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New draft from me, “Privacy and Disinformation,” on why privacy law, not speech or economic regulation, is the best path forward for fighting social media disinformation. Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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This whole story is slanted — completely failing to establish that Mamdani represents a threat to the Jewish community — but including this quote at the end, without any kind of caveat or rebuttal, is completely irresponsible. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

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Spot on @maxbergmann.bsky.social: ”instead of focusing the summit on the critical need for Europe to figure out how to fight with significantly less U.S. support, NATO is back to focusing on largely symbolic spending targets” YES this just distracts from what really matters: capability development

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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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This is all a giant self-owned mess now. Stemming from original chest thumping-and thin skin. If they just followed CJCS sober first statements, ie it looks good, wait for BDA, we’re not in this goat rope. Half the country now won’t believe anything the IC leadership says. Sigh.

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Yall should interview the paramedics that serve these areas. I bet a few would talk.

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Thoughts and prayers that masked, armed men don't show up at his family's house and spirit them away.

submitted 4 hours ago • 27 comments

It is kind of important to not grow immune to the President of the United States frequently demanding that the nation’s major private media companies fire correspondents who provide critical coverage of him on TV.

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Nova Scotia Power expands credit monitoring, says former customers also impacted by cyberattack by @dentremy.bsky.social

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That the ethics professor resigned in protest before any senior uniformed leaders did suggests to me that we were getting our money's worth from the former and not the latter.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

submitted 9 hours ago • 176 comments

Great article. I'm an English major; most of my colleagues in tech policy were humanities majors. There's a lot to be said about the need for more humanities perspectives in crafting policy, but most underrated is this: humanities lets you understand people. And that's not optional.

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CJ Larkin and Renée DiResta analyzed digital ID systems in 7 countries, exploring adoption, privacy, and trust. From India's Aadhaar to Brazil’s Carteira de Identidade Nacional, their analysis reveals key lessons on regulation and tech design shaping the future of identity in the AI era.

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Trump on Pete Hegseth: "Secretary of War. It used to be called secretary of war. Maybe for a couple weeks we'll call it that, because we feel like warriors. It used to be called secretary of war ... then we became politically correct ... maybe we'll have to start thinking about changing it."

submitted 10 hours ago • 411 comments

We're worse off as a military without Diva's wisdom and scholarship.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Imagine being so thin-skinned that you would effectively ban someone from entering the U.S. because this image was on their phone.

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@queenofthinair.bsky.social has been teaching me lessons in moral philosophy for half my career. Here’s an other lesson in ethics and courage.

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Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

submitted 11 hours ago • 232 comments

Sure. Let's take everything we know about how learning works and what learners need to thrive, and say "fuck it" because the most famous edtech charlatan think chatbots are super neat

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A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

This really is not just "eating the seed corn" but burning it for the sake of a pretty fire. The long term future of the US is well and truly cooked. Congrats to Donald Trump, for ensuring the 21st century is China's.

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Oh “Trump sees regime change as likely if Iran’s leaders continue in the same direction, Rubio said.” www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

They can't reason with a sledgehammer.

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Some real Sean Spicer energy

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Based on videos taken in Jordan, @slair.bsky.social was able to identify all of Israel's missile defense sites, determine the interceptor type based on their burn-time and then estimate the number of interceptors fired. A tour-de-force. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1220...

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OMG, the @ihr.bsky.social has uploaded a bunch of old interviews with historians on their youtube channel and I'm now deeply invested. Summer treat for #SkyStorians! Look at this interview with E.P. Thompson by an embryonic Penelope Corfield!

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No charges for the driver, because it’s just understood that the streets are for two-ton people-squashing machines and anyone who gets in their way is taking their life in their hands.

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Nobody with half a brain is going to take Trump and his team of hooligans at their word over these reports. Oh well.

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There are a lot of possibilities falling out of this latest conflict, but it seems to me a fair number of them hasten, rather than delay, an Iranian nuclear weapon. But we won't know we're on that path until someone detects a successful nuclear test, at which point it will be too late.

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My friend, trusted interlocutor, & counterintelligence savant @wylienewmark.bsky.social has a great new article in Studies in Intelligence on an important Russia-US spy-vs-spy case. Highly recommended if you’re interested in the psychology of spy games, or intel history. www.cia.gov/resources/cs...

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Waiting for Johnson to argue that the founders actually made a typo in Article I and meant to say “CENTCOM” instead of ”Congress.”

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A good friend is about to get mRNA therapy for Stage IV lung cancer. The idea that this heroin dealing, roadkill-eating probable rapist gets to condemn thousands to die in the decades ahead because his worm-addled brain is shot through with conspiracy is really too fucking depressing to contemplate.

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His mastery of the deep intricacies of international relations continues to boggle the mind.

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It’s time to remind Donald Trump that America is still the Home of the Brave.

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If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

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A reminder I feel this newsletter is a must-subscribe if you write modern crime.

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Breaking NYT: A senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill Trump's deportation campaign, according to a whistleblower complaint by a department lawyer who has since been fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

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Important @thebulwark.com article by Margaret McMullan this morning about a new Mississippi law that can punish broadly defined infractions (e.g. education that raises "awareness" of "issues related to race") by stripping funding from whole school districts www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-t...

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It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.

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If you've got a problem with Calvin and Hobbes, you've got a problem in your shriveled husk of a human soul.

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