"A familiar future, yet stupid." About as good a description as any.

William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · last mo.

And I assume that it does, though it’s still scarcely AI at all. So this is a familiar future, yet stupid. And in so many other ways as well.

People 2014-2024: “We don’t want robots reviewing our content! We demand human review!” People in 2026: “Holy shit, did you know humans are reviewing our content!? How creepy! We only want robots!!”

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

I'll be presenting a keynote at Clemson's Law and Society Symposium next week. The symposium addresses legal and philosophical issues raised by AI. My lecture is organized around the question: "What Is Intelligence For?" If you're in the area, I hope you'll attend. jeremysheff.com/2026/09/14/a...

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

And of course OpenAI and Anthropic are running with it too. Rogue AI narratives easily let them off the hook for their sloppy (and embarrassing) development decisions. While also making it look to their eager investors like they're inventing god...

This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · last mo.

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

The first element of this strategy (external private monitors against systemic social risk) was tried in the aughts with credit rating agencies in the mortgage-backed securities market. It failed. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...

Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

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Explaining Markov models on the first day of Artificial Intelligence Law. With @klonick.bsky.social .

New Paper Alert: The Japan Trademarks Dataset: An open-access, comprehensive dataset on the trademark registration system of Japan. Paper forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis (JLEA) jeremysheff.com/2026/08/20/n...

OTD in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Here is a photo of LBJ handing a pen to Martin Luther King, Jr, at the signing ceremony. As the caption says, this was "the strongest civil rights legislation since Reconstruction Days."

HISTORY.

SPEECHLESS. LFGK

Illegal fireworks launch from the sidewalks to burst over the rooflines of Harlem, orange and blue.The NYPD cruiser double-taps its siren at the screaming revelers spilling out into the streets, and its bullhorn deadpans, "Knicks in five." New York loves New York.

It’s 2 against one, the spurs and the refs against the Knicks. Wtaf.

New Yorkers propose edits to AI company's subway ad campaign.

On June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court told Alabama to draw an equitable congressional map. Alabama flatly refused. Yesterday, SCOTUS validated Alabama's decision. "States can just ignore SCOTUS rulings hoping the Court will change its mind" is a pretty odd position for a court of law to endorse.

Important thread. mRNA-based treatments are, as predicted, showing promise as a clinical tool to prevent or significantly delay cancer deaths. Addressing honest but underinformed skepticism while defending good science against bad-faith charlatans will be crucial to realizing that promise.

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪

The simplest long-run solution to the gerrymandering wars is a federal law expanding the House and electing members by proportional representation. Alabama has more Democratic voters than Hawaii. Massachusetts has more Trump voters than Mississippi. None of these voters deserve to go unrepresented.

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Alabama’s lieutenant governor, who also serves as president of the state Senate, posted a 7-0 Republican gerrymander calling for his party to eliminate both Black Democrats. Every seat on a map like this would be dark red and heavily white

Chris brings up an important piece of SCOTUS reform that I’ve written about before. The judges who grant cert should *not* be the ones who decide the merits. Ideally the cert bench would choose cases for the *next* merits bench *before* its members are selected. cardozolawreview.com/wp-content/u...

attn law profs/academics …saw this on LinkedIn - Clearinghouse of calls for papers docket.richardsonresearch.org made by U Hawaii

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

John Roberts has been happy to serve as the respectable, mild-mannered face of revanchist American racism for my entire life. I'm sure he imagines himself the clear-eyed, even-handed steward of a racially fractured society. But I doubt he can imagine a society where that isn't his prerogative.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 6mo ago

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

A famous CompSci conjecture involves problems that are difficult to for computers to solve but whose solutions are easy for computers to verify. Workplace AI seems to have created the inverse: problems that humans can easily solve but whose computer-generated solutions are hard for humans to verify.

Frank Pasquale@frankpasquale.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Workers at companies that adopted AI tools over the past year are reporting, in anonymous surveys and in the growing genre of unsigned workplace confessions, that the tools have made them slower. Not marginally. Measurably.” thecritic.co.uk/the-emperors...

And now there are AI hallucinations in a bankruptcy court filing by lawyers at S&C. These lawyers' clients have to wonder what exactly it is they're paying for. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/n...

A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says

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Jeremy Sheff@jnsheff.bsky.social · last yr.

Last month there were allegations that some of my students may have used generative AI on my final exam. The incident led me to give some serious thought to how we are dealing with these tools in the professional education context. Here’s what I wrote to my students: jeremysheff.com/2025/06/02/g...

Very excited to be hosting the @stjohnslawiplc.bsky.social Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy (IP/LaP) Workshop at @stjohnslaw.bsky.social today. We've got a great lineup of papers (www.stjohnslawiplc.org/events/2026/...).

Call for Abstracts: NYC IP Law and Philosophy Workshop — St. John's Intellectual Property Law Center

The St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center  is pleased to host the New York City Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy Workshop (IP/LaP) at our Manhattan Campus on Friday, April 17, 2026...

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more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

This won't kill this technology, it just makes pharma a sector dominated by European, Chinese and Indian corporations

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 6mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...