I believe Shellenberger knows this is BS, not only because of the reasons Renee outlines below, but because DHS doesn't just jump up and do things whenever a former President has an idea. "Obama said it and they did it" is a pretty weak influence op anyway. Also, classy of him to block Renee.

Do you care about social media policy? Do you care about video games? Have you ever wished you could combine those interests? Not only can you, you should! Tune into this discussion on September 29 with @nyusterncbhr.bsky.social and @cdt.org www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstream...

Political assasinations killed Weimar democracy. Each one normalized violence and justified further reprisals. The Nazi anthem celebrated the murder of a young activist by communists. Kirkʼs murder, and those making light of it, can only help accelerate 🇺🇸 fascism. 🕊️

This is the weirdest PIP I've ever heard of www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Seem to recall when the Biden admin was (misleadingly) accused of putting pressure on social media companies to change their editorial policies (most of which were rejected) we were told by a large segment of the population (and a few judges) that it was the worst violation of the 1st Amendment ever

I get that Gary Kasparov has to write a regular column but that's no excuse to be credulous about right-wing censorship claims. I mean maybe you think it's fine to encourage assaults in bathrooms, that's your POV, but surely speech has bigger problems RN www.thenextmove.org/p/britains-f...

I watched the DSA and OSA "Censorship" Hearing in the House Judiciary Committee today so you don't have to. I have some questions. A 🧵 of my internet lawyer, free speech expert, First Amendment scholar ponderings, to no no one in particular: Why are we here? 1/

Oh the tech companies impacted by these laws are American. But, um. So? Why does it matter if the EU makes laws about speech that "affect" American tech companies? Countries have rights to make laws about business done and products sold and services rendered in their country! 3/

When Jordan says "Take my country back" was treated as hate speech, what he really means is the phrase appeared in a hypothetical scenario planning exercise adjacent to harassment of a Muslim 16 year old.

The House Judiciary Committee is pulling a real Orwell today, holding a hearing on European threats to US innovation and free expression... While ignoring dramatic cuts to government research budgets, attacks on universities, and widespread efforts to silence critics.

The House Judiciary Committee is pulling a real Orwell today, holding a hearing on European threats to US innovation and free expression... While ignoring dramatic cuts to government research budgets, attacks on universities, and widespread efforts to silence critics.

For Nigel Farage to sit in front of Congress and compare Ireland to North Korea--a country where thousands languish and die in labor camps, punished generationally for opposition to the regime--is so patently offensive as to be disqualifying.

This is a great piece, which gives a name--"hype illiteracy"--to one of the most distressing (to me) elements of our current era of AI speculation. www.techpolicy.press/expanding-hy...

Springfield's Haitian residents deserve so much better. www.rooster.info/p/springfiel...

Voting officials are leaving their jobs at the highest rate in decades "This is in alignment with the challenges, burnout, threats and harassment that election officials are facing" -Rachel Orey, Bipartisan Policy Center www.ideastream.org/2025-08-20/v...

Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.

Friday’s Warm Sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio

Someone with more time than me start selling "Deep State Subs" t-shirts for this guy's legal defense.

Parenting hack: Don't tell your kids about the internet

"The officer who was struck with the sandwich did not appear injured"

Look how else are they going to pay for those $50k signing bonuses

Popular persuasion is the only durable form of power. All the progress based on corporate well-meaning was always fragile and is now collapsing in real-time. If your neighbors don't care, no one cares.

How are you coping with the ills of the modern age? Stages of pterosaur decomposition. Tag yourself.

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Doctor Doom solves your second-act problem.

A cartoon by Patrick McKelvie. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

This picture makes it look like Grover is running a serious presidential campaign and I'm here for it

I really hate the line that Epstein is the “thinking man’s QAnon”. It’s smug, inaccurate, glib and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how the two entities interact with each other and with reality. The Epstein case involves is a real criminal conspiracy with dozens of actual victims!

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

“The loudest complaints should be coming from Trump’s protectionist advisers. By their logic, tariffs are about building up US domestic capacity. Trump, by contrast, is using them for whatever takes his fancy. And boy does he fancy strongmen.” My column. www.ft.com/content/9a76...

I would never write about this with such absolute confidence but these are important points www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

For years, research and advocacy on social media Trust & Safety have assumed pressure from employees and the market will pressure companies to adopt best practices. Today, this is manifestly untrue. My latest from @techpolicypress.bsky.social #Trustcon www.techpolicy.press/a-realist-pe...

@dwj88.bsky.social and I on this threatened action. www.techpolicy.press/three-questi...

If Epstein is the thing that breaks Trump's base--and I'm not yet convinced it will be, online chatter is not representative--then we really have to ask why it's that and not corruption, ineptitude, broken promises, etc. The grifted demand more grift?

I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

Not 100% sure why the Mamdani thing is a story.

Such an important point - and something too many people ignore when thinking about progress in history. While it is correct that there has been tremendous racial and social progress in U.S. history, tens of millions of people lived their lives experiencing little of it - or even mostly regression.

🧵On Tues, the Senate passed Pres. Trump’s bill. In it is $175bn to enforce Trump’s anti-immigration agenda & room for billions more for his other priorities like new tech for DHS. Our ED Emily Tucker spoke with @techpolicypress.bsky.social ‬about the bill: www.techpolicy.press/republican-b...

Measures in GOP budget bill signal may a new era in AI-powered government surveillance — opaque tech means basis for law enforcement actions against individuals could become "very difficult to unwind," @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social tells @techpolicypress.bsky.social.

The 2026 Republican budget- set to pass this morning- supercharges DHS with billions for AI, surveillance, and data analytics technologies. Expect lots of new tech but no new safeguards. Systems funded to crack down on immigrants may also be deployed to crush dissent and erase privacy.

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Welcome to the new world of mega-funded American surveillance. The powers being brought to bear against immigrants will strengthen with time, and won't stop with immigrants. My latest with @justinhendrix.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social : www.techpolicy.press/republican-b...

Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did

Re-upping this today. No particular reason.

When my editor has some notes after I've blown the word count again.

A stage play where a young Senator Marco Rubio debates Secretary of State Marco Rubio

This is not how the government of a healthy, prosperous, free society behaves.

won't someone think of the rich

Can conversations with ChatGPT reduce confidence in false beliefs held by both Democrats and Republicans? A new wave of research is exploring the persuasive potential of generative artificial intelligence platforms, Natasha Goel writes.