Chart showing Americans' attention to local news.
Attention to local news has declined since 2016, mirroring trends in attention to national news and news in general. www.pewresearch.org/...
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Chart showing where Americans get local news.
About two-thirds of Americans say they at least sometimes get news from their local TV news station – down slightly from the 70% who said the same in 2018. www.pewresearch.org/...
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The Trump admin’s rewriting of rules governing college accreditation “obliterates” autonomy & is is being described as “a cluster bomb being dropped on American higher education.”
India’s internet censorship is not a centralized “Great Firewall,” says Tech Policy Press Contributing Editor Amber Sinha. He discusses research that illuminates an opaque system where ISPs enforce blocking through practices such as DNS manipulation, producing often invisible restrictions to users.
“The optimistic timeline is that we are one step past human capabilities, and that means that there is a huge but finite pool of flaws that can be found and fixed,” Stamos told me. “The pessimistic timeline is that with every release there will be new classes of flaws we never even imagined. It’s hard to predict, because we are trying to model superhuman thinking.”
Anthropic's Mythos model represents a dangerous new moment for cybersecurity. Experts tell me that hackers and nation states may catch up within months — and that the cat-and-mouse game between attacker and defender is about to become much more high-stakes www.platformer.news/anthropic-my...
@knightfoundation.org is currently accepting applications for the Knight Cities Challenge, a $5 million open call inviting individuals and organizations across its 26 communities to submit new, creative ideas for projects that can spark change and leave a lasting local impact.
Interesting data point on the discussion over "addictive feeds"
I wrote a lot about Bob Mueller across a lot of chapters of his career. I wanted to share two @wired.com pieces that I wrote about his defining life experiences—both a picture of an era of public service all but lost today:
1) His brave *voluntary* service in Vietnam: www.wired.com/story/robert...
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Chicken soup for the soul (which is apparently still around)! is suing Anthropic for pirating copies of the book to train Claude. The number of AI copyright lawsuits is inching closer to 100 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I wrote about why @knightfoundation.org invested in
@bsky.app: philanthropy can act when mission & opportunity align. We believe in @jay.bsky.team's vision for a better social web—& in ideas (like @masnick.com's) that grow out of the research ecosystem Knight has long supported. kf.org/kfbluesky
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Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...
🗯️ Can #middleware save social media?
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Heroes. Quite the effort and dedication on this one. Unfortunately, not an easily repeatable process for most researchers looking for access, but can hopefully inform lawmakers.
Quantum is bursting with promise that feels just out of reach—much like pre-generative AI. A breakthrough 'LLM moment' may soon arrive, write DLA Piper's Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr and Michael Atleson. What hopefully won't follow: the hyped product claims that plagued AI.
"When fluent speech without responsibility becomes normal...it changes what it means to be human," Deb Roy writes, weighing how AI might be training us to “accept words without ownership and meaning without accountability.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
Bar chart showing American teens' views on whether AI will have a positive or negative effect on them personally over the next 20 years, as well as whether it will have a positive or negative effect on society more broadly. The chart is based on a September/October 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens.
Teens in the US are much more likely to say AI will have a positive than negative effect on them personally over the next 20 years (36% vs. 15%). www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
The zoom-in on McBride was something
Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook.
It hasn’t fully hit BlueSky yet, but LinkedIn and X are just meaning-shaped comments by LLMs
The universe of critical, fundable research is much, much bigger than gen AI
