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Neuroscience international research program management 🔬🇨🇭🇩🇪🇪🇸 🇮🇳 Responsible AI pragmatist. 🤖📚

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🌍 #OTD in the #History of #Science and #Literature 27 Sept 1962, #RachelCarson's groundbreaking work on the detrimental effects of pesticide use, SILENT SPRING, was published. An environmental movement began, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was formed.
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
After Tough Primaries, Democrats in Key States Feel Unified, New Polls Find www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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After Tough Primaries, Democrats in Key States Feel Unified, New Polls Find
A majority of Democrats in Maine and Michigan said the primary process strengthened their party heading into November.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got to experience euro summer transitioning to fall in Germany, Austria and Italy over the past two weeks. Highly recommend!
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A bit from me in @wired.com today wrt our research on AI agents with @evijit.io and Samir Passi. This is a really detailed article, thanks for writing it @thiccreese.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/metas-...
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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 12/09/2026
Today on WCPT/ @heartlandsignal.com I'm joined by some incredible journalists & the Texas Democrat's party chair. Join us! + @daviddewitt.bsky.social + The Guardian's David Smith + @kendallscudder.bsky.social + @willbunch.bsky.social Stream 1-4 CT heartlandsignal.com/wcpt820/
it's the democracy, stupid graphic
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
3.3 million views already, which is significantly more than the normal audience for Kimmel on ABC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
NEW: Trump admin asks the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift the latest block on key parts of the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting for the midterms. This comes after a judge in Boston replaced an earlier block that the Supreme Court was reviewing
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League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, 26-2029 - CourtListener.com
Docket for League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, 26-2029 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE comes to my community. ☹️
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ICE agents violently clash with Frederick protesters after 2-day stakeout
Federal immigration agents violently clashed with protesters in Frederick on Friday night, using their vehicles to clear sidewalks and dragging protestors from the front porch of a home they attempted...
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE enforcement has not increased employment for native-born Americans.
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Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump's 'Lake America' renaming | TechCrunch
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Trump administration wants to weaponize the U.S. Postal Service against voters and unconstitutionally take election powers away from the states. CAP’s @michaelsozan.bsky.social explains where things stand now with the new USPS rules. Read more: ampr.gs/4xPhBxN
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW: @epic.org has filed the latest lawsuit to challenge the Department of Homeland Security's work on adult U.S. citizen lists for President Trump's order that's trying to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election www.courtlistener.com/docket/74728...
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#1 in Electronic Privacy Information Center v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (D. Maryland, 8:26-cv-03457) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph B. Edlow, U.S. Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Departm...
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"you earn the joy of working that discipline brings you.” Love this interview with Wynton Marsalis.
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Wynton Marsalis on Playing When Nobody Is Listening
As he concludes his tenure at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis opens up about childhood trauma, artistic integrity and why music matters even without an audience.
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As part of her TEDxFranklin Talk about conversation and connection in the Third Place, ASA member Kalinda Fisher emphasized how connecting across perspectives requires speaking with humility and listening with respect.
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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David Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Perspective @ai.nejm.org from @susanmichie.bsky.social & colleagues-who have devoted careers to substantial structural challenges around study of behav health-offers impt perspective on what needs to change to accelerate meaningful learning in this vitally important area. ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Building an AI-Ready Evidence Base for Behavior Change
AI has begun to make an impact on the development of interventions to promote healthier behaviors and assist with disease management, primarily through apps and chatbots, but also in health communi...
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/18/m...
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The Scots brought joy to Boston this summer. I walked from Edinburgh to Glasgow in search of the magic. - The Boston Globe
After the World Cup excitement came to an end here, I decided to visit Scotland.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One thing I've always appreciated about Arnold Toynbee, despite his quasi-religious providentialist analytic framework, is his hostility to what he called "the idolization of the nation-state" — he rightly considered parochial nationalism one of the great pathologies of modern Western civilization.
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...
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A Millennial Furniture Designer Is Behind the Drones Battering Russia
Iryna Terekh, 34, used to design benches. She is now the CEO of Ukraine’s largest private defense company.
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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 14/08/2026
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Holy sellout! White Sox fans flock to ‘Pope Hat’ night honoring Illinois native Pope Leo XIV www.nytimes.com/athletic/750...
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Holy sellout! White Sox fans flock to ‘Pope Hat’ night honoring Illinois native Pope Leo XIV (Gift Article)
The White Sox gave away almost 40,000 mitre hats emblazoned with their logo, and it was the brainchild of marketing executive Mike Downey.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ok, in honor of The Odyssey, give me your top 3 films about trying to get home (NOT including The Odyssey) Here’s mine: 3. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) 2. After Hours (1985) 1. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
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Center for NC Politics & Public Service @ncpolitics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A new pod(video)cast about #ncpol, with GOP campaign consultant Paul Shumaker, Democratic campaign consultant Morgan Jackson, and former NC Republican governor Pat McCrory explaining what makes NC the 'swingiest of swing states.' youtu.be/3xhZ65-Hzvc?...
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North Carolina: Tar Heel Flip | Long Play
YouTube video by Long Play Series
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The best line comes from an audience member late in the event. He explains how taking a lesson on how elections work (as part of an observer training program) helped him understand how secure elections actually are — and see why so many of the rumors about "rigged elections" just don't hold water.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Recently, I chatted w/ Julie Wise, King County Director of Elections, about the safeguards built into WA’s vote-by-mail system and how election administrators communicate the complexities of the voting process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBs6...
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Elections Explained: Rumors and Reality
YouTube video by Center for an Informed Public at UW
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Vaccination is collective action: Vaccination helps others by hindering disease-spread But there is an incentive free-ride: if enough others vaccinate, you don't need to pay those costs In a new paper, we provide new evidence with data from 6+ mil covid-vaccinations: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/7
Abstract
Classical theories in health psychology explain individuals’ decisions about whether or not to
engage in protective behavior such as vaccination during a health emergency as guided by
trade-offs about personal risks and benefits. Yet, vaccinations involve a clear collective action
component, where individuals can protect others by getting vaccinated, beyond the personal
benefits. Following recent research, we develop the argument that individual differences in the
motivation to engage in collective action should influence vaccination decisions during the most
significant health emergency in the 21st century, the COVID-19 pandemic, above and beyond the
predictors proposed by classical theories. We test this argument by combining survey observations
from 380,516 unique Danish adults with population-wide registry data on COVID-19 vaccination
status for 6.1 million individuals in Denmark, of whom 4.9 million received at least one vaccine
dose. Using this unique data infrastructure, we compare classical psychological correlates of
protective behavior with psychological measures of individual-differences in collective action motivation.
The results demonstrate collective action motivation was more strongly associated with
vaccination behavior than threat appraisal or coping appraisal across the vaccination sequence,
spanning completion of the recommended primary vaccination course, booster receipt, time to
full vaccination, and vaccination uptake among the children of survey respondents. Furthermore,
high levels of collective action motivation strongly weakened the role of personal considerations
that would otherwise deter vaccination uptake, both in terms of whether or not the individual
gets vaccinated and how quickly the individual gets vaccinated. These findings provide important
information on the prerequisites of successful vaccination campaigns during major health crises
and how governments and authorities can facilitate them.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Cooper focuses on tariffs & Iran in NC Senate race: www.wral.com/news/local/c...
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Italy’s Giorgia Meloni bets big on nuclear power revival Rural backlash against renewables that ‘spoil the landscape’ fuels support for atomic energy decades after reactor shutdowns" www.ft.com/content/6a98...
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Killian McLoughlin @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New commentary at @natrevpsychol.nature.com with Alexis Palmer, @natematias.bsky.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social: Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
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Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility - Nature Reviews Psychology
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming the methods of psychological research, but the use of proprietary models poses risks to transparency and reproducibility. Prioritizing open models...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
BREAKING via AP U.S. government withdraws subpoenas for NY Times reporters in investigation of sources related to new Air Force One jet
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Meat Meatloaf
ALT: Meat Meatloaf
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Odysseus Wasn’t Real. But He Had Real Worshipers in Ancient Ithaca. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/s...
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Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus (Gift Article)
The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/15/b...
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Australia to impose energy and water guardrails on data centers amid AI boom - The Boston Globe
Stories you may have missed from the world of business.
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Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a ‌policy that targets foreign nationals who study disinformation and hate speech on social media for visa denials and deportation. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
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US judge blocks Trump administration's visa limits for social media researchers
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a ‌policy that targets foreign nationals who study disinformation and hate speech on social media for vis...
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Here is Oliphant's obituary: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/a...
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Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist Who Skewered the Powerful, Dies at 90 (Gift Article)
The winner of countless awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, he was described in 1990 as “the most influential political cartoonist now working.”
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I came perilously close to accidentally printing that Pat Oliphant had already passed away in my review of this documentary last fall. (Thankfully we caught the error in time.) But now he has, a giant in political cartooning. I recommend the doc: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/m...
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Fighting the Power, One Political Cartoon at a Time
“A Savage Art” looks at the life of the prizewinning Pat Oliphant and argues such work is “a serious expression of a political thought.”
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Anne Cronin @annecronin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Happy Manhattanhenge
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.
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FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the Trump administration’s investigation was justified, sources told MS NOW.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
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Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
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History Today @historytoday.com · 08/07/2026
‘Who is the most overrated person in history? #HenryVIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’ 🎯 #Historian Alec Ryrie answers our quickfire questions www.historytoday.com/archive/inte...
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On the Spot: Alec Ryrie
‘Who is the most overrated person in history? Henry VIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
poof goes the talking point www.cnbc.com/2026/07/03/m...
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Manhattan luxury real estate sales hold firm despite fears of a 'Mamdani effect'
A month after the passage of a tax on second homes in New York City, brokers and analysts said sales of luxury real estate remain strong.
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Trump Administration Rolls Back Part of Anthropic Model Ban Gift WSJ link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trum...
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Part of Anthropic Model Ban
The government is allowing trusted partners to access the Mythos 5 model following a two-week restriction that rattled the tech industry.
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Signal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance
The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
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Eric Nelson @commodorenelson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/19/o...
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Protest doesn’t scare the Trump administration. Organizing does. - The Boston Globe
More than 100 federal agents descended on an Ohio group that does democracy’s slowest, most patient work. The target was not an accident.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
As we approach America250, I wish to point out that if not for woke George Washington mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox, we probably wouldn’t have made it to America001.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Who gets to assess frontier AI, on what terms, and who finds out the results? Merve Hickok, president of the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), warns that Trump’s new executive order on AI buries those answers inside the NSA.
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Transparency and Accountability Gaps in Trump's New AI Executive Order
The order, "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security," should attract substantial scrutiny, writes CAIDP president Merve Hickock.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 16/06/2026
“In a union built to make war unthinkable, the first supranational weapon was issued not for defence against armies, but for keeping unarmed people out.” 🎁🔗
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Europe has reduced illegal immigration without goon tactics
But that is just the easy half of its migration battle
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A state party severed from the fundamentals of being American. I could hardly believe what I was reading.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This essay by @joelsimonsays.bsky.social about interviewing authoritarians is a good read and helps put that Welker/Trump interview in broader context. via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/shou...
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Should journalists interview dictators?
Encounters on the line between control and conditions.
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