CONGRATULATIONS to DR. @lucas-wright.bsky.social for defending his PhD on the political economy of trust & safety, disinformation, and copyright! Lucas's talk asked: when gov regulates tech, who decides the meaning of policy and how policy affects people's lives? His answer: compliance vendors

Yesterday Bluesky went down. @eurosky.social servers worked but we couldn't communicate as we don't have an app. Our next step is to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. We're raising €100,000 to build a European app backend supporting 100k+ users. Let's do this fund.eurosky.tech

The whole #ijf26 squad! An amazing team of talented people who’ve been making @journalismfestival.com one-of-a-kind for 20 years.

This reminds me of an old idea I had: There are SO MANY startups that have done lots of A/B tests that have never seen the light of day. I've thought about creating a small fund to buy the A/B test archives of bankrupt tech companies for pennies and contribute them to science.

"For this series, we initially developed two basic questions: - Why is it vital to value human creativity and connection in the age of AI? - What could be done to create a human rights approach to AI?"

The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment See MOOCs, and now AI Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

The Tech Team at ACLU is hiring! We are looking for a Data Scientist with expertise in NLP and AI ethics to work on using language tech to support ACLU's mission. Come help us tackle questions about how AI systems can be carefully applied to support the public interest. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

We are proud to launch the Alliance Fellowship Program and inaugural cohort of fellows! The Program includes scholars from across the country and is an investment in the sector's infrastructure, designed to bridge the gap between scholarly research and systems-level change. 🔗 bit.ly/4vpDx2t

"Prediction without political will," from OEDP's Fieldnotes on AI Senior Fellow Shannon Dosemagen looks at how AI can help surface environmental risks, but can risk deepening harm. 🔗Listen to more here: substack.com/home/post/p-... #OpenData #AI #EnvironmentalJustice #Stewardship #Health

Clarifying article by human rights expert Mathias Risse: "Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions prohibits "acts or threats of violence whose primary purpose is to terrorize civilians."" "To name an act... is to make a moral claim on the conscience of the world" www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

I dare Christian leaders to follow the example of Jesus and consider spending at least equivalent time with people who have been harmed by AI as they spend with the people making these technologies www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Are you in the Chapel Hill/Durham/Raleigh area? Are you interested in the science of AI & tech governance? I'm at UNC Fri April 17th for lunch and would love to gather with a wider group that afternoon in Chapel Hill (1:30 - 3:30pm or so). Share your interests below! forms.gle/V5qtJiwUEZcf...

The Quiet Revival report was retracted after YouGov acknowledged problems with bogus survey respondents. In this NYT story, I comment on why the initial report got so much attention. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/britain-christian-revival-survey.html?searchResultPosition=1

Are you in the Chapel Hill/Durham/Raleigh area? Are you interested in the science of AI & tech governance? I'm at UNC Fri April 17th for lunch and would love to gather with a wider group that afternoon in Chapel Hill (1:30 - 3:30pm or so). Share your interests below! forms.gle/V5qtJiwUEZcf...

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Last week, I rode out to the Hudson River and stopped by the boyhood home of W. E. B. Du Bois in Great Barrington MA. It was a beautifully-peaceful place, and I'm so glad I took the time to pause and reflect.

White House: “Only President Trump knows what he will do, and the entire world will find out..." @dgraham.bsky.social: "This view is legally, morally, and practically disastrous." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Time to prepare for the backlash.

Why did OpenAI shut down Sora, and what does it mean for the future? For forensic researchers battling disinformation, it's both a relief and a stark cautionary tale for an industry moving too fast, write Sarah Barrington and Hany Farid. There are lessons for platforms and policymakers, they say.

Tech makers assure parents that child safety AI keeps kids safe. The open secret? No one can say how well it works - a supply chain of ignorance that puts lives at risk. New w/ @camillefrancois.bsky.social @mmitchell.bsky.social @yjernite.bsky.social Vinay Rao www.techpolicy.press/why-ai-model...

We are launching a new approach to our mission of amplifying the voices of those underrepresented in the digital sphere: Global Voices Spotlight. Each month we will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions. #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/04/03/a...

Are you following the Artemis II launch? Christina Koch, one of the astronauts, is the first person to edit @wikipedia.org from space! @sarahagilbert.bsky.social & I told her story and others at Wikipedia's 25th birthday celebration in NYC last Saturday citizensandtech.org/2026/03/disc...

Hello- I am looking for scholars currently at UK institutions who teach any kind of philosophy from any part of south or central America

🧵 ACM just responded to NIST's RFI on benchmarking AI: current AI evaluation best practices have critical blind spots. Our feedback to their RFI on automated benchmarks flags 4 major gaps that could undermine safety claims and regulatory compliance. Here's what we're saying.

Last month, the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology hosted a Symposium on my new book "Chilling Effects". Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ApG... Amazing lineup incl: @daniellecitron.bsky.social @zittrain.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @natematias.bsky.social Julie Cohen, Neil Richards, & others

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...

Why do efforts to transform a field fail? @joguldi.bsky.social reflects on Digital History in the US compared to where it thrived. Challenges: - the structure of the humanities - funding went to diverse but non-elite schools - funding was short term computationalhistory.substack.com/p/the-lost-p...

As @wikipedia.org turns 25, what do we learn from Wikipedians about our potential to organize for the common good? Yesterday @sarahagilbert.bsky.social & I gave a main stage talk at Wikipedia’s 25th birthday in NYC on the science of cooperation. The talk is here: citizensandtech.org/2026/03/disc...

Curious if the funding challenges for museums & archives in the UK is related to decolonization. If, as scholars like @profdanhicks.bsky.social persuasively argue, museums were tool of colonial power, then decolonization must have created a funding crisis as their founding reason declined. Thoughts?

I really love how the @eurosky.social folks just absolutely understand the stakes involved and why indiesky is important. Brilliant talk. 👏🏼 @ivansigal.eurosky.social at #atmosphereconf

[NK Jemisin addressing those who signed up for Wikipedia in the early days]: "How many of you realized you were signing up for a war" ... that "the truth itself [would become] too dangerous to be acceptable". #wikipediadaynyc

Best tangential takeaway from #wikipediadaynyc so far is learning about Tamara Broderick's distrosaurs tamarabroderick.com/img/dino_rel... tamarabroderick.com/misc.html via @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah GIlbert's presentation :)

A link to the study of "thanks" on Wikipedia that @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah Gilbert talked about in their #wikipediadaynyc session: citizensandtech.org/2020/06/effe...

Lawsuit update: @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org have filed a preliminary injunction motion on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social asking the court to block a U.S. immigration policy targeting noncitizen researchers who study online safety. 🧵 knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

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What does it take to prove causality in tech harms cases? After rulings in NM & CA, commentators are throwing around causality in arguments both for & against the results. If you’re frustrated by the causality maze, don’t worry- @penney.bsky.social & I have you covered tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

Thanks to everyone who joined our webinar about the recent record-shattering heat across the US. ICYMI check out the recording: youtu.be/sRkTaC893CI

The FT is hiring a correspondent for our Investigations team. Contact me if you want to discuss the role. Deadline is April 12 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

A professional update, as it were! @blockpartyapp.com has been acquired by @joindeleteme.bsky.social!

This summer, a thoughtful person who I respect insisted that AI everything is inevitable & we just need to get on the train because there was no way an AI system once released would be discontinued. I pointed out that products are often discontinued. And here we are www.cbsnews.com/news/sora-ai...

Has anyone done any research on what appears to be a decline in #MeToo? It changed norms, increased reports, increased arrests, & transformed laws. So why was the online movement not sustained? Have existing orgs just absorbed the enthusiasm but not the slogan? news.tulane.edu/pr/rates-sex...

“Is AI going to benefit patients? Is AI going to benefit the people that work for Kaiser Permanente? Or is AI going to benefit the bottom line of the corporation. We want AI that’s transparent, that is allowing people to do their jobs.” apnews.com/article/kais...

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A One-Page Primer on: Statistical Power from @carlislerainey.bsky.social www.carlislerainey.com/blog/2025-08...

Are you energized by living in a world where the splendors of our universe, history, and culture are shared by all? THRILLED to be speaking at Wikipedia Day NYC with @sarahagilbert.bsky.social next Sat in Brooklyn AFTER @nkjemisin.bsky.social's keynote O_O en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

A clever preprint by @pwarren.bsky.social and colleagues describes Community Notes as having a "lazy rater" problem. Harder claims that are harder to fact-check may get fewer ratings than obvious fakes, leaving the most important misinfo with notes invisible to users. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11120

Today I am thinking about Ted Nelson's observation, embedded into the design of his iconic 1974 book, that you can't have a visionary technology future without politics. The book was two in one. After reading "Dream Machines" you turned it over for "Computer Lib."

“Marquez-Garrett and Bergman’s argument against social media companies and AI labs is drawn from historical product-liability cases, such as tobacco, asbestos, and the Ford Pinto. Essentially, Marquez-Garrett is alleging that these companies are making harmful design choices.”

This week, thinking on a phrase from Homer & on my stumbling attempts to learn Mayan/Mam languages, I had the chance to reflect on how precious it is to be in conversation with millennia of human thought, culture, and experience. Many thanks to all who weave those threads with the next generation.

Speaking as the guy who has read All Of The Wired Magazines (twice!): The current era of Wired magazine is absolutely its best era. On the Wired renaissance davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-wir...