@miriamposner.com's SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN, out in October from @yalepress.bsky.social, which offers a timely lesson on how capitalism shapes software design--and thus what we can and cannot know about the information (and people) our software rests upon. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 5/

Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

yalebooks.yale.edu

A problem for primary schools now, secondary schools in the next few years, and universities a few years after that.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives

Oh, hello.

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/abk-co-... farewell, another great from an era that fades from living memory

ABK co-founder Peter Ahrends dies aged 93

Tributes have been paid to Peter Ahrends, the last surviving member of celebrated Modernist practice Ahrends Burton and Koralek (ABK), who has died aged 93

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I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge

Remote

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You can vote at 16, but the government decides your internet bedtime until you're 18. Make it make sense.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]

DHS just confirmed the plan to roll out a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces to verify their immigration status. Agency said this is related to the 287(g) program; more than a thousand local and regional police departments are part of that www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

ICE’s Plan to Let Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify Immigration Status

ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.

404media.co

www.democracynow.org/2026/6/9/qui...

Quinn Slobodian on SpaceX IPO, How Musk’s Wealth Warps the Economy & Fuels “Neo-Fascist” Politics

Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deep...

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Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2mo ago

I'm on @democracynow.org tomorrow talking about this + other reasons the IPO has been called "hallucinogenic": 💫key person risk with no deputy or successor 💫claim that xAI—lost $5b last year—has total addressable market of $26 TRILLION based on fairytale tech 💫the ways laws could block this all

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...

404media.co

A piece of good news in the middle of the darkness we live in: "SpaceX will not gain accelerated access to potentially billions more dollars through passive investment funds that automatically purchase shares of S&P 500 companies." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.

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On the Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian about his "owners not renters" thesis: that the central AI question isn't open vs. closed, but whether we own AI or lease it from a handful of companies with their own incentives. Plus: his experience with Mythos.

Why the AI Policy Debate Should Focus More on the Harness and Protocol Layers

A conversation with Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla and author of the newsletter Owners Not Renters.

buff.ly

“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong they have to be to not be useful.” Usually treated as a technical question, in my new article in the Modern Law Review, I argue it is also a legal one. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404media.co

New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything. We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...

We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.

404media.co

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (Gift Article). www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

Join us online for IALS event Computational Communications and Freedom of Speech 19/05/26. Speakers include: Jennifer Petersen, @usc.edu, @bernardkeenan.bsky.social, UCL, Claudy Op den Kamp, @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Free to attend, booking required: tinyurl.com/2234xrn3 @sas-news.bsky.social

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Ofcom has issued its final guidance on OSA technology notices following the consultation. I am really pleased that my joint consultation response with Micheál Ó Floinn and @bernardkeenan.bsky.social was cited and led to changes. I have written a bit about it here: open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...

UK digital surveillance through platform regulation: technology notices, encryption and regulatory ambiguity

Ofcom has published its final guidance on technology notices, the controversial power to scan communications for terrorism and child abuse content.

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Like clockwork ... "Surveillance Tools Intended for Border Control Are Being Used Against Americans. U.S. citizens are being monitored and punished with technology meant to battle illegal immigration." reason.com/2026/05/06/s...

Surveillance tools intended for border control are being used against Americans

U.S. citizens are being monitored and punished with technology meant to battle illegal immigration.

reason.com

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 7mo ago

The type of military vehicles that once patrolled the streets of Fallujah are now driving down Main Street. And the data systems built to track immigrants won’t stop there; they’re destined to be used to track American citizens, too.

Not surprisingly, "nearly 30% of researchers in red states self-censor" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Nearly 30% of researchers in red states self-censor – Survey

Almost one-third of American university researchers based in Republican-controlled states where new laws have restricted the teaching of ‘divisive t...

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Good - possibly time for a resignation www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim

Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued fine for handling of protests over professor’s trans rights views

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quite interesting (if very partial) interview from the NSA Deputy Director during the Snowden affair. he says the quiet part out loud — that people didn’t understand how the FISA law relates to technology was itself an NSA capability www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/n...

NSA Chief During Snowden Affair 13 Years Later

Chris Inglis was the head civilian in charge at the NSA when the Snowden leak exploded. He gets candid about mistakes the organization made.

darkreading.com

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.

wired.com

when your main qualification for the job is the provocative message it sends to democracies around the world

generational cohort engagement bait@shaolinvslama.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Google marks all Gemini-created text with its SynthID text watermarking system. They have released public detectors for media. They have not for text, and they have not publicly said why they haven't. Regulators and legislators should ask them.

it's everything you loved about 1918, with added stupidity

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo ago

Breaking news: The military will no longer require U.S. troops to receive the annual flu vaccine, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, rolling back what he described as “overreaching mandates that only weaken our war-fighting capabilities.” https://wapo.st/4eAG2sx

It will be the law of the jungle. Market analysts are already predicting that rich countries will outbid poor countries for scarce oil and gas supplies. This means energy famine for the Global South. Link: www.ft.com/content/6ca1...

Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below: