Today the last person at risk from the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius completed their quarantine, tested negative, and returned home, @drtedros.who.int said in @who.int presser. "We are therefore very pleased to say that WHO considers the outbreak of hantavirus over.""

me describing bsky: "life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, growin like a breeze" a normal person: what

To use a cricket metaphor, this offside rule totally stumps me

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

Claude code is stenographically marking location information in its prompt to help Anthropic profile users by where they (appear to) be located thereallo.dev/blog/claude-...

It's launch day for ON COURAGE! Maddow: “INVALUABLE. A CLASSIC OF OUR TIME.” In the dark early days of Trump II, @juliaangwin.com and I were interviewing dissidents on 5 continents, learning what Americans could do to save our republic. Where books are sold: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

What do the plain words of the 14th amendment even mean? With much sympathy and respect to our legal scholar colleagues, the entire legitimacy of legal scholarship is not guaranteed.

Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026

Had a chat with @yangxifan.bsky.social from @zeit.de about Anthropic, export controls, and AI policy. And no I don't speak German :) www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Mcllwain now tells the story of Black women early computer visionaries. he describes Julia Beale Williams imaginary 1980s piece, "Computer Magic" and warns "but you won't find her work on the Internet" #FAccT2026

Walked into the conference room, see @cmcilwain.bsky.social's keynote slide already set up with giant bold title, "Why Whitey Is _Still_ On the Moon" — "Oh this will be *good*." #FAccT2026

At #FAccT2026 Charlton McIlwain is on 🔥

I didn't get to ask my question for the Canadian AI Policy in a Global Context panel at #FAccT2026 so hoping it can be answered on here. Re: @cohere.com's current and/or past partnership with Palantir. What has Cohere learned from choosing to partner with a company complicit in human rights abuses?

Can we be candid and say this has been an insanely scary authoritarian week in America? Obscene SCOTUS rulings, activists sentenced to a century in jail, a blank check for the ICE regime. How’s it that so many in the US still haven’t grasped how to respond to these conditions? A few thoughts 🧵🧵🧵

Check out our #FAccT2026 tutorial tomorrow on Bridging Predictions and Interventions in Social Systems! We're going to be building a predictions - interventions index to track ADS systems, evaluations, and gaps therein. Bring a device; I'll try to bring worksheets too :)

This paper received an Hono(u)rable Mention at #FAccT2026

At the first #FAccT2026 keynote and really appreciate that the screen has the speaker, the slides, an ASL interpreter, and closed captioning. We've come a long way.

"Chaps, I have had a go at re-writing the paper" is going to stick with me for a long time.

Ask how many more shifts they’d let a surgeon work after a week in which they severely harmed 12-15% of their patients

Yeah you're not allowed to use AI to make your life easier. You can only use it to help us replace you. Clear?

This is a very good analysis of how the review process for grants actually works.

"Knowledge wants to be free" is an unofficial motto for Interconnects and related projects like my book :) rlhfbook.com/course

Genuinely baffling to ascribe all of this policy to Trump himself, when he clearly does not care or know much about science policy outside of a few issues (wind turbines, notably).

Excited to attend FAccT 2026 in Montreal this week! Let me know if you'll be there and want to catch up :) I'll be presenting a paper with @allisonkoe.bsky.social about ad delivery skew in the context of government advertising, come by and check it out!

1\ New paper out in FAccT 2026 @facct.bsky.social #FAccT2026 ! 🥳 Grateful to have worked with this team, and had the opportunity to combine my interests in fairness and the science of science. Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....

This feed built with love by your local #FAccT2026 publicity chair and #1 fan of @graze.social. If you're interested in fairness and ethics of tech, then like, subscribe, and enjoy all the paper threads and discussion!

I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

Note that @reniebird.bsky.social also runs the (already very) successful CNTR summer school on AI policy: don't miss out on the extensive expertise you're getting from this group!

If your policy ideas are incompatible with the current political climate, I'd argue that it is the **perfect** time to get them prepared for the next Congress or the next presidential administration.

Policymakers by and large don't read academic papers! If you're looking for policy impact, you need to show up. First you need to learn _how_ to show up. Excited to cohost this #FAccT2026 craft session with @rone.bsky.social, @narijohnson.bsky.social, Cynthia Bailey, and Danaé Metaxa.

This is an interesting case study in highly non-interpretable decision making. Yes there's a paper that explains the formalization of the quota, but it's very tricky to rationalize.

This is very concerning

GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents. Aka GLM-5.2 is the “DeepSeek moment” for agents. We enter a new world where the top end of agentic capabilities are available in open models. www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-...

Mona Khalil, who protected endangered sea turtles for two decades, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. Through her beachfront bed-and-breakfast, she transformed a stretch of the coast into a refuge for turtles, guarding nests, rescuing hatchlings, and teaching guests about conservation.

Domagoj Bradač gives a tight exponent for the smallest n, such that any graph on n vertices has either a clique of size s or an independent set of size k. For fixed s and large k, n is k^{s-1} up to polylog factors. A major result in Ramsey theory.

Federal AI policy may get most of the attention, but state public utility regulators are making decisions that will shape where AI energy infrastructure gets built, who pays for it, and how quickly it comes online. Deborah Glosser provides a primer on how those decisions are being made.

I wanted to embrace this op-ed, but it largely ignores the Silicon Valley AI hype and magical thinking of the last 2-3 years, and then concludes by expressing relief at the prospect of returning to it. That hype, which at times borders on dishonesty, also sowed distrust and anxiety in the public.

With a course offered this past spring semester, professors and students alike have begun grappling with the role automated AI agents have in teaching students the basics of software development.

Analysis of the jailbreak of Fable by someone who was asked to review the report. Indicates that the jailbreak allowed Fable to find deliberately planted vulnerabilities in test code that other models could find without jailbreak. Prompts were defensive in nature www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fab...

Do not ask for whom the bells fee, they fee for thee. -- Donald Trump

Has your Nation ever lost 7-1 to Germany at the World Cup?

Look at those otter toe beans! 10/10

The preprint is out! Bipartite Perfect Matching is in NC, by Abhranil Chatterjee, Sumanta Ghosh, Rohit Gurjar, Roshan Raj, Thomas Thierauf eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2026/... #MathSky

This is very kind, and I only saw it six days after it was posted. When I write things down or give non-research talks, it feels like shouting into the void. I have no idea if anyone hears it, cares or values any of it. So comments like this are genuinely surprising and inspiring

I can hardly overstate the impact that Seny's thinking has had on my approach to research. He writes about cryptography but the lessons apply to computer science much more broadly

Since we’re all doing Anthropic/USG takes, I figure I’ll insert mine: Export controls are a terrible policy tool that seldom effectuates the outcome the government wants. This particular use of export controls (no foreigners allowed, period) tortures any rational understanding of “export.”

Also, like, a technology that’s mature enough for the Department of Defense to demand it be allowed to use it for making targeting decisions might be ready for some oversight.

Your car is spying on you, and sends the data [location, acceleration, etc] (potentially every few seconds) using its built-in SIMs. True of all new cars starting in 2018. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Anthropic just shut access to Fable & Mythos, their most powerful models. I wrote up what happened + the policy and psychodrama behind it (with all the links & receipts) here — the thread below is the TL;DR 🧵 blog.geomblog.org/2026/06/the-...

This is a fantastic summary