It’s not about the burritos. This year’s spread of Cyclospora – better known as the ‘explosive diarrhea parasite’ – is a symptom of federal budget cuts and a scary vision of how America deals with a health crisis in the future. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: buff.ly/3ZYSuUK

Was about to write this but @julieroginsky.bsky.social did it first: "Any television network with an ounce of integrity should refuse to carry Trump’s address live." They should delay, then fact-check the hell out of it, providing context, i.e. journalism saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-medias...

CHI 2027 will be in Pittsburgh, and the deadline is 57 days away. @chi.acm.org #IYKYK

“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

But, but, it will "connect on a humanlike level with users"! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

After publishing 3x in 2024 with DeepMind researchers who I still deeply respect, I had to cut all ties in 2025. That was when Google walked back promises that in 2018, as a Google AI ethicist (yes I know), were described to us as ‘red lines’ never to be crossed for any sum of profit or power. 1/2

If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.

The plan to put half of AI company's equity into a "sovereign wealth fund" is like a parody I would unfairly make up to criticize socialists enamored with sovereign wealth funds in 2016.

Are the networks going to carry this Thursday speech that all reports indicate will be one giant lie?

This from @noupside.bsky.social is sadly relevant again since Trump is going to broadcast his lies and distortion for the entire country (and world) to hear: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/five... He is following a playbook to steal the midterms. I don't know if we're prepared for the aftermath.

"But its timeline isn't clear." <-- It's as if @wired.com has never covered a Musk product development announcement before.....

Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.

I see I’m going to be writing another “here is how they IC leaders are lying to you” article this week. There was interference in the 2020 election. China, Iran, Russia all messed around at the margins. It was not even close to what happened in 2016 bc platforms, researchers & govt were vigilant.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

"We Must Address the Growing Rage Against the Galactic Empire" By Darth Vader

absurd. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

When they gave beginners a dedicated track, they felt more capable and avoided harassment. And the track only lasted for a couple of classes before the two integrated into the general program. Here's an article on what they did to improve gender balance from 4 years ago:

"The Department of Motor Vehicles requires Taco Bell outlets to have fresh sour cream." That makes as much sense as this.

"Apple accused Tang Tan, OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and a former Apple executive, of coaching his hires from Apple on how to evade Apple’s security processes for departing employees." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

It's been a long year waiting for the Trump phone. Finally, after exhaustive research, interviews, and hands-on testing, I can officially confirm: it sucks

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams did seem to break her non-disparagement clause when she wrote Careless People. But Meta's bonkers campaign to silence her shows that her criticism of Zuck & Co is well grounded. www.wired.com/story/metas-...

The SCOTUS decision in Chatrie v. U.S. is one of the most significant Fourth Amendment rulings in decades. In a new analysis, CDT's Jake Laperruque & GU’s Katelyn Ringrose explain what the decision means for digital privacy, location tracking, & government surveillance.

The story in a nutshell. 1. Qatar bribed Trump with a large aircraft. 2. Trump spent $400 million in taxpayer money to make it luxurious. 3. It is insecure for use as Air Force One. 4. He intends to keep it as his own when he leaves office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

You had me at “nazi tattoos”

Sigh.

Reviewer 2: "Comments on Reddit are not representative." Me: “Neither are convenience samples of 200 Psych 101 students, yet we’ve built entire literatures on them.”

Calling all Critical Computing scholars! Shaowen Bardzell, Katie Seaborn, and I are seeking community definitions of "critical computing" and parties interested in contributing chapters to a handbook of critical computing. Please use this form: forms.gle/8fFmu6JBdg4L... Due: July 20th

The astonishing grassroots protests against data centers give us something new: a mass mobilization focused squarely on protecting American hometowns from oligarchic exploitation. trib.al/ZmYJrPA

powerful energy, one cannot deny it

We’ve updated the description of the Information Society book series at @mitpress.bsky.social to better reflect how the series has evolved and where it’s headed. We have some exciting books in the pipeline and are always interested in hearing about new projects. mitpress.mit.edu/series/the-i...

By his own admission, he had no idea what a red card was, but he knew -- better than the ref, better than FIFA -- that what Balogun did did not meet the standards for getting a red card, which, again, he had never heard of before. This is like watching JD lecture the pope, but more corrupt.

I spy

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

100 years ago.

White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US

Tracey Chapman, Talkin’ Bout a Revolution (1988) *Written when she was 16!! youtu.be/tBLcaPYVSWo?...

DOGE fed grant descriptions into ChatGPT and rubber-stamped the outputs. A court said that's the government's own conduct — not the chatbot's. Jordan Ascher explains why the decision is a landmark for AI accountability.

This same fight is emerging in Milwaukee right now, with ICE openly defying a city ordance barring law enformcenet from wearing masks.

Excited to see this new guidance on conducting ethical network research now out in Network Science. Social network studies raise unique ethical challenges around consent, privacy, and identifiability. Glad to have played a small role in contributing to this effort. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I agree this is the most dangerous, by-design feature of LLMs.

There's been a surge in Milwaukee this week.

As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.

So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>

For non-academics: the reason this is nuts is that graduate students virtually NEVER take the courses they TA for, because they're UNDERGRADUATE courses. I too TA'ed for a bunch of courses in grad school and didn't take a single one of them. None of the courses I TA'ed for was even in my department!

More on Chatrie … cyberscoop.com/supreme-cour...

Do people who've never lived in Washington have a sense of how titanic a labor it is to get the Mall this empty, especially near the Fourth of July? Normally the monuments and Smithsonian would look _carpeted_ with tourists right now. Even 'Gigli' didn't chase people off like this.

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

when it zoomed out I gasped

The operation, codenamed “Cannes” and run through contractor Covalen, was active as recently as April 2025 and involved fake underage accounts, disturbing images, and adversarial prompts specifically designed to bypass safety guardrails.