The California lawmaker is on his second attempt to pass a first-in-the-nation AI safety bill. This time, it might work.

How AI safety took a backseat to military money

Interesting news.

Science is so cool

We all put ourselves in tribes, and those can blind us to the truth. But few of us truly live with abject hate in our hearts. Encourage your neighbors to keep looking at what’s happening, find kindness as they realize, and help them feel welcome to make a better choice in ‘26.

The Albanian government announced expanding the use of an AI assistant system to control procurement, during a contentious session of parliament last week. Among other comments, the virtual assistant argued that it will be more moral and fair than humans. qz.com/ai-albania-c...

Watching this master class with @mcbride.house.gov again and being reminded that the culture war that gets clicks is generally not what the average person lives with... and how we can reject hate and restore grace to build a new big tent. youtu.be/KlbNFsAGFRc?...

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

David Letterman on Colbert and Kimmel, you can't suck up to an administration that is authoritarian.

No one should ever get shot. It’s absolutely atrocious. And it’s terribly frustrating that it takes “one of their own” to make the gun maximalists wake up start talking about it. Let’s not try and offload this to political rivals or dunk on Kirk’s quotes. Let’s do something about guns.

Large language models are powerful, but still not trustworthy enough to outsource critical tasks to them. What happens if it invents false facts? If a charge is challenged, can the officer (or defendant) blame the AI? 1/

It is difficult to not consider the rhetorical effect of any action by this renamed department now being “an act of War.”

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide. (Published 2023)

An anonymous federal police force that answers only to the President and has nation-wide jurisdiction. What could go wrong?

Lest we forget, these are still relatively fragile demonstrations of a powerful but still unpredictable new technology.

The US and the world need thoughtfulness around the development of this most revolutionary technology. I fear giving AI the Grover Norquist treatment is in the best interest of neither AI nor humanity. @garymarcus.bsky.social would love your take 😅

What the actual fuck

I do not understand a viewpoint that thinks Miller and the current White House are rational and reasonable.

Tell us you’ve given up innovating without telling us you’ve given up. This is a little embarrassing

Big props to Rep @jamestalarico.bsky.social for a level, sober breakdown of the facts of what’s going on.

Y’all gotta keep getting louder and louder or this will not stop.

In the commercial world, having 0 experience can be overcome with insane time invested and some grit. If you fail, you've wasted investor money. In the public sector, learning on the job destroys public institutions, and failing costs more than a few $$. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

More public data! Such a cool project

Just run across the site yesterday while looking at infrastructure options for a project that I’m working on. Really nice collection! I found some services that I otherwise don’t think I would’ve come across.

If the end boss accountants are distressed enough to make a statement, you know it’s time to listen.

Renewables keep trucking along. You love to see it happen!

www.wsj.com/business/ret... The only difference between mined diamonds and lab ground diamonds is marketing, and, to be frank, not paying a company built on human misery. web.stanford.edu/class/e297a/... If you truly love your partner, buy lab-grown, and not DeBeers.

It will raise energy cost in every state while choking new power investments to death, ensuring China wins the race to dominate new cheap power production technology and supply chains. Dumb in every way.

Felt like Billie Holiday was singing straight into our souls. A stunning performance from Lola Rose at the BKA Theater in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 #🌈📷 #dragqueen #queer #germany #photography

A problem with contemporary “serious” news media is this compulsion to treat obvious nonsense as a story to deeply dissect and analyze. “In the next two weeks” just means “I don’t know today stop asking.” It’s one of his personal flavors of responsibility avoidance. www.npr.org/2025/06/20/n...

No anonymous government. If you serve the public, you do it in public.

If Leavitt is correct that Americans don’t want to see people attacking cops, and that Trump is pursuing the enforcement of law and order through the country, why did the White House pardon thousands of people who rioted and attacked cops just four years ago?

In the face of news and global events, the #solarpunk community is a happy shining little light. If you’d like a little balanced abundance, appropriate tech and intentional ecological harmony in your life, I put this together to help engage with Solarpunk content on #bsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

Way back in the years 0-2024.

An incredible resource.

Sean Duffy blaming Donald Trump for not fixing the FAA during his first administration wasn’t on my bingo card this morning.

The US government getting it from Qatar, on conditions it’s a gifted to Trump at the end of his presidency? We need a word more than “ridiculous.” abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Those crazy alchemists finally did it www.home.cern/news/news/ph...

What in the Grok is this sassiness coming from ChatGPT? I’m actually mildly disturbed if they’ve started trying to give it a “personality”

If a politician, agency or government refuses transparency, we have to expect grift and go investigate. Congress needs to start doing its job again. How does the GOP think it’ll keep any legislative mandate in 2 years at this rate?

Revolutionary discoveries so often happen when researchers put on new “glasses” and look at a problem space in a different way. Or in some cases, from three perspectives!

Congress needs to nut up and get rid of these losers.

All the fanciest ladies are riding the bus, why aren’t you?

I feel like the numerologists and worm theologists should get together on this one.

Yvonne Nightstand, serving behind the scenes at Halt’s Maul Live 2025 in #Stuttgart #rpdr #photographers #🌈📷 #drag #dragrace #dragportraits #portraiture #fotograf

Sometimes you have to celebrate the silver lining. Like a saboteur of democracy, a hapless enabler of AfD’s rise, being finally embarrassed out of politics. #Wahltag #Brandmauer #ByeLindner #Deutschland

There’s so many other ways to find joy in life that don’t include recreational killing. Rediscover the 4 year old you that would have cried if you saw someone kill an animal, and lift that little one back up into your soul 🥰 #vegan #dobetter #growup

Metamorkid at Halt’s Maul Live! 2025 in Stuttgart. #photography #🌈📷 #drag #portraits #fujifilm #RPDR

Bitte Wählt! Es gibt so viele Möglichkeiten das richtige Alternative zum Faschismus bringt. Bitte entscheiden Sie sich für Optimismus, Respekt und Gerechtigkeit für alle Menschen und die Umwelt. #Deutschland #🇩🇪 #Wähltag #Brandmauer #Zukunft #Umwelt

You don’t only do the right thing when you know you will win. You do the right thing, always.