Logan Middleton

Let’s stop calling every piece of news a distraction from the Epstein files
Devalues the importance of other news developments
2. Positions the Epstein files as the only important story when it’s part of larger patterns and trends
3. Everything is connected and aren’t distractions to one another

This time around, we have to worry not just about whether they're lying, but about whether they're lying specifically to cash in by swaying the stakes on Polymarket and Kalshi bets.

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, reportedly for "intelligence assessments, including target identification and simulation of combat scenarios" even after the supposed ban

A strike in Iran hit a Girls school in Manib with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting more than 80, including children, were killed. This strike was geolocated by researchers including @ntabrizy.bsky.social , @chrisosieck.bsky.social and @annonemo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/chri...

The US and Israel launched strikes across Iran this morning. Iran has responded by firing ballistic missiles and drones at Israel, and US bases in the region. Civilians have already been killed or injured in multiple countries, caught in the crossfire.

i actually think this is the wrong way to think about the direction this is going. fox news is the default channel in many public spaces — most troublingly, us military bases, has been for decades. this was not a matter of policy afaik, it just slid into place. it's not hard to lock it in as policy.

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Little in this world is as pathetic as the NYPD

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Note, NYT assumes that DHS told the truth about what happened, which would be crazy because they literally Never Have when they shot someone, especially an American.

Opposition to Mega Prison Project Shapes a Local Election in Rural Arkansas - Bolts Incarceration has become a central issue in Western Arkansas, where the governor wants to build a new prison that has angered and mobilized residents.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing.

Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor.

NEW:

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

With alt text, so everyone can be able to read it

Rest in peace to a real one. Tom Noonan was one of the character actors I first admired.

His sleazebag villain in Robocop 2? Check. Stage monologue in Synecdoche, New York? Heartbreaking. Turn as a murderous satanist in House of the Devil? Killer.

A true loss.

Proud of my city for pushing this racist, imperial, colonial scourge out. 🔥

Jesse Jackson: Well, first of all, we had been freed without being made equal. There’s historical continuity between blacks being amassed in prison after 246 years of legal slavery. When there was a contest about it [in Dred Scott v. Sandford], the Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights. [After emancipation and the Civil War] those who had been slave masters became segregation masters. They took our freedom away from us; they began to lock up blacks by the thousands to do prison labor, farm labor—the whole range. They just put us back in slavery. We finally, in 1954, broke the backbone—legally—of that system [with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision], but we were never—there was never repair for damage done. Two hundred and forty-six years of slavery, then legal Jim Crow and [nearly] 5,000 lynchings without a conviction. And even today, discrimination by extension of that system has not completely ended. So we had been fighting for repair. We fought against the barbarism for our freedom; now we’re fighting for our equality. We are the foundation of American society—not the bottom, the foundation. When the Declaration of Independence came, we had been enslaved for 157 years. We made cotton king. We are due a different kind of recognition.

Harris: Do you personally have hope that there will be payment for that legacy of slavery? Jackson: The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with.

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019:

"The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Jesse Jackson – a life in pictures The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive”

Remember this history as we remember this man.

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

I think it was @tressiemcphd.bsky.social who was insistent that we decouple our online work lives from our online personal lives and here's data point one million supporting that theory. A lot of people can't ditch google for work functionality, but separating out personal accounts gives you options

We had SUCH a great time with @denverphilorch.bsky.social this weekend. Thanks for putting on a great show!❤️‍🔥

I like how libs like actively screech at anyone who points this out, and then these ghouls are just loudly and proudly taking credit for building up and funding the fascist apparatus.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

It truly is!!

In honor of THIS particular take, here are a few of my favorite recent articles about the various perils we face from LLMs. 🧵

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

I love teaching with WW and Denverite as well!

Re: the algorithm, it also makes me wonder how aware students are about how they work, what’s being presented to them, etc. Good follow-up Q.

Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One Feds could be in your group chat

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

(To be clear, these phenomena are not just applicable to young folks. I suspect a lot of what's described here can be located across demographics)

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This is a small, anecdotal sample, but the publisher-focused, legacy media reporting that millennials, Gen X, and boomers are familiar with just isn't how many young folks are consuming information.

At minimum, our approaches and understandings of these phenomena need to shift—DRASTICALLY.

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