Florida attorney general alleges ChatGPT advised FSU campus shooter The AI chatbot told the man accused of killing two people in 2025 what ammunition to use and when to strike, the state attorney general said.

The inevitable convergence between the let it burn risk cultures around AI, guns, and mass shootings is upon us
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NYT on SCOTUS shadow docket: In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately. In the Trump era, he and the other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through their shadow docket rulings. By contrast, the papers reveal a court wielding those same powers to block Mr. Obama. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned that if the court failed to stop the president, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.

Wired on intrusive surveillance in Madison Square Garden: But the true extent of Dolan’s panopticon has only been caught in glimpses. A 2025 lawsuit by a former member of the MSG security team lifted the veil, just a bit. We started our own digging into the Garden's operations. We discovered that Dolan’s security teams obsessively tracked Nina Richards, a trans woman, over a two-year period, monitoring her movements through the venue down to the second. (WIRED is using a pseudonym in this article out of respect for her privacy.) Dolan's biometric surveillance is so extensive that a New York City police officer’s photo was added to a face-recognition database, and a child triggered an alert at one of Dolan’s properties. According to that lawsuit and our sources, Dolan’s head of corporate security takes such an expansive view of his mission that his employees will functionally cosplay as cops—patrolling the neighborhood, snooping on protesters if they happen to be in the area. You don't have to enter a Dolan venue to be under his watch.

New investigative stories by @wired.com and @nytimes.com show why watchdog journalism is so important right now, with proliferating AI technologies and a legal system increasingly dictated from the top by right-wing partisan actors
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Trying to imagine Hegseth walking the earth like Kaine in Kung Fu

The big front page headline in the daily news is “Grand Central horror: machete weilding man claimed to be Lucifer”. The word weilding is circled in red

Pro tip: don’t lay off all the copy editors, you numpties. That’s how you end up with horror. (Also get you a less credulous skyline writer)

The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence, to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets. Once the lion’s share of AP’s revenue, big newspaper companies now account for 10% of its income. “We’re not a newspaper company and we haven’t been for quite some time,” Julie Pace, executive editor and senior vice president of the AP, said in an interview.

Maybe there’s more here but AP’s strategy sounds an awful lot like “we’re downsizing on journalists and pivoting to video and AI,” which is no strategy at all
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Yes and as with COVID, Trump's compulsion to just keep rambling in public about Iran, sometimes multiple times per day, is incredibly damaging to him politically but also to the country. Mortifying to watch.

​In an ordinary presidency, by now the CoS, Defense Secretary, and Secretary of State/National Security Adviser would have been fired in disgrace and replaced. But the operating principle of Trump II is Trump gets to do whatever he wants and no one can say otherwise, so this just continues on and on

If built, any D successor has to tear it down, right? Have a whole ceremony with a wrecking ball, media, etc.

Category confusion that results from putting extremists in key positions. What in past administrations would have been a "public servant resigns on principle" story is ... still that, but the "principle" in question is based on a mix of accurate observation and anti-Semitism.

As it was during COVID, Trump's need to run his mouth on camera several times a day does a not-insignificant amount of damage to US strategic goals, to the efforts of people working for the US government, to his own political standing, and to public understanding

Great thread on journalism.

Either Trump officials are not sticking to it, or the Iranians are exploiting the belief that they would feed fake scoops to journalists to achieve some short term goal.
Either way, the wages of lying all the time to everyone

Not clear what's going on here but the entire DC "scoop economy" depends on the scoops being accurate and "U.S. officials" knowing that and sticking to it

The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought Cognitive diversity, reflected in variations of language, perspective, and reasoning, is essential to creativity and collective intelligence. This diversity is rich and grounded in culture, history, a...

As LLM use expands, “the models’ outputs…are reabsorbed into human discourse & shape users’ own expression & reasoning and, in turn, influence the data used to train future models, transforming homogenization from a passive bias into a structurally reinforced influence.”
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How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post

For 15 years I’ve been in the part of media tasked with generating “audience-friendly” work, and never once has pageviews been my primary measure of a story’s success (even if I’m very good at generating them).

Thinking the way these people do is so small-minded.

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I can lean on my actual experience to yell at everyone that this won't work! You can't identify emerging customer needs by aggregating data from the past! We tried this already with personas and again with big data! This is like the stupid business version of the problem of induction.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

Strongly suggests that what everybody thought was going on with DOGE – indeed, seemed like one of the basic, unspoken animating ideas behind DOGE – massive personal data theft by private entities – was actually happening
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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

I wrote about Trump's fantasy of omnipotence and invulnerability crashing against the material reality of a interdependent world. This insane, heedless war will ruin us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

To be clear, I think there’s a decent chance we eventually reach a point where much more significant action is warranted, but that will depend on stronger evidence of imminent, concrete danger than we have today, as well as enough specificity about the danger to formulate rules that have a chance of addressing it. The most constructive thing we can do today is advocate for limited rules while we learn whether or not there is evidence to support stronger ones.

dario amodei is clearly the most thoughtful person running an AI company today. he talks with evident genuine concern about risks and safety and supports limited regulation. but ultimately, i have my doubts abt his approach to public control.

Almost 25 years ago we took our 2-year-old son to his first in-theatre movie, Shrek, which he loved from the first frame. Vivid memory of watching the movie + his viewing experience.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

This is a major PR coup for Anthropic. In rejecting the DoD's demands that it allow the surveilling of Americans and autonomous killing, it gets immediate claim to the moral high ground, which other AI co's won't take. Anthropic is the AI company that *won't* kill and surveil you.

U.S. I LAW DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld

This is an all-timer in headlines where the use of the passive voice obscures a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM with the basic premise of the story

Straight-up journalism malpractice at this late, late hour

Great conversation with @andreapitzer.bsky.social today on @jamellebouie.net’s newsletter messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP

Thus, no Catholics either. (Vance, a convert with the right genealogy, would get a pass presumably)