HAPPENING NOW: Preemption Of State AI Laws Is Not The Path Forward. americanprogress-org.zoom.us/j/86315035925

AI data centers are increasingly reshaping local economies, infrastructure, and environments. But do they actually provide anything of value to the public? Read the latest from @natpurser.bsky.social: publicknowledge.org/what-to-ask-...

My faith in the legal system will be greatly bolstered if plaintiffs take this opportunity to completely lay waste to Mr. Beast.

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Any EA, AI accelerationist, or AI for Good person that thinks working with this admin is distasteful but smart, must make a clear account for how that concept works with such fundamentally anti-scientific and regressive elements like Kennedy in place.

Even better: stop treating tech monopolies as if they're an immovable part of the landscape which we can only accept, ban, or regulate. We have the means to replace toxic social apps with better ones, including youth-designed and youth-governed alternatives.

Good analysis from @natpurser.bsky.social on the WH Concept of a Plan for AI legislation.

*chuckles smugly* all it does is next token prediction

Yes...ha ha ha...yes!

"hot, sexy, dangerous boys are not covered by copyright" Beautiful. 🥲

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

In all sincerity: Because these are public documents and anyone trying to limit the availability or use of public documents should not be in journalism.

I'd love to see someone dig even further into the linguistic theory here, but I have to say that this post from @segyges.bsky.social reflects my skepticism of the "Stochastic Parrot" paper very well.

What are the best AI/LLM tools for collaboration? A lot of things seem to lend themselves to individual use, but I’m curious to explore more what is built to support teams and collective empowerment, decision making, etc

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

If LLM consciousness is interesting to fight enough it should be interesting enough to read seriously about, right?

This is a common misconception, but it's incorrect, on two counts. 1: SCOTUS' denial of a cert petition leaves a lower court ruling undisturbed, but that's not the same as the Court affirming the decision below - either technically or colloquially. 🧵

This is a really incredible thread.

This is Trump's former AI adviser

⚠️ Anthropic: “We cannot in good conscience accede” to the demands of the Department of War. Concerns about the Department’s potential use of AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons have not been resolved.

Ah yes, the preferred alignment method of Robert Edwin House.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

This project is a truly great resource. Aspen Digital's Emerging Tech team is the best around for insightful and accessible information about AI and this handbook has an amazing line up of expert authors. Check it out!

Today, Hispanic Tech & Telecommunications Partnerships recognized @publicknowledge.bsky.social Senior Policy Counsel @nickgarcia.bsky.social as one of HTTP’s 2026 Tech Innovadores! Read our statement at the link below: publicknowledge.org/http-recogni...

When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

This ad is a funny depiction and close to the example I usually use, but the possibilities for betrayal are even more insidious and subtle if advertising becomes a component of the AI business model.

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

I wake up at 6am i remove my phone from three layers of Faraday fabric, and check Signal messages using a dedicated burner laptop running Tails OS from a thumb drive I don’t use a mouse; the movement of the cursor could be used for biometric identification

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

Mmm, smells like adverse inference to me.

The fundamental tenet of Robert Peel, who founded the first municipal police force in London, is that the police are the people and the people are the police. Once this connection is destroyed, you are simply an occupying force. This is why ICE should be withdrawn from Minneapolis, today.

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

kinda wild that mass politics is alive but not to national elites

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Veteran tech journo @benjedwards.com has a nice story this week for @arstechnica.com on Wikipedia's API access deals with many of the large AI developers. Initially, the headline and intro weren't clear that these are NOT content license deals, a common mistake in coverage of the deals.

There is a lot to learn from Wikimedia's approach to AI training. Information should be free, but that doesn't mean there is no cost to providing it! Beyond just rent-seeking, there are business models to be found in providing quality access that creates a win-win. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/w...

@benjedwards.com this isn't a licensing deal! Wikimedia Enterprise charges for the "pipes," not the content, and the difference between the two is huge. This gets misreported constantly. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/w...

🧵 Thread on beautiful data centers: MareNostrum 4 (Barcelona SCC): Often called "the most beautiful data center in the world," this facility is housed inside the Torre Girona Chapel, a deconsecrated 19th-century church. When fully installed, it will have a peak performance of 13.9 Petaflops.

Our lives are not something we "get to keep" at the whim of a government thug. America stands for the idea of natural, inalienable rights, our lives being first and highest among them, followed by our liberty. "Obey or die" is such a profoundly anti-American sentiment.

Egregious use of force violation, absolutely no justification. No necessity, not neutralizing a threat, in fact video shows how firing put the vehicle out of control rendering the situation more dangerous. Textbook example of lethal use of force to prevent flight, which is absolutely not allowed.

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Good thread! Some GenAI misinfo, but the majority remains good old fashioned lying about what you are posting using real images and videos.

As New York City considers making buses free with new Mayor Zohran Mamdani in office, another city across the Atlantic began free daily access in 2018 — and is reaping the rewards. reasonstobecheerful.world/city-where-f...

to be fair this is because Apple interprets EU demands like an evil genie

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says the FCC is not an independent agency. The FCC's website (and 100 years of precedent) say otherwise. So who's right? #FCC #telecom #techpolicy

I too am invested in finding out if this astounding fact might be true.

A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community. From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social: