Elon Musk and xAI's Grok got suspended by Indonesia because the country not only has -- but will actually enforce -- a regulation that tries to protect people from having their images used in rampant AI generated CSAM / NCII, apparently... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/i...

Even more broadly, large organisations need to think very carefully whether they should be encouraging employees and customers to engage with them in any way on a platform where there is industrial scale production and distribution of CSAM and where the owner has shown no interest in tackling it.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Look forward to being at this wonderful workshop at the University of Virginia biocomplexity.virginia.edu/event/2nd-an...?

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

So horrible!

Influencers get artist O1-B visas. Nuts. “High follower counts and big earnings can be used to establish commercial success, landing a contract to promote a brand can qualify as an endorsement of talent and being featured at a store opening could be considered starring in a distinguished production”

Wishing everyone a joyful, peaceful and prosperous year ahead!

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Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown

almost New Year Eve. I’m reading @rabihalameddine.bsky.social marvelous book The True Story of Raja the Gullible.. And it’s such a pleasure to read. the best book I’ve read this year #yearend

Context: @brian-goldstone.bsky.social is author of a powerful 2025 book about the human face of "homelessness": 'There is no place for us.' Hampton Inn (and others) should change their policy. Everyone should read Brian's book.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Megacities in southern India are attracting enormous investments to help build A.I. infrastructure to serve the world’s most data-hungry country.

Merry Christmas everyone!

A new executive order directs the US Attorney General to challenge state laws regulating #AI. Big Tech companies have been lobbying to have one set of federal rules. Here’s a look at some of the initiatives that states have takenn: buff.ly/4e2LYuS By @asusarla.bsky.social

Similar thing for me and the NICU. Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet. These people are deeply unserious. Signed, another economist who generally likes markets

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

Loved this piece from @yashicadutt.bsky.social I belong to IIT educated Indian diaspora. At the same time, I lived in a small village in South India in my high school years which gave me a window into a different set of life experiences yashicadutt.substack.com/p/zarna-garg...

Florida #AIBillofRights meets the Blueprint for an #AIBillofRights 🤝 Safe and Effective Systems 🤝 Algorithmic Discrimination Protections 🤝 Data Privacy 🤝 Notice and Explanation bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill...

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Folks should stop platforming this hateful person (whose entire comedic shtick consists of regurgitating tropes about Indian-Americans).. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-bigge...

Medical case study of a woman who developed AI-associated psychosis notes that sleep deprivation played a significant role (I've seen that too!) and that the woman found GPT-5 "much harder to manipulate" innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...

New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature. How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP

This is so scary.. www.wired.com/story/kids-i...

I have written about the different types of state level regulations for @us.theconversation.com Potentially this could set up states' efforts on a collision course with Federal courts or with future executive orders .

Happy Thanksgiving

Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!) Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Insurers are now seeking to exclude AI from corporate policies because the risks are too unpredictable and liability is unclear. This is a signal: we cannot rely on insurance markets or tort law to protect against AI harms. We need actual governance and policy.

I’ve spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being. But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta’s causal findings regarding social media harm. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I'm finally reading this book - very impressive and exhaustive account based on careful research! Please read it..

isn’t this really about an older person not wanting to be upstaged by a younger and charismatic person so he will be very nice to him..

We need new versions of classic movies like “his girl Friday” to make journalists‘ and reporters’ jobs look great

Finally here! I've been working on this article for a few months now. Whatever podcast clips are ubiquitous, spreading truly vile misogyny everywhere online. But almost nothing is known about the show. Well, I aim to change that. My investigation. www.salon.com/2025/11/21/t...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I am old enough to remember the movie Ring (about a cursed videotape that causes harm to whoever views it) was considered to be a horror movie #algorithmicliability #AIsafety

Maybe one could term this poetic justice ..

Posting from the next workshop: Image Integrity in Research: Detecting Manipulation and Embedding Trustworthy Practices, led by Matt McCoy @proofigai.bsky.social , who shows a 'Hype cycle of his career" 😂 LLM as a tool -> LLM as an analyst -> LLM as a scientist? github.com/HKUST-KnowCo... #AIMOS2025

A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook-owner Meta is not a monopolist in a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong looks at some of the key arguments in the ruling.

Meta isn't a monopoly, a judge ruled today, because it competes with YouTube and TikTok. Story by @naominix.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.

the new Frankenstein movie offers great parallels to the current top down discourse around AI

Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:

In my latest for @forbes.com I look at the complex energy demands from the race to build bigger and better AI models. We need a conversation about energy gentrification, sustainability and impacts on regional economies. www.forbes.com/sites/anjana...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Tell me you don't understand risk pooling and adverse selection without telling me you don't understand risk pooling and adverse selection..

Comprehensively covered here americanliterature.com/author/ts-el...

The next online installment of ESTIMATE: The Reduced Form is coming on Dec 11-12. I've continued to unify and expand regression-based methods to apply to exit, non-binary treatments, DDD, discrete outcomes, and more. All proceeds to the MSU economics PhD program. econ.msu.edu/academics/es...

I wrote a skeptic's guide to how to use AI, out soon. Readers know I don't suffer fools -- or AI hype merchants -- gladly. I regularly write about the bubble that's formed as a result of their grift. But AI *does* have utility. You can pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782388...