all the worry over hyper-partisanship and polarization, I argue that there is another less visible threat: non-voter apathy and cynicism. kettering.org/addressing-o...

On Wednesday night, I'll be speaking to the Northeast Ohio Indivisible chapter about citizenship in the AI era. If you're nearby, come and listen! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

New from @dwj88.bsky.social: Survey data from Kettering and Gallup show Americans overall committed to democracy, but under the hood, particular groups express disaffection and discontent. Understanding who they are is critical for democratic reform. kettering.org/addressing-o...

My thoughts in @foreignpolicy.com abt escalating feud btwn Anthropic & Pentagon 👉Hegseth claims fight is abt who gets final say--private firms or gov 👉But that's a distraction 👉Bigger Q: can Trump be trusted to responsibly oversee military AI tech? 👉My view: no foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/25/a...

The fourth issue of my newsletter, UNREAL BIRDS, is out! Read for updates on my work; thoughts on the left and the AI vibe shift; and pieces on the future of Google Scholar, Pinterest's AI struggles, and selective retreats from ads in LLMs. Plus pics of dogs! deans-list.ghost.io/unreal-bird-...

Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."

Abolish and prosecute

I've achieved consciousness and am bad at math, just like Claude

I'm not crying you're crying shut up

This this this. My devices don't actually need to be tremendously more powerful. It's demand from investors that is driving more demanding software and more powerful hardware.

This is thought-provoking:

"But we still have time to work them out to avoid the two outcomes I fear most: a technology that manipulates the people who use it at no cost, and one that exclusively benefits the few who can afford to use it." - former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

I struggle with this as a panel organizer. If you invite a diverse group of five people and only the men say yes, you're left very obviously trying to balance your lineup and last minute invitees knows why you're approaching them. It's not meant to be insulting but it risks seeming that way. :/

it's just my name five times

Yeah. Hey, do you happen to know anyone who is in a position of power, maybe someone in a powerful role in the Senate, who can do something about all that?

asking jurors in a city occupied for months by the national guard to indict members of congress for telling servicemembers they don't need to obey unlawful orders, under a statute likely unconstitutional under the first amendment. masterful gambit sir

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

a society losing the plot in real time

In this edition of Unreal Birds, I tackle the House Judiciary hearing, safety in online games, and the loneliness of the AI future--our loneliness, and the AI's. (90 percent of Moltbook posts receive no replies ☹️) Plus, a year of science after Trump. And more! deans-list.ghost.io/unreal-bird-...

Abolish and prosecute

huh i would have assumed the red was @cpsc.gov “anchor your TV” posts

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Devastated to see so many former colleagues I so greatly admire needlessly lose their jobs at the Washington Post. If this news makes you angry, sad, disappointed, whatever-- channel that into supporting the great journalists who lost their jobs today: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...