"To use pickaxes is to be cognitively and physiologically shaped for various modes of understanding. Telling this story, and remembering it actively on the ground today, is an act of “taking notice” and “avoiding oblivion.” This is truth as unconcealing." www.seattleu.edu/technology-e...

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I laid out a tech agenda for Mayor-elect zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that resists surveillance and extraction while advancing his goals for affordability, dignity, and justice.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Unions, Lawsuits and Whistleblowers: Public Sector Leadership from Below Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation. montrealethics.ai/state/

You can now search our database of 1.7 million Community Notes on X. The database contains every Community Note that has ever been produced, even those that are not yet publicly available. notetracker.socialmediadata.org

Everyone is talking about AI. It's obviously having a transformative impact across all sectors of society. So how should the Canadian government approach it? My interview with Yvonne Lau for the @financialpost.com financialpost.com/technology/c...

Character.AI plans to stop offering chatbots to users under 18 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/t...

Authors’ class action suit against OpenAI moves forward www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had adopted a new for-profit structure, a long-sought change that could allow the business to operate like a more traditional company while it raises the billions of dollars it needs to develop artificial intelligence."

Geliyor!

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

For the last 7 months, I’ve partnered with @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org to launch Vital Lessons, a series of free national town halls on key topics in public health. Last week, we found out this series was awarded the Gold Medal by the Academy of Interactive and Digital Media. Real impact!!

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply. www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

@vinguptaofficial explains why Tylenol is safe for pregnant women to take, despite new guidance from the White House that claims it's linked to autism without clear evidence.

Yet another thing that will completely destroy the actual existing model of 🇺🇸 higher education. The lack of loud, urgent collective action by university leaders to educate the public & generate pushback on all of these awful policies continues to be glaring.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Turkey had a vibrant political satire culture going back to Ottoman times, and one that survived the 1980 military coup and the generally awful 1990s. Official censorship and private-media self-censorship under Erdoğan destroyed much of it. Mockery of officials on TV is unimaginable today.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

A conversation in the hotel elevator between an elderly couple and me: -Are you with the tour? +No; the political scientists are gathering. -I hope you guys make good decisions. +We study other people's bad decisions.

this is obviously a very big deal for justice & accountability in brazil. it is also a victory for the kind of rule of law & democracy jurisprudence the inter-american court/commission on human rights have been promoting for at least the last half-century.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Looking over the Epstein book messages, I'm struck by how comfortable everyone was with compiling something like this, contributing to it, and receiving it. Something most people with common sense would avoid like the plague. But the super-rich and powerful know how insulated they are.

CDT’s @isabelalinzer.bsky.social explores when political speech by influencers becomes something more — raising urgent questions about transparency, regulation, & information integrity. A must-read for anyone tracking the evolving implications of speech ^ election integrity. cdt.org/insights/thi...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.

The 2024 election cycle saw artificial intelligence deployed by political campaigns for the very first time. Candidates largely avoided major mishaps, but the tech was used with little guidance or restraint.

The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.

An American's Guide to the EU AI Act papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... With @aselbst.bsky.social

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September. Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.

Here's our breakdown of Trump's AI action plan, from slashing regulations to warring on DEI & easing data center buildouts www.techpolicy.press/unpacking-tr... via @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

The 90+ organizations supporting a People's AI Action Plan all have concrete, actionable ideas for an AI agenda that furthers the interests of everyday people and challenges the tech billionaire agenda we’ll see from the White House. Learn more about them: peoplesaiaction.com

Exclusive: Stargate, an effort to supercharge the U.S.’s artificial-intelligence ambitions, has sharply scaled back its near-term plans.

Why politicians need to get over their tech insecurity— We need elected officials who see tech policy as central to their job, not a specialised niche. We need public debates… www.ft.com/content/36eb... @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

This is junk science that will hurt people: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zohran Mamdani on Imam Husayn, Ashura, Karbala, and fighting oppression, even against the odds. "To stand up for justice... often means doing that which is difficult." Powerful:

Annnd @xai just deleted Musk's new prompt which told the Grok LLM to "not shy away from making claims which are politically incorrect, so long as they are well substantiated." That prompt seemingly caused the LLM to become Nazi 4Chan, and has now been deleted, but other recent changes remain.

It was such a wonderful experience hosting colleagues from around the world.

“I think there is a new sort of ambient animosity towards the AI systems. AI companies have speedrun the Silicon Valley trajectory.”

In a stunning reversal, the Senate voted 99-1 this morning to strip from Trump's big bill a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. Gift link to my story on how it happened and who's celebrating: wapo.st/3TOyiaG

Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo concedes to his upstart rival Zohran Mamdani in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary

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