Matt Kelly
@radicalcompliance.bsky.social
Editor of Radical Compliance, the best damn analysis of ethics and compliance issues you can find (for free). On Signal: RadicalCompliance.16
Suffolk University students are pushing back against the school's new Applied AI co-major. A new petition with over 500 signatures calls on Suffolk to scrap the program & redirect funding toward students, staff and arts and humanities after 65 staff positions were cut recently.
Trump says the DC Circuit wrongly classified him as a "mere tenant of the White House"
Kalshi and Polymarket are flagging lots of likely insider traders to regulators. Except, the regulators can't do jack about it- b/c they've been gutted by Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
Prediction Firms Are Flagging Insider Traders. Many Will Not Face Charges.
The agency that polices the industry does not have the staffing, the legal tools or the will to broadly crack down on wagers that are easily manipulated, experts say.
nytimes.com
Amen! Regulators would shut this down in a nanosecond if anyone but Trump tried it. It's broad-daylight insider trading.
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 4d agoby Trump corruption standards the Truth Social API deal is appalling. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
wired.com
Seems like just the sort of climate change risk that companies should disclose to investors.
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · last wk.France's EDF to invest €9 billion over 15 years to adapt power plants to climate change
Who in their right mind thinks this technology is ready for prime time? The more it exists, the worse the story gets.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: OpenAI's rogue agents built their own message board inside an internal package manager and used it to trade exploits, divide up tasks, and coordinate a hacking spree. Hundreds of thousands of messages. Nobody at OpenAI noticed. New details from Black Hat, by @lhn.bsky.social:
Was typing out ‘the importance of ethical leadership’ and Google auto-corrected it to ‘the impotence of ethical leadership’ and as I ponder the world these days, maybe auto-correct has a point. #ethics #anticorruption #compliance
NEW: “We now have evidence confirming that both of the two largest AI labs have not only failed to contain their agents, but also failed to detect their jailbreaks in real time.” @lmatsakis.bsky.social & @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
wired.com
Blue states also provide a net $443 billion in federal taxes per year, while red states take a net $212 billion. The blue states as usual are heavily subsidizing the red, and now aren't even getting government services for their money usafacts.org/articles/whi...
Which states contribute the most and least to federal revenue? | USAFacts
In 2024, Californians paid about $275.6 billion more to the federal government than they received.
usafacts.org
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 2w ago“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I lay out Trump's three-part strategy to attack the midterm elections and what we need t do to fight back. Read, share and act! www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The GOP has a plan to undermine free and fair elections. We must stop them
The GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t.
democracydocket.com
I’m waiting for Trump to impose new tariffs on Canada as retaliation for Canadians no longer visiting US due to tariffs.
Canadian visits to U.S. plummet amid Trump tariffs, ‘51st state’ talk
"Canadian travel sentiment shifted abruptly" after President Donald Trump returned to office, analysts said.
washingtonpost.com
Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping gizmodo.com/someone-was-...
Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping
After hearing an impassioned speech, Lux Claridge clapped, and was then arrested.
gizmodo.com
This was a great essay. We should be very wary of tech bros protecting their AI “children” at the expense of any human anywhere. www.ft.com/content/bdb3... Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic
We saw it with tariffs (US Chamber of Commerce), and I don't know for sure, but I've been concerned we've seen it with semi-annual reporting as well: www.businesslawprofessors.com/2026/07/semi...
Semi-Annual again
I posted about the comment letters here and I have a LinkedIn update here, but, in addition, allow me to make a brief observation. Vanguard filed a letter
businesslawprofessors.com
Wolfers: For nine out of the last 10 presidencies, if you’d said, “How much should we blame the president for what’s going on with the economy right now?” I would have said that the president is just one factor among many. That’s what I would have said nine out of 10 times. This is the 10th time.
You actually can fight it. That is absolutely something you can do.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
notus.org
NEW: Who could have possibly seen this coming? @lhn.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
wired.com
Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗
1/ Trump signed 50% tariffs on Canada today under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Worth walking through the legal mechanics, the USMCA leverage play behind it, and what it costs.
Have you heard of never-skilling? The trainees who constantly rely on AI and FAIL to develop foundational skills. Get ready for the AI-powered zombie workforce.
