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THEY FOUND THE ANTIFA HANDBOOK! IT'S THE CONSTITUTION!

If you know of #SNAP recipients in the #Boston area, please share this.

You're in my hood! I'm recovering from surgery so can't attend but sending well wishes (in a Masshole accent)! Will listen to the recording.

Only makes me love yacht rock more 🛥️🇺🇸

This is extremely accurate

Is that a Siberian?

closeup on Idris Elba/Stringer Bell with caption "I want you to put the word out there that we back up."

the hummingbirds in my neighborhood watching me refill their empty feeders

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

Just utterly out of words to describe what we’re seeing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

What OpenAI's Latest Red-Teaming Challenge Reveals About the Evolution of AI “Safety” Practices | TechPolicy.Press Jen Weedon evaluates OpenAI's Red-Teaming Challenge within the broader debate over AI safety.

OpenAI’s Red-Teaming Challenge represents meaningful progress, writes Jen Weedon. Yet, “the critical question isn’t just ‘What don’t we know yet about how this AI might fail?’ but also ‘What do we already know, and that we’re choosing not to address?’”

I'm glad we met briefly and I will follow up! As a fellow mom I appreciate the challenges here 🤗 and some great suggestions for inclusivity moving forward.

#booksky #writingcommunity

Isn't this an eternal truth, for every workplace 🥴

Idiocracy was a documentary.

Building a disability inclusive AI ecosystem.

AI has the power to advance equity — but only if it's designed with everyone in mind. CDT & @aapd-disability.bsky.social now offer a plain language version of our report on building a disability-inclusive #AI ecosystem.

Read it here: cdt.org/insights/bui...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Unfortunately, Secretary Noem can terminate student visas under the principle of Habeas Corpus

We Asked 100 South Shore Residents to Define ‘Smart Growth’—Now There’s a Warrant for Our Arrest in Duxbury SOUTH SHORE, MA — Our editorial team is currently in hiding after attempting to ask 100 South Shore residents to define the term “smart growth,” a phrase which, it turns out, has the same effect on th...

Too real 🫠
"I think smart growth is when you build just enough housing so we don’t get sued, but not so much that my golden retriever gets anxious,” said one Norwell resident while backing into her garage via a private bridge." respectfullyno.substack.com/p/we-asked-1...

Def bleak but I'm still wondering what it means to "AI proof" an assignment?

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

Is the "integrity initiative" supposed to refer to the Integrity Institute?

Interesting that "color revolutions" is on this list 👀

Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …

"When the person championing your anti-abuse legislation is promising to use it for abuse, you might have a problem."

Non consensual intimate imagery (aka revenge porn) is a rapidly growing and escalating problem, but this law will absolutely be abused

www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...

In NYC May 1? Please join
www.eventbrite.com/e/vhc-presen...

Who are these researchers and orgs? Do we know yet?

Anthropic continues to put out solid studies of how Claude is used, this time in universities

It shows both AI perils & promise. Students are getting direct answers from Claude, making up a lot use, but there are many cases of AI supporting their learning; too. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

Thanks for making a remote option!

Super interested in the discussion on collecting public reports of harm and what has and hasn't worked on this previously. I need to read the piece first 😅 but am thinking about this as well. Will reach out!

Fixing the science of digital technology harms Technology development outpaces scientific assessment of impacts

Why do scientists still struggle to answer basic questions about the safety of digital tech from AI to social media, even as families point to rising evidence of individual harm with concern & grief?

@orbenamy.bsky.social & I have a new article in @science.org:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thinking about governance in public service since I was just elected to our school board 💫 but my strategy /KPIs/ leadership muscles are from private sector.

Oooh collaborative threat modeling driven by communities. Anyone doing this well? Good research to flag? Thoughts?