Michelle Shevin

I have never run more than 5 miles and have gotten runner’s high more than once. It is like a creeping & then sudden bodily euphoria that makes you feel you could run indefinitely. Still never made it past 5 miles though. It is a stress response in the brain and probably a bad thing to have happen!

OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT.

This might be my villain origin story: www.wired.com/story/openai...

People are always saying on social media that gen-AI is here to stay and that it’s retrograde and standing in the way of progress if we reject it. But there are plenty of things that were once the embodiment of progress that we collectively decided to reject, from cocaine in soft drinks to eugenics

The hysteria when you say, “nah I’m good” on all the chat bots is how you know they’re in the grips of roulette fever. You know the guy at a casino, shaking at 2 am, telling you how dumb you are not to get in on this?

I’ve just eaten a braised chicken thigh and a fried wing at hat yai with extra pickles and I feel compelled to tell you that you buried the lede!

DOGE is assembling a master database of personal data from across the government -- including tax records, social security files, immigration dossiers etc.

This cross-agency master database is exactly what Congress tried to prevent when it passed the Federal Privacy Act of 1974.

A centralized database will be "ill-equipped to correct errors, allow for extenuating circumstances, or bring facts up to date," warned Vance Packard. "The notion of the possibility of redemption is likely to be incomprehensible to a computer."

A centralized database will be "ill-equipped to correct errors, allow for extenuating circumstances, or bring facts up to date," warned Vance Packard. "The notion of the possibility of redemption is likely to be incomprehensible to a computer."

Big fan of friction, myself.

Reading them next to each other tbf but also rhymes with Postman’s critique of “entertainment” as something that helps with education.
“…conceived by someone asking What is the television good for? Not what is education good for?” could easily be about AI…

An unforgettable, excellent, and timeless article!

This consolidation started long before now and was a product of a lot of American hubris. But this is definitely the “find out” phase and it’s going to be brutal.

This is, the therapists say, very dangerous—the algorithm doesn't know how to detect nuance, or when to ask follow up questions, for instance, and may be turning away people in genuine crisis. Algorithmic triage, they say, has been a disaster, and they've fought it since its inception.

i'm ambivalent about litigating algorithmic fairness and accuracy; this is why. negotiating administrating this system fairly or accurately is nonsense. there's no running a colony ethically, or an empire in a human-centered way. you can make up bullshit and hit those targets, but they mean nothing.

Evidently rich terroir 💫

Genuinely weird bit of resonance for me here. I have just booked my first ever trip to Portland and am naturally already looking for food. In immediate succession I encountered this place on the map near my hotel, bookmarked it, and then switched over here to find this at the top of my feed…

Flyover Country What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like.

With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

Go slow and love intensely.

“Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Come this way…” —@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social

Erez Reuveni argued on behalf of the Justice Department during Friday’s hearing in the Abrego Garcia case.

Reuveni has reportedly been placed on leave.

Here’s one exchange with the judge that may have contributed to his ouster:

a poem i wrote while falling in love with my life I dreamt my body electric -- tree-like, geomagnetic...

a pro life tip is to find someone you like to tell your dreams to

whose future is not only a space of problems to be solved, but also circumstances to navigate in community with one another. Through this lens, choices become not just good or bad, true or false, left or right, but assessed against their potential to cultivate the conditions for right relationship.”

“Planning on co-liberation and collective thriving doesn’t mean things proceed according to a plan. It looks more like prioritizing, over and over again, the reality that while the future is unwritten, my destiny is tied up with yours— that all life is an interconnected web…

lolsob

The hype machine for Big Tech, "AI", and cyberlibertarianism shows no sign of slowing down. This is because it actually has to speed up to balance the number of red lights flashing on the dashboard in terms of "AI's" usefulness, contribution to human happiness, and (crucially), profitability.

Holy shit

“Trump administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs’ outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family”

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Possibility + Power = Plan I soured on my first strategic foresight job gradually, and then all at once.

Really enjoyed this, Eryk!
I came to a similar conclusion in this piece out last week — fun to put these in conversation with each other.
“…Computers are very useful in many contexts. They are not a vision of the future…”

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Pro-AI hype and Anti-AI doom are so deeply personal and polarized for a reason: they are the only visions of the future anyone is offering at all. In my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, a look at the loss of faith in participatory politics that frames AI hype, but also its backlash.