If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/

Read @markfollman.bsky.social lastest piece on how ChatGPT is reinforcing suicidal and homicidal thoughts among vulnerable people that go on to be mass shooters: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.

True if so many … increasingly so perhaps

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3d ago

The thing about RFK is that he was born into a bubble and spent decades and decades in that bubble and as a result he is very bad at dealing with the real world.

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Commission preliminarily finds the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook in breach of the Digital Services Act

Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook.

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Call for Participation — Cognitive Security for Human–AI Systems (CogSec), a full-day workshop at HCOMP / CI 2026, Washington, DC area, September 27, 2026. Details: noetx.github.io/cogsec-2026/ 1/6

DIG IN!!! Social Media Evidence Library, an incredibly important public resource. Use it. Don't just superficially acknowledge it with a thumbs up or whatever. SHARE it widely ... www.motleyrice.com/social-media...

Social Media Evidence Library | Motley Rice

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Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories

@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

The thread is much, much better than the article.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"In any case, the fact remains that we may be creating a new species of morally important beings. We’re doing it fast, at enormous scale, and we should treat the issue with the seriousness it deserves." I am! It deserves zero seriousness. In fact negative seriousness, i.e. ridicule. /fin

Supposedly smart software systems do not need "protections from harm"

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

"We should consider whether to grant AI systems protections from harm, similar to the protections we give to children or pets." "AI systems" are products built and run by corporations. We have already given corporations too many protections that should only belong to people. >>

@evanselinger.bsky.social seems like a twisted-for-AI version of our free will wager from Re-Engineering Humanity

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The central question should not be “Is AI conscious or does it have moral patienthood?” but rather “What should we do given that we don’t know?”" Guess what, there are more candidates for what the central questions should be! >>

"Both reactions are unfounded. We need an informed public debate, one that approaches the subject with humility and pragmatism." Humility is not claiming you are gods, building life. Pragmatism is looking around you and thinking how to address the actual harms. >>

Call for Participation — Cognitive Security for Human–AI Systems (CogSec), a full-day workshop at HCOMP / CI 2026, Washington, DC area, September 27, 2026. Details: noetx.github.io/cogsec-2026/ 1/6

Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source. Obama's wealth grew from royalties from books written before office, and Bush's largely came from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior. Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.

I think most of the arguments against court packing are sound enough in themselves. The problem is we have at least four justices who have demonstrably come totally unmoored from any sense of duty to the constitutional order, and the consequences of hitting five are even worse.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3w ago

My dissent on this, also at @theunpopulist.net. Probably one of the pieces I’ve caught the most flak for from certain quarters, but it’s where I am as a reluctant convert. This Court really is that bad, and it is not an unthinkable apocalypse for Congress to exercise its constitutional check on it.

I stopped short of marrying Salma Hayek.

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 3w ago

England stops short of advancing to World Cup final

Wow

Marcella Alsan@marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Open access in QJE!📢 Using newly assembled archival data, we show how the AMA's nationwide campaign against national health insurance, labeling it "socialized medicine" and promoting private insurance, helped steer the U.S. away from universal health care academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO

Thread

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the weirdest request for input that I've seen in a while. It's almost like the ACM is sitting at the table with the "change my mind" sign. So, let's do it. Short thread with the input I gave them:

Hadn’t seen this before. Looks very interesting

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 6mo ago

useful on this point with case studies: "Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896-2000" www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

COVID-era federal school funding may have had little impact on students, not because $ don't help, but because local govts reacted by reducing property taxes, leaving schools' overall funding levels unchanged. New @nber.org paper here: www.nber.org/papers/w35447

Agreed. This certainly resonates with me. The anticipated litany of responses to each argument made in the essay is also spot on Feels like a conversation I’ve had dozens of times, at least.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 4w ago

A beautiful essay indeed, and great jumping off point for people across all fields of scholarship to reflect on what it is we are doing and why. A short thread >>

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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Exactly

Shahan Ali Memon@shahanmemon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We argue that AI welfare is a design choice, not a latent property. Because systems, indicators, and metrics are co-engineered, welfare evidence can be manufactured or suppressed by ordinary development decisions, and no external validation mechanism exists to detect when metrics go wrong.

The core problem: the welfare "indicators" are co engineered with the systems they evaluate. You train the model, shape the behavior, design the probes, tune the metric, then act surprised when the metric "detects welfare." bsky.app/profile/shah...

Shahan Ali Memon@shahanmemon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This kind of “news” from Anthropic always reminds me of this cartoon/meme.

By his own admission, he had no idea what a red card was, but he knew -- better than the ref, better than FIFA -- that what Balogun did did not meet the standards for getting a red card, which, again, he had never heard of before. This is like watching JD lecture the pope, but more corrupt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."

Just for those keeping track, there is no sense in which personal stock transactions are “official acts” of the president covered by the immunity announced in Trump v. U.S.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last mo.

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

Heck yeah!!! Super excited to see this as I head to Brussels for the 3rd annual friction in design workshop! sites.google.com/view/frictio...

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · last mo.

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

Thrilled to share my article w/ @ormerod.bsky.social, just published by @emorylawjournal.bsky.social: "Regulating Manipulative Design Is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment" scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcont... Read, share, cite in briefs, reply w/ your favorite quotes, etc.