Michael Bono

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

pinned post of someone who’s just been appointed to Mamdani’s Transition Committee on Technology 👍

3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers."

We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.

With the goal of reaching new ppl w/biodiversity action, we're expanding the Native Plant Project to bars. We're calling it Biodiversity Beers.

In collab w/artists Marian Bailey, @hanfranstudio.bsky.social, & @the666cat.bsky.social, we're making pint glasses that encourage planting of native 🌱

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

PAMELA BROWN: Are Democrats having discussions about how to handle it if more members are embroiled in anything having to do with Epstein?

RASKIN: I literally have not had one Democrat in the House or Senate come to us and say, 'Hey, you better slow down, that might embarrass one of our people'

Fifteen Years

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Federal judge: National Guard deployment in DC is ‘unlawful’ The 2,300 Guardsmen aren’t headed home just yet, though.

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration had “exceeded the bounds of [its] authority" in deploying the D.C. National Guard, and lacked the authority to call up out-of-state Guardsmen to patrol in D.C.

What does this mean? Don't miss @maustermuhle.bsky.social's reporting:

Article excerpt: Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too?

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

Screenshot of Actionnetwork.org petition link Your letter Your letter subject: Invest in Libraries, Invest in People Your message Libraries are a critical resource to people living in a neighborhood. We depend on it for reading materials of course, but also we rely on it as a free space to gather community members, to connect with folks, to use the computers and printers — things that’s aren’t available to everyone at their home. Also, as a parent, I use the library as a safe place for my child to have fun and connect with other kids. Please invest in this critical resource by giving us half a percent of the overall city budget. This is an investment that pays dividends.

Done and amplified! If folks need some language, here’s what I wrote

So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.

#DougForAlabama

Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they are exposed to the virus.

www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

Opinion | RFK Jr.'s latest anti-vaccine move will cause untold harm to autistic Americans The Trump administration is working toward treating autism as something to be prevented, rather than building a health care system that helps people.

My first piece for the newly-rebranded @msnowreports.bsky.social: RFK Jr.'s changing the CDC's stance on autism and vaccines signifies just another step in the backlash to #Neurodiversity. And it is a disservice to #ActuallyAutistic people.
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...

Generative AI has always been a scam based on stealing human content to regurgitate as unreliable, inaccurate slop. The sooner that we can stop investing in theft machines and focus on things that will actually benefit society, the better.

the ponzi scheme is the cornerstone of american capitalism

Sweater season is here

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this

Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."

Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memoThe Streisand Effect strikes again

Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...

Does anyone in Baltimore need (or could use) a 20 lb turkey? Because reasons, we have acquired one, and while we can come up with uses for it, it's A Problem for my allergy issues and if someone needs it more, Sarah is happy to deliver anywhere in Baltimore

maybe they should come up with something new instead of just slight upgrades and, frequently, downgrades with all the bullshit they’re trying to shovel in that nobody really wants or uses

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.

Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111

“From the night of the massacre onward, Ms. Fletcher was never again able to sleep comfortably in a bed, she wrote…
“When I sleep, it is never very deep or for very long because of the anxiety and the things I see,” she wrote. “Imagine having the same horrible nightmare every night for 100 years.”

👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Pete Hegseth is just a piece of shit and RFK Jr. is just a pile of weird smelling garbage.

Addiction isn’t the reason for these truths.

You’ll note lots of people have substance use problems and don’t endeavor to start wars and bring back eradicated diseases to kill many thousands of children!

I have friends in the animal rights world who — months back — thought there would be some sort of silver lining to the RFK regime, and I want to emphasize that cancelling HIV research and euthanizing a ton of chimps is not a silver lining for anyone involved.

the worst star wars movie is easily "air force one." I'm supposed to believe han solo is the president of the united states? on earth? fuck out of here with that bullshit.

A $100 Billion Chip Project Forced a 91-Year-Old Woman From Her Home Azalia King was the last holdout preventing the construction of a Micron "megafab." Onondaga County authorities threatened to use eminent domain to take her home away by force.

Terms of the agreement to have her move will not be available until the county’s Industrial Development Agency votes to finalize it, likely in mid-December. Earlier this year, the county agency reportedly offered $100,000, while the family countered for $10 million.

www.wired.com/story/micron...