To the media: stand up, be strong. Do NOT capitulate. Support CNN, MSNOW and Politico. If you stay together you will win and a core tenet of our system - the First Amendment - will be protected. Man up.

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤

Thomas Wood@advanced-eschatonics.com · 4d ago

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Fantastic write up of @monasloane.bsky.social book talk! Thank you Virginia Law Weekly for www.lawweekly.org/front-page/2...

How AI is restructuring social life   — Virginia Law Weekly

There are several concerns I and many others have about AI: heightened bias and discrimination, pervasive misinformation, widespread job loss, and untenable demands on natural resources. Yet in her ne...

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Must read by my brilliant @uvalaw colleague Caleb Nelson entitled Against the Dictatorial Presidency. Download now papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This week's guest, linguist @emilymbender.bsky.social, talks with @adambecker.bsky.social about the origin of her famous paper on LLM’s, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” #ai #datmpodcast #future #science #llm #linguist #stochastic #parrots

We had a once in a lifetime event celebrating @monasloane.bsky.social’s book Predicted w commentary by @ariezra.bsky.social Jenny Davis and Kirsten Martin. @elizabethrowe.bsky.social and I were kvelling. 127 plus folks attended! Here is the Cavalier Daily www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026... up

Mona Sloane joins U.Va. Law for a discussion of her book on AI and sociology

Sloane runs the Sloane Lab at the University, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence and cultural, economic, material and political conditions.

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Don Jr's extravagant 3-day wedding was bankrolled by Russian oligarch and Putin crony Umar Kremlev, per @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Even VP Gerald Ford got that can’t blame the computer but rather how WE build and use them.

Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).

We’re baaaack. 👻🎙️ Season 7 of the Taboo Trades Podcast is officially here—with a new team of @uvalaw.bsky.social student hosts and a fresh lineup of conversations about stuff we aren’t supposed to sell…but do anyway. Start the season with our welcome episode #TabooTrades #UVALaw #Podcast

Welcome to Season 7! - Taboo Trades

In this episode, we welcome listeners to Season 7 of the Taboo Trades Podcast and introduce this year’s UVA Law student hosts: Mia Armstrong, Sahanya Bhaktaram, Tyler Donovan, Kate Garmer, Liz Jahoda-...

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@axios.com highlights a recent classroom exercise from Prof. Mitu Gulati, in which he instructed students to come up with a plan for the president to manage a U.S. government default.

😱 Imagining the unthinkable

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A mouse has vanquished my ability to have a candy/chocolate selection. And on the day I brought in my new stash! Mouse ate clear though the plastic M&M dispenser. @uvalaw.bsky.social it will return! Someday!

@monasloane.bsky.social, my sister Dr. Jeanine Morris-Rush and I on how digital wellness industry is hijacking women’s intimate privacy, agency, and health and undermining relationships with their doctors. Thank you @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/h...

The Digital Wellness Industry Is Hijacking Women’s Health

Danielle Keats Citron, Jeanine K. Morris-Rush and Mona Sloane warn that health apps are undermining patients’ agency and placing additional burdens on doctors.

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"If Ford automobiles were spontaneously catching on fire, we wouldn’t tolerate the CEO changing the subject to discuss our general lack of preparedness for a future with flying cars. We’d demand that the company address the acute problem happening right now." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...

Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now? (Gift Article)

The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.

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Journalism Job Alert: there are three jobs open on the NYT tech team in San Francisco. We are hiring for reporters to cover Anthropic, xAI, and a general AI business reporter. Message me if these interest you and you want to apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

Business Correspondent, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies

San Francisco, CA

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“The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming…Corporations, which should be the creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.” — Grover Cleveland heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

September 4, 2026

On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.

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We did this!

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 3w ago

"'The fact that this policy exists at all is due to the enormous work of parents across the city who spoke out against the overreach of A.I. into their kids’ classroom,” @kellyclancy.bsky.social said."

Please enjoy this interview with @hypervisible.blacksky.app about Meta's pervert glasses. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...

The revolt against Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ is part of a growing storm

AI. Data centers. Flock cameras. Now Meta’s “pervert” glasses. Breaking down the latest stage of a mass resistance to big tech with Chris Gilliard, privacy scholar and author of Luxury Surveillance.

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@alondra.bsky.social's fantastic recent piece "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool." I highly recommend reading this, regardless of what field you're in. It walks through many dimensions that we should all be thinking about. 2/2. www.amacad.org/publication/...

WATCH: Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social discusses shortcomings with Meta’s settlement and new protections for teenage Facebook and Instagram users. @bloomberglp.bsky.social

Watch Meta Settlement a ‘Pittance,’ Law Professor Says - Bloomberg

Meta’s settlement is a “pittance” relative to the company’s profits, according to University of Virginia Law Professor Danielle Citron. She argues the bigger question is whether new protections for te...

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Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social examines Meta’s $17 billion settlement over claims that the company deliberately designed products to be addictive to children.

Q&A: Will Meta’s $17 billion settlement make social media safer for kids?

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Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.

Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)

The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”

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Dolly Parton is one of those people who just made the world feel a little warmer. Her voice. Her generosity. Her humanity. Rest In Power 🙏🏽💔

Preordering @davekarpf.bsky.social new book Vaporware Inc.—excited to read!

Trump has threatened to sue the left-leaning @americanprogress.bsky.social (CAP) and its donors over a study it published questioning the benefits of his National Guard deployment. I'm proud that Cato's president is speaking out against this act of intimidation. "We stand with CAP." /1

The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her online and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement. nyti.ms/3Sqb2mk

This is also THE time to follow folks whose work has shaped our understanding of how AI can determine life outcomes: @safiyanoble.bsky.social @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @poetofcode.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social Virginia Eubanks And, of course, @alondra.bsky.social

🧵Moments when the public suddenly sees the consequences of unchecked corporate power are RARE. Dems squandered an opening post-housing crisis. Now is an opening for big reform. We must not make the same mistake with Big Tech today. I wrote a memo to Democrats @contrariannews.org 🧵🧵🧵

Memo to Democrats: Your Anti-Big Tech Majority Is There for the Taking

The backlash against data centers is the perfect opening for a popular mandate to rein in Silicon Valley.

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