It's hard to read this and not think that this is Meta not wanting to be left out of the super-dangerous / super-powerful AI club.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

just felt very strongly that everyone needed to see this up close

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 7d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

Seeing a good amount of outrage about this specific fact but I don’t think this would really be better if they had shot and killed the guy they were looking for?

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”

Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

“The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Mullin told him.”

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...

The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

tomshardware.com

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The older plane has been widely reported to be equipped with a system designed to blind an incoming antiaircraft missile .. It is unclear how many, if any, of those capabilities have been installed on the newer plane ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

1/ After seeing a lot of Polymarket videos on social media, my @WSJ colleagues and I wanted to understand Polymarket’s marketing. After watching a bunch of videos, we noticed that the website featured in them was almost, but not quite, identical to Polymarket’s actual platform.

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

The Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook families

The Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.

ms.now

For my #LosAngeles followers, highly recommend this powerful play abt Xian Quesun, the Chinese aerospace engineer that helped develop US rocket tech, was persecuted under McCarthy, then returned to China to found its missile program. Playing thru this weekend only: www.skylighttheatre.org/ascent

ICYMI, this #longread on the #EnhancedGames in Las Vegas last weekend by @amitkatwala.bsky.social is really really excellent. www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/10/1...?

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Dozens of athletes on performance-enhancing drugs competed in the Enhanced Games. Organizers hope it'll sell a lot of peptides and other supplements.

technologyreview.com

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

"it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count."

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote about Spencer Pratt’s very online campaign, the predictable election fraud accusations that have started now that he’s looking likely to not make the runoff, and what this tells us about the 2026 midterms open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

wired.com

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?

The real count is much higher than the public knew.

lawfaremedia.org

I don’t know what to say. This is just insane:

The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.

wired.com

Also worth noting, a number of previously US-based scholars are now relocating to continue their research in Germany, including an online safety expert, Eirliani Abdul Rahman, who I wrote about here. www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/21/1...

Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety

In a lawsuit, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research argues the government is using immigration policy to stifle free speech and tech regulation.

technologyreview.com

Jake Wright@bcnjake.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo ago

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

It’s wild how this has become so normalized that they’re just doing this as a marketing pitch to consumers now

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

I’ll never get used to watching privacy disasters unfold in real time.

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark

“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.

nj.com

Surveillance provides the infrastructure of gendered violence. This is a practice that long predates Flock and goes way beyond local police. NSA employees have tapped into the backbone of the internet using national security tools to spy on women.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Police appear to constantly misuse license plate reader data, including that collected by Flock - and in at least 16 recent cases, they used that data to stalk people they’re romantically interested in.

Bluesky is fighting a novel tactic from Russian influence groups hacking into authentic, respected accounts to spread fabricated news. Targets include professors and journalists whose feeds were hijacked to post AI-doctored videos targeting Ukraine and Western allies.

Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda

nytimes.com

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

The pro surveillance politicians are very mad their constituents don't like being surveilled. After residents in a tiny Texas town pressured council to ban Flock, a pro-Flock councilmember called the town hypocrites and proposed a full phone and internet ban www.404media.co/after-town-b...

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban

A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits

404media.co

Back in my freelance days @Playboy let me write a story about [others] tindering across the US-Mexico border. Glad to see them back!

Playboy@playboy.com · 3mo ago

Hello Bluesky. It's Playboy. For our first, and timely post, we share our latest investigation into OpenAI's disastrous plans to become x-rated. "Altman’s idea of an “erotica” feature seemed riddled in uncertainty." Read our piece "Why ChatGPT Can't Be Sexy" here: www.playboy.com/read/politic...

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Inspired by @eileenguo.bsky.social, I asked ChatGPT for Matt Novak’s phone number and address. Both were old, but they were my real phone number and home address.

ChatGPT Gave Out My Address and Phone Number

Thankfully, both are old. But this raises questions about what's considered private info in the AI age.

gizmodo.com

Eileen Guo@eileenguo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW FROM ME: I wrote about how chatbots are surfacing real phone numbers, these PII exposures are likely to increase, and (maybe the worst news) how hard it is to actually prevent this from happening. www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1... #AI #Privacy

“The likelihood of PII appearing in AI training data is only increasing as public data ‘runs out’ and AI companies look for new sources of high-quality training data. This includes information from data brokers and people-search websites.”

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

technologyreview.com

NEW FROM ME: I wrote about how chatbots are surfacing real phone numbers, these PII exposures are likely to increase, and (maybe the worst news) how hard it is to actually prevent this from happening. www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/13/1... #AI #Privacy

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

technologyreview.com