Lawyers, tell me, is it bad when a federal judge describes having to "endure" your allegations and "florid," "enervating" prose? And then rejects your complaint as "decidedly improper and impermissible" without the defense even filing a word? (Trump v. NYT) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This is by Karl Rove.

The United States is a country where comedians must take care not to offend the ruling party if they want to keep their jobs.

And now, this…

Weird how I keep thinking about this

This is the essential point. This will go nowhere. 100% of the issue with all the other media suits is that a rogue president is a huge danger to a big diversified corp which also owns a media company. They can be hit everywhere. The NYT is just the NYT. No vulnerability.

In my inbox ...

This is a good take! I like to tell people that investigative journalism is way more boring and tedious than they assume.

As I have said to friends many times, the crises of the 21st century (GWOT, financial crises, etc) simply don’t add up in a material sense to the level of crazy and authoritarianism we are seeing today. Internet and social media are a much better root cause explanation.

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Have we tried looking into the brain worms problem? I'm starting to think we should.

Did you just read about how traditional Medicare is about to require prior approval - and they’re going to hire **AI companies** to dole out those approvals? Then you need to learn about Dr. Gary Bent.

TBH this could be so many things that I had to click through to her profile to figure out she's referring to Meta's AI glasses.

There has not been a lot of evidence so far that AI is actually impacting jobs. This paper finds early signs that this may be starting, showing a decrease in entry-level job openings relative to experienced ones & in the jobs where AI is mostly automates, not augments, work (like coding).

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

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we're about to find out something pretty important!

The Chinese government has threatened candidates and torpedoed the election efforts of candidates of Chinese heritage who support Taiwan or Hong Kong protests, The Times found. And 19 Chinese-backed NY charities ignored federal tax laws banning election activities. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

"The chamber has gone to unusual lengths to promote xAI, whose $12 billion investment the chamber believes will transform the shrinking city into a global hub of technological innovation." This is ... not what data centers do, and selling them to communities this way seems incredibly misleading.

When LLMs go off the rails, people often try to find out what happened by asking the bot itself. But they should be skeptical of the answers. As @alexhanna.bsky.social‬ explains, the only real way to find out is to demand transparency from the creators. www.theverge.com/x-ai/758595/...

Importantly, these are Meta's guidelines for the content *their AI tool itself* is generating. This is no longer simply a question of what the company allows other users to post. I guess we'll see where this goes ... www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sect...

New story out from me and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com about how and why chatbots go into delusional spirals that can cause people to have mental breakdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

It used to be “Do no Evil,” and, “Connecting the World.” Now, Silicon Valley has gone all-in on the business of war: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

No no no. Please let’s not go here

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

The minimalist/web brutalist style appears directly copied from ssi.inc's own manifesto about "Safe Superintelligence" from over a year ago. h/t @1wheel.bsky.social

Last year, @jenvalentino.bsky.social and I wrote about these accounts run by parents, generally for their teen or preteen daughters. The profiles often featured girls in revealing attire, and men frequently left inappropriate comments or sent nude photos. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/u...

Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Who, other than every civil liberties and human rights group in the country, could have predicted that these tools introduced in the name of national security would one day be turned against us? www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/08/gabbard-dig-odni-weaponization-intelligence/

today in Grokology, the chatbot is doing antisemitism

The Gen Z worker awakes in the morning from her Microdeath (a new workforce trend where workers deliberately close their screens, repose horizontally, and are unavailable to respond to emails for up to eight hours)

Proud of @mhkeller.bsky.social for bringing this problem to people's attention. It's great to see such results, but wish they could happen more frequently and quickly. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

NEW: The child sex abuse material trade on X is spiraling out of control… and a key child safety partner just cut X off after they say to company stopped paying them www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

New: led by Senator @wyden.senate.gov and Rep. @aoc.bsky.social, members of Congress are demanding Palantir answer questions about their federal contracts following our NYT story last month: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/t...

Eye-opening follow-up story here: N.H. jury acquits consultant behind AI robocalls mimicking Biden on all charges www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

Fantastic and troubling piece by @kashhill.bsky.social about AI chatbots leading people into delusional behavior. One man whose wife was affected said he doesn’t think the AI companies fully understand what they are doing. “You ruin people’s lives,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

Disney, huh? I hear they have some good lawyers.

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DOGE used *cheap, outdated* AI to "munch" the VA contracts. The code was so chump it hallucinated the size of contracts. It repeatedly pegged contracts as worth $34 million -- they were actually worth $34,000. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“Lawmakers want to crack down on college students’ pro-Palestinian protests so badly that they literally passed a prohibition on talking” www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Someone posted this in a group chat, and I literally thought it was the Onion. But it's real! (www.propublica.org/article/trum...)