David Sullivan

For those who are curious, here is Blattman's resource guide for using Claude claudeblattman.com

To this point, political scientist @chrisblattman.bsky.social is going modestly viral with his embrace of Claude code on X, and it's like it never happened here. Not great!

Important thread. One of the serious downsides of Bluesky's AI allergy is that what passes for nuanced discourse on this topic is currently happening within the dumpster fire that is X.

@masnick.com: best case: more clarity and legal certainty, as uncertainty is as bad as a bad law. expand 230 and rollback FOSTA, have clarity about how it applies to AI

Matt Perault: hope for experimental approaches, try different liability regimes and learn something about costs and benefits.

@jmiers230.bsky.social: surprised if we will still have section 230, given current trajectory.

Great question from @jrhuddles.bsky.social to the panel: what are best and worst cases for section 230 at 50?

Final panel at Cato conference

Extra bluesky panel with @masnick.com @jmiers230.bsky.social Matt Perault and @matt.bsky.team moderated by @jrhuddles.bsky.social. All about genAI and 230…

Second panel at Cato 230 event

Next up: Gary Shapiro, Billy Easley, Ashkhen Kazaryan, Ari Cohn, and David Inserra

Panel discussion in Cato’s fancy auditorium

Hello DC! Currently at @cato.org Listening to @ericgoldman.bsky.social on Section 230, noting how difficult it is to be anonymous online these days.

BREAKING: SUPREME COURT *REJECTS* PRESIDENT TRUMP'S TARIFFS

What Boulder learned from Utah's last Sundance Film Festival City leaders say housing and staffing top concerns ahead of the winter festival.

Apparently Boulder's answer to how we can possibly host Sundance in less than a year is that we've got parking lots 🤨

Flurries on a red flag day… #cowx

screenshot of Claude Code in terminal that says "Roosting... (thinking)"

@julietshen.bsky.social, check out this verb from claude code!

Sounds right! We’re going to need a truth and reconciliation commission for a lot of things in this country. One among many is pundits fessing up to whether they were stupid or dishonest on these things.

What sort of community service do you recommend for superwuster?

Hey Sarah, you can access the same doc on our website, no PII needed, here:

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cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II

I don't think I can bring myself to watch the latest House hearing on "European censorship" but here's the link if you want to. It is starting in one minute. 1/

judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...

Can we add RICO to the Rome Statute?

Asking for the rules-based international order...

This is such a great piece. 20 years since grad school and I'm going to need to reread Schelling.

I believe it! Very curious to see what happens this summer, but expect it will be much quieter for both work and tourist travel. Blerg.

return flight is similarly empty, with less than 30 seats occupied in economy on a 787! i'm sure that will eventually fill up a bit more, but it is bleak...

Heading to Europe for work and fun later this week.

I know January isn't exactly peak season for the Benelux, but damn if this seat map doesn't say something about the current state of transatlantic relations...

screenshot from anu bradford article available here: https://www.promarket.org/2024/12/11/the-false-choice-between-digital-regulation-and-innovation/

per Anu Bradford

I don’t deny that Europe needs to reassert itself from a national security perspective, including the digital dimensions thereof. But that can entail investing in defense capabilities and addressing the real obstacles to EU innovation...

and the whole thing winds up reeking of unhelpful nationalism that will exacerbate skepticism within Europe toward the EU (e.g. Poland and the DSA).

... there will be second order repercussions from an escalatory spiral: including more justification of human rights abuses around the world, from Iran to the USA ...

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The usual suspects will still find a way to benefit...