At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

When aimed at decentralized social networking services, the attacks can cause instability and outages, but not everyone is taken offline. In Bluesky’s case ... those who had moved their account to other providers, like @blackskyweb.xyz, which run on the same protocol [as Bluesky], were not impacted.

Oh I missed that part!

I would guess that messages from media/parents etc. affect overall pessimism or fear. But I’d trust the teens and law school aged students I know to assess how it’s affecting their own learning process.

Nice analogy! And glad to hear there’s meaningful empirical work on this.

I'm interested in that last part, as someone who really believes that the struggle to articulate and write about information is generative. It's a lot of how I figure things out, personally.

But that could also be personal idiosyncrasy or some protestant work ethic silliness.

Gen Z's AI Adoption Steady, but Skepticism Climbs Gen Zers' use of AI is steady, but their excitement and hopefulness about it have declined over the past year, while anger has increased.

This data on US Gen Z (age 14-29) attitudes to GenAI is pretty interesting. A real increase in anger/anxiety in 2026 compared to 2025. And then a lot of smaller but consistent shifts to more negativity about how it actually helps them work or learn.

news.gallup.com/poll/708224/...

Thank, Ivan! This one is a dense and messy topic, so I did my best but some of that may be irreducible...

Oh, interesting! I was torn between thinking it was an actual mistake (the kind an RA might be blamed for) versus a winking deliberate thing. Are there other authority/storytelling examples?

Lots of speech creates liability.

Yeah my buy in is for that bigger point, not every nuance. Lime I said, I wish we had some scrutiny level that wasn’t practically pass/fail.

indeed

That said, like many hard issues, this makes me wish 1st Amendment law did not require such a radical choice between (1) almost no regulation at all and (2) opening the door to way too unfettered state control.

@corbinkbarthold.bsky.social is an amazing writer and his argument about why AI output must be treated as speech is persuasive.

“Above all, both conservatives and liberals should recoil at the idea of a government controlled by their political opponents dictating what AI can and cannot say.”

I feel compelled to tell you one of my favorite things about Seeing Like a State, which is that Scott at one point quotes On Exactitude in Science and the footnote attributes it to Suarez Miranda. Then much later he discusses it and cites Borges.

kwarc.info/teaching/TDM...

My job here is mostly to bum people out, so it was good to have @blakestacey.myatproto.social give me reason to look out for good news today. Here are three good developments.

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including:

- Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel
- 5G LTE modem
- 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter

Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

Now I’m just enjoying having a place to put these

bsky.app/profile/heat...

“golden calf of a boss” is 🤌

Good plan!

All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans We’ve got a throwback administration that wants to bring us back to halcyon days of early 1950s America, that preceded Supreme Court-ordered school desegregation. If it could, I’m sure …

JFC

In December last year, Roblox rolled out new features to prevent children from chatting with adults they do not know by making users who wish to use the chat function pass through facial age assurance that then groups them in similar age group cohorts until they turn 21. Since the shift, Roblox has monitored account behaviour to detect signs that the user might have been younger than the age they appeared in facial age estimation, with some parents being discovered in the process. "When we went and did the validation tests on that, you could see the kid in the background who handed the phone to their parent," said Matt Kaufman, Roblox's chief of safety. “So that's why we have these systems in place."

Parents are being used to circumvent highly effective age assurance – should they be banned? Write to your MP www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #gaming #childrights #openweb #techpolicy

amaze

oooh and this bsky.app/profile/erin...

Trump to Nominate Doctor Who Has Publicly Supported Vaccines as C.D.C. Director

there’s this?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/h...

Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing | Electronic Frontier Foundation New York's proposed 2026-2027 budget currently includes provisions that will require all 3D printers sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for forbidden designs. This policy would also create felony charges for possessing or sharing certain design files. The vote on the state budget could happen as early as next week, so New Yorkers need to act fast and demand that their Assemblymembers and Senators strip this provision from the budget.

Client-side scanning comes to 3D printing, with proposals to have printers forced to embed algorithms to scan for weapons. Printing weapons is a bad thing, but so is ubiquitous surveillance from your own devices. A dangerous model for other areas. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Republican leaders tried to pass a five-year extension of surveillance authority in the dead of night.

The bill does not enhance privacy protection.

It risks expanding the ability of the Trump administration to spy on the American people.

Unacceptable.

That’s why we just shut the bill down.

Whichever one this is

bsky.app/profile/ianm...

The Reginos are the old Italian couple who review every post on bluesky before it's federated. They are part of the core infrastructure driving AT Protocol

There was a rumor they did something together years ago. (Per Yasi Salek’s great podcast episode on MA.) I wonder if the lyrics or vocal recording are from back then.

Actually there’s one I didn’t put in here, and maybe should have. It’s “Russmedia isn’t that bad because Member State courts won’t follow the CJEU’s ruling.”

That one might be the most viable.