Voting rights groups are suing the Trump Justice Department over efforts to sweep up sensitive American voter data. While GOP officials in other states refused, Sec. of State Frank LaRose has given the department personal info for 8 million Ohio voters. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/21/r...
My team is working on a communication design project. We're looking to connect to someone with news, sportscasting, and/or comedy skills to help us with content production within a social media-first strategy, either as a one-time gig w/ a longer role. All pointers/recommendations welcome!
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
Wrote about a court blocking *actual* jawboning by the Trump admin... and how the people who spent the last 5 years screaming about how supposed Biden admin jawboning (for which they presented no evidence since it didn't happen) was the worst thing ever, are completely silent about this case.
I’ve seen a similar drop in my class (2022-2024), with a bit of an uptick this last year. This time around we did an early exercise on the risks of letting AI do your thinking for you, and then FAR more handwritten activities throughout the quarter. I like to think those helped.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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🧵Tradwife culture is moving further into the mainstream. People who watch this film will likely come away with a better sense of the performance, hypocrisy and marketing behind the movement. But, the real issue is the way tradwife content functions as an algorithmic gateway into far-right ideology.
In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.
This week on “Galaxy Brain,” the former Infowars employee Josh Owens talks with @cwarzel.bsky.social about his path to de-radicalization, and the conspiratorial ecosystem Alex Jones helped create.
Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.
Visual illustrating a portrait of Ricarda alongside text referencing her publication " Take the Power Back: Screen-Based Personal Moderation Against Hate Speech on Instagram." The authors listed are Anna Ricarda Luther, Hendrik Heuer, Sebastian Haunss, Stephanie Geise. The talk date is Friday, April 17, 2026. The CHI visual appears at the bottom, and the CAIS logo is positioned in the top-right corner.
Today at #CHI2026, join our researchers for two presentations on shaping safer and more expressive online spaces:
➡️ Take the Power Back: Screen-Based Personal Moderation Against Hate Speech on Instagram
April 17, 12:27 PM | P1 Room 119
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Time and again, voters pay the price when federal courts ignore important facts. The Supreme Court shouldn’t make the same mistake in this term’s case on mail voting.
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Read more about the "Seattle windshield pitting epidemic" of 1954 in "Rumors have rules," a 2023 Issues in Science and Technology article by @cip.uw.edu co-founders @emmaspiro.bsky.social and @katestarbird.bsky.social: issues.org/rumors-resea...
How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law
Genius!
Exclusive new details about Trump's effort to 'take over' the midterm elections, in a monthslong investigation from @dougbockclark.bsky.social & me: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s executive order on mail voting would give the USPS, an independent agency, power over who can vote by mail. The Brennan Center and other groups are challenging the order in court. bit.ly/4mhDqln
It’s going to be a rebuilding year. The team drama and weird late season trades last year… plus so many free agents and a new coach… put them in a tough place. They likely need to focus on building a new team for the future, and they may need to roll with some lost games this year.
If google gave a shit about their users, the top hits for any hotel wouldn't be sketchy intermediary booking sites.
It's a perfect example of enshittification.
During Trump Jr’s visit to BiH this week, during which he spoke at an event organized by the Kremlin-backed Serb secessionist regime in Banja Luka, he also sat down for an interview with Boris Malagurski, a prominent regional conspiracy theorist, Bosnian Genocide denier and Russian media mainstay.
I tend to see a lot of folks who are “unwitting, but willing” spreaders.
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
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A gofundme is organized for them.
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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf interviewed me for @newamerica.org's Mythbusting Accreditation series. We talked about the Right's attacks on higher education in the U.S. and the strategy behind it. (Yes, I managed to reference both Christopher Rufo and Curtis Yarvin.) www.newamerica.org/insights/mis...
In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:
Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.
She's really going all in on "everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.
Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.
And here we are.
Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered.
This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
