A conversation with students at Sciences Po on why generative AI may inherently be a conservative technology: conference.sciencespo.fr/content/2026...
Dear god it’s good to see someone demonstrate how to come for Reagan. It’s not hard! But there’s been no will.
You should read this piece -- and listen to this group, if you haven't.
Also, just for fun, try to count along to one of their songs and tell me what time signature they're playing in.
Did not know until I read this that there's a protected nature area in Tobago as old as the United States, in case you would like a different 250th anniversary to celebrate globalvoices.org/2026/05/19/t...
Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.
"The loyal client" is a concept that's been important to our lab over the past five years as we've tried to make social media better: it's the idea that the tools you use to access social media should meet your needs, not those of the platform owner. Spencer Lane wrote a great paper on this as part
Anil offers some very good reasons to ignore NYC "Tech Week" and, indeed, anything connected with Andreessen Horowitz
Fascinating @globalvoices.org story on the revival of part of the Aral Sea, one of the great environmental tragedies of the Soviet Union: globalvoices.org/2026/05/29/h...
of his dissertation, which the journal Internet Histories has just published. Very proud of him and happy to be a coauthor on this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Two spacetime aliens from Saguenay, QC are great arguments for Team Human in considering AI futures: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
Ethan Zuckerman
Protecting this rainforest was a matter of survival for Tobago, but setting the forest aside for conservation also left an indelible mark on global environmental history.
The North Aral is the only remaining heir to the once mighty and plentiful Aral Sea, deserving of every effort to save it - even without long-term assurances.
