If you think of yourself as pro-democracy, today is an important one for you. Hungary has an election. Polls have been showing that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could lose. Read and share: "Is Budapest the bellwether?" By Michael Angeloni and Ben Raderstorf www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/is-budapes...

Hi! I'm the new Head of Communications @bsky.app. I've been watching the open social web evolve over the past couple of years. Bluesky represents what I believe the future of the internet should look like: built on principles that put people first.

Prophetic ten years ago: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... @daveweigel.bsky.social

The Brazilian political system is, structurally, very similar to the American one. But when they elected a Trump-style authoritarian back in 2018, their Congress and Supreme Court actually fought back. I went to Brazil to find out why. And what I learned surprised me. www.vox.com/politics/479...

I thought this days ago. But: 1. seems 🇺🇸 & 🌎 FINALLY waking up to the fact that this is real fascism danger + 2. organized, peaceful resistance in MN is working. Through such pain. Chance to emerge in future as the culture & spirit that beat fascism at home. An special role that would be. 🤞🏻

It is far past time for every lawmaker who represents us to vote against funding ICE.

This is one of the things that makes me sad and also long-term optimistic.

Ring the alarum-bell! Murder and treason!

This is the tyranny that America was founded to stop. Makes me so sad.

“Middle powers aren’t powerless. They have the power to build a new order that integrates our values, like respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and the territorial integrity of states.” Full remarks: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/we-are-in-...

This is the clarity needed today:

Five years ago.

Oura's chief commercial officer doesn't seem particularly worried about capturing every demographic. Instead, she's focused on keeping Oura’s core users happy while organically attracting new segments. And young women are becoming part of that core market.

Compelling piece from @adambonica.bsky.social. It's bad that voters think both Dems and GOP are corrupt. I think there's something to a "clean house" brand refresh for the Dems. But I suspect outsiders are going to have to do the refreshing. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

Wrote a little exploration of confirmation bias in LLM responses and on whether educational mitigations could help. It's a tiny constructed example, but keeping it small allows for some experimentation showing some fascinating behavior I haven't seen detailed before.

There is a lot that is pretty spot-on here — including both the likelihood that NH leads off 2028 and the kicker telling N.H. to approach the calendar with humility. (especially amidst all the ongoing threats to free and fair elections) #nhpolitics #fitn www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber emphasized the importance of critical thinking and developing a generalist skillset for the AI era.

We need to make it illegal for AI models to offer advertising. And, we need to really examine referral fees as well. The last thing we need is to have algorithms designed to maximize revenue driving LLM output and interactions. We need to have learned our lessons from algos in social media

The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness / We fought for these ideals we shouldn't settle for less.

It’s possible I watch #TheBear just for the music.

Trump is claiming his strikes on Iran made the American people safer. He is dangerously wrong. I served two combat tours in Iraq and am now on the Armed Services Committee. His actions were not only unconstitutional, they have made America less safe – not more. Here’s why: 🧵

So, deep new research from MIT tells us, more or less, that people who use LLMs to write an essay don't remember what they wrote, even minutes later. This strikes me as Very True, and profound. I wrote up some thoughts about what this might mean (without using AI). www.linkedin.com/pulse/mit-fi...

From NH Women's Foundation: ‼️‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT‼️‼️ Late on Wednesday, June 18, the Committee of Conference working on New Hampshire’s state budget gutted Momnibus 2.0. TODAY is the last day they meet on the budget and they need to hear from YOU. 📞📞 Call these Reps THIS MORNING: #nhpolitics

This strikes me as Very True. (Eg: I no longer know any phone numbers; I’ve outsourced that to my phone.) But for the 99% of us who aren’t famous authors, the value of writing is usually the PROCESS as much as, or more than, the result. It makes our thinking better. Not exactly phone numbers.

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2023 ➡️ 2024 ➡️ Today. Great to see the Biofabrication coalition’s Regen Valley community day grow. Future site of 100k sq ft manufacturing facility for human cells and tissues.

We want the best and the brightest from around the world attending our universities. To intentionally dismantle that as a form of political punishment is not only misguided – it will make America worse off and less competitive on the global stage.

Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...

We need a 2028 presidential candidate who "drips and oozes authenticity when they promise to shake up a broken economic and political system," @adamgreen321.bsky.social said to @thehill.com's @juliamanchester.bsky.social. Now is not the time for Biden or Harris to be stepping out.

AI is a powerful tool. It’s not snake oil and it’s not sentient. It’s really really important to use it well (ie, to expand your access to & ability to process human knowledge at scale). But not as a black box opinion machine. Thar be monsters….

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.

This is some “WeWork-staffers-call-Lattes-Cappuccinos-because-crazy-CEO-is-confused-and-no-one-wants-to-contradict-him” level bullshit….except, who know, for the entire global economy.

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Tired: Paul Weiss, Skadden, Columbia Wired: WilmerHale, Jenner Block, Cooley Who is standing up next? 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥

““We have to remember where the power really lies because we gave them that power and we can take it back.”

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True story I once cc’d a reporter by accident in 2002 on a mundane, internal email and it still terrifies me to remember it.

👀 👀 👀 Tens of thousands for Bernie and AOC in CO, NM this weekend. Biggest non-presidential NH event ever for @repchrispappas.bsky.social with 1,000 at a town hall yesterday in Exeter. 1,000+ showing in red Bakersfield, CA for @rokhanna.bsky.social today. #nhpolitics

The final Bad Guys book. Basketball practice. Comic book store. Maple syrup. Actually a pretty nice little Saturday.

Can confirm. Also, 1 part OJ (in the spring/summer) or Apple cider (fall) + 4 parts cold brew. Don’t @ me it’s great. Courtesy the former A&E Coffee.

I see the @wutrain.bsky.social campaign to win over @deanbarker.bsky.social has stepped up a notch

✅ No Kings

Let’s go Concord!