Just Plain Kris

Authors reportedly reached a $1.5B deal with Anthropic to delete millions of scraped books and pay writers. But, even if data is deleted, wouldn't its influence still live inside trained models? How do we prevent this next time?

#AIGovernance #Copyright #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy

Do We Really Need Sora 2 and Vibe? As I sit here drinking my morning coffee (that I’ve had to heat up 3 x already 🤦🏻‍♀️), I keep circling to the same question.

I miss the internet when “coding” meant editing your MySpace profile in HTML, not decoding what’s real. Sora 2 and Vibe just remind me how far we’ve drifted.
Quick reflection → substack.com/home/post/p-...

Language today on HUD.gov website. This is not consistent with federal neutrality standards.

Gaza Aid Resources: Direct Action to Save Lives We cannot remain silent in the face of the genocide being perpetrated against Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli government.

I've compiled verified Gaza aid resources—will keep growing as more are shared. Palestinian-led initiatives + established orgs providing water, food, medical supplies, shelter. Share widely. Send me more verified resources to add. justplainkris.substack.com/p/gaza-aid-r...

RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raved in social media posts on Monday about the $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.

RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed - AP News apnews.com/article/rfk-...

Why We're Getting AI Fatigue My thoughts on why AI news exhausts us—it's not the technology, it's how it's being used

AI fatigue is real—we're watching AI replace workers while execs hype AGI. 55% of companies regret AI layoffs. Klarna is rehiring after AI couldn't handle conversation nuances. Good AI (healthcare, climate) doesn't get headlines, but "AI replaces everyone" does. open.substack.com/pub/justplai...

It's Okay to Not Be Okay while Parenting Through Political Chaos I fold laundry while watching protests unfold on TikTok.

To every parent folding laundry while watching the protests, making breakfast while the news breaks your heart, tucking kids in while worrying about their future, you're not alone.

The weight you're carrying is real. It's okay to not be okay right now.

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Don’t let the GOP fool you who said they didn’t know what was in the budget bill because they didn’t read it and wouldn’t have approved it. It’s bull. They know exactly what is in that bill, their staff told them, their co-workers told, I mean it was posted everywhere on the web what was in it.

MAHA Report and AI Hallucinations When Government "Experts" Fail Basic AI Literacy

RFK Jr.'s 'gold standard' health report drops with 21+ fake citations, classic AI hallucinations.

If government experts can't spot AI-generated fake studies, how can we trust them with health policy? justplainkris.substack.com/p/maha-repor...

AI Governance Challenges Emerge from Alleged DOGE Use of Grok in Federal Systems Happy Saturday morning.

Happy Saturday, and thank goodness for coffee. Reports that DOGE is using Grok in federal agencies without approval while Congress considers banning state AI regs for 10 years? This is how you create regulatory capture. open.substack.com/pub/justplai...

The Big, Ugly Truth Behind the “Big, Beautiful Bill” And How You Can Fight Back

The House just passed the “Big, Beautiful Bill”, a budget that cuts Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP while adding $3.8T to the deficit for billionaire tax breaks. It now heads to the Senate. Here’s what you can do to stop it: substack.com/home/post/p-...

#KillTheBill

So then why did you vote for Kushner @booker.senate.gov? What was all that standing for? Come on, do better.

We support you Rep. McIver!

I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver.

This is a political stunt—point blank.

Cutting SNAP funding hurts us all. Every $1 in SNAP benefits generates between $1.50 - $1.79 in economic activity: boosting grocery stores, farmers & small businesses. When SNAP is cut, states lose billions, tax revenue drops, tens of thousands of jobs are lost & kids go hungry
#MomSky

What Grok’s “Glitch” Tells Us About AI Power and Accountability This week, Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, made headlines for inserting unsolicited and racially charged content into user interactions.

It’s Friday night and Elon Musk’s Grok AI this week pushed a debunked conspiracy theory unprompted. Not a glitch, but an unauthorized change. This isn’t just tech drama. It’s a serious AI oversight issue. Read why this matters justplainkris.substack.com/p/what-groks...

I love that ChatGPT refers to X as “Twitter/X”. Just saying.

Don’t be fooled. The Republicans who opposed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" today did so not to protect the public, but because they want even deeper and faster cuts to programs like Medicaid and food assistance. Cuts that fall on everyday Americans. Meanwhile, the wealthiest still get tax breaks.

Happy 43rd b’day to “Combat Rock” — the iconic LP by @theclash.com that featured “Rock the Casbah”.

When writing, Joe Strummer said, “I started to think about what someone had told me .. that you get lashed for owning a disco album in Iran."

(Hence the line, “Shareef don’t like it.”)

The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” and the Federal AI Power Grab Why this bill is about more than AI and how we fight back

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a major attempt to centralize power over AI, banning state-level regulations for the 10 yrs. But that’s not all. It also includes $880B in Medicaid cuts & billions in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Here’s what’s at stake: justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-one-bi...

Yes Biden did, and Trump canceled it early this year.

The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

The AI jobs crisis raises big questions about “what kind of jobs we want people to be able to do, what kind of work and which institutions we think are important as a society, and what we’re willing to do to protect them,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social writes. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

✔️ In 2022, Biden passed a law letting Medicare cut drug prices.
❌ In 2025, Trump canceled it before savings kicked in.
🔁 Now he's bringing back a similar plan and claiming it's new.

He killed the fix, then took credit for solving the problem he caused.

Massive from US Copyright Office!!

"…commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially … through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."

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No surprise that the federal data grab continues to fuel the AI race.

And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress.

Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.

This Mother’s Day, I Won’t Say “Happy.”

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Just published a new piece: AI at the Crossroads: Governance, Sovereignty, and Human Judgment. Reflections from Philly Tech Week on 4 key tensions shaping AI's future, beyond just tech fixes: Ethics, Sovereignty, Regulation, Human judgment open.substack.com/pub/justplai...

The Tate Brothers Got a Plane. Kilmar Got a Cell. Everything you need to act is in here. Tell Congress to bring Kilmar and other innocent Americans home.

Kilmar Abrego García is being wrongfully detained despite legal protections. This isn’t just about him, it’s about all of our rights. I made it easy to contact your senators. Take 2 mins to speak up. justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-tate-b...

#JusticeForKilmar #BringThemHome #DefendOurRights

Today, free speech dies.

The U.S. is using immigration law to silence dissent. That’s not justice, that’s authoritarianism. This is a grave violation of constitutional rights.

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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.

He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.

The job was helping people with disabilities.