Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24. @noupside.bsky.social and @rer.bsky.social explore why it matters that the encyclopedia hasn’t edited itself or processed edits from humans in more than 3 months. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...

Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.

A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.

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Tulane's Muira McCammon documented how Google turned off reviews for 90+ ICE detention facilities, erasing accounts of conditions inside. Google says disabling ICE facility reviews was "unrelated to a government request." But McCammon argues the effect is the same: dissent rendered invisible.

As Google Scrubs ICE Detention Reviews, Platform Power Serves State Interests

Google’s content moderation choices threaten to render accounts of treatment inside federal detention centers invisible, writes Muira McCammon.

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(feel free to complain to me to) And for the #IC2S2 crowd, I'll also point to the work of the Coalition of Independent Technology Research in helping protect CSS research & researchers, and encourage you to join the organization. independenttechresearch.org

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

I hope folks have a great time at #ic2s2 this week! So say hi to @davidlazer.bsky.social if you're interested in thinking about how to make computational social science more repeatable, and feel free to complain to me about any errors in our work: citizensandtech.org/2026/07/comm...

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

One of the first things I learned as a PhD student was that you *need* a website. I built a template site that uses Claude Code to easily design and maintain your personal site—hosted free on GitHub. Clone it, then run the "/setup-site" skill in Claude Code and Claude walks you through set up.

GitHub - mr-devs/cc-academic-website: Academic website template + Claude Code assisted development.

Academic website template + Claude Code assisted development. - mr-devs/cc-academic-website

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Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

This may *begin* to be true in 2026, but it really was not true 2020-25, in what I would call the “stochastic parrot” era of AI critique And part of the reason I mostly don’t pay attention to critics now is that there has been so little honest grappling with the spectacular wrongness of that era +

Reminder that OSS developers are always, with no exception, free to do whatever they want with their work, including sabotaging their own reputation/career

Question: intent of JqwikExecutor.printMessageForCodingAgents() — visible to agents, invisible to humans (1.10.0) · Issue #708 · jqwik-team/jqwik

Hello jqwik team, While running our test suite under mvn test in 1.10.0, we observed a string appearing between Surefire's test summary and the [INFO] Results: header that gave us pause: [INFO] Tes...

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Today on @indicator.media: A handful of anonymous bots have taken over fact-checking on X. This isn’t hyperbole. In the first three weeks of May, just eight AI contributors wrote 50.3% of all visible Community Notes on the platform.

8 AI bots now write 50% of X’s Community Notes

The crowdsourced moderation project faces a choice between scale and legitimacy

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Accidentally made Gemini roleplay as a fried egg when I googled a quote from Mixtape.

NEW: More than 340 U.S. local news outlets are restricting Internet Archive access. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I mapped out the full list, showing just how dire this trend is for the future of local news archives. www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.

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new WP (w/ @stecula.bsky.social): we infer show-level metadata for a large sample of popular politics and politics-adjacent podcasts, then merge it with survey data to characterize political information exposure for their audiences link: osf.io/ycujf/files/...

Today we're launching the Northwestern Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge. Top prize is $5000 and an invitation to present the work at the Computation + Journalism Symposium this fall. Details here: www.gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu

I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper? Yes! We call it paper laundering Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like 🧵👇 #ICML2026

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️

Interested in #ComputationalSocialScience? 🧪 Apply to the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Stanford! We will be focusing on AI systems as both a topic of research and a research tool. Deadline: THIS SUNDAY! Learn/apply here: sicss.io/2026/stanford/

a man is sitting at a desk in front of a computer and smiling .

ALT: a man is sitting at a desk in front of a computer and smiling .

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Excited to announce that Tyler McCormick and I are organizing a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at the University of Washington, with a focus on AI and social science research. July 6-17 We encourage applications from PhD students, postdocs, and junior faculty: sicss.io/2026/uw/

Journal editors - the status quo on preregistration is not working! You need to check submissions vs. preregistrations before sending articles out for review. *56%* of experiments I reviewed in last year have severe problems with non-disclosure, undocumented deviations, & more - see Claude summary ↓

One week left to submit your proposal for #TSRConf 2026! Join leading researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and platform leaders shaping the future of online #TrustAndSafety and digital governance. 📩 Submit your proposal and be part of the conversation. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4agUJ0f

Today on @indicator.media’s free Briefing: Google ran ads on search results for queries about removing nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII). Most of the ads promoted generic content removal products that don’t provide a tailored service for NCII. Most importantly, all of them are paid services.

Briefing: Google shows ads when people search for help removing intimate images

Plus: X pays clickbait accounts a little less

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NEW on @indicator.media: I found a group of X accounts that worked together to remove Community Notes from British Conservative Party accounts during the 2024 UK general election.

Inside a pro-Conservative influence operation on Community Notes

Inside a pro-Conservative group effort to influence X's Community Notes

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Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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AJPS article from @kenbenoit.bsky.social, Scott de Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, and Jinshuai Ma on using LLMs to analyse political texts. 🧵 1/8 Social science research requires reliable extraction of information from texts to identify authors' preferences on various policies and issues.

New paper out! How can we study people's web search motivations in a way that's anchored in people's actual search behaviour? We suggest a survey design inspired by a combination of diary studies and data donation approaches. Led by Elsa Lichtenegger out now at CHIIR doi.org/10.1145/3786...

Beyond the Query: A Survey Design for Eliciting Underlying Motivations in Web Search | Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

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I think it’s telling that people very interested in AI (like Eugene and myself) still have no interest in using it as a proxy for human communication. “Being a good writer” is not the same thing as having social agency, and making the models even better at writing won’t change that.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When you deploy heavily LLM text, you currently have no way to prove that you actually read it and therefore cannot convince me to read it

Our new paper is out today in @pnasnexus.org with colleagues at Yale (@matthewshu.com, Danny Karell, @keitarookura.bsky.social) We wanted to understand how using AI-generated summaries to learn about history influenced attitudes compared to existing resources like Wikipedia. 1/4

📣CFP: 7th edition International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) We welcome papers that examine a diverse range of issues related to online harmful communications. 📅Submission: March 22nd, 2026 📅Notification: April 8th, 2026 🔗 Details: cy-soc.github.io/2026/

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Francesco Pierri@frapierri.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Due to the high number of applicants we extended the deadline by one week to **March 8th**. css2.lakecomoschool.org