ICYMI: Jaron Lanier, one of the sanest voices in Silicon Valley, offers a 4-step guideline to make #AI safer and prevent it from 'destroying the world'. www.dailygrail.com/2026/09/vide...

(VIDEO) Jaron Lanier on How to Make AI Safer

Now that ‘AI Doomerism’ is making headlines all over the world, it is nice to see when cooler heads offer their opinion—and in this case, the head is cooler both on the inside and the outside. Jaron L...

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After I wrote my Truthdig article, someone apprised me of an interview with the renowned computer scientist Jaron Lanier in Vox. What Lanier said is directly relevant to my central point. THESE PEOPLE REALLY DO BELIEVE OUR SPECIES WILL SOON DISAPPEAR AND SEE THIS AS DESIRABLE:

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · last wk.

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.

Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.

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ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Republican Rep. Thomas Massie reads articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. About. Damn. Time.

🚨BREAKING: In another win for voters, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington, D.C. – appointed by President Donald Trump – issued a preliminary injunction late Sunday in favor of Democrats who challenged the rule as an unconstitutional power grab. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Second judge halts Trump’s election power grab, barring states from voluntarily working on mail voting rule

States cannot voluntarily work toward meeting the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting requirements after a second judge said the requirements likely overstep the post office’s authority.

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Saoirse is in an afterschool program, and today she excitedly told me all about the SMART test for evaluating the credibility of information (source, motivation, author, review, two-sources). I can think of a lot of adults who would benefit from this class designed for 4th and 5th graders.

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...

🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins

Learn more here.

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Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Well, make my shit the chronic, because I always assumed it was the struggle to create something that gave it a chance of being good. Anything without struggle wasn't what it could be.

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last mo.

Dr. Dre says only "people who have trouble creating" see AI as a threat

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · last mo.

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

Contact your elected officials and tell them that NARA is important to your #genealogy #FamilyHistory and #History research. If you live near a NARA regional branch, start preparing now in case they pull this stunt again and try to close the branch near you. www.saveournationalarchives.org

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.nichibei.org/2026/07/hist...

This is why preservation, digitizing, archiving, and librarians are so important. They cannot take away our knowledge without our consent, don't let them.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 2mo ago

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are being targeted for closures, significantly impeding access to invaluable materials, including genealogists, educators, researchers, and the general public. Find out what you can can to prevent this. www.saveournationalarchives.org

“How in the world is ICE just going to be walking around with these gloves? It is inherently harmful. It has no legitimate law enforcement purpose.”

The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves

“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.

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The public square did not disappear. It was privatized, fragmented, and rebuilt into algorithmic rooms where outrage spreads faster than truth and shared reality becomes harder to hold together. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-digita...

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2mo ago

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

📺 Melat Kiros, on Firing Line this was an interesting watch because Firing Line is a conservative show, started by the founder of National Review, and Kiros is a Democratic Socialist in particular, they discuss the DSA's take in Israel, nato, amd DSA foreign policy youtu.be/gs3rR0J4oHg

Melat Kiros | Full Episode 7.31.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

The two people who are breaking through the noise and cutting through to the essence of what is happening right now with deeply damaged Donald Trump are Jon Ossoff and Hunter Biden. Here is Hunter's very perceptive take on the messy scene at the White House Correspondents Dinner:

"Vacation days are long, and you need to adjust your schedule gradually. Each week of training, set your alarm fifteen minutes earlier, and wait thirty extra minutes each day to eat. Make sure you add in at least twenty minutes of sitting around, wondering what’s going on."

Family Vacation Training Plan

“This six-week plan will help you build towards your ten-day trip to London with nine family members in tow, using a variety of exercises designed to prepare...

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“.. The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025 .. “.. And for the first time, ride-hailing and app-based food delivery companies .. ranked among the top three ..” $AMZN www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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.

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The wide divergences recently between Netflix's official newsletter listing of what's leaving their service next month (which most outlets just cut and paste and run) and what is ACTUALLY leaving next month (which some of us do the work of tracking ourselves) is turning me into a conspiracy theorist

fucking depressing story about a website that rocked and will hopefully someday rock again

Walter Hickey@walthickey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

fascinating story from one of the best movie data guys about one of the best movie data guys stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...

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