Judith Donath
@judithmedia.bsky.social
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The next morning, The Times changes its headline to insult all its readers. No, #BrokenTimes, we are not all clueless. This guy is. But you give him free publicity without exposing his racist history and the eugenicist roots of his followers. That's clueless.
Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2w ago#BrokenTimes hands an hour to Nick Bostrom, philosopher prince of doomster cultists, without mentioning he was ousted from Oxford for racist emails or the eugenicist roots of #TESCREAL philosophies. The Times has lost the ability to call bullshit. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
The real question is, are they paying these creators for stories in their favor? We already know they’re pushing out the free and independent press. Is this yet another attempt to hide their failures? So much for the “most transparent Pentagon in history.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.
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“All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation.”
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
The planet is scorching, the air unbreathably smoky. And our Federal government has now stripped bike lanes and pedestrian protection from its list of best safety practices--they want "projects that promote vehicular travel." www.newsday.com/long-island/...
Trump administration strips bicycle lanes, pedestrian protections from proven safety list
Long Island traffic experts said the changes aren't based on data and could affect what projects are funded.
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Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.
CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt
Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
How to talk about
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.
Nobody understands the war between honesty and deception better than @judithmedia.bsky.social, who will be speaking here at Indiana University and live on Zoom tomorrow at 4pm Eastern. Tune in and register (it helps) here: events.iu.edu/bloomington/...
The Alchemy of Confidence
Join us for an exciting talk given by Hardvard faculty fellow Judith Donath as part of the “Beyond the Web” salon series piloted by Ostrom...
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This is why Russ Vought defunded USAID, attacked NEA and NIH, caused CPB to commit suicide, is defund the Dep’t of Eduction, is trying to kill the CFPB, has attacked NIH and NSF, tried to kill the IMLS, closed the Kennedy Center and just yesterday took over the Presidio to turn it back to a prison.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6mo agoGood @mattpolprof.bsky.social look at anti-intellectualism of the right up through MAGA: "We see this today in how DeSantis, Trump, and the MAGA intelligentsia obstruct ordinary people from thinking about the colonialism and slavery of the American founding." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 6mo agoAn update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
A megalomanical president with diminishing mental capacity, surrounded by Apocalypse-seeking end-time Christians, at war with an ancient Moslem country, with mega-tons of destructive power at his fingertips theintercept.com/2026/04/04/p...
Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War
By making the case that the war with Iran is a holy crusade, the evangelicals around the president are making it impossible to end.
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"I don't want to happen but it probably will" is classic abuser language: "look what you made me do." Except it's not on the scale of a household, but of a nation of 90 million and millennia of civilization.....
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoTrump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
John Gramlich@johngramlich.bsky.social · 7mo ago89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border
We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...
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Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
Good summary in the coverage by @cornelluniversity.bsky.social: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
AI assistants can sway writers’ attitudes, even when they’re watching for bias | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell Tech researchers found that writers who used biased AI auto-suggestions saw their views gravitate toward the AI’s positions without their realizing it — even when they were made aware of the b...
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Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 7mo ago🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)