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David Karger

@karger.bsky.social
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Professor, MIT EECS/CSAIL people.csail.mit.edu/karger

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump
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Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) on Wednesday said the nation’s worst measles outbreak in the United States in 35 years is “going to be a terrible legacy for this administration,” citing recent deaths in Pennsylvania.
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Sen. Cassidy says measles surge will be administration’s ‘terrible legacy’
Under questioning by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Trump’s surgeon general pick Nicole Saphier called a combined vaccine “our greatest tool for combating measles infections.”
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 31/08/2026
Brian Morales, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding in a vehicle that was stopped by police in April. After the police called ICE, Brian explained to immigration officials that he is a U.S. citizen, born in Colorado, and even offered to show his birth certificate. (1/3)
Photo of Brian Morales with text overlayed in green and white that reads: "U.S. citizen deported to Mexico in April finally returns back to United States."
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026
AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NASHVILLE is suing the Trump regime for withholding first responder grants unless the city changes how local elections are administered. More unconstitutional anti-democracy overreach, even at the expense of first responders. www.newschannel5.com/news/state/t...
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fuck AIPAC but they’re not the only bad guy. When I post about a Democrat sucking, and y’all go right to AIPAC, it’s really testing the antisemitism fence and I’m tired of having to parse that shit. Centrist Dems suck for more than one reason, and if you go right to Jews, you’re not helping.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
To be taught to children in US base schools
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026
I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I find it insane that a country would choose to deport someone married to an American citizen. Sure, look for fraudulent marriages, but if the marriage is real, how could the damage you're doing to that American citizen possibly be worth whatever hypothetical benefit you get from deportation?
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/07/2026
ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't have much hope that we can educate; I think adverse legal outcomes are our best path to improvement. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...
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A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yes I would respond to that differently. When I hear ai ethics I think of something like bioethics---another field full of complicated questions where advanced training seems crucial for getting it right.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And while I think there is a lot of important AI ethics work that is not research oriented, I can't really think of another degree but the PHD that is used to demonstrate really deep training and ethics. Maybe a Divinity School degree?
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm skeptical of (b). I think ai ethics demands advanced training. I'd want a practitioner of AI ethics to have a degree demonstrating they've been trained just like I want a doctor to have an MD. experience could substitute but would be hard to assess if you didn't already have a track record
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The policy threatened visa revocation & even deportation of people who study online harms so @thecoalition.bsky.social sued to challenge it. This isn't the end of our case, but it's a major step. Many thanks to @knightcolumbia.org @protectdemocracy.org & those who filed amicus briefs <3
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Asimov might have beaten you to it. This seems newly relevant. employees.oneonta.edu/blechmjb/JBp...
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I think that AI is going to significantly disrupt the accreditation system; why should a company trust someone else's generic accreditation if they can use ai to deeply assess the suitability of a candidate for their specific company?
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I predict that in 5 years your job application will have to include not your transcript but your full work portfolio---all assignments, sketches, design docs, code, and other intermediate work---so the company AI can analyze it to determine your suitability for the job. Grades will be meaningless.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Yes, jobs are going to need to be based on recs (which are going to need to be based on direct interaction with students, which is going to significantly decrease the education scalability we've been able to achieve with lectures and textbooks) and on independent projects.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My conclusion from this and similar stories is that we should stop grading most of our classes. We need to convince students that learning will be valuable to them later. Not for the grade they get now. This is particularly reasonable for intro classes where the grade is long-term meaningless.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A long thread by Trung Le Nguyen, a millennial "live tweeting" as they read Pride and Prejudice for the first time, is delightful, but they've disabled quote posts so you will have to look it up for yourself.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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andy jabbour @andyjabbour.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
While this is a big win, @noupside.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social's win comes at a cost. 'lawsuit was a massive attack on the free speech (&) it succeeded... The chilling effect worked.' - @masnick.com. But still, we all need to continue to FIGHT BACK. www.techdirt.com/2026/07/06/c...
