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There has been an amazing outpouring of recognition and support for the work @thecity.nyc's incredible reporters on this platform today. We will try to thank everyone individually, but know that we see it, we value it, and we couldn't be more grateful.

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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

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"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, which runs the Grok chatbot, is facing a legal challenge led by the NAACP over air pollution from its supercomputer facility in Memphis." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/c...

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SCOOP w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social! The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

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Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and ‘black boxes’ are woven into the stories its leaders tell, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio. The problem is that those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following. That’s a policy decision, he writes.

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"Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and black boxes are woven into the stories they tell. (...) We don’t know how the neural nets process all that math, but what appears most often in the dataset happens most often in the model's text."

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They are saying that Lander (seen here being assaulted) assaulted the DHS officers. An unaccountable state reserves the right to both brutalize you and punish you for being brutalized.

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This is a good moment to recognize @thecity.nyc, a nonprofit newsroom that covers stuff that other organizations (even really large ones that are based in New York City) often miss www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...

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The public’s waning trust in both government and technology companies has deepened. To rebuild it, public interest technologists need to double down on putting communities at the center of how our digital systems are designed and used, Lilian Coral writes www.techpolicy.press/how-to-rebui...

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Bluesky is dying... or Bluesky helped create one of the most effective spontaneous protest movements of the year?

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When LLM's commit "crimes," there's never a motive. Yet the press & industry assert the "black box" frame at the wrong level of AI: suggesting moral decision-making, rather than the hidden logic of flipping neurons. My latest in @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...

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Myth-making is a crucial aspect of the AI industry, and ‘black boxes’ are woven into the stories its leaders tell, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio. The problem is that those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following. That’s a policy decision, he writes.

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🤖 A massive data center at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by environmental group Oil Field Witness. Read more via @desmog.com

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"...it’s clear that Community Notes on Facebook and Instagram is not yet ready for prime time. While several notes helpfully flagged content that was misleading, only a handful provided truly valuable context. Some were inaccurate and potentially AI-generated." - @mantzarlis.com

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NEW: Data broker sites were allegedly used by the Minnesota shooting suspect, authorities claim, highlighting the danger of an industry that freely sells your personal information. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/minnes...

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On news OpenAI has signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon, just reshaping this from Brian J. Chen, Tina M. Park, Alex Pasternack: www.techpolicy.press/booming-mili...

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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With Bill Gates winding down his foundation’s giving, this era of billionaire philanthropy is drawing to a close, writes Jeremy McKey. Its likely successor, led by Elon Musk and other tech moguls, could blur the lines between private profit and public interest, McKey says:

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My latest @techpolicypress.bsky.social article:

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Despite a massive judgment against NSO Group, developer of the notorious Pegasus spyware, the battle against surreptitious surveillance software is far from over. For Tech Policy Press, Tim Bernard reviews legal and policy avenues for combating spyware: www.techpolicy.press/legal-and-po...

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JUST IN: Suspect in killing of Minnesota lawmaker and husband taken into custody and charged.

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"ICE is funded to hold an average capacity of 41,500 people, but more than 50,000 are in detention, according to the agency’s latest figures. The administration has indicated a need for at least 100,000 beds."

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Amidst shifting European and international politics, there is growing uncertainty over the future of Europe’s AI Act and questions over digital sovereignty. Tech Policy Press associate editor Ramsha Jahangir spoke to Kai Zenner, an advisor to German MEP Axel Voss, to learn more about what to expect:

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Concerns about AI chatbots delivering harmful, even profoundly dangerous advice or instructions to users is growing. What legal and policy interventions are possible? I asked Columbia Law School's Clare Huntington, Stanford's Robert Mahari, and Tech Justice Law Project's Meetali Jain:

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"What’s missing is moral clarity—a more profound sense of why we are building these technologies, and for whom. We need something more enduring than a risk framework: a moral lighthouse."

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A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

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"Slowly but surely, political violence has moved from the fringes to an inescapable reality. Violent threats and even assassinations, attempted or successful, have become part of the political landscape — a steady undercurrent of American life."

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LAPD and LA Sheriffs tried to prevent two large protests from joining together in downtown and both departments ended up hitting EACH OTHER with impact munitions from across the same interesection.

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If AI deepens inequality, disempowers people, or displaces civic participation, it is not delivering the future we want—no matter how advanced the technology may be, or how much money some individuals can make from it, writes Michael L. Bąk. www.techpolicy.press/the-moral-li...

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"Demonstrators gathered in large cities and smaller communities from coast to coast. Los Angeles said it was preparing for a turnout that 'may be unprecedented' after days of protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown."

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Another example of the right wing media machine selectively presenting and then twisting “evidence” into their strategic frames. This is how they work ALL THE TIME. As soon as an event happens, it’s all hands on deck to assemble evidence to fit their frames.

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"Two recent international polls...show that many people in Western democracies understand what’s happening here, even if some Americans are slow to see it. Perhaps more instructive are the views of people in nations that have watched their own democracies erode, such as Hungary, Poland and Turkey."

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Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Scoop: Threat intelligence reports obtained by WIRED and @propertyofthepeople.org show military and state-run fusion centers are tracking civilian-made ICE encounter maps, while others distribute "threat" alerts about tomorrow's "No Kings" protests. By me @wired.com (free to read):

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Egg bagel just won the @wnyc.org rank choice voting demonstration. (A great example of a civics lesson from local media): www.wnyc.org/story/we-wan...

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Here is a gift link to @kashhill.bsky.social's must read piece on the dangers of OpenAI's sycophantic LLMs and the parasocial relationships people are creating with them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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"An appeals court late Thursday allowed President Donald Trump, for now, to keep the California National Guard deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles, blocking a federal judge’s move just hours earlier that ordered the Trump administration to return control of the troops to [Gov. Newsom]."

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

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[cw: explicit] Six years into the deepfake nudes epidemic, we are nowhere near beating back the tools that make this abuse possible. In fact, AI nudifiers are expanding their services and remain unrepentant in their use of mainstream platforms to reach customers. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Verge staff are ready to strike. VOX MEDIA YOU HAVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT!

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In the latest episode in her special podcast series, Through to Thriving, Tech Policy Press fellow @anikacolliernavaroli.com talks with @dupatton.bsky.social about his personal and intellectual engagement with the concept and practice of joy, and what it all has to do with technology and policy:

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“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”

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She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"

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Oh everybody is Black now.

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