As AI shapes what we see and believe, truth is under strain. @daniellecitron.bsky.social explores accountability in the AI age—how data systems amplify inequality and distort trust. See her at Datapalooza 11/14 hosted by @uvadatascience.bsky.social datascience.virginia.edu/events/datap...

SF: Please be on the lookout for this missing boy, esp in the Forest Hills area: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

"social media essentially breaks down echo chambers. I can see the views of other people...That’s where a lot of the felt hostility of social media comes from. Not because they make us behave differently, but because they are exposing us to a lot of things" www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c... (June)

Just posted on @ssrn.bsky.social: a draft of my Foreword ("To Keep Government Generally Within the Bounds of Law") for the Harvard Law Review & @tamu.bsky.social Center on the Structural Constitution Symposium "Judicial Review in Jeopardy?" Abstract here, link in next post. Feedback welcome.

Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028. politi.co/3WN7A3T

And now we know why the shutdown is ending.

"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️ www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks. So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.

Armstrong said he “envisioned ‘the IVF clinic of the future’ powered by a ‘Gattaca stack’ of technologies—a reference to the 1997 movie depicting a dystopian eugenic future—combining embryo editing and genetic screening.”

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

All I got from President Reagan was this :) That we might revive such awards for 100 sit-ups seems silly…

A case I litigated in the Court of Appeals is at SCOTUS today: I think it’s fascinating. Assume a plaintiff sues a Texas and non-Texas entity. The defendants remove to federal court. The district judge keeps the case on improper joinder grounds: the Texas entity shouldn’t have been sued. /1

Breaking - Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon wapo.st/4qHsi2S

In the face of this cruel government shutdown, we’re taking another significant step to protect Maryland families and children: I’ve signed an executive order releasing $62 million to help Marylanders who rely on SNAP benefits put food on the table.

Absolutely infuriating. And NOT a business decision.

Many thanks to the editors of the U Chicago Law Review! Link: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

!!!!! pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is one of many experiments designed to replace human-generated writing with LLMs. But Ryan McGrady says its defining feature is its use of technological power to re-exert top-down authority over information and knowledge. Who is Grokipedia for, he asks, other than its owner?

Honestly, anyone who has spent time with actual real life Black people would have clocked those AI SNAP videos as fake from the jump. It’s very revealing about everyone who was fooled.

Ugh. The right wing bullshit machine is pumping out and amplifying fake videos (Sora, AI) of Black people talking about SNAP benefits, videos oozing with racist stereotypes, to justify / distract from the real human suffering that the SNAP suspension is going to cause. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMqbgpgj/

I’m glad that Scott can get help from the White House. Now, what about the millions of other Americans facing steep, premium hikes who also need assistance?

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

If you're at all interested in the direction technology is taking us legally, politically, economically, or socially, I urge you to listen to this @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast from @justinhendrix.bsky.social talks to @rcalo.bsky.social about his new book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Two quick thoughts on this: -This isn’t an either/or choice. Dissenters usually create a division of labor. Eg, “you conciliate, I rage.” -That Kagan deleted something late in Biden makes the Chief’s op a lot more reasonable/understandable. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Starting in a few minutes with @brendannyhan.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social and Amy Wilentz for Safeguarding Democracy Project webinar: ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi... "Media, Social Media, and the Changing Election Information Environment in 2026" Join us!

Unless I'm missing something, this seems pretty straightforwardly unconstitutional.

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

Every time.

Now reading: “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Written in 1921, it was the first book banned by Soviet censors. Zamyatin eventually emigrated to France, likely thanks to Gorky putting in a good word for him with Stalin. “We” is sometimes called “the Russian 1984” because of similar themes

“Was it Google, Meta, Microsoft? Anyone who knows can't say. Tech companies argue the secrecy protects proprietary information and even national security. But critics say it just keeps the opposition quiet. But in St. Charles...” podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/c...

Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.

why, that's a *steal* for the smart piss ball, and I can't wait to find out how much the monthly subscription for the piss-sniffing service costs, and it'll be so useful, and I won't mind the occasional leaking of data on my leaks until the inevitable shutdown day, when my piss ball is sadly bricked

The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.

Come December, the task of enforcing Australia's first-of-its-kind law banning kids on social media will fall to regulator Julie Inman Grant, who is bracing for battle with Silicon Valley's most powerful companies, Rebecca Kern reports for Tech Policy Press.

Learn from graduates why #UVALaw is No. 1 in Best Classroom Experience for law schools. at.virginia.edu/2zasEVV

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

I’ve had an incredible first week sharing my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Keeping A Democracy with friends across the country. Next up, San Francisco. a.co/d/0GGCiHU

Really not going to get into it, but in 2025 it should be obvious that giving creepy-ass companies more data on you, even data you consider *innocuous*, is a very bad idea. The aggregation of said data, the assumptions made about you, and how that will be used to your detriment are well documented

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

So now Mark’s creeper specs do what they are intended to do and the company can claim users are circumventing the “guardrails” and violating the TOS. Everyone gets what they want, except for the rest of us, who get screwed.

An amazing story of this decade was the ADL turning all its fire on Israel critics while tech companies dismantled their censors and Hitler-lovers came roaring back.

“…studies show disproportionate targeting when algorithms flag ambiguous matches. Cross-jurisdictional data-sharing also raises fears that local data could be repurposed for abortion or immigration enforcement, even in sanctuary or privacy-protected states.”