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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool.

But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong.

If you read the bill, it attaches liability to the chatbot answer ONLY IF the same answer would attach liability to the person making the same statement.

Complicated new issue but seems AI companies want Section 230 type immunity. I don’t think that’s where the public (and juries) are, at all.

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This is the backdrop for conversations happening in St. Louis this week. This morning I'm with Hacking Immigration Law breakfast roundtable with local immigration practitioners, the attorneys who see this system up close, every day.

ICE's press release about his death included a new line that hasn't appeared in official government communications before, a defensive claim about the quality of care in detention. It's not grammatical. More importantly, it appeared in an official record about someone's death.

Last week, ICE announced the 38th death in its detention system since January 2025. Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, 48, was being held at Adelanto after being arrested in Echo Park, LA. His family says he was denied medical care despite repeated requests. 🧵

Pair of low-flying Iranian bombers came within 2 minutes of hitting Al Udeid Air Base, report says Iranian fighter planes flying just 80 feet above ground came within minutes of hitting the U.S. military’s largest base in the Middle East, according to a report.

Iranian fighter planes flying less than 100 feet above ground came within minutes of hitting the U.S. military’s largest base in the Middle East, CNN reported this week.

dair_institute - Twitch Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to get into the reality of data center construction.

Livestream info:
Monday, March 9, noon PT,
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Freedom From Religion Foundation Asks Ohio School District to Stop Religious Time on School Property

“A public school violates the Constitution when it promotes religion by giving special access to school property to a religious release time program” www.clevescene.com/news/freedom...

Trying to discuss direct action with people who believe its exchangeable w/protest, just means confusion, and it tells you there are things they need to learn. How do you say that, w/o being perceived as condescending, especially where passion is involved? It’s not easy, and it’s individual.

One of the more baffling things about many of the people w/whom I share political affinity, is the dichotomy that is acknowledging a whole lot of the public is either checked out/miseducated, while simultaneously demanding any political work (especially art) must advance theory somehow.

You can see this in conversations about things like protest and direct action. There’s a pretty large portion of the public that doesn’t fully grasp the difference between those two things, by design. The difference in terms exists because they describe different things.

That’s a very different conversation than “what do we do about it?” That’s a more difficult conversation, because it really has to be had w/ppl who are already on that journey, and you have to know WHERE they are on it, to be able to make suggestions that even begin to look sensible.

I don’t know that’s where they will begin or what the *why* is that begins it for them.

The body of work on the far right exists already, for anyone who wants to take that journey, and I’m not situated to advance it. I might be able to get a few ppl to begin that journey, and point to it.

I have a hard time having conversations about it w/ppl who don’t know much of anything about the far right at this point, because I’m talking about entire networks of concepts they are utterly unfamiliar with or have just been lied to about. I know where *I* began, and why.

What do tech dudes have to be mad about? We interview author and activist @naomiaklein.bsky.social on our latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. Check out Episode 72: How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI.

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If your tent is big enough for fascists, it's no longer a tent but a concentration camp in the making.

AI and the illegal war “No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and...

AI is central to this illegal war.

New from me -
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The clickable catastrophe on the coast • NC Newsline The shocking images of houses on the Outer Banks collapsing into the ocean are just the beginning of an environmental disaster for towns there.

The shocking images of houses on the Outer Banks collapsing into the ocean are just the beginning of an environmental disaster for towns there. ncnewsline.com/2026/03/06/t...

This hip L.A. neighborhood is installing emergency sirens to warn of ICE raids Community activists are installing sirens across Highland Park in hopes of providing warnings on mobile devices to residents about possible ICE raids.

This hip L.A. neighborhood is installing emergency sirens to warn of ICE raids

Anyway, I am just making this clear because I have seen derivative articles from the first one going around now, with my name attached in them, and even been asked for sources on this list of cities, and the whole thing is essentially fabricated.

So there is a story about the "top 10 cities at risk during nuclear war" circulating in various tabloids/etc. with my name attached to it, and I will say that a) I never have (nor would) make such a list at all, and b) I never said any of the quotes attributed to me in the article.

There are currently 2,200 No Kings Day events planned in all 50 states, DC, and a dozen countries.

Find your local event (or start a new one) and join us on March 28 for the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Picture of a panel in a conference center. There is a dias with a black curtain at the front, and a gray podium. Behind the dias sits Carmen Maria Machado, a fair-skinned femme wearing glasses with dark hair, Umair Kazi, a brown masc with dark hair, Alex Hanna, a brown butch trans woman with short brown hair, and Vauhini Vara, a brown woman with long black hair wearing a red blouse.

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching.

It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

With our app, you can do deep searches across entities that show up in the data. Here's a way to search for everyone who mentioned these Elon Musk-connected companies in their disclosure forms:

xAI OR "X Corp" OR Twitter OR Tesla OR Neuralink OR "Boring Co"

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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

Steve Feinberg, until last year, ran Cerberus Capital Management, which has received contracts to build the "Golden Dome for America." He is now the deputy secretary of defense and oversees the office in charge of the Golden Dome project. w/ @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @bxroberts.org

Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...

This data has been powering our reporting. In December, @coreygