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An Incomplete List of Morally Binding Accords in my Family: A Morally Binding Accord for No Screens at the Table A Morally Binding Accord to Put Dirty Dishes in the Dishwasher (is it so hard?!?!) A Morally Binding Accord to Not Put an Empty Milk Carton Back in the Fridge

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 22h

Your periodic reminder that "the company ignored employees' warnings" very often just means "people discussed what to do and not everyone agreed." Having these conversations is good. Fearing that open discussion will lead to gotcha headlines is bad.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Incredible how, like vaccines and reading with phonics, we need to keep learning these lessons over and over again.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Omg this was a deep troll, people. Silicon Valley (the place, and I guess the show?) is just full of tech nerds making LOTR analogies/quotes/naming companies after parts of it. It’s core. Which btw Tolkien would hate because the man did not like allegory.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Re-reading the Lord of the Rings. Do you think anyone has thought about AI like the ring of power?

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Damages here are TBD but theoretically could reach the $ hundreds of BILLIONS. I hope all those sucker AGs who just settled their Cambridge Analytica claims for $460 million spread across fifty-ish states and territories are having uncomfortable conversations rn.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a very cute clip, but I love it for reasons that the episode doesn't really explore: *All networked technology comes down to chat* Talking to each other is either the foundation of all new networked technology or becomes inexorably tied up with it-- since the early days of the Internet 1/

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This anecdote--not the episode, which goes in a totally different direction--is hilarious& cute. But more importantly, it poignantly illustrates SO many things that I work on. 1) How endlessly creative kids will be in route around child restrictions, and how ineffective parental controls are. 1/

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really cogent, smart analysis of the most realistic threats to the midterms. @rickpildes.bsky.social is one of my Go Tos on all things law + elections and this is why. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...

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Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections? (Gift Article)

And how we learn to trust elections again.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Despite 1st Circuit's 9/18 ruling invalidating DHS's 3d-country removal policy, DHS claims the decision hasn't yet taken effect. Class counsel fears a flight will take class members to Burundi, Rwanda, & Central African Republic *tomorrow.* Asks 1st Cir for emergency action.

Plaintiffs-Appellants seek an emergency order clarifying that this
Court's September 18, 2026 decision is in effect as binding precedent and that this Court's March 16, 2026, stay "pending appeal" has been dissolved
now that the Court has issued its decision and judgment. In the alternative,
Plaintiffs-Appellants request the Court either issue an order lifting the
March 16, 2026 stay or issue the mandate. Emergency action is needed because Plaintiffs-Appellants have learned that Defendants-Appellees are proceeding with removing class members to third countries in Africa,
pursuant to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guidance which
this Court found unlawful and set aside, tomorrow. In response to an email
from class counsel, Defendants-Appellees' counsel confirmed in a 5:14 p.m.
email today that their position is that this Court's stay remains in effect until
the mandate is issued. Exhibit A. In addition, counsel for Defendants-

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If a nihilist 3 year-old was in charge of a bumper sticker factory.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’re going to look back at this time when we built machines to hack ourselves, and destroyed vaccines that saved our children and be like: “What? Were too many people _staying alive_?? Was _that_ the problem they were solving for??”

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We should do this to people outside Montessori kindergartens. m.youtube.com/shorts/ii0Wy...

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vaccinating street dogs via blow-dart in egypt

YouTube video by Curious cat

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At TrustCon this year I talked about a technique we’ve developed for automatically optimizing content-moderation policies, using an inversion of the binocular labeling approach Zentropi had already pioneered. Today we're shipping the tool that technique became. blog.zentropi.ai/optimizing-o...

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Optimizing our Policy Optimizers

Today, we are releasing our next-generation policy refinement tools: policy-only correction, label-only correction, and auto-optimization.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Made a few small changes to the AI Crisis Flowchart

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m pretty sure this billboard is just for the target audience of people who teach both AI law and trust & estates, which is to say me.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People 2014-2024: “We don’t want robots reviewing our content! We demand human review!” People in 2026: “Holy shit, did you know humans are reviewing our content!? How creepy! We only want robots!!”

