Linda A. White

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Satellite imagery shows strike that destroyed Iranian school was more extensive than first reported The images suggest that precision munitions struck other buildings, including a clinic that was also inside the complex.

EXCLUSIVE: The strike that destroyed a school in Minab, Iran was larger than has been previously reported. A nearby clinic was also hit.

The evidence suggests a precision strike against an IRGC base that was adjacent to the school.

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

The “shield” is intolerable here as well.

“Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.”

That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.

The Local Fellowship 2026 | The Local Our fellowship program provides training and mentorship to emerging journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. Applications are now open.

📣 Announcing The Local Fellowship 2026—paid positions designed to provide opportunities to early-career journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. This year's Fellows will join us during the fall municipal election campaigns. Applications are open. thelocal.to/local-fellow...

Good-quality child care? What parents should consider, and how it can be assessed The quality of educator-child interactions is among the strongest predictors of children’s developmental and learning outcomes.

One of our directors, Michal Perlman, has an article in @theconversation.com! She explains the importance of assessing the quality of early learning and childcare centers in Canada. Read more:

theconversation.com/good-quality...

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As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

It really is the MadLib War.

Which is not meant to be funny, but rather highlights how profoundly absurd the administration’s shifting aims and justifications are.

We attacked Iran because ______, and had to go now because _____.

45% of Dilley families aren't deported from there, but released.

“It boggles the mind why we're disrupting people from their immigration proceedings only to... incarcerate them at Dilley & then just recycle them out the back door,” Leecia Welch, of @childrens-rights.bsky.social said. (THREAD 5/)

Good addition: Canada continues "to urge a diplomatic resolution to the situation in the interests of civilian lives." This didn't appear in yesterday's statement.

Still missing: any reference to international law.

All violations of the UN Charter must be called out. Not some of them. All of them.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Congress, public opinion, and administration insiders aren’t reliable constraints on Trump’s foreign policy decisions.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

Wow: @pamherd.bsky.social posted about how awful the SAVE Act was, and now it looks like it is dead (for now). www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

A Federalism Bottleneck? The Subnational Levers Constraining ICE

New from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: To stymie ICE, look at the sources of its power.

That includes money but also co-operative 287(g) agreements with state and local govts.

Blocking and reversing those agreements weakens ICE capacity. 🧵
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Really impressive to complain about "grievance politics based on religion" when *two sentences earlier* you've talked about "the monster of harversting muslim community bloc votes".

There's an undertone in British politics that any form of political activity which targets or represents Muslims is illegitimate, and it keeps getting louder and louder

Gorton and Denton by-election result

Grn 40.7% (+27 vs 2024)
Ref 28.7% (+15)
Lab 25.4% (-25)
Con 1.9% (-6)
LD 1.8% (-2)

Labour's 38th safest seat in 2024

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Weber identified three types of power, emerging from traditional, legal-rational, and charismatic authority.

Please behold the purest example of the third kind below:

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

Grrr...

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com

"Data collected by Repro Uncensored shows that Meta more than doubled its removal of content related to sexual and reproductive health, the LGBTQ community..."

The Conservative Proposal To Take Money from Poor Single Moms and Give It to Married Couples The Heritage Foundation has an idea: Take from the poor and give to the rich

Too many women in the workforce and delaying or foregoing childbearing? The Heritage Foundation has a plan for that. And it is the opposite of Robin Hood: It's a huge cash transfer from poor single moms to to wealthier married parents.
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This is the way.

Many state constitutions have explicit language about the state's duty to support public schools.

Trump has lost the ability to entertain. Sadly, he hasn't lost the ability to offend | Moira Donegan Throughout the speech, Trump seemed tired. He had difficulty reading from his teleprompter; he gripped the podium with a tightness bordering on desperation

Trump has lost the ability to entertain. Sadly, he hasn't lost the ability to offend | Moira Donegan

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

4 Minnesota guys

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Absolutely shameful. Four years of war and the United States sends nobody to mark it.