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US policy uncertainty right now is off the charts -- worse than during covid, 2008 financial crisis, debt limit showdowns, after 9/11, you name it.
www.policyuncertainty.com

Page One must have been crowded.

So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡

@schooley.bsky.social

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

Being constantly validated is bad, actually.

This is the unifying takeaway of several prominent pieces of online discourse from this weekend alone, including this one, but more generally speaks to something that’s been apparent for several years now.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.

“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

IG 3sixteen

Graph showing spikes of economic uncertainty with Trump now exceeding the pandemic

Trump is now officially worse than COVID.

There's just no evidence of anti-conservative bias in content moderation, report 15 leading social scientists who have researched the question in depth. If conservatives are more subject to content moderation, it's because they violate community standards more—spreading lies, hate speech, etc

I heard democracy might be in trouble, so I had some ideas about how we should fix it.

absolute power corrupts absolutely

My personal opinion is this is at least partly fuelled by a fundamental error in the approach in the counter-disinformation on focusing on foreign actors rather than treating information disorder as a societal issue. An extensive piece on that to come.

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!)

Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled...

As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one

i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win!

zuck # 2h 1/ Replace fact-checkers with Community Notes, starting in the US. • 431 @ 104 @41 V 20 Replies View activity >

People have really short memories. This really hasn’t worked well for X. It’s going to work even less well for Meta. Community Notes is a great concept but it struggles to perform.

Is Meta going to have a transparent Notes program? How is Zuck going to incentivize people to work for free?

Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.

Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.

Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.

This is desperate product manager trying to ship something to meet a company OKR they don't understand and don't believe in coded www.404media.co/instagram-be...