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Censorship Lawsuit Against Disinformation Researchers Dismissed — After Succeeding At Actual Censorship
Trump-appointed Louisiana federal judge Terry Doughty has spent years bending over backwards trying to help some MAGA faithful manufacture nonsense claims about “censorship” for some gr…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/07/2026
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I agree spoils system type firing is a terrible idea in general, if (big if) a democratic president is elected they need to immediately fire all Republicans in government because that's the only way they will get a consensus around amending the Constitution to unwind the unitary executive theory.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2026
Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"in-hospital mortality increases for Black, but not White, patients as hospitals reach capacity... We identify rationing by wait times as a mechanism, documenting that sicker Black patients wait longer for care than healthier White patients"
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/06/2026
Sen. Peters: "Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?" Postmaster General David Steiner: "Under our proposed regulation, no."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hegseth proudly ended the flu vaccine requirement for the military. Following this idiocy, only 40% of new trainees got vaccinated. There’s now a flu outbreak at an AF facility. A new recruit has died, though it is not clear if it was from flu. Now, the flu vaccine is again required there.
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Breaking | The Trump Administration is negotiating a deal to repaint Reflecting Pool to prior color, allow algae to stay.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is textbook violation of fiduciary duty on behalf of the Board — it's deliberately sabotaging your own institution to make a political point. Every Board member who voted for this is breaking their oath.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I wouldn't say that "separate" means "specialization". We might as well say that CS is a specialization of HCI. Perhaps the issue is that CS has become so broad that "good at" is no longer meaningful without more specifics. Eg I think a bad programmer can be fantastic at developing ai models.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Anyway, here is a good rundown on how we eradicated the new world screwworm from much of Central America for decades, only for the Trump people to (of course) fuck it up
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
So CS isn't othering *all* of HCI; it's just distinguishing the parts of HCI that fit from those don't. If you were going to try to squeeze HCI into one place then a Department of HCI would make far more sense than squeezing it all into CS. 3/3
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Instead, I think it is true as it always has been, that studying HCI requires a far broader range of expertise than belongs in a CS department. It needs Psychology, Comms, Anthropology, Law/Policy/Ethics, Sociology, and more. And a lot of that just doesn't fit inside a CS department. 2/3
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I think it's inaccurate to talk about "othering" HCI generally because HCI is so fundamentally interdisciplinary. MIT, which by stereotype would be an obvious candidate to "other" such a "pink" (soft) subdiscipline, has a thriving HCI community well respected in the department. 1/3
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is right, although I do think it’s worth underscoring that “I just want someone who will challenge the establishment and the status quo” is indeed the same logic that got us Trump, which is a good reason to view it and those who peddle it skeptically.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
With llms there's no justification for *not* giving you a personal moderator you can explicitly instruct to block whatever content you don't want to see.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My first thought was that they were trying to ban games where you kill people
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 29/05/2026
Stop Killing Games Gets Its First American Legislative Effort Out Of Committee in California I've written quite a bit about the Stop Killing Games movement, in no small part because I think it's way more important than most people think. Preserving cultural output is both important and, frankly, a…
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Stop Killing Games Gets Its First American Legislative Effort Out Of Committee in California
I've written quite a bit about the Stop Killing Games movement, in no small part because I think it's way more important than most people think. Preserving cultural output is both important and, frankly, a key part of the bargain that is supposed to be copyright law. The fact that we offer video game publishers copyright protections, which are supposed to come with an eventual appearance in the public domain, only to watch as game servers are shut down and gaming source codes are not preserved such that it all just goes away breaks that bargain completely.
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David Karger @karger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
we've already seen how this plays out---blue states interested in fairness pass fair districting laws, red states gerrymander, and blue states have to abandon their fair laws order to maintain the balance of power.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Talarico ads are pre-made The Republican Party has deleted their ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime: "Homicides highest in nearly 30 years under Ken Paxton." Paxton is now the GOP's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.
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