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Megan Morrone @megmorrone.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Anthropic just dropped new data on how folks are using Claude for emotional support. Bots can be comforting. But they weren’t built for therapy. Thx to @miles.land &‬ Alex Sanderford from @anthropic.com & @erictopol.bsky.social for insights. In @axios.com AI+. www.axios.com/2025/06/26/a...

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Exclusive: New Anthropic report details How Claude became an emotional support bot

The research shows users grow more positive while chatting with Claude.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Trump reportedly plans to extend TikTok’s divest-or-ban deadline—again Congress & SCOTUS backed the law blocking the app from Apple & Google stores  He’s once again showing contempt for checks, balances, & the rule of law

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Google Play’s Ongoing TikTok Downloads Spur Investor Lawsuit (1)

Alphabet Inc.'s leaders may have exposed it to significant legal risk by continuing to distribute TikTok through its Google Play app store, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 14/01/2025

i simultaneously pity the creature and see myself in him

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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

SO excited to share Clio with the world (and on Bsky before Twitter)! Clio generates insights on AI usage patterns, in a way that keeps user data private. It has unlocked, and will continue to unlock, an immense amount of understanding about the present and future of AI use. (Blog linked below)

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 12/12/2024

read the paper — there are some fun anecdotes! www.anthropic.com/research/clio

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 14/02/2024

There are lots of photo authentication systems, some more robust than others. Anyway, here is an "authentic photo" of me in Mumbai. (Don't trust everything you read from CLLocationManager!) clickapp.com/4hTRfVgqHsw8...

An "authentic photo" of me in Mumbai. I was not in Mumbai.

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 16/11/2023

What content did platforms label as misleading in the run up to the 2020 election? And were platforms consistent in their labeling decisions? In our new paper, @shelbygrossman.bsky.social, Sam Bradshaw, and I leverage a unique dataset to answer these questions: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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An investigation of social media labeling decisions preceding the 2020 U.S. election

Since it is difficult to determine whether social media content moderators have assessed particular content, it is hard to evaluate the consistency of their decisions within platforms. We study a data...

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 28/08/2023

I wrote about that time my classmates threatened me (and some friends) with felony charges. miles.land/posts/classm...

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 14/07/2023

half the posts in my twitter feed right now

a man holding up a sign that says "follow me for the latest AI news"

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 18/06/2023

i have never debated anyone due to the fact that it's nerd shit

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 18/06/2023

“You’re not an Amazon driver — you just drive an Amazon truck, work in Amazon facilities, and deliver Amazon packages.” Ah yes, of course.

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 17/06/2023

Is it possible to enroll a hardware security key "remotely" (i.e., without the key itself)? Perhaps using some kind of public key? I'm not very familiar with the FIDO/U2F/etc specs, and a quick Google search didn't yield anything.

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 13/06/2023

Really enjoyed sharing Atlos.org at RightsCon last week! Working on Atlos — and deploying it to Bellingcat — is definitely a top life experience for me.

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 02/06/2023

imagine sending this email unironically

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/06/2023

June 8th, you can see the Global Authentication Project‘s Hannah Bagdasar and Charlotte Godart in an exclusive online only workshop with Atlos outlining how you can design safer visual investigations at scale. This workshop is capped at 50 participants, so get your tickets now!

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 27/05/2023

“Welcome to the emergency room” … “Please sign the terms and conditions”

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 05/05/2023

every day, they choose to punish me

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 03/05/2023

meanwhile on the bird site: a bug that lets you like (and bookmark!) a tweet as many times as you want

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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 29/04/2023

spammy follow bots are an important part of any self-respecting social app’s new user onboarding experience

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