Deadline extended! Join EFF and the Queer Arts Collective in building a creative space at the intersection of digital justice and artistic expression. We're looking for works that convey the importance of digital liberation and ways of achieving it. Submit by July 10! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Trumpsky rejects the Stalinist paradigm of "socialism in one country"; embraces internationalist strategy of permanent revolution ✊️🚩

Christ on a cracker. @isaacbutler.bsky.social have you seen this.

I love our mayor

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

For any Yalies who might see this, please join me in signing on to Stand Up for Yale's campaign. They're doing more than a petition but there's also a petition. Tell Yale: Don’t cave to Trump Administration demands.

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

I mean, look, in fairness to the AI industry, if you set aside the part where they eventually start charging for this stuff, and the disruption to the internal staffing of companies that use it that happens in the meantime, and the environmental consequences of needing massive new electricity /1

Holy mackerel this is insane. LLMs have a strong bias toward *their own* 'writing' to real writing in sorting tasks. iow human submissions automatically drop to the bottom in LLM sorting tasks. Resumes examined here with jaw-dropping results arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00462

Behold, the future

It was a pleasure to work with fellow amici @pw.org, @electricliterature.com, @anniedorsen.bsky.social, @authorsguild.org, and @dramatistsguild.bsky.social to share how artists and organizations who were harmed by the NEA's viewpoint discrimination. You can read the brief at the link above.

Another super important thread for arts and culture workers

This thread

Here is a truly helpful piece of writing from @genevievelakier.bsky.social.

It is completely insane to me that people use these things.

Is there anyone over at openAI even considering that they might be the bad guys?

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

HEY! FELLOW NEW YORKERS! You an author? Your book been banned? Has it been banned somewhere in New York State? Please do this survey to help Authors Against Book Bans et al gather data on the extent of book ban issues in our state: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... everyone else: please boost

Wish there was a mode of politics in this country that wasn’t “slow and easily preventable car crash you can see is going to happen from miles away but can do nothing to stop”

really good piece

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

At the AI For the Public Good conference at UNC. Currently speaking: Chief Economist for OpenAI and Head of Geopolitics for Anthropic. The mere existence of these positions feels like a pretty good argument for nationalization. (AGI mention count: 2 so far.)

"The first audience for your art is becoming a machine." I suspect this phenomenon is way under the radar for most artists/institutions I know...from Douglas McLennan today. (Don't think I see the great opportunities here that he does. But I always support looking for them.)

The corruption here is staggering. Stunning to read it all in one place.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

AI systems are now making decisions about you — who gets hired, whose content gets removed, whose voice gets heard. My new paper finds something concerning: LLMs infer your ethnic identity from subtle textual cues… … and use it to discriminate against you. 🧵 1/

perfection

the way we live now

I thought going to an authoritarian petrostate where critics of the government are routinely rounded up, detained, and tortured would be so fun, because they have nice hotels and pools. But it turns out it isn't so fun for me, personally, anymore.

Obama made a deal w/ Iran to stop them from getting nukes, but Trump backed out of it bcuz he wanted to own Obama For a year, Iran kept following the deal anyway, begging Trump to change his mind. Iran then began work on nukes again Now Trump is threatening to attack Iran bcuz “diplomacy failed”

Welp: “We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization... Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.” arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16800

If you are in NYC March 18 come one and all to @bambrooklyn.bsky.social to experience the brilliance of Dr. @safiyanoble.bsky.social irl (and as bonus you'll get to experience me admiring her).

Why do people hate ai? It’s a mystery for the ages.

Remember this feel good hit from 1968? Something about it just hits different today...

Without the original ChatGPT accidentally tapping into the ELIZA effect, LLMs would have remained a curiosity, with extremely niche backend applications. But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.

art but make it dog

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

Am late to this very good piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social

I wrote something new!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

This is disgusting, cowardly garbage. Let trans women play tennis. Everyone who entertained 'just asking questions about men in women's sports' should understand that this was never, and is is not, about sports, but pretending it was sure did pave the way to erasing trans people from public life.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

We just opened up more slots for our Manhattan training this Saturday, November 22! We’ll discuss the moment, offer skills training such as know your rights & ICE watch, share organizing strategies, and connect you with your neighbors and so you can start getting organized locally! Register here:

the New Dark Age (h/t @jamesbridle.bsky.social)

AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw" And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.

Artists and writers! It's not too late to get something going for Fall of Freedom, a nation-wide wave of creative resistance taking place on Nov 21 & 22. Over 450 events in 40 states are already planned. See more info here:

What if Mephisto but no soul to begin with and dumb as rocks