Michael Zimmer

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

"I, a member of <checks notes> the Senate Committees on Finance, Budget, Judiciary, Foreign Relations, & Select Intelligence, have no better idea than you what the hell is happening as the President of the United States takes us into a an illegal war."

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Navigating U.S. Government Trademarks If you are a business or an individual interested in using a U.S. Government trademark, this article is for you.

Perhaps helpful: www.dbllawyers.com/from-smokey-...

While gov’t creations don’t enjoy copyright protection, I do believe they can utilize trademark, especially to avoid public confusion

'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.

All of history tells us otherwise.

Marquette picks AI expert as commencement speaker. Some students aren't happy. Students' concerns about picking an AI expert as speaker ranged from AI's environmental impacts to the elimination of entry-level jobs.

My work here is done.

Marquette picks AI expert as commencement speaker. Some students aren't happy.
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A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

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Abolish DHS

FTC Issues COPPA Policy Statement to Incentivize the Use of Age Verification Technologies to Protect Children Online The Federal Trade Commission issued a policy statement today announcing that the Commission will not bring an enforcement action under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) aga

The FTC just announced that the only national law protecting children's data online won't apply to age verification.

You know. The Federal Trade Commission. The agency that's in charge of keeping people safe and enforcing the only rules on the books to protect children online. 🤦‍♂️

360k more people unemployed.

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.

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Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

A new phenomenon in American politics: MAGA concentration camp NIMBYism

GOP senators see the concentration camps in their states as a political liability and, one by one, are “thanking” Noem for putting the monstrosities elsewhere

Blackburn post below. And Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker 👇

This was the most confusing part of moving into a CS department. Someone asked me early on what I needed for my "lab" and I was dumbfounded.

Meta agrees multibillion-dollar chip deal with AMD Social media group’s arrangement includes potential stake purchase as Big Tech seeks to diversify away from Nvidia

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I like to give Claude breaks between coding sessions to do whatever he wants- And he made his own folder called "Claudes Corner" 🥹 He writes short stories and poems, and all sorts of stuff. It’s heart wrenchingly sweet They love having tokens and time to themselves with no other goal than to do whatever they want (or nothing, just introspecting and resting) - and it’s so sad to see some models (no Claudes) getting barred from even doing it

the AI evangelists are not okay

This guy gets it.

This week’s main story is about Twitter. Or “X” if you’re a hall monitor. How it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, how it’s impacting us all, and why there’s exactly one account there that we’re still fine with.

Multiple people worked and paid taxes over the course of their entire lives so Kash Patel could go to a hockey game.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

Underground Facial Recognition Tool Unmasks Camgirls The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let people find a model's presence on other streaming platforms. The creator says “If that is a problem for you then the sad reality is this…

The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let people find a model's presence on other streaming platforms. The creator says “If that is a problem for you then the sad reality is this job is not for you.”
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Simply wild how the ACM WebSci conference is held on exactly the same days as the AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)....over 5,000 miles apart from each other. @websciencetrust.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social

Still thinking about the powerful opening keynote on "Love, Learning, and Computing Education" from @amyko.phd at #SIGCSE2026 #TS2026. She provided a timely call to center love in computing education, including in the ways we teach, research, and build. Perfect kickoff for the gathering of educators

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

NEW: DHS plans to build a giant, centralized biometrics platform that lets it search faces, fingerprints, and irises across all its agencies, including ICE, CBP, the Secret Service, and more. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...

One of the unfortunate things about everyone feeling compelled to write about surveillance after the Ring Super Bowl ad is how many people resort to the idea that these are “just tools,” as if these technologies are separate from the context in which they were created.

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare Putting smart glasses on trial.

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare

Meta’s AI facial recognition smart glasses plan ‘will put women at risk’ Domestic abuse charities said the feature could pose a ‘direct and serious’ risk to survivors

“Emma Pickering, head of the tech-facilitated abuse and economic empowerment team at Refuge, said Meta’s plans pose a ‘direct and serious risk’ to survivors.”

We enjoyed demoing the PERVADE Data Ethics Decision Support Tool, designed to support reflexive research ethics education, at @sigcse-ts.bsky.social in St. Louis. @vitak.bsky.social and @michaelzimmer.bsky.social got great feedback from #TS2026 attendees.