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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 29/09/2026

'tis a wonder, the things jev will do for a dollar.

Scatter plot of 705 policy documents. The x-axis is the share of chunks linking AI to deception and the y-axis is the share on disinformation with no AI link. Dots cluster at the left edge and along the bottom axis.

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Philip Leifeld @leifeld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New DNA publication 🚨: Susha, Iryna, Louis Knüpfling and Philip Leifeld (2026): Mandating Business-to-Government Data Sharing for Public Interest: Coalitions and their Policy Beliefs in the Shaping of the EU Data Act. Government Information Quarterly 43(4): 102188. doi.org/10.1016/j.gi...

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 25/09/2026

i would follow jevbot past the gates of hell

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

p̞̈͑̚͞ā̤̓̍͘ỉ͔͖̜͌ṇ̤͛̒̍ ā̤̓̍͘t̲̂̓ͩ̑ t̲̂̓ͩ̑ḣ̖̻͛̓ẹ̿͋̒̕ p̞̈͑̚͞ư̡͕̭̇ḿ̬̏ͤͅp̞̈͑̚͞

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 25/09/2026

Do you have a favorite potato chip?

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 24/09/2026

it is fun to productively jam on something you've been thinking about for a decade.

Screenshot of a dark-mode reading app showing the opening of Anna Karenina in Russian ("Часть первая, I"). Nouns and adjectives are tinted by grammatical case, following a color legend along the bottom (Nom, Gen, Dat, Acc, Ins, Prep), with switches for Case, Aspect and Animacy. The word "каждом" is selected. A popover identifies it as the prepositional form of "каждый" ("each"), an adjective agreeing with "дворе", which is governed by the preposition "на".

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 23/09/2026

Watch what happens to the viscosity of software.

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 19/09/2026

The discourse will metabolize it soon

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Ed @ed3d.net · 17/09/2026

the first open source system-one model now must be named Jeff.

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 17/09/2026

Bluesky firehose about to be interrogated from every angle simultaneously

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 11/09/2026

i love checking in on him once a quarter to see what new madness (complimentary) he's cooking up

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 10/09/2026

Congratulations! Great lab site, btw.

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Ahmed Khalifa @amidos2006.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Cellular automata are powerful but painful to author. Rules are a lookup table; neural CAs are more expressive but a black box. What if each CA rule was just code that you can read? Introducing Programmable Cellular Automata (PCA)

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 09/09/2026

What do governments mean by “disinformation”—and what do they do about it? Today I’m launching the Global Disinformation Policy Database Explorer, a project I led at UT Austin. Explore: www.disinfo-policy.org

disinfo-policy.org

Global Disinformation Policy Database

An open-access, cross-national database of how governments address disinformation, misinformation, and related information disorder: national-level policies from 2000 to 2023, hand-coded across 53 var...

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 09/09/2026

Thank you to the dozens of student researchers who contributed through UT Austin’s Global Disinformation Lab and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. I’m excited to put this work into people’s hands.

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 09/09/2026

Other ways in: explore a country’s policies, find education and institutional-support approaches, or trace early responses to deepfakes. The underlying data are open for your own research: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 09/09/2026

Ireland’s Electoral Reform Act distinguishes disinformation from misinformation partly through intent. Compare those definitions, examine the policy, and follow its sources to the original text. www.disinfo-policy.org/definitions

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 09/09/2026

364 policies. 132 countries + the European Union. 2000–2023. Governments can use the same word while targeting different information, behaviors, and harms. The GDPD records those differences, alongside policy instruments, institutions, and liabilities.

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 09/09/2026

disinfo-policy.org

Global Disinformation Policy Database

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 02/09/2026

you know it's serious when he breaks out the Watchmen (2019) OST.

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 22/07/2026

Subscribed! If you ended up doing a hardware walk thru, that would be amazing!

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 16/07/2026

"avoid antonomasia" is going to be a "load bearing" interjection

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 14/07/2026

My dog is so good at sleeping. I am so proud of her.

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 08/07/2026

perfectionism is a hell of a drug

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 07/07/2026

what word would be in your J-Space every day but you can't explain why? mine: Gandalf

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 07/07/2026

cool to discover the grandparents of all the obsidian.md influencers of a few years ago

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Scott Aukerman @scottaukerman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Enough turning these animated films into live action movies. I want to see live action classics turned into animation. Gordon Gekko’s cigar exploding, turning his face black. Lawrence of Arabia imagining a sand dune as a roasted ham.

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 07/07/2026

Yuri moonlights as a hypnotist

a cat lying in a sunbeam looks directly into the camera.

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 06/07/2026

You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 06/07/2026

This seems worth flying across the country for....

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Nick Lutsko @nicklutsko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Important information on West Coast Elf Rallies

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 06/07/2026

the stage of dogfooding when the dogfood starts to taste good.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 04/07/2026

miyawaki method but for social networks

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Ryan Williams @activationlayer.org · 03/07/2026