Heroes. Quite the effort and dedication on this one. Unfortunately, not an easily repeatable process for most researchers looking for access, but can hopefully inform lawmakers.
Quantum is bursting with promise that feels just out of reach—much like pre-generative AI. A breakthrough 'LLM moment' may soon arrive, write DLA Piper's Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr and Michael Atleson. What hopefully won't follow: the hyped product claims that plagued AI.
"When fluent speech without responsibility becomes normal...it changes what it means to be human," Deb Roy writes, weighing how AI might be training us to “accept words without ownership and meaning without accountability.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”
had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
Teens in the US are much more likely to say AI will have a positive than negative effect on them personally over the next 20 years (36% vs. 15%). www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
The zoom-in on McBride was something
Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook.
It hasn’t fully hit BlueSky yet, but LinkedIn and X are just meaning-shaped comments by LLMs
The universe of critical, fundable research is much, much bigger than gen AI
This paper argues that the rush to study gen AI has led researchers to focus on the same topics and rely on the same methods. As a result, creativity is limited and the diversity of ideas needed to keep research flexible, strong, and innovative is being pushed aside.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Today I'm helping to lead the first convening of the Reconstructing Free Expression project at @knightcolumbia.org. I'm excited to brainstorm with the other participants (including @genevievelakier.bsky.social, @jamalgreene.bsky.social & @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social). Preview here 👇
Such a great column by new @washingtonpost.com food dude — I hate a bossy restaurant www.washingtonpost.com/food/2026/02...
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
First contribution to @knightcolumbia.org’s new initiative on “Reconstructing Free Expression” is from @jamalgreene.bsky.social—and it is exceptionally insightful and worth reading. knightcolumbia.org/blog/free-ex...
Can we talk a bit about the terms “First Amendment absolutist” and “free speech absolutist,” and whether they have any agreed-upon meaning?
I promise to try, to the utmost of my ability, to Be Respectful Of Other Opinions.
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Discussing news is a key way Americans make sense of what is happening around them.
At the same time, a growing share have stopped talking to certain people about political news.
Ferguson, Smith, Hume and Hutch
Said “This strife over God is too much—
Let’s build upon sentiment
To increase contentement,
And avoid logique, raison, and such.”
“Monsters are something exceptional, an inverted miracle that comes out of nowhere with no real explanation”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social making trouble with @postbaron.bsky.social at #kmf26
@knightfoundation.org
When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.
From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵
I was really hoping that halftime show from a stellar Peurto Rican artist would have beem more political.
Bad Bunny should have looked at the camera and said loudly in English "End the Jones Act Now"
Great week to thaw out at #kmf26. Looking forward to seeing everyone! 😎
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Holy cow. This 5th Circuit ruling on U.S. copyright overriding other countries' copyright laws, while a little arcane in its details, is a huge mess for everything from basic commercial licensing to national sovereignty and comity.
The biggest threats to journalism in this country, and to the possibility of an informed and empowered electorate, stem from the political economy of the media. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
