Google's Sergey Brin throws $3M more into the fight against the CA billionaire tax. That brings his total known contributions to $48M. In this new filing, other techies donated too, incl crypto exec Chris Larsen and VCs John Doerr and Michael Moritz. Background: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

ARC-AGI-3 properly rewards _efficiency_ and not just wastefully stumbling towards a solution. Chollet's work holds a lot of sway in the AI world; hopefully this will lead to real improvements beyond "the model got there after burning 100 million tokens". arcprize.org/arc-agi/3

"The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir."

This is just an incredible visual model of what being on X is like

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Many people have been saying this since 2022, but it's never too late to join this particular party:

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Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

just a reminder to editors, please use accurate photos when describing extreme heat. do not use photos of kids frolicking in fountains.

What has 14 months of Trump meant for Medicaid? Less funding and staff. Way more red tape for millions of low-income recipients. 10 million more people losing health insurance by 2034.

Thrilled to publish my latest article BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech! A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

ah yes, the obligatory "this is not a quagmire", typically uttered as we enter into another quagmire

Inside China’s robotics revolution

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"Carr is using the same playbook against news outlets over their Iran war coverage because it’s worked before. And it will continue to work unless the media and lawmakers stand firm against him." @freedom.press' Caitlin Vogus writes:

V-Dem: US is no longer a liberal democracy.

‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

Good thing everyone involved is only in a position of power because of merit

Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

Agree with this. Attempting to access everything with well-documented CLIs, then discovering you're missing capabilities MCP already provides, ends up just reinventing MCP. The underlying problem of optimizing context use and tool discovery doesn't go away.

Echoes of "I have been a good Bing". Important to understand these failure modes because they may shape the behavior of AI agents powered by LLMs. I appreciate Claude's response to being trolled: "Continuing to tell me I’m 'incorrect' or to 'reconsider' won’t produce a different result."

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The Espionage Act has been used to criminalize whistleblowing and newsgathering for years. Join us for a webinar to learn about Rep. Rashida Tlaib's bill to reform the archaic law. 🗓️ March 12, 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT RSVP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmXN...

Somewhat astonishing that this is still the state of the art of displaying long emails in #Gmail.

Not a fan of this "forced refusal" regulatory approach, and I doubt it would be found constitutional if the bill is passed. But if that's the approach you take, you should at the very least consider a pathway to certification for automated systems, or it's just regulatory capture.

Amen. "Removing anonymity from the web, which will inevitably happen when tech companies are required to identify and ban children, allows for easier government tracking and censorship of journalists, activists and whistleblowers, who rely on online anonymity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Short and insightful conversation. Another quote: "There’s a big crowd of people who really, really want AI success stories. And then there’s an equal and opposite crowd of people who want to dismiss all AI progress. And what we have is a very complicated and nuanced story in between."

"You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free" —Tom Petty Summer wildflower memories on a snowy evening 🌿

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

“They threw my dad out like an animal, and now I have no dad.” Paulino Martin San Pedro was an Oregonian. He was a beloved community member. This administration murdered him. His family has a gofundme here: www.gofundme.com/f/keep-pauli...

New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.” Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.

When a democracy is restored after an interlude of criminal looting like this, it is perfectly justified in seizing back the proceeds and prosecuting the looters, regardless of what they have done to make it “legal” on paper.

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

The government denied these detainees access to counsel and tried to whisk them out-of-state as quickly as possible to make it more difficult for their lawyers to assist them. As this court explains, ICE effectively suspended the Fifth Amendment in Minneapolis. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

A different 20-year-old refugee in Minneapolis got abducted by ICE then jailed in a cell 5x over capacity with an overflowing toilet and no beds or blankets. Fellow detainees were denied life-saving medication and forced to sleep standing in excrement. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities. We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.