There's always an angle (continued) nypost.com/2026/08/04/b...

Ken Griffin to stick with Park Ave. skyscraper plans despite Mamdani’s personal attack, anti-business policies

The mayor’s blind-side attack on Ken Griffin failed to derail plans for a  $4.5 billion skyscraper home for Griffin’s Citadel companies.

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Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There's always an angle... (For those not following NBA economics: these are the cheap seats)

Ultimate case study in how AI reduces creativity to generic cliches, as documented in multiple research studies.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not sure what else to say except: wildly embarrassing.

Quoted (with @zephoria.bsky.social and Jeff Hancock) in this @acm.org article about what happens when people retreat to AI over their social interactions -- the loss of friction, trust, and effort could be devastating. 1/ cacm.acm.org/news/is-ai-c...

Counterpoint: I'll save you 28 minutes. It is a story of greed. Naked, uncontrolled greed.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. One NYC immigration court shows us what that will look like.

Inside the NYC Courtroom Where Detained Children Face Deportation Without Attorneys

Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. One NYC immigration court shows us what that will look like.

buff.ly

I don't have a hot take on data centers, but I have several years of research on one (the Facebook/Meta data center complex in Prineville, Oregon). The more I research current trends, the more I think that one was a kind of goldilocks deal, the exception to the rule ...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Presented today at #IC2S2 by the great @isabelcorpus.bsky.social -- will be posting more about this work soon!

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 4w ago

See here for @isabelcorpus.bsky.social paper showing that the "write with AI" feature on change.org made petitions longer and their text more complicated. The outcomes? Did not improve. arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949

Absolutely required reading for computational social scientists e.g. people at #ic2s2 this week

J. Nathan Matias@natematias.bsky.social · last wk.

When people seek guidance from science, they expect it to work more than once. I have TWO new articles on commercial forces & proprietary models that make science less reliable, with pointers to communities and ideas that might help. This post offers a summary: citizensandtech.org/2026/07/comm...

Including evidence that AI Slop takes revenue from real authors. The key long term effect --- human authors, already facing long odds, leaving the scene entirely --- will be devastating for literature (as it will be for music and other arts).

Tuhin Chakrabarty@tuhinchakr.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 New paper on AI & Copyright Using @pangram.com full-text AI detection, we study self-published genre fiction on Amazon, 2023–26. Amazon is flooded w/ books with substantial AI text. They earn real 💰 & crowd out non-AI books. w/ @dhillonp.bsky.social @xinyuel.bsky.social & Jane Ginsburg (1/n) 🧵

AI-assisted fiction is already here, tons of people are reading it, very few of them realize it, and no one wants to talk about it. Gift link to my latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Is This What Comes After AI Slop?

Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

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This is a more relaxed example than "person finds his death at rally" kind of headline, but: Kids, don't use the passive voice unless absolutely necessary (and definitely not when it can create confusion).

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: A leading Democratic lawmaker has written to FIFA president Gianni Infantino to request that he appear before the House Judiciary Committee in a fresh attempt to scrutinize his organization’s relationship with the Trump administration.

- make me a counterexample AI: ... - sudo make me a counterexample AI: Counterexample (Functional equivalent of)

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here are 58 words of prompts to GPT-5.6 Pro that got the model to discover that the long-standing Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. Increasingly, prompt crafting is over-rated, ask for what you want. (Which itself can be a hard problem)

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 this: "The Internet's trust architecture—built around authenticating devices and users—was never designed for autonomous entities capable of making independent decisions."

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2w ago

For decades we regarded the Internet as infrastructure used primarily by people. Following the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, Konstantinos Komaitis argues AI agents challenge that assumption—and AI governance can no longer stay separate from Internet governance.

openai.com/index/huggin...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - T-800 Action

Alt: [Our future] Scene from Terminator 2: Judgment Day - T-800 Action

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In 10+ years of being adjacent to the Queensboro bridge I have never seen it spilling over like this. But kudos to the Little Roosevelt Island Tram That Could! #nycstormyweather

Why AI detection is a losing battle for everyone. If readers use it, writers will use it too (and their AI can even help them avoid it).

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2w ago

Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance (Chris Best/The Substack Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Congrats Spain! -- New York City

Well maybe not! (Clearly I should have made another post where Spain wins)

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 3w ago

I figured it out. Argentina = the Knicks Messi = Brunson The final's outcome is inevitable.

Since everyone is sub-tweeting "is ChatGPT search" takes, here's the origin. And yes of course Chat is not 10-blue-links search but of course people do use it to search the web which, in functionality, makes it "search". Now what are the limitations and whether people perceive them is another q 😱

FX Coudert@nanoporous.net · 3w ago

Ironically, as @mart1oeil.eu showed, there are telltale signs that the piece was edited with ChatGPT: many links include "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" If even Science editorial team cannot afford good human editing, that's worrying

We wrote this paper to be useful to multiple fields, not just psychology. I hope it's useful to folks in Communication, HCI, and other fields studying socio-technical questions

Killian McLoughlin@killianmcloughlin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Before psychologists build a body of knowledge on quicksand, we wanted to add our voices to those highlighting the problems with using proprietary LLMs in research and offer some low cost, straightforward solutions.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Lol @kashhill.bsky.social, as always: insightful, startling, and funny. "Because romance sells, the professors thought it would be the genre most susceptible to AI intervention... instead it was nonfiction—a term that should probably be used loosely in this context" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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I just learned that Michael is my (academic) soulmate

Michael Ekstrand@md.ekstrandom.net · 3w ago

Since it’s #recsys2026 camera-ready season (congrats to all with accepted papers!), re-sharing this thing I put together about making excellent final paper manuscripts: md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2023/08...

The Circle Line boat on its sunset cruise rn 🤦‍♂️

I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵

I figured it out. Argentina = the Knicks Messi = Brunson The final's outcome is inevitable.

Kids, be sure to clean up your LaTex files before you upload to a public repo!

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 3w ago

"Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared. Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hmmm... Congrats, I guess? It is quite an accomplishment these days.

Alex Kaplan@alkapdc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast today that he "just got banned on Facebook."

Luke is one of the best, with incredible experience in corporate and government. Should all cities be so lucky! (also, follow him here).

Luke Farrell@lukef.bsky.social · 3w ago

LETS GOOO 🏎️🏁 Thrilled to be leading this team and excited for the hard work ahead! nyc.gov/pitcrew

Whether it's FIFA, the refs, god, or the spider cam, it is clear that yesterday England and Argentina had some help from above.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's curious, isn't it, how our collective concern with the Fierce Urgency of Assigning Cards with Microscopic VAR-assisted Precision had completely disappeared by the end of extra time, when Emilio Martinez & company were also faking injury & contact to kill off the final minutes.