The U.S. military used advanced AI to strike 1,000 targets in Iran within 24 hours, a tool that could be difficult for the Pentagon to give up even as it severs ties with the company that created it.
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📢 On human rights and AI: I testified before the Senate's Standing Committee on Human Rights (RIDR) on Jan 23. Full session:
OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.
The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. This week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, Justin Hendrix spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:
"This environment in which we're suspicious of each other is illiberal. Liberal theorists assumed that our rights were going to be enjoyed in community."
"How to Become an Algorithmic Problem" w. José Marichal on @techpolicypress.bsky.social, such a great episode!!
🎧 www.techpolicy.press/podcast/
Breaking news: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened Anthropic that the government could invoke its powers to compel the AI firm to share its technology in the name of national security if it does not agree by Friday to terms favorable to the military.
Hello my 3 non-bot followers: my book Governing AI - A Primer is out! I really hope you read it and grill me with the kind of feedback that Bluesky has socialized all of us into.
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Hocamdı, kadın hakları ve barış mücadelesinde her zaman en öndeydi. Çok üzgünüm. Huzur içinde uyusun.
It is concentration camp bullshit like the Nazis did.
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.
Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025.
A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.
Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
“… advances in AI will paradoxically raise the profile of a comprehensive liberal arts education … as critical thinking, discernment and judgment will stand out as core human skills that guide automation.” My latest
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ai-c...
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔
Breaking News: Federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, local officials said, prompting calls to end an immigration crackdown in the city.
Masked ICE agents reportedly arrest 3 on Seattle's Aurora Avenue North
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
New op-ed: SRI Executive Director Monique Crichlow reflects on Canada's AI strategy—and why science must stay at the heart of AI policy, not just adoption and growth.
Read more: sciencepolicy.ca/posts/ai-and...
The parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and today’s assault on higher ed remind us of the need to join communities of resistance.
Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.
"These findings support an overall picture of an environment that furthers the objectification of women. The control of the user and the lack of consent of the subject are both explicitly promoted."
"... India’s IT ministry issuing an order ... that X must take action to restrict Grok from generating content that is 'obscene, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, pedophilic, or otherwise prohibited' ... X must respond within 72 hours or risk losing the 'safe harbor' protections."
“Venezuela has become the laboratory for the new US security strategy. It is an experiment based on the economic control that the United States exerts over the region.”
From the @wired en Espanol team, who’ll be covering this story from the region.
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Your teacher in 2005: don't use Wikipedia as a source! People can change it! Use dot gov sites!
Teacher in 2025: don't use dot gov sites, they say Tylenol causes autism. Wikipedia is curated by honest and trustworthy nerds who require real citations. 1
When we fight, we win! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
