Roberta Fischli

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OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

🌻 my week with the AI populists a Washington DC scene report

.@jasmine.bsky.social captures DC’s AI vibes, where passion is flowing in enthusiasm’s opposite direction. Her “reductive two-line summary is as follows: All the money is on one side and all the people are on the other. We aren’t ready for how much people hate AI.” open.substack.com/pub/jasmine/...

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Wait hold up...
Did Bad Bunny just give his Grammy to Liam Conejo Ramos the poor kid who was kidnapped by ICE? If so amazing

The sign beforehand said "Conejo" on it too

A Bad Bunny look-alike is crowned in S.F., and the crowd goes wild Hundreds gathered for the "Bad Bunny Lookalike Contest" hosted by Mission Lotería. Only one contestant took home the crown, but all were celebrated.

The kind of SF content I‘m here for missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-s...

I’ve spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being. But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta’s causal findings regarding social media harm.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Blue Books, Big Models, and Why I’m Still Teaching the Research Paper Blue books may prevent cheating.

Excellent piece on AI and student writing by @ruthstarkman.bsky.social :

“One might try hallucinating their way through our conversation, but no one dares show up unprepared.”

open.substack.com/pub/ruth/p/b...

Meta to mine AI interactions to help target advertising Changes signal how the social media giant will make money from its costly artificial intelligence efforts

on.ft.com/4nsRDLP Remember when everyone thought surveillance capitalism was dead?

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli

on.ft.com/3IDjY31
Excellent read. “These figures are impossible to understand if we rely on the political science of recent decades (…). They are characters accustomed to operating in a world without limits, who draw strength from the unexpected, the unstable and the bellicose.”

Love the idea because I despise what chasing housing wealth has done to everybody's life and brains.

Though I do feel that the success of this sort of thing requires the advanced 'Swiss' civilisation part of it

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.

What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Swiss co-ops aren’t perfect, but I agree: when working as intended, they take wealth out of the (living) equation and allow people from different social strata to live side by side (and under one roof).
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

So inspiring to see @karenhao.bsky.social in conversation with @rajiinio.bsky.social at the AI and Society event @ Berkeley. We need more formats like this in the Bay Area! (and beyond)

So inspiring to see @karenhao.bsky.social in conversation with @rajiinio.bsky.social at the AI and Society event @ Berkeley. We need more formats like this in the Bay Area (and beyond).

Normative Philosophy of Computing - January Happy New Year!

January update from the normative philosophy of computing newsletter: new CFPs, papers, workshops, and resources for philosophers working on normative questions raised by AI and computing.

What Could Citizens’ Assemblies Do for American Politics? An Oregon county is looking for solutions to youth homelessness—so it convened a random selection of residents to come up with ideas.

„Though still rare in America, the model reflects the striking idea that fundamental problems of politics—polarization, apathy, manipulation by special interests—can be transformed through radically direct democracy.“

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

„We noticed something (…). Wherever in the world we’d sent a reporter, whichever corner of the technology landscape we were covering, the holders of all of that money? Men. All of them. Every. Single. One.“
@katie-drummond.bsky.social link.wired.com/view/5cf8230...

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

Lots of cautionary tales out there when it comes to public services being rendered „more efficient“ by opaque AI, systems, see: www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Interesting side note: „The three words most associated with AI by the public are “robot”, “scary” and “worried”, according to government research last month.“https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai

Something from our story on Meta’s content moderation rollback: the groundwork for it was being established before the 2024 election. And employees say a key push was Zuckerberg’s grievance that Meta had inadvertently restricted the virality of a post he wrote about blowing out his ACL.

weird

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ (Gift Article) Private messages detail an alleged campaign to smear Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

Smearing is caring in Hollywood. Once more terrifying to see how coordinated media attacks and well-oiled PR machines are deployed to alter public perception.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

Lawsuit Reveals How Colleges Really Talk About Rich Applicants A lawsuit alleging universities colluded on financial aid provides a glimpse into the ways top schools assess and discuss children of privilege.

« The motion filed Tuesday, which draws from years of speeches at exclusive gatherings, depositions and internal university reports, shows officials bowing to financial pressures to admit wealthy students over potentially more qualified candidates » www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

@ruthstarkman.bsky.social

Clio: Privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use A blog post describing Anthropic’s new system, Clio, for analyzing how people use AI while maintaining their privacy

Clio enables bottom-up discovery of patterns by distilling conversations into abstracted, understandable topic clusters. It does so while preserving user privacy: data are automatically anonymized and aggregated. only the higher-level clusters are visible to analysts. www.anthropic.com/research/clio

Loved this one by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about journalism, power, and ignoring your workers when they‘re in front of you *with* a loudspeaker in hand.
(Favorites include the description of Mr. Sunde as the dad of the detective - yes to the coffee pot and the volvo - and the PS note at the end.

What Does a Translator Do? Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it.

Beautiful and compelling: „Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it.“
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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