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“Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry. On the contrary, we need to resist being coopted and corrupted by the industries’ agendas. This requires deep
commitment to the mission of universities, our academic values, our scientific
integrity, and our critical scholarship …”

Judith Durham

Sheldrick Trust is terrific

human not just in the loop but in control and checking all the output

What was the focus? …with AI’s ubiquity, editors should be able to see what’s in focus, with “AI” as a background. In other words, I imagine your article was less AI-focused than it was this-problem focused. Yes/no?

The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.

@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.

We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.

Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

As Rupert Murdoch TV hammers away telling its viewers that Canadians are their enemies, Republican views of Canada shift on cue. At this point, Murdoch's propaganda machine can make its viewership believe absolutely anything, no matter how absurd.

AI Disclosure Labels Risk Becoming Digital Background Noise With care, regulators can turn AI disclosures into a signal that ordinary people actually notice when it matters, writes Muhammad Irfan.

Regulators are pushing for AI disclosure labels in many jurisdictions around the world, but they risk becoming digital wallpaper that people ignore, writes Muhammad Irfan. With care, he writes, disclosures can be signals that ordinary people actually notice when it matters.

The Verdict

Why is Elon Musk’s name blanked out?

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

Believe all these guys when they act like they’re in a war against America. They think they are.

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

If they renewed Happy Endings right now, there would be potential for a great episode on how they all loved Heated Rivalry (or some made up stand-in) in their own specific, psychotic way. Except Max, who couldn’t really get into it.

She’s so earnest

So much of GOP conspiracy land is simply not understanding how counting works. No one is ever “ahead” or “behind” until the counting is over.

"power holds no value unless it is exercised"

Condensed milk - Wikipedia

even before pasteurization was a thing, Borden figured out that washing udders, cleaning barns, and sterilizing equipment allowed for the production of a safe and shelf-stable milk product

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condens...

Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...

This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."

people.com/ballerina-fa...

This is my full 50-page statement to Gov. Pritzker's "Illinois Accountability Commission," trying to explain comprehensively the depth of corruption, culture, and training problems within ICE and CBP. I hope you'll at least consider scanning through it: drive.google.com/file/d/1y0im...

What if: Save As PDF, Export PDF to .docx?? …klunky and agree shld be unnecessary but adds just 1 step… ? and carries over only Author metadata, I think

"...however bad you think it is, the reality is far far worse... the full statement allowed me to explore 2 emerging problems — ICE’s reliance on surveillance technology & the looming crisis of its concentration camp-style detention facilities." - GMG ⬇️⬇️⬇️
drive.google.com/file/d/1o4z6...

The Political Scene Podcast Discussions about politics and more.

Also, catch Garrett talking about ICE on the latest episode of the Political Scene. As clear and incisive as ever. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Cybersecurity & Tech Grok, 'Censorship,' & the Collapse of Accountability Renée DiResta, Berin Szóka Thursday, January 29, 2026, 11:45 AM Share On: f X in x 6 8 Grok's nudification scandal shows how "free speech" rhetoric is being used to obscure any ethical responsibility for real-world harm.

Common use of the word “censorship”conflates three distinct things: (a) factual claims ab suppressing speech; (b) legal claims ab U.S. law; (c) a normative claims ab free speech values.

Elon slides between them interchangeably; the word becomes an escape hatch from accountability & chills others.

Impressive work on the part of the Dartmouth admin comms team to manifest in human form the very same ethical and philosophically issues that plague generative AI.

Outside The American embassy in Copenhagen. 1 flag for each Danish soldier who died along side American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Flags have been removed by the embassy, on danish soil, danish property.
Disgusting and shameful.

Exactly right, and therefore important not to give credit for an investigation of an obvious atrocity. Appropriate responses are apologies, resignations, firings, impeachments. The individuals who killed people should be tried before a judge and jury.