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 This is why ICE should be withdrawn from Minneapolis, today.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:

This behavior is particularly funny to me given how often journalistic outlets are melting down about tech companies not providing links for pass-through traffic. Support CourtListener and the Free Law Project! free.law/about

We're grateful for the @Archive.org and @WikimediaFoundation.org for continuing to demonstrate that the open web is the best web.

This isn't exactly my list, but it's very close, and that's pretty rad. My support for the Khan continues to grow.

Incredible stuff here. Just check out the body language between the two of them; like old pals. The Mamdani charm is undefeated and playing towards Trump's populist idiosyncrasies seems to make for fertile ground for agreement. NYC is in great hands. www.bbc.com/news/live/c0...

Two weeks back I was on an amazing panel about #AI and #copyright at University of Colorado Law School, with legal eagles like @cfiesler.bsky.social, @mrose.ink & Xiyin Tang. Now the whole thing is up on YouTube. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLVJ...

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

I couldn't agree more strongly with Max's second point. AI should be the great leveler and the ultimate destroyer of tedium, but it is being directed against us.

ie mobject

This is a sensible perspective, articulated very diplomatically.

Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Fun little post on the natural fit between LLMs and terminal user interfaces from @bergmayer.net. bergmayer.net/ai-and-telet...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability

POV you built AI without cultivating moral discernment

In a day with wonderful colleagues imagining how we can have a positive AI future, this is mega depressing. matthewsag.com/copyright-wi...

Harold Feld from @publicknowledge.bsky.social : "The fundamental problem facing American discourse today is not whether platforms moderate content, but rather that only a handful of massive technology companies control how millions of Americans receive information..."

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...

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Inspired by the 11th card of the tartot, Justice, this braille sticker symbolizes the importance of working towards a future that uplifts everyone. shop.eff.org/products/la...

The law belongs to everyone. We told a court that being the biggest provider of summaries and research tools shouldn’t give Thomson Reuters a monopoly on access to the facts in judges’ decisions. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

A lovely example of genuine public service!

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

If you think AI is the future, then you should be giving serious thought to what obligations we need to impose on hyperscalers as their public importance grows, and how we push the industry to make compute power as cheap, commoditized, and plentiful as electricity or water.

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"