Thanks very much to the GW Hatchet for this write-up of my talk at the GW Museum and Textile Museum @gwu1821.bsky.social

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I really feel like millennials especially resent the copyright theft part of these AI data centers because of this.

Ah I didn’t know that that would makes sense though

Yeah for sure even seemingly insignificant things will add up to just like a completely uncertain grasp on our shared reality? Like can dogs do at least theoretically do that? And search being integrated with AI has led to a lot of false info surfacing at the top and I already feel dumber for it

Wow that’s genuinely impressive

@himself.bsky.social talking sense, as usual. Notably: “The administration would have played its cards differently if it had a stronger hand.”

The primary political danger with genAI deepfakes is the same as what disinformation has long been used to accomplish: total apathy and cynicism that makes collective action and coordination impossible. Basically what you don’t want in a moment of authoritarian consolidation of power

there’s some evidence that the fact that pets lick their dead owners’ faces off first before consuming other parts of their bodies that they are actually trying to “wake up” their owners indicating particular affection for them rather than apathy

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1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation.
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Type of guy who likes to talk to erotic chatbots but only he because he cares deeply about Elon Musk and he wants him to succeed

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~*Just dc things*~

Not necessarily complaining

Furiously searching your feed to find your takes on the Taylor album and get this instead

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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Nicholas should screaming “Witness me, blood bag” as he prepares to explode himself captures twenty-first century politics so perfectly it is enough to make Fury Road one of the best movies of our time. Good morning

Now that would be perfect

At that point, if you’re a production studio, I’m gonna wonder about the quality of your aesthetic taste regardless of the obvious AI issues (though I don’t know it’s a British company and don’t pretend to understand what y’all are up to over there)

Gotta say “Tilly Norwood” has got to be one of the most comically bad stage names a company could come up with for trying to market their AI avatars as substitutes for human actors

Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

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Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.

Tired: not having kids because of lack of protections for reproductive healthcare
Wired: not having kids because of widespread military occupation of American cities

No longer on a weekly basis, but I could not resist ....
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