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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Jeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Adding, if you made it this far, you may be interested in "Artificial Intelligence Law," the new textbook @klonick.bsky.social and I will be releasing later this year. artificialintelligencelaw.org

artificialintelligencelaw.org

Artificial Intelligence Law

Technology, Law, and Policy

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Aaaaand @jnsheff.bsky.social ‘s analogy is even better as you watch Sam and Elon jump on board.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a great take. Anthropic is now, in seeking “embedded evaluators,” exactly what banks in the 2000s were in asking for oversight through credit rating agencies. . . and we all knowhow that turned out.

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Jeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The first element of this strategy (external private monitors against systemic social risk) was tried in the aughts with credit rating agencies in the mortgage-backed securities market. It failed. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...

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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A good chronicle of things we already know but this little tidbit was new to me. Ht @rparloff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Everyone is going to die!” “Oh my god, that’s awful!! How?” “We don’t understand but we know”

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this take was understandable in 2024 but is absolutely bananas to publish in Sept 2026. the South Lawn MMA fight polled at 16%. Trump's approval numbers on immigration and handling of the economy are not good and have steadily gotten worse since his inauguration www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Bowie and Renan’s book, imploring politicians to defy the Court and obey the people, would have fit a Kamala Harris Administration perfectly. Trump’s reëlection, however, makes their “popular will versus injustice” framing harder to nod along with. Democrats could once take comfort in the notion that theirs was the popular side, with only the vagaries of the Electoral College and the iniquities of corporate campaign donations preventing them from permanently occupying the Oval Office. Yet in 2024 Trump, despite being significantly outspent, not only won the popular vote but did especially well with the working class. If the people had a will in that election, it was for deportations, tariffs, and cage matches on the South Lawn.

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/09/2026

The Hugging Face incident may turn out to be one of the most important milestones/warnings in technological revolution now underway. History may look back at this moment/point to it. Everyone should be reading ab it and thinking about it. Here are a few good pieces: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...

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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The irony of having to Google: "name of the disorder where you can't remember the word for the thing you're describing."

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve realized that being a parent is kinda just about creating two more people I can gossip about endlessly with my spouse.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Counterpoint: Everything is philosophy.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 28/08/2026

Invisible decisions made by AI companies, like which sources are used and maintained, are having an increasing impact on our information flows. @klonick.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social explain how this invisible source skew happens and its impact on the information ecosystem.

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Invisible Source Skew

Our information flows aren’t just threatened by slop or foreign actors. They're being reshaped by invisible decisions from AI companies.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yeah ok sure but if Hurricane Dolly takes out Mar-a-Lago we really do have to make her a saint right?

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Louder for the people in the back

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Kevin Frazier @kevintfrazier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is the Oversight Board a model for AI governance? Kenji Yoshino helped @klonick.bsky.social & me reason through that question. For all of its faults, the Board is an informative experiment. And, an OSB for AI would need to look wildly different.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“We’ll pay you $5 billion if you force our competitors to do a bunch of things that make them less competitive against us.” Yeah, when you put it that way, it does sound kinda sus.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When I was clerking in Western NY there wasn't a ton to do. So I'd frequently stop at the Goodwill on my drive home and check out the records. One day I walked in and someone had dropped off an 80 vinyl collection of every Dolly album ever made. $1.99 each. Best $160 I ever spent.

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Jeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Explaining Markov models on the first day of Artificial Intelligence Law. With @klonick.bsky.social .

Classroom demonstration of Markov models.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This was the newspaper that broke Watergate.

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The way things are going with AI, it's probably a smart move for ambitious students to work on their penmanship.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hmm. 1) this is not true. I know many in tech that give their kids screen time 2) if people were talking about banning all food the way they talk about banning tech you’d maybe rethink this analogy 3) what are we supposed to notice? That people have the freedom to parent their kids how they want?

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