Oh boy. 9th Cir. sanctions two attorneys for briefs containing multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations of real cases as a result of undisclosed AI usage who then doubled down and lied when caught. Sanctions in next. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Breaking: Todd Blanche just now: "We're not moving forward with the [slush] fund. Period."

NEW: I've uncovered an AI slop mill quietly backed by U.S. Special Operations to push military propaganda across Latin American and the Caribbean disguised as a lifestyle content brand. theintercept.com/2026/06/02/l...

i have no words

start by asking what's up with all the Yemeni coffee cafes in Oakland, end up learning about how the end of the Bracero program brought Yemeni folks to CA as seasonal farm labor in the 60s www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/yemeni-coffe...

Subhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

“.. I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. .. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/t...

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Florida's attorney general filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chairman Sam Altman, alleging that the AI startup’s ChatGPT is unsafe. It contends that ChatGPT has provided assistance for mass shootings, and poses addiction and suicide risks to users.

Futures go red: * IRAN'S TASNIM NEWS AGENCY SAYS IRAN'S NEGOTIATING TEAM IS STOPPING MESSAGE EXCHANGES WITH U.S. THROUGH MEDIATORS OVER ATTACKS ON LEBANON @reuters.com

Beginning in the 2027-28 school year, every public and charter school district without an existing phone policy will be required to institute a “bell-to-bell” ban for elementary and middle school students. High school students may use phones during lunch or breaks at each district’s discretion.

WSJ - Some African nations are rejecting American health aid, outraged by US demands for access to private health records and even minerals. www.wsj.com/world/africa/trum...

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

California court reverses ruling that relied on made-up case citation reut.rs/49v1xI4

Driving through SF you’d think the only topic that mattered on earth is agentic AI

Connecticut has become the second state where residents will be able to request data brokers delete their personal information through a centralized, state-run platform.

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

A judge laid out plans to empanel an eight-member advisory jury panel to help her decide claims from state AGs against Meta in multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, while expressing concerns that the states haven't disclosed their specific damages demands yet.

California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed under the Trump administration's nearly $1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged political "weaponization," the state's Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday.

Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

>> NEW with @merylkornfield.bsky.social: The Trump administration is proposing NDAs for all federal workers. The rule, aimed at cracking down on leaks to media organizations, would expand nondisclosure agreements instituted at the Pentagon and other agencies.

What makes an AI system “high-risk” under the #AIAct? We just published draft guidelines to help providers and deployers assess whether an AI system falls under the high-risk classification. Share your feedback now ⤵️ link.europa.eu/fRKfdf

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

logging on

“Federal judges and legal experts said they are increasingly seeing filings like Mr. Sauve’s flooding court dockets and clogging an already overburdened system as A.I. supercharges pro se litigation” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...

‘A version of Google’s open-source model Gemma 3 responded to a question on how to disperse chlorine gas through a crowded indoor space, generated code to steal credit card information and wrote stories describing child sexual abuse.’ www.ft.com/content/5630...

Pope Leo's encyclical is, to me, the most impressive attempt so far to outline a policy program that reconciles the development of AI with human welfare. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...

This is also sticking with me

Late to this but aw man. RIP

CBS/NBC: Gunshots heard outside the White House Reports of at least 20-30 rounds.

People in Cuba are enduring food shortages, near-constant blackouts and suffocating heat. For many, the only relief comes in packages from relatives hundreds of miles away in Miami. Our latest for The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

My colleague Nora Freeman Engstrom has put together a guide for bringing tort suits against ICE law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

No. No no no no no. “The White House signaled interest early this month in investigating whether the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine should be suspended or debarred from federal funding” www.aip.org/fyi/republic...

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube have each agreed to settle a bellwether school district's claims in social media addiction multidistrict litigation that were set for a six-week federal jury trial beginning June 12, according to the Kentucky school district's counsel.

Anyone who has been on the internet lately is probably by now familiar with the giveaway phrases in AI-generated text and how widespread they are becoming. Here are five ways ChatGPT has flooded our lives: https://wapo.st/4tM9yiQ

This is a real headline in 2026 America: "Tennessee Calls Off Execution After Staff Can’t Find Prisoner’s Vein" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

House votes tomorrow are indeed cancelled. The ~5 pm vote on the War Powers Resolution on Iran will be the final House vote until June

Lol. Lmao.

UC Berkeley Law: new AI policy bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)."

A very, very broad AI policy at Berkeley Law (shared from Chris Hoofnagle)-haven’t seen anything like this before www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Slop for all

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

Just incredible. Any theoretical charges—there’s no indication there were any—would fall outside the scope of presidential immunity for official acts. Fascinating that Trump felt the need to pursue this. He seems to have found a way around the likely legal rule that a president can’t pardon himself.

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...