AI hype is everywhere. Recent guests on the Tech Policy Press podcast are studying this phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, building out a line of inquiry they call "Hype Studies." They want to understand the social and political dimensions of tech hype, and what it portends.

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300 habeas cases in which the govt has violated court orders. An interactive database, by @katherinepomps.bsky.social & @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org of @lawfaremedia.org www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

Great video. An interview with @jakelaperruque.bsky.social by Channel 5 youtu.be/vSmKgwh0YeM

Folks, I give you the New York Times

CENTCOM isn't on Bluesky, so I'm screengrabbing from Twitter. But while maybe this is a mistake, it seems like the type of outright lying/attempt to deceive the public we've been seeing from other agencies under Trump 2 that really has not been a thing in the past few administrations.

A new lawsuit today asks a federal judge to end a recent policy shift at DHS, under which ICE agents have used their own administrative warrants to force entry into peoples’ homes without sign-off from a judge. It brings together three families whose homes were raided and claims clear 4A violations.

You lose any skills you don’t practice. Thinking is one of those skills. Do not surrender your brain to AI.

I mean… this isn’t even a C-

Yup - PCLOB reports have a valuable resources from a multi-member independent agency This BethCLOB report is a weak attempt at oversight cosplay from one person who's never taken FISA abuse seriously and just wants to curry White House favor Adds nothing to the debate, not worth taking seriously

“Across the U.S., 74% of people said they are worried about the privacy + security of their personal data when it comes to what info the govt has & how it is stored, according to survey findings released Tuesday by CDT."

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding. Who know what buttons to press but not why those buttons exist."

Big news: ICE now has spyware, the agency's acting director confirms.

NEWS Trump’s DOJ appeals a federal judge’s ruling protecting Anthropic to the Ninth Circuit. buff.ly/Q0BuVHT Background buff.ly/3Qo1ZMc

They will not stop unless lawmakers force them to stop.

Interesting to see how understanding of tech issues are evolve as they move into mainstream: Misidentifications based on facial recognition errors has been an issue for nearly a decade, but this is the first time I've seen it described as an AI "hallucination" www.forbes.com/sites/larsda...

WATCH: CDT’s Jake Laperruque on NBC News on the negative impacts of facial recognition technology, in response to the latest reports that a woman was wrongfully arrested after an AI facial recognition tool falsely linked her to bank fraud:

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Once per week the smartest minds in finance all decide to use goldfish brain to react to a new White House promise that despite all evidence to the contrary the Iran War is about to end

New blog post from me about warrants to AI companies, based on a guest lecture @mailynfidler.bsky.social kindly invited me to give to her Digital 4th Amendment class today plus the very fun IAPP panel I just did, moderated by @jakelaperruque.bsky.social: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/applying-fed...

Absolutely critical item to read on the FISA 702 debate that’s looming before Congress right now: The FBI is trying to claim their warrantless queries of Americans are way down. The truth is these numbers are incomplete, and queries haven’t been logged or audited as the law requires.

Thomson Reuters, known for the Reuters news agency but is a data broker, powers ICE tools. Includes a system Palantir made for ICE, according to former Palantir employee. DHS sources also believe Thomson Reuters data in ELITE, the ICE tool for targeting neighborhoods www.404media.co/how-thomson-...

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

Himes now claiming he’d know “pretty much in real time” if there were surveillance abuses, defends Trump by name. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

NEW: Palantir is piloting a tool at IRS to control tax audits. by @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

“even though Donald Trump’s been president for five years, and he has never abused the program — I would know it pretty much in real time if he did — even though that’s true, people don’t trust Donald Trump,” A shockingly and false statement from Rep Jim Himes on warrantless spying. Here’s why…

In D.C.? Attending #IAPP? Come see my "ChatrieGPT" panel, 3pm Tuesday! And if you're going to @cdt.org's Spring Fling Monday night, see you there! iapp.org/conference/i...

"Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship" (Executive Order 14149) going well!

I think about this tweet more and more each day

@darthbluesky.bsky.social is that you?!?

LICE on the march in DC

few people care about this thing that i am taking the time to read, screenshot, and post to tell them not to care

Your data is already out there. What happens next? Join us Apr. 2 for a book discussion with GW Law’s @profferguson.bsky.social on surveillance, AI & justice. Lunch included. Book signing after. 📍Tasher Great Room, 12–1:30 PM. Register: calendar.gwu.edu/event/book-t...

Bitcoin drops back below it's spike that occurred after the 2024 election If you bought Bitcoin in Nov 2021 it would be worth the same amount today. But if you bought in Dec 2022 it would be worth 4x as much, and if you bought in Sept 2025 it's now worth half as much Totally legit, normal currency

A very Trump 2 sequence of events here: 1. Trump creates problem 2. Senate resolves problem, exercising constitutional authority of Congress 3. House GOP rejects solution 4. Trump takes unlawful steps to "solve" problem, seizing the rightful authority of Congress with the assent of the House GOP

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

The White House’s new national AI policy framework appears to suggest certain harms are an acceptable cost, writes Sydney Saubestre from New America’s Open Technology Institute. That is a choice—a choice about whose reality gets treated as a policy problem and whose gets treated as an externality.

Oh, come ON

CPAC speaker: How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? Crowd: *cheers* CPAC speaker: No. That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again...

Great writeup from @joelancaster.com on Trump's about-face against the FISA reforms he campaigned on Neocon Don: Bringing you warrantless FISA surveillance and open-ended war in the Middle East 🙃 reason.com/2026/03/27/t...

i went into this expecting the medical grievance denial rate in federal prisons to be in like the 70–80% range after crunching the numbers, i found that 98% of the 66,000 medical grievances lodged between 2014–2024 were rejected by BOP; less than 1,000 cases were granted relief in 10 years

BREAKING: Anthropic wins an injunction barring federal agencies from carrying out Trump’s directive. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Facial recognition error leads police to arrest the wrong person, Fargo edition: www.biometricupdate.com/202603/fargo...

!!"6 Dem lawmakers are pressing the nation's top intel official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use **commercial VPN services** risk being treated as foreigners under US surveillance law—a classification that would strip them of constitutional protections." www.wired.com/story/using-...

🔴 LIVE NOW: Join our conversation about Section 702 of FISA and surveillance and the press, featuring @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, John Dickas, and @trevortimm.bsky.social. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMP8...

Project Hail Mary: A man wears glasses like this then gets forcibly ejected out of the solar system

I think there is something to this, but also a lot of effective impact on policy has always depended (and I think still does) on having thorough and well-developed ideas ready for moments of opportunity. Develop smart policy on the fly is too slow, and slapdash responses often aren't sustainable

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