Total outages in Boston now up to 51,389. Reporting live from the Dedham House of Pizza, in Dedham Center, which has power.

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Drove through Albany and man that city is not doing itself any favors. If they elected me mayor, I'd change the name to Hudson Valley City. The area is really nice!

@proffnes.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy and Scott Cambo will be presenting our Mobile Network Traffic data at #ACM #SIGCOMM this summer. If you've ever wanted to study what information is flowing in and out of Americans' mobile phones, this is for you. conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2026...

Did you hear the story of the one man $1.8 billion business built by AI as portrayed in the @nytimes.com? Turns out basically every aspect of that story is bullshit and the story should be retracted.

Yep! Come one, come all (university-based researchers). We have free data sets on Americans' mobile app usage, browsing history, use of generative AI, and online search. It's all very sensitive data, so you have to do a proposal, sign a DUA, and use our enclaves. It takes time to get going.

👇 Cool opportunity for mobile data from @jsradford.bsky.social and Northeastern's National Internet Observatory nationalinternetobservatory.org/researchers.... Of interest to @icamobile.bsky.social 📱 Thanks to @qinli0.bsky.social for sharing! ❤️

Heroes. Quite the effort and dedication on this one. Unfortunately, not an easily repeatable process for most researchers looking for access, but can hopefully inform lawmakers.

“Kid Rock” is the alternate name for Epstein’s island …. 🤣🖕

One thing I’ve been thinking about this week: Improving the flow of information between practitioners/policymakers and researchers, particularly in the public safety space.

Surprised I haven't seen anyone try to connect the dots between Larry Ellison's new media empire and the eventual need to bail his Cisco out if the AI bubble pops.

I’m trying to post more about what’s top of mind for me, over on LinkedIn. (I know, I can’t believe it either.)

I'm sad to say after 40 years of living I only now see the purpose of putting ornaments on a tree. Each year, we take the old ones out to revisit the memories they represent and find new ones to place among our little pantheon.

Interesting seeing UVA put a $10M/yr team together on alumni donations and go to the ACC championship the next year. Under NIL alumni donations make elite teams possible. (Not that it wasn't that way before, but $10M only went so far when you could buy coaches, staff, and facilities.)

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

I’m a campus sexual violence researcher and I started thinking about this in the context of traumatized students. Extensions are horrifically bad accommodations for survivors. They aren’t going to “get better” in a few days. And that means extensions pile up, pushing the survivor farther behind.

Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey and they could imagine video calls but not the always-connected life of text messaging. Main character is telling the kid "tell Mommy I called". Tech as simple as texts shape how we stay connected moment to moment in ways people didn't imagine.

How does one’s religion play into their grade? God said isn’t a good enough citation. Which one and under what context would have been my feedback? Sorry.

Status report: new Alexa does not understand 6-7

I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network, etc just to make a point

People point to the overwhelming leverage in AI as evidence of a bubble. There is more debt than revenue can ever pay (without step function growth). But credit has propped up failing Internet businesses for years. Tech invented the credit-financed hyperscaling-to-enshitification pipeline.

NYTimes was also aware a staff writer was a close friend of Epstein - who had been offered incriminating photos of a Presidential candidate - and chose instead to spend the next decade on totally unjustified, frankly delusional, propagandized coverage of trans people and their doctors as “predators”

We know we're in an AI bubble and it will burst. So policy makers should start planning for it. Ask electeds for their bubble resiliency plan. How many people will be impacted in our area? What will the unemployment look like? What will we do with unused data centers? All the energy infra?

Getting out at the top of the bubble like...

"In 1950, Davis turned down an offer from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) due to loyalty oath requirements ... [He] refused to cooperate with the House Unamerican Activities Committee and was subsequently dismissed from the University of Michigan." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandle...

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

Held a No Kings for the kidoos 😎

If you attend a No Kings Day event, please record the number of people in attendance in our crowdsourced crowd-counting sheet. We prefer official estimates above ad-hoc counts — if you count yourself, pls be conservative (people are bad at estimating crowd sizes). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Overheard on the way to #nokings "This is the first thing we've done together. And we've been neighbors for 22 years"

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

Join Jason Radford (@jsradford.bsky.social)on Thursday, Sep. 25th, for a virtual session on how to translate your research into a new venture and find the right path to address real-world problems through your work. Register here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mfn9bpcd

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

“FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those 3 states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did DC. More than 1.2 million live in those cities, including more than 900,000 in Ohio alone. Yet that state’s National Guard is being deployed to DC to protect the capital’s 700,000-odd residents”

Reiterating that this strategy is duplicating the example of concentration camps in 1890s Cuba, when Spain forced residents to evacuate contested areas and congregate in approved detention sites, eventually killing more than 100,000 civilians—primarily through starvation, malnutrition, and disease.

For journalists, researchers, & others tracking the judiciary: This was a slog to get running, but I've built a data pipeline to track these rulings from court dockets. I'm making the dataset public today. It will be updated regularly. Hope you find it useful. Explore the data here: bit.ly/45dh8ZG

Who is Arrested by ICE under Trump 2.0? A 🧵 New from me & @elizabethacox.bsky.social! Piece: immresearch.org/publications... 1. ICE arrests spike in Jan & May 2025; when arrests increase, percent of those arrested who are convicted of a crime falls Majority arrested have no criminal conviction

Alexa, why do expensive restaurants serve duck?

The @cakeresistance now has merch! There are aprons for our fellow bakers, of course. Plus stickers, shirts, magnets, pins, hats, tote bags, and more. www.redbubble.com/i/apron/The-...

At #trustcon and it's interesting to see how short the development cycle in Trust and Safety is getting. The time between identifying a new threat, to new policy, to effective detection and intervention is getting so much shorter and efficient. Still not seeing a lot of proficiency numbers though.

#TrustCon day one reflections: 1) #AI safety is a thing the whole industry are grappling with and an area where fast moving product deliver is causing real challenges for safety teams.

#trustcon is a go 👍

Very pleased our paper looking at the diffusion of complex contagions is out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cool "micro-sabbatical" opportunity for tenured or tenure-track faculty at GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics (IDDP).

Whoa! 😳 Thread.

Had a friend on FB post about how she has trauma from giving birth and it prevents her from having another even though she wants one. I just want to say to anyone out there living with trauma, there are effective treatments for the anxiety and depression you experience. You can make it go away.

When someone says they made money in crypto, they likely actually made their money provided liquidity for money laundering. See when I build a business, I make money selling a thing. I get rich because people buy a thing. But with currency, the thing people are giving you money for is other money.

If you want to influence the AI adoption process, listen up: As a startup person this is how it works. You build a thing that does a job but then you have to figure out what all jobs it solves for everyone else. If it doesn't do a job, people stop buying it. So if you're at a uni, here's what you do

I'm deep into old comedy and omg Joan Rivers was a f*n riot! I would kill to go watch one of her shows live now.

I’ve reposted my remixable Graze feeds for y’all to easily split your Following feed into three separate entertainment, lifestyle, and politics feeds many times and I don’t think a single person has tried it. It’s so easy and makes social media so much less stressful. I promise!!