Listen to my conversation with Bernice Yeung here (or wherever you get your podcasts): www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf... Or watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9jO...

Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1

In s more responsible political era, politicians would exert their ultimate power on these companies - ignoring their pleas and lawsuits in support of corporate profits, power and self-aggrandisement. No other industry could threaten our societies like these do and not end up in jail.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 6d ago

“We now have evidence confirming that both of the two largest AI labs have not only failed to contain their agents, but also failed to detect their jailbreaks in real time,” says @malwarejake.bsky.social “It's clear that regulation and government oversight for AI testing is needed immediately.”

One point of maintaining a diplomatic corps — and not shredding it to give a billionaire’s 23-year-old acolytes some jollies — is having people able to say who “the right Iranian officials” are on the payroll, a call away.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can they transfer us to the right department. 🤡

Completely—and utterly irresponsibly—unhinged.

This is why a diving catch on a pristine (baseball) outfield just doesn’t hit the same… and obvs would get a nod from inventor of the game (he knew of Baseball) but wanted Pesäpallo to be useful for military training of 🇫🇮 youth.

Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 3w ago

The fabled double-riverball has finally happened

Romaanin päähahmosta kehkeytyy oikeuden symboli, vaikkei hän muuta maailmaa tai edes voita oikeustaistelua. Hän tekee vain sen, minkä tietää oikeaksi, tietäen, ettei se riitä. Ja juuri siinä on jotain hyvin inhimillistä, sillä moraali on voiton sijaan tapa olla olemassa tässä epäreilussa maailmassa.

Microsoftin päästöt kasvoivat 27 % tekoälypöhinän seurauksena. 1.7.2024–30.6.2025 jaksolla teknojätin päästöt olivat 21,1 miljoonaa hiilitonnia, kun edeltävällä ajanjaksolla tuo määrä oli 16,7 miljoonaa tonnia. Myös Googlen (+18 %) ja Amazonin (+16 %) päästöt kasvoivat samasta syystä. #AIkamoista

Parts of the former Soviet Union are only now starting to critically engage with their own history. They only now realise that almost everything they learned about the history of their own peoples was part of imperial construction and agenda. @laurimalksoo.bsky.social on russia’s imperial worldview.

ICDS Tallinn@icds-tallinn.bsky.social · 4w ago

Russia's root problem stems not from Putin's personality or the system of governance he created, but from Moscow's enduring view of other nations, other peoples, and even the agreements it signs. Lennart Meri Lecture by Lauri Mälksoo. #LennartMeriConference

the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable

Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 4w ago

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

NEW from @propublica: Trump pushes out remaining members of bipartisan election commission ahead of midterms www.propublica.org/article/fede...

Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms

President Donald Trump has fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the federal Election Assistance Commission, while Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign, sources...

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We now have video feed of the incident

Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 4w ago

The funniest thing in Finland right now: reactions to pics of the corpse of #Iran's ayatollah transported in a former "K" grocery chain's delivery truck. Not the first time their branding attracted international attention. The logo on the right was used from 1998 to 2014.

Okay, a PSA, especially to everyone in the business of defending #Europe and #democracy - and to journalists: I thought I knew that the tiniest slip-up may let the bad guys geolocate a picture or a video, but a presentation I saw blew my mind nevertheless. Be VERY careful if #OPSEC is a concern.

Constant pinging in various group chats, and news, in Finland. Why? Because A Khameini's casket was lifted out of a truck emblazoned with logos of Finnish K-group (one of two largest food distributors, sellers etc) --> has led to lots of ??? All publicity is good publicity?

When You Hear ‘Remigration,’ Know That It Means Ethnic Cleansing talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/when-yo...

When You Hear ‘Remigration,’ Know That It Means Ethnic Cleansing

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

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Haluaisin tietää mitä TP Stubb teki Turkin Presidentti Erdoganilta NATO huipparin yhteydessä saadulla pistoolilla (ainakin Starmer ja Carney sai), ehkä @thomasvb.bsky.social voi kaivaa sen esille ;-)

Cowboy Rapid Fire Shooting

ALT: Cowboy Rapid Fire Shooting

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President Trump: Would you go to Moscow? President Zelenskyy: It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.

Next time I am doing an essay assignment, it’ll be on the Islamic Republic of Japan, its beginning, how it evolved over the centuries and how it ultimately lobbed hundreds of missiles on U.S. before Big Boy showed up; if any students reply seriously, I might suspect LLMs 🤪😂

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

😳 Trump just flubbed his way through his meeting with Zelenskyy, at various points referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan," repeatedly calling Zelenskyy "President Putin," and railing against the "JCPOC" Here's the blooper reel:

Wow, if say Finland or Sweden did this (effectively state price fixing for gasoline / subsidies) I am sure Fox & MAGA would scream ‘Nordic Communism’ or something like that… perhaps it’s an effort to get people used to Cuba like vibes 🤷🏼‍♂️🤔…or perhaps Putin told Trump this is what autocrats do?

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

God this is bleak. Almost everybody cheated and learned less than in previous years www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

No jopas. Siipien kärkiväli Boeing 737:n luokkaa. Lakikorkeus yli 15 km ja toiminta-aikaa yli vuorokausi. "Suomi, Tanska, Saksa ja Norja käynnistävät jopa viiden Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton -lennokin hankinnnan." www.lentoposti.fi/uutiset/suom...

If this happened in my country - you could bet on things you can influence and the outcome would be bad (deadly wildfire in this case) - I would want the full weight of the government to immediately end the company and hold owners accountable. This has NO PLACE in a society. None.

High Country News@highcountrynews.org · last mo.

Fire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson.

Is this a bad idea? @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social says yes! It's absolutely a bad idea. And Hecla's calculations really show that too. This thing spews radiation everywhere it goes (and would even if it was indirect). Handling, testing and flying it are very dangerous.

Top Gun

ALT: Top Gun

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The statement by the heads of Five Eyes cyber security is a combination of three things: A) boilerplate but important cyber security advice/reminders B) clear call to action to political and business leaders C) a "holy shit" -moment. www.cyber.gov.au/about-us/vie...

Some world regions are experiencing up to 50 additional heat stress days annually, when compared to 1950 - Study in Nature Climate Change #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population - Nature Climate Change

The authors assess global changes in heat stress since 1950, considering daytime extremes, nocturnal heat and compound day–night events. They show multidimensional intensification, with an increased f...

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For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale

The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.

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But sure, let’s plan our societal functions from education to economy and critical infrastructure around new and exciting workflows produced by systems that simply cannot function reliably. Seems legit…if you own an AI-company.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Google's AI Overviews are treating entities from the SCP Foundation — the famously fake fan-fiction universe — as if they're real. The AI feature often contextualizes SCP entities as actual discoveries while describing made-up SCP records as "official" documents. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Versaille is a rather interesting and historically loaded location to sign papers related to ending a war. I am sure in their minds (WH and Trump) they are the Entente/Allied powers… some might quibble with that and point to the Central powers of WWI.

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

A video shared on social media by the White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino shows U.S. President Trump signing the Iran Memorandum of Understanding at the Palace of Versailles, just prior to a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.

"At some point, friends of liberal democracy throughout the advanced democracies—including future liberal governments—will simply have to come together in a concerted and deliberate way to constrain Musk and all he’s unleashing."

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Wow, what a 🧵 on students and AI. I think it highlights how different experiences and thoughts are re AI use or integration into what humans do.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/