Millions of voters will be thrown off Medicaid soon after the midterms, thanks to the “Big Beautiful Bill.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Anjana Susarla
@asusarla.bsky.social
Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI at the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Some of my general writings can be found at: https://anjanasusarla.substack.com
New: Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he’d proceed with investigations into Elon Musk and DOGE through the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations should Democrats take the Senate. “There is a web of potential corruption here that needs to be explored.” “He should have nothing to hide.” wapo.st/4smHJ1G
As Republicans brace for election losses, Musk prepares for war
A host of Democrats have said they are eager to wield the power of their office to investigate the tech titan and his ventures should they win either chamber in the midterms.
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New #HNL paper out in @nature.com: Educational Intervention Can Rewire Village Social Networks. 1/
Educational intervention can rewire village social networks - Nature
A randomized controlled trial involving a health-education intervention in rural villages in Honduras shows that the intervention changed social network connections, including not only health-rel...
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More than 30 countries have called for stronger controls on frontier AI and a possible new international institution. Konstantinos Komaitis argues the controls are essential, but AI governance needs an Internet-style network of distributed expertise, not a global overseer.
AI Governance Needs an Internet-Style Network, Not a Global Overseer
The goal should be a system in which expertise is distributed, connected and capable of challenging governments and companies, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation.” #NobelPrize
It is wild the degree to which being on Bluesky (as opposed to Twitter, which feels like walking into the clamour of an Indian railway station) feels like hitting mute on India right now, with the whole nation at a turning point.
"Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department."
Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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I've been talking to journalists a LOT recently, and it was particularly delightful to get to speak about questions of linguistics, language change and prescriptivism, for once: www.cnet.com/tech/service...
AI Is Not 'Super Intelligence.' Why No One Should Use Trump's Term - CNET
Commentary: Words evolve based on public use and technical precision, not because a president orders people to adopt them.
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Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Data centers are booming. All other private construction is shrinking.
1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.
So, apparently the T.H. Chan School of Public Health has beclowned itself with a series of studies claiming an association of cancer with proximity to nuclear power plants. The only problem? That association is linked with every single landmark one can test. In other words, a statistical artifact.
Dimitri Lozeve@dimitri.lozeve.com · 4w agoA study showed that nuclear power plants were associated with higher incidence of cancer. By reproducing the study, researchers showed that the statistical methods used led to higher cancer incidence around any landmark: www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/things-tha...
In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
Adrienne LaFrance@adriennelaf.bsky.social · 4w agoNew just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Enjoyed reading The Complex by Karan Mahajan, a riveting tale of a multigenerational family in Delhi. The narrative deftly weaves family squabbles with changing political dynamics in the 80s and 90s www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
The Complex by Karan Mahajan review – a superb family saga set in Delhi
At once a grand sweep through history and a domestic novel of petty squabbles, this tale of corruption and betrayal is packed with drama
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I am sure if a screenwriter tried this plot line into a Veep style TV drama, they would be told its too over the top to be believable..
Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 4w agoAt no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.
Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I walk through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI. youtu.be/u4pr23MWMM8?... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI | Better Offline
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This is seriously terrifying to anyone who has teen girls who will consider applying to college.. I did not realize how prevalent this is
Anne Helen Petersen@annehelen.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It is the president saying that he and he alone will convert a bipartisan spending bill (that has been signed into law) into a partisan spending bill. He is canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like.
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Very encouraged to see so many countries coming together to call for mandatory pre-deployment testing & independent evaluation; global coordination on common standards; the creation of an intergovernmental organization; and other critical actions to mitigate the major risks of frontier AI.
A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models - Presidentti
September 2026 Artificial intelligence is an extremely powerful technology. It has potential to improve lives, advance science and strengthen our economies. At the same time, the rapid development of ...
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