Mor Naaman
@informor.bsky.social
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
When are they on the podcast? (Or maybe I missed)
February 13, 2026 at 7:56 PM
When are they on the podcast? (Or maybe I missed)
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This is the only benchmark I take seriously
New super-fast model from OpenAI today powered by their new Cerebras partnership - GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
It's 4-5x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex but the pelican isn't as good!
Here's its pelican compared to full GPT-5.3 Codex, both on "medium" simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
It's 4-5x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex but the pelican isn't as good!
Here's its pelican compared to full GPT-5.3 Codex, both on "medium" simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This is the only benchmark I take seriously
No, the motivations are clear. But once that happens why won't they apply these tools to everyone else, including the poster? Or me?
February 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
No, the motivations are clear. But once that happens why won't they apply these tools to everyone else, including the poster? Or me?
Really? Maybe not initially. But why would they stop?
February 13, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Really? Maybe not initially. But why would they stop?
Professor Parenteau is all of us
โI don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,โ says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. โI don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.โ
The Trump administration has revoked the key rule allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. What's next? A big, stupid mess, reports @mollytaft.com:
February 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Professor Parenteau is all of us
And now for the most academic (and accurate) take on the Bad Bunny halftime show...
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
February 10, 2026 at 3:13 PM
And now for the most academic (and accurate) take on the Bad Bunny halftime show...
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Endless legal calvinball making a mockery of the rule of law and the human rights of those being detained
ICE officials under a judgeโs order to clean up squalid conditions on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a secret floor where they decided that ruling didnโt apply, attorneys for the Trump administration said Monday.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
www.thecity.nyc
February 10, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Endless legal calvinball making a mockery of the rule of law and the human rights of those being detained
February 10, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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๐ Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. ๐
"Community Notes" are reshaping how millions encounter information on social media--but what makes them work (or not)? We term these "Crowdsourced Context Systems" (CCS) and introduce a framework for designing and evaluating them in a new #CHI26 paper ๐งต
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
๐ Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. ๐
Cool/important job alert:
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Principal Research Scientist
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
February 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Cool/important job alert:
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity
Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...
Having said that, in a differentl project here on Bluesky we are exploring the use of behavior data for reputation. Make sure you subscribe and like @stechlab-labels.bsky.social if you haven't seen it before!
February 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Having said that, in a differentl project here on Bluesky we are exploring the use of behavior data for reputation. Make sure you subscribe and like @stechlab-labels.bsky.social if you haven't seen it before!
Interesting! (side note: TrustRank author Zoltan was my officemate; Hector was our advisor). We thought a lot about the boundary of CCS. I don't think we'd say implicit/behavioral data is immediately included, though one can imagine using it for what we called "Curation" @travislloydphd.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Interesting! (side note: TrustRank author Zoltan was my officemate; Hector was our advisor). We thought a lot about the boundary of CCS. I don't think we'd say implicit/behavioral data is immediately included, though one can imagine using it for what we called "Curation" @travislloydphd.bsky.social
We generalize these systems, which spread from X to many other platforms, as Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) to highlight that while they share a general approach and design, they also suggest a design space worthy of both review and exploration. See above ๐งต from @travislloydphd.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
We generalize these systems, which spread from X to many other platforms, as Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) to highlight that while they share a general approach and design, they also suggest a design space worthy of both review and exploration. See above ๐งต from @travislloydphd.bsky.social
๐ Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. ๐
"Community Notes" are reshaping how millions encounter information on social media--but what makes them work (or not)? We term these "Crowdsourced Context Systems" (CCS) and introduce a framework for designing and evaluating them in a new #CHI26 paper ๐งต
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
๐ Our new paper officially coming out at #chi2026: we hope to help people think about systems like #CommunityNotes, the design choices they make, and the normative implications of relying on them to moderate our information ecosystem. ๐
Bad Bunny halftime show crashing X is next-level symbolism
(source: downdetector.com/status/twitt...)
(source: downdetector.com/status/twitt...)
February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Bad Bunny halftime show crashing X is next-level symbolism
(source: downdetector.com/status/twitt...)
(source: downdetector.com/status/twitt...)
Pretty accurate for this humble account!
February 9, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Pretty accurate for this humble account!
Pretty clear the only reasonable choice for MVP is Bad Bunny
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Pretty clear the only reasonable choice for MVP is Bad Bunny
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If anybody is curious about local search and AI summaries, Iโll be speaking about some of our results from a large scale audit at this upcoming panel on AI Search and News on Feb 19th!
journalism.columbia.edu/events/ai-se...
journalism.columbia.edu/events/ai-se...
February 7, 2026 at 3:40 PM
If anybody is curious about local search and AI summaries, Iโll be speaking about some of our results from a large scale audit at this upcoming panel on AI Search and News on Feb 19th!
journalism.columbia.edu/events/ai-se...
journalism.columbia.edu/events/ai-se...
Well ChatGPT *may* be helping people find local news, but we don't know that. OpenAI says people *ask* AI for local news. We don't know what they get...
... Until @mariannealq.bsky.social reports on her study, coming soon!
... Until @mariannealq.bsky.social reports on her study, coming soon!
โChatGPT can help people find local news, provided local journalists are still out there covering it" www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/chat...
ChatGPT is asked about local news 1 million times per week, OpenAI says
ChatGPT is fielding 1 million prompts about local news every week, OpenAI said in a blog post that also announced the AI company wants to take "a different path" on local news than other techโฆ
www.niemanlab.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Well ChatGPT *may* be helping people find local news, but we don't know that. OpenAI says people *ask* AI for local news. We don't know what they get...
... Until @mariannealq.bsky.social reports on her study, coming soon!
... Until @mariannealq.bsky.social reports on her study, coming soon!
And that's just the people on X, wait till you see the survey of the bots
Trump job approval rating by news platform
๐ข Twitter/X: +9
๐ด Facebook: -7
๐ด Cable TV: -10
๐ด Podcasts/YouTube: -14
๐ด Local TV: -17
๐ด Instagram: -21
๐ด Broadcast TV: -28
๐ด TikTok: -28
๐ด Newspapers/news sites: -33
๐ด Reddit: -40
www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
๐ข Twitter/X: +9
๐ด Facebook: -7
๐ด Cable TV: -10
๐ด Podcasts/YouTube: -14
๐ด Local TV: -17
๐ด Instagram: -21
๐ด Broadcast TV: -28
๐ด TikTok: -28
๐ด Newspapers/news sites: -33
๐ด Reddit: -40
www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
February 6, 2026 at 1:28 PM
And that's just the people on X, wait till you see the survey of the bots
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Our paper โInferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United Statesโ is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9
February 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Our paper โInferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United Statesโ is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9
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Curious re: who is using paid ads to shape your thinking re: politics & social issues on Facebook & Instagram? We've an app for that. PoliDashboard Unveils 25 New Country-Specific Dashboards, Advancing Global Transparency in Political Advertising on Meta Platforms. socialmedialab.ca/2026/02/04/p...
PoliDashboard Unveils 25 New Country-Specific Dashboards, Advancing Global Transparency in Political Advertising on Meta Platform - Social Media Lab
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 4, 2026 Toronto, Ontario โ In the wake of recent reports highlighting the prevalence of fraudulent advertisements on Meta-owned platforms (Tech Transparency Project) and ...
socialmedialab.ca
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Curious re: who is using paid ads to shape your thinking re: politics & social issues on Facebook & Instagram? We've an app for that. PoliDashboard Unveils 25 New Country-Specific Dashboards, Advancing Global Transparency in Political Advertising on Meta Platforms. socialmedialab.ca/2026/02/04/p...
Betteridge's law of headlines alert, but solid analysis and actual data: there was an actual outage, it seems.
Nevertheless, researchers should have better access.
Nevertheless, researchers should have better access.
Here's the post on Good Authority! Thanks @goodauth.bsky.social @johnsides.bsky.social & Vanessa Lide! goodauthority.org/news/was-the...
Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover?
A TikTok outage more likely explains recent anomalies โ thereโs no evidence of larger platform changes so far.
goodauthority.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Betteridge's law of headlines alert, but solid analysis and actual data: there was an actual outage, it seems.
Nevertheless, researchers should have better access.
Nevertheless, researchers should have better access.
OK now it's really getting quite ridiculous
February 3, 2026 at 8:14 PM
OK now it's really getting quite ridiculous