"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system." It will use AI and "monitor wellness": apnews.com/article/trum...

To me this seems like an attempt evade accountability; it’s much harder to find a quote of the crazy thing the President said when you need to search through a 90 minute madcap press availability rather than just hit ctrl+f

experiment recreated by wapo’s @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social : www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

one of the world’s biggest and most powerful tech companies doing a reverse black mirror propaganda arm is very black mirror

New: Reddit is pursuing legal action against the researchers who secretly ran a massive AI persuasion experiment on its users: www.404media.co/reddit-issui...

it's cool that the rest of the world hates trump so much that he can tip elections against the conservative factions there. great for them. everyone enjoy your center-right liberal dream. we'll be your portrait in the attic

NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to **$1.3 million** for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months. Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

The committee's GOP majority voted down the amendments along party lines, and the committee ultimate voted to advance the TAKE IT DOWN act out of committee with the same language as the version that already passed the Senate. It's now one step from passage, and Trump has pledged to sign it into law.

In addition to dropped lawsuits, dozens of ongoing investigations into alleged corporate malfeasance are now frozen at CFPB, potentially denying accountability and financial relief for untold numbers of consumers, ProPublica found.

Potentially sick own followed by unnecessary, unsuccessful heat check followed by "oh crap" legal liability follow-up

When you're gloating about dismantling the Department of Education you should probably not spell the name wrong

obviously downloading this app to help me stay off apps

reading the latest on tesla sales and am reminded once again of this evergreen piece by @telliotter.bsky.social wired.com/story/viral-...

“I feel like I lost some humanity today when I exposed myself to seeing so many of those types of videos, Gore, deaths and what broke me the most was animal cruelty." www.404media.co/instagram-er...

On MSNBC, @maddow.msnbc.com talks about her network’s recent programming decisions, including the cancellation of @joyannreid.bsky.social show, and shares her concerns and deep frustration over how all of it is being handled. Clip is too long to post here..linked below.

New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

“…TikTok displayed the greatest right-wing skew, per its [Global Witness’] findings -- showing right-leaning content 74% of the time. Although, X was not far behind -- on 72%.”

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

Personal news: I’m joining Tech Policy Press as an associate editor next month! Excited to join this growing nonprofit media organization and help expand its news reporting and analysis at such a critical time for the beat.

"It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism," Julie Pace, the executive editor of the AP, said in a statement.

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

BREAKING: Federal workers filed a new lawsuit against Elon Musk, DOGE, and OPM, alleging DOGE's data access is an illegal privacy violation: www.wired.com/story/govern...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

troublemakers

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

Free gift link: wapo.st/4144prC

@accountabletech.bsky.social’s @nicolegill.bsky.social: “NetChoice’s continued assault on tech safety makes it abundantly clear that tech companies would sooner pour millions into legal fees than protect young people from the dangers of their profit-driven algorithms.”

Every election, people try to take away Black people's right to vote. Every. Single. Election. This is not new for us. What's new is that now they might try to do to white people what they always do to Black people. Now it will be called a "constitutional crisis" instead of "GOP campaign strategy"

here’s a thing!

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men, all between the ages of 19-24, who have negligible experience but are now playing critical roles in Elon Musk's takeover of the U.S. government. From @telliotter.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

A great congressional Democrats starter pack for those looking for good follows. go.bsky.app/RNKWpRw

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss

The FCC is investigating NPR and PBS

The Brennan Center will continue to do what we do best: defend the Constitution and the rule of law. We will not stop until we have a free, fair, and just democracy — for all.

I tend to have pretty good timing. For example, I started getting therapy like four weeks ago.

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

this is the hard hitting research i come to bluesky for

If you are a podcaster, influencer, or other content creator who is applying for White House press credentials, I'd love to hear from you. My Signal is makenakelly.32, but there's plenty of other ways to contact me at the link in my bio.

some of the best reporting i've seen so far www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin...

DeepSeek this DeepSeek that why don't you DeepSeek some therapy

Anyone who's ever worked in coffee knows you don't want to see a coffee drinker insurrection

One important note: this is not about deepseek making a "better" model. They have created a much much cheaper to run model that performs about as well as OpenAI's o1 model. OpenAI may have to drop pricing to compete on a more expensive to run model. Race to the bottom baby!

Also: because deepseek's r1 model is open source it is also open with how its chain of thought reasoning works, something that OpenAI has been avoiding so people can't copy their process and thus their model. Sadly that didn't need to happen! Uh oh!

The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex

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Never feel bad about reposting your stuff on here because for the first year of this website we had an entirety of 20 daily posts that we all had to share and reheat like a communal soup