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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19h

As a heads-up: every firm's customer service agents are about to be overwhelmed with Dots & Muses negotiating for better deals using voice/chat channels made for humans. Stories of people delegating this sort of work to their agents & saving money are popping up and are going to only go more viral.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I 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

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026

Reading a good Dallas Express piece about shrinking newsrooms and AI--and how AI seems like a fix but isn't. Gasped at the numbers I already knew w/r/t the collapse of the industry. In 2026-to-2026 dollars, decline in ad revenue is from *92B* in 2005 to 9B today. dallasexpress.com/national/as-...

That support eroded as advertising and audiences moved online. Pew
Research Center's historical figures put U.S. newspaper advertising
revenue at approximately $49.4 billion in 2005, compared with an
estimated $9.8 billion in 2022. Those are nominal dollars; the decline was
already enormous without adjusting for inflation.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Are tech luminaries scaring people about the things they are also building and profiting from? Time to tap the sign- this is also what physicists did during the heyday of nuclear weapons R&D natematias.com/portfolio/20...

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Strange Stability: Learning from Scientific Myths of the Nuclear Age

Faculty, Cornell. Founder: CAT Lab

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 03/09/2026

Steinem was one of the most recognizable figures in the modern women’s movement and a longtime journalist who cofounded both New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine.

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Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Dies At 92

Steinem was one of the most recognizable figures in the modern women’s movement and a longtime journalist who cofounded both New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine.

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Someone, I think on here, once pointed out that American eugenic energies switched into advertising and lifestyle choice for much of the 20th c. Anyone have any idea who/what to cite?

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Heartbreaking. She was an example of how a single person could make the world a better place.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship application is live! We’re seeking journalists, researchers, and policy professionals pursuing independent reporting and analysis that explore urgent questions at the intersection of technology and democracy. Learn more and apply by September 24.

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Call for Applications: 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship Program

2027 Tech Policy Press fellowship applications are due on September 24, 2026.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students hiring Kenyans to write their papers & dissertations? I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics to the mainstream. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students

Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Higher ed folks: If you have used the "Mind Over Misinformation" interactive course from the APA in your class, I would love to hear about your experiences with it. #academicsky digital.apa.org/misinformati...

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Mind Over Misinformation

Interactive learning modules to help people recognize and resist misinformation using psychological science.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How do governments rewire science & the tech industry by threatening scholars? And how can we be more resilient? Writing for @ucs.org, I report on efforts by @thecoalition.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org, @acm.org, & @aoir.bsky.social to support researcher rights blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...

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Protecting Science from Government Intimidation - Union of Concerned Scientists

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/08/2026

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/08/2026

A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

No one tell the Pilates women. Iykyk

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The record didn’t just scratch, it broke in half and the player collapsed. Each word in ff that quote is worse than the next.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Important wake up call for folks who care about freedom of expression to go beyond the essential work of protecting freedoms to also grow the experience and exercise of those freedoms

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Tess is Surviving the Horrors @mothmother.com · 01/08/2026

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you know a manager who actually wants to prioritize reliable, accurate AI, tell them to check out our book Auditing AI. And if they refuse to test their systems, our book is a helpful guide to journalists, citizens, and public servants seeking accountability. auditingai.cc

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Home - Auditing AI -- The Book

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong. How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

COLM conference is struggling with theoryslop and slopterpretability papers gregdurrett.github.io/colm2026-blo...

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AI submissions at COLM: theoryslop, slopterpretability, and papers in the age of agents

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There is no singularity. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 🤖🙄🙅‍♀️

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

You can come and see Dr Rodney Brooks speak at the ACM AI Leadership Summit, September 1-3, Atlanta. Registration is open aisummit.acm.org

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AI Leadership Summit

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Yes, The Odyssey is as good as everyone says it is.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 20/07/2026

I'm 2 years out of work in UX and this month I'm short on rent and bills. I'm actively looking for UX research roles, open to contract or full-time. If you know of anything, my DMs are open. Ko-fi (below) or Venmo @ jgcarpenter helps me keep going. Every share matters! ko-fi.com/drjuliecarpe...

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Support Julie Carpenter, PhD (she/her)

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026

First time in recorded history that a man has been simultaneously arrested by the cops and the fashion police

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have never been jealous of British food, but here we are.

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My congratulations to the people of Ireland.

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gobsmacked. Who could have seen this coming?

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11/07/2026

This is Pearl. She's very excited you're home, and can only properly express her enthusiasm through jazz hands. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: ohpearlitsliza)

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The planet already is burning. Current infrastructures cannot sustain this. "Under this scenario, data-center power demand would reach approximately 198.9 gigawatts ... equivalent to roughly half of the average power consumption of the United States." techxplore.com/news/2026-07...

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Researchers identify the 'hidden energy cost' of AI agents for the first time

As the era of AI agents—systems that can reason and act autonomously—begins, the power consumption of data centers is emerging as a critical challenge. A KAIST research team has, for the first time, a...

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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We’ve updated the description of the Information Society book series at @mitpress.bsky.social to better reflect how the series has evolved and where it’s headed. We have some exciting books in the pipeline and are always interested in hearing about new projects. mitpress.mit.edu/series/the-i...

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Information Society Series

The Information Society Series publishes original scholarship addressing the social, legal, and political implications of the Internet and new information and communication technologies. The series fe...

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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026

“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”

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What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"

Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT

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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Excited to see this new guidance on conducting ethical network research now out in Network Science. Social network studies raise unique ethical challenges around consent, privacy, and identifiability. Glad to have played a small role in contributing to this effort. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Recommendations for conducting ethical network research | Network Science | Cambridge Core

Recommendations for conducting ethical network research - Volume 14

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

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