Reposted by Tim BernardDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Postal Service law is the original platform regulation.nytimes.comSupreme Court Rejects Trump’s Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots: Live UpdatesThe ruling is a major loss for the Trump administration, which wanted to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections. 13510
Reposted by Tim BernardMor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026One note about OpenAI's latest impressive math feat: according to them, it involved a total of 300 billion output tokens. While it's hard to estimate input load (not reported, sometimes cached), the output math is easier: these alone would cost $15M* under current newest model GPT-6 Astra. 231
Reposted by Tim BernardTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Dean Jackson and Tim Bernard collect policy choices local governments can weigh while a data center moratorium is in effect, drawing on 17 publicly available resources from governments, researchers, and advocacy organizations.techpolicy.pressHow to Use Your Community’s Data Center MoratoriumDean Jackson and Tim Bernard collect policy choices that government bodies may choose to take surfaced from a variety of sources. 172
Reposted by Tim BernardTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Dean Jackson and Tim Bernard collect policy choices local governments can weigh while a data center moratorium is in effect, drawing on 17 publicly available resources from governments, researchers, and advocacy organizations.buff.lyHow to Use Your Community’s Data Center MoratoriumDean Jackson and Tim Bernard collect policy choices that government bodies may choose to take surfaced from a variety of sources. 155
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 12/08/2026You should totally read sccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1...sccl.bibliocommons.comWhen the Moon Hits Your Eye — Santa Clara County LibraryWhen the Moon Hits Your Eye — Scalzi, John, 1969- — "The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their faith: ... 110
Reposted by Tim BernardTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.techpolicy.pressResearchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable AuthoritarianismA new preprint study of authoritarianism-enabling AI presents another set of evidence of the gaps in safeguards, writes Tim Bernard. 01610
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 01/07/2026Related? villagegreennj.com/parks-recrea...villagegreennj.comBear Visits Turtle Back Zoo, Prompting Evacuation & Shelter in Place - The Village GreenZoo veterinarians and staff, along with Essex County Sheriff’s officers have been tracking the bear, and NJ Fish and Wildlife has been contacted. 010
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 30/06/2026For an evaluative take that largely aligns with my own, this thread from @cdt.org's @kateruane.bsky.social has you covered: 011
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 30/06/2026My latest @techpolicypress.bsky.social: This may be the biggest package of federal children's online safety legislation yet, and it's got further than many other attempts to pass similar laws. Check out my update if you want to know what's in it! 110
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 25/06/2026There might be al ma lismoch from the shita of davening maariv early 000
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 25/06/2026Maybe they hold that any time after plag is twilight bedieved? 220
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 22/06/2026Decent long version of your skeet (though with less Ralph Wiggum): bsky.app/profile/rabb... 020
Reposted by Tim BernardJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10/06/2026As the 2026 midterms approach, how are the biggest AI firms preparing? Tim Bernard breaks down the election-safety plans from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic—from voting-info partnerships to watermarking to cyber defense—and where the gaps still are. www.techpolicy.press/how-openai-g...techpolicy.pressHow OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Plan to Handle the 2026 US MidtermsWith advances in the technology, each new election season brings novel AI risks, writes Tim Bernard. 1148
Reposted by Tim BernardJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This, by @smgrimes.bsky.social, is brilliant & so needed: a refutal of Jonathan Haidt's & Jean Twenge's moral panic by academics with evidence. It is brief, clear, accessible, and devastating. I, too, quoted those scholars in The Web We Weave. kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/u...kidsplaytech.comPanic First, Evidence Later — What Leading Experts Think About The Anxious Generation 310950
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 05/06/2026Nice work, Meta, at removing a FB page I reported... 360 days after I reported it?! 100
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 29/04/2026And Art 35, b/c mitigation is also cited. But the announcement also says the EC used the Art 28 Guidelines as a "benchmark to evaluate ... compliance with the obligation to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security for minors." 🤷 020
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 24/04/2026My friend just made this 100% accurate Al detector though... bsky.app/profile/yoss... 100
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 13/04/2026When you think about it, don't you really owe it to your family to make a quick buck off of gullible rubes? 000
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 26/03/2026My sense is that what Americans learned as cursive is both (1) their only day-to-day alternative to print and (2) significantly more intricate and decorative than what I learned as "joined up" in primary school in the late 80s in the UK. 011
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 13/03/2026Saw a Hummer in SoHo yesterday and got instinctively indignant. 010
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 22/02/2026I did struggle with this and landed on "outcomes" as the term that sounded most neutral to me, even though the paper itself is far more loose with casual-sounding language. I discuss the issue inside the article here. 110
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 18/02/2026Fewer than 1000 reversals from ODS proceedings across the EU seems rather less than high impact... 100
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 18/02/2026No indication of what the numbers were during the previous period.... 010
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 03/02/2026api.riverside.fm/hosting/r9uk... 😉 (my open source podcast player accesses the Apple podcasts directory, but doesn't seem to have your podcast listing yet)api.riverside.fm 100
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 03/02/2026Apologies for being old, but is the podcast available as a podcast (instead of a YT vid)? 110
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 08/01/2026Early is early. Can't be too careful when it comes to nurturing great thinkers. 010
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 08/01/2026When I was visiting unis as a prospective philosophy UG, the dept at Nottingham (iirc) told us they had no 9am classes because getting up to tutor the Queen of Sweden at 5am caused Descartes' early death. 110
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 29/12/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit is talking to another man and says " it was two minutes five minutes ago "ALT: a man in a suit is talking to another man and says " it was two minutes five minutes ago " 000
Reposted by Tim BernardTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 23/12/2025In a new paper in the journal Violence Against Women, researcher Kaylee Williams examines a set of “nudify” apps through the lens of tech-facilitated gender-based violence, evaluating their affordances, marketing material, and policies. Tim Bernard unpacks the findings:techpolicy.pressNew Study Examines Features and Policies for 29 AI ‘Undressing’ Apps | TechPolicy.PressTim Bernard looks at findings from a new paper by Kaylee Williams published in the journal Violence Against Women. 0148
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 23/12/2025I just watched it - and it's probably the first 60 minutes segment I've ever seen. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...muellershewrote.comWATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT SegmentI was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat. 010
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 19/12/20256. ICYMI, my pre-news piece on the deal: www.techpolicy.press/who-will-own... and the FT seems to have the most detailed coverage of the memo: www.ft.com/content/7a77...techpolicy.pressWho Will Own TikTok in the US and Why it Matters for Democracy | TechPolicy.PressTim Bernard draws insights from Paddy Leerssen's paper, "From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of online content governance." 001
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 19/12/20255. So, IMO it's too early to assume that content policy will change if the deal does in fact go through. But has almost every stage of this saga been terrible from a free expression and good governance perspective? Absolutely. 110
Tim Bernard @timbernard.me · 19/12/20254. We don't know who will be on the "seven-member majority-American board of directors" that will appoint the new management and have the final word on content policy. 100
![Not a causal study
The paper’s footnote clarifies, “[t]his is a descriptive study, thereby limiting our ability to draw conclusions about cause and effect.” Its regular use of the terms “effect,” “impact,” and “outcome” should therefore be interpreted in this light. It is not hard to imagine that, for instance, the relationship between negative senses of well-being, self-esteem, and social connection on the one side and extended scrolling on TikTok or watching hours of YouTube on the other may not have an obvious direction of causality. Conversely, on days when teens felt closer to their friends, they spent more time conversing with them on SnapChat or WhatsApp. Some of the authors’ summary statements suggest that they too had trouble keeping this distinction in mind when they write, for example, that “[t]hese findings indicate that social media use is a contributor to mental health problems in the majority of adolescents.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:efk2pcwwy4muer4hxkf4asip/bafkreigokbjad2o36zuv5324frdafcjxludsdiecifoaa72hy32be4hbzu)
