Reposted by Jason MillerKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 5hThe US is literally being avoided like the plague. 771557301
Reposted by Jason MillerJulia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this actually seems like the *exact right image* to accompany the text 26514
Reposted by Jason MillerJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Many thoughts about the argument in this piece but one is that citing a few studies to say that there is little evidence that "we discover what we think in the act of writing" contradicts everything I saw in 26 years of teaching college writing. Of course not the only we figure out what we think/1 37821
Reposted by Jason Milleroctopuswaffle.bsky.social @octopuswaffle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Multnomah County folks: Mask up, an estimated 1 in 29 people are currently infected with COVID. 166
Reposted by Jason MillerNash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word. 434559899
Reposted by Jason MillerLoren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Loved nerding out on trust in government with my former @ourpublicservice.bsky.social colleague Lindsay Laferriere. Plus, several reviews of DOGE, VA capacity, EV trucks, the Trimphant Arch, and of course AI safety in the latest Sirens. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...podcasts.apple.comEVs, DOGE recap, Trust in GovernmentPodcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · September 25 · 55m 044
Reposted by Jason MillerJuliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 27/09/2026Wage theft is the biggest form of theft. And because employers force their employees onto poverty assistance, it's also a theft of your tax money. The robber barons love it when you blame the people they decided to rob. www.epi.org/publication/...epi.orgWage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly UnprotectedWage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberi... 013560
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here, let me tap this sign before bringing up the current state of things in a nested thread... 010
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026True story: there is an AI toilet to help solve this novel new problem. 💩🚽 (#WishIWereOnlyHalfJoking, ☠️) www.kohler.com/en/products/...kohler.com 000
Reposted by Jason MillerKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776142098
Reposted by Jason MillerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies. 251368405
Reposted by Jason MillerShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026‘We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.’ This is a CEO openly confessing to a level of acquired mental indolence that, were he not coddled 24/7 by an army of paid underlings, would make him incapable of living independently and feeding himself. He’s fine with it. Your kids won’t be. 7340106
Reposted by Jason MillerFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026Yes, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed big tech boarding school that takes students as young as 16 is, in fact, advertising Tyler Cowen - he of the "if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances" creep article - as faculty. 2548683
Reposted by Jason MillerJulia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots and found that three produced full summaries of news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets with links and quotes. www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/a...euronews.comAI serves up content from Russia's sanctioned state outlets, RSF findsReporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots by requesting news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets, and found that three produced full summaries with links and quotes, somet... 02418
Reposted by Jason MillerJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Writing centers should be championed, not dissolved... Colleges are racing to outspend each other with new AI-focused programming. But individualized, human support for student learning should not be sacrificed on the altar of these ambitions." (by Lizzie Hutton, Miami U Ohio's WC director)cincinnati.comAI makes college writing centers more important, not less | OpinionOpinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write. 25830
Reposted by Jason MillerThe Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23/09/2026"Only in Portland," USA Today writes about a nominee for best independent coffee shop. mrf.lu/2SMtv 092
Reposted by Jason MillerMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026US military upgrades the Maven system. “Human-directed” and “human-in-the-loop” are such wiggle words. Does it matter if the human decision-maker has no way to verify what is going on inside the system? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comUS Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School StrikeThe changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement. 253
Reposted by Jason MillerShannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump’s entire UNGA speech is full of statements that are dumb, dangerous, offensive, or all three, but top of the list is his threat to completely annihilate Iran. I lived through the 80s. I’m mostly immune to nuclear threats. But this has got me twitchy. I’m not confident there are any adults left 5279
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You can could try to react to the tardy bewilderment over dubious stereotypes that were formed to shame you for “performing your gender wrong” or you can share your Mighty Huntress being totally adorable. Choose wisely. 000
Reposted by Jason Millerpnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026250 donations away now 🫡 07425
Reposted by Jason MillerWIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-... 641684638
Reposted by Jason MillerMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Shy away from em-dashes because of genAI? I've always used em-dashes in my writing. Fuck it. I'm doubling down and increasing the number of em-dashes I use in my writing. 9443
Reposted by Jason MillerJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The problems these grading machines solve: grading fast, more, and cheap, are quite different from the problems writing instructors, writing tutors, writing center solve: developing ideas, human conversation, learning. 36124
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously." --Schwarz, 1983. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_lawen.wikipedia.orgPoe's law - Wikipedia 000
Reposted by Jason MillerAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 19/09/2026The Vanderbilt Report complex perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon: academic celebrities attacking solid scholarship by completely misrepresenting it, and then blaming scholarship for academia’s demise. 25917
Reposted by Jason MillerTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability. 91318414
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“The fourth amendment is twice the amendment the second amendment will ever be!” 000
Reposted by Jason Millerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Inside you are two wolves: one wishes to write a quick snarky headline and the other chimes in with "actually, it's much more nuanced than that" and begins to write a 2000-word blog post. 812816
Reposted by Jason Millerscha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The new AI captchas are really something ᵛⁱᵃ ˣᴷᶜᴰ 620656
Reposted by Jason MillerTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9555432157
Reposted by Jason MillerJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you're a parent of a kid with health issues who can't get their Covid shot through Vaccines for Children right now please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com 05533
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've been saying this since 2017, but--as Vonnegut predicted in Player Piano--I somehow have not stopped. 😭🤖 020
Reposted by Jason MillerTinkeringTailorTom-Dread is no longer Existential @tinkeringtailortom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is so that they can spend as much time as possible hiding from angry voters in their home districts so they don't have to defend Trump's failed policies. 2123
Jason Miller @euthydemus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Verhoeven's early example of Poe's law has come full circle with Verhoeven asserting his uncertainty regarding the self-awareness of the current administration... 🙃 000
Reposted by Jason MillerPM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"It's the same story time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead." - @bcmerchant.bsky.social 0316
Reposted by Jason MillerLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians 14624
Reposted by Jason Millerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy. 1342665
Reposted by Jason MillerEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"We caution counsel that, while Al has no Rule 11 obligations, the attorney who relies on it does." 😬 0123
Reposted by Jason MillerKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We never punished the people who authorized torture and the last 20+ years of our politics are a consequence of that. 152010449
Reposted by Jason Miller404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.404media.coCops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box. 6319120
Reposted by Jason MillerWolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson) 8867042534
Reposted by Jason Miller🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Another really fun part is that apparently LLM/AI has substantially enhanced semi-autonomous & adaptive cyber operations, fraud, hacking, & weaponry capabilities for all levels of actors & that horse seems pretty important out the barn but we’re yapping about bioweapons for “some” reason instead.static.klipy.comElmo I Don't Know IdkALT: Elmo I Don't Know Idk 13211
Reposted by Jason MillerBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.* 122976643
Reposted by Jason MillerOpinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I hope this Ishmael finds you whale 332506548
Reposted by Jason MillerHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.pcmag.comApple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance NightmareApple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment. 321053495
Reposted by Jason Millerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them—and prepare for that. OpenAI didn't. They built a model, removed the safeguards, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...mail.cyberneticforests.comModels Don't Go RogueStochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o... 8288111
Reposted by Jason Millerlucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto... 10296164