Beautifully written and well worth the read.

The terms under which American AI tools are deployed in warfare are being set by some men in a room, with no democratic input and no durability beyond the next change in political winds, Kat Duffy (@rightsduff.bsky.social) writes.

(1) The Anthropic–Pentagon standoff isn’t mainly about AI, surveillance, or defense contracting. It’s about the exercise of executive power — and what happens when that power bypasses process. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/anthropic-pe...

What's next in the fight between the DOD and Anthropic? Join us on Wednesday, March 4, to hear from leading experts @adamconner.bsky.social, Frank Kendall, and @rightsduff.bsky.social. https://www.americanprogress.org/events/whats-next-in-the-fight-between-department-of-defense-and-anthropic/

excellent discussion of the DoD-Anthropic situation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social @rightsduff.bsky.social & @amostoh.bsky.social - highly recommend

1/ The dispute between Anthropic and DOD over the limits of using AI in warfare is escalating. I’ll have more to say on what these limits should be in a @brennancenter.org report out next month. But for now, here’s what you need to know, and what’s truly at stake 🧵: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

Please support Molly’s vital work. She’s been core to shaping policy for the better, grounded the discussion for so many technologies in facts instead of fantasy, and done work that billion-dollar media orgs have overlooked. Independent tech journalism is more crucial than ever.

If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …

America's digital empire has a trust problem. U.S. hyperscalers' future may depend less on the commercial deals they strike and more on their commitment to protect the democracy that made their global dominance possible. My latest for @wpr.bsky.social www.worldpoliticsreview.com/us-hyperscal...

One year into Trump’s second term, foreign nations are increasingly skittish about their dependence on U.S. tech companies, Kat Duffy (@rightsduff.bsky.social) writes.

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

A recent attack on Anthropic represents the dawn of a new era for AI agents in cyberattacks, Kat Duffy (@rightsduff.bsky.social) writes.

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

If editors were ever to unite as a group to demand recognition and pay raises for the mission critical role they play at publications like, say, The New Yorker, Politico, New York Magazine, or Esquire — well, today would be a good day for that. Tip of the hat, ya’ll. SMDH.

Hell is EdTech

BREAKING @knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended. 1/2

A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA. I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better. She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Exceptional, important, and well worth the watch. Come for the defense of free speech and stay for the turtle.

While terrible, this is entirely unsurprising. If you hold serious safety efforts in contempt, this sort of thing is inevitable.

Not the Ghana Must Go bag being appropriated and sold for $3000. 🙃 I just…🤷🏾‍♀️

Someone behind me is arguing intensely that 7×5 = 35, and I am so curious about the origin of this fight.

I’m out of words.

One of the tiny but great joys in life: a cookbook you’ve used so often and loved so well that it effortlessly flops open to your favorite recipes. ❤️

New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

It remains staggering to me that, in the absence of meaningful penalties for the people at fault, this has simply become a part of ordinary modern life.

Periodic reminder that Trump decimated the National Park Service’s staffing and budget, and the GOP imposed a $1 billion budget cut on D.C. municipal services. That why garbage wasn’t being picked up!

OSINT folks, the bar has been raised

"I fear that in unleashing A.I. companions, we may be making it easier for our loved ones to avoid talking to humans about the hardest things, including suicide. This is a problem that smarter minds than mine will have to solve. (If yours is one of those minds, please start.)"

Thinking about the DC takeover in light of Jan. 6. How will the next legally required transition of power go?

We already have good answers on how to reduce gun violence, infant mortality or climate change. The problem is too many people have a vested interest in the problems being unsolved. It isn’t because we haven’t invented smarter than human AI. When we do, we’ll ignore it too.

The most unrealistic aspect of War of the Worlds has gotta be that everyone is just out there answering Teams calls with no issues. Can you imagine how awful it would be to navigate the end of the world…on TEAMS?!??!

This is not the slightest bit surprising and it began prior to Trump coming back to power. As the idiot AG of Missouri was pursuing Missouri v Biden, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal sued me and my colleagues with the same forum-shopped judge and plaintiffs. Wake up: it’s a machine.

If I’d taken a shot every time I wrote the word “multistakeholder” (or some derívate thereof) today, I would - well, I’d be dead, probably. Very dead. Terrible way to go.

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if you're writing a story about "trump threatens to federalize dc," it's really worth including the fact that there is no mechanism by which he can do that, and perhaps noting what he might have been referring to instead (deploying the natl guard? presidential control of MPD?)

Paging @waldo.net. I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. 🤢

What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Heading out on a weekend trip to camp visiting day and I have two novels, a full manuscript to review, and about 40 reports queued up, because I may possibly have six entire hours of reading time combined. Clearly this makes sense.

This is the type of GOOD news I'm here for in 2025. Congrats @dwillner.bsky.social and @samidh.bsky.social!

"I'm calling on VOIP through a VPN"

Ofcom tomorrow morning.

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

I wonder how many of us, with giant email backlogs on our In boxes, have figured out that postage stamps were congestion pricing for message-sending?

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋 Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

The comments 💀😂

If you wanna get HAMMERED, I give you this drinking game: take a shot every time Claude responds, "You're absolutely right!"

Trolls, they set the tone for the party! 🐸 2016 is oddly memory-holed. That the WH is wholly debased (based, they’d say) at an official comms level is I guess new. Why are memes effective propaganda? Bc the audience gets to participate, and that *activates* and commits. That part gets left out.

I've done a silly thing and I'm (mostly) happy to introduce you all to blahg, an ATProtocol blogging application that supports long-form content, attachments (images), and backlinks.