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Michael Grass
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people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
I thought I read somewhere on Bluesky a few months ago that the USPS SoDo garage entrance warning sign/alarm was always on. Waiting for a 50 bus to West Seattle this fine Saturday, I can confirm that it's still broken, very loud and annoying!
#Seattle
Tim Fernholz
Congrats @davidnemer.com! We're looking forward to your visit to Seattle this fall!
45 citations in the report: 5 correct, 28 partially fabricated, 12 completely fabricated.
TBH I'd like to see a study assessing what percent of people paid to implement AI (like KPMG) actually understand how LLMs work and know, e.g., these sorts of errors are inherent to LLMs.
Come work with me!
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue
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"it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count."
Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lake Washington.
Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines are now the most-ridden in the nation, above LA, Boston, or San Diego.
If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo!
uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele...
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Michael Grass
Michael Grass
Max Kennerly
Prediction markets risk "confusing people into thinking that, 'Okay, these markets have the pulse on public sentiment about the election and who's going to win,' when that's not necessarily the case," @cip.uw.edu researcher @zarine.net told @npr.org in an interview. www.npr.org/2026/06/07/n...
Joseph Cox
Brandy Zadrozny
Our @cip.uw.edu team is currently seeking applications for an Education Initiatives Manager, with a June 23 priority deadline.
Full position description, responsibilities, qualifications, compensation, benefits and other application information: wd5.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
Kate Starbird
Yonah Freemark
Influencers are using prediction market odds to sow doubt in vote counting, in some cases in posts paid for by the companies themselves.
We're pleased to honor University of Virginia associate professor @davidnemer.com, author of "Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil," with the 2026 @cip.uw.edu Award for Impact & Excellence.
www.cip.uw.edu/2026/06/01/d...
I wrote about Spencer Pratt’s very online campaign, the predictable election fraud accusations that have started now that he’s looking likely to not make the runoff, and what this tells us about the 2026 midterms
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Job Description The Information School’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) has an outstanding opportunity for an Education Initiatives Manager to join their team. Although the position is open until...
Nemer’s Human Infrastructure of Misinformation framework helps to explain how disinformation ecosystems operate on platforms that lack algorithmic curation.
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
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Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
