Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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I sat down with @rweingarten.bsky.social to talk about AI and whether US schools need a major tech detox. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
Congratulations to @cwarzel.bsky.social for the best opening lines to an essay I’ve read in a long time:
“Shooters shoot. Builders build. And DOGE alumni make splashy announcements about entering complex industries with scant qualifications while promising to “root out waste.”
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Lawyers for xAI are seeking to uncover the identities of plaintiffs suing over deepfake images created by Grok. Prof. Danielle Citron warns that losing anonymity can deter people from pursuing such claims. @daniellecitron.bsky.social @wired.com www.wired.com/story/xai-as...
The head of America’s second-largest teacher’s union weighs in on “ed tech.”
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP). This masks your IP address, which can be an...
Officer confronts man who took nude pictures of a minor on his phone. Officer demands man give him the phone, & threatens man with obstruction if he won't hand it over. CA8: Exigent circumstances allowed the phone's seizure given risk of deletion. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/06...
@daniellecitron.bsky.social quoted, saying true and correct things. In case you didn't believe you could think worse of Elon Musk, he and his representatives continue to find new depths to plumb.
It's out! Are you nervous about rebuilding government capacity to do anything beyond corporate giveaways and/or fascism? Then you care about civil service hiring dysfunction & the ron swanson-pilled mythologies that made it like this.
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The Congressional hearing on the SECURE Data Act was a series of odes to small business. Big Tech loves to invoke small business whenever they want to fend off regulation, but the biggest enemy of small business is Big Tech. It's like wolves expressing worry about sheep.
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Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
Lung cancer is most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide.
Scientists have found a set of biomarkers that accurately predict lunch cancers 5y before diagnosis. Smoking & pollution increase the level of these proteins, activating specific inflammatory pathways.
🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...
Belatedly sharing my latest article, forthcoming (soon!) in the American University Law Review. I argue that federal hiring dysfunction is an overlooked obstacle for progressive efforts to structurally & intellectually rebuild a hollowed-out regulatory state. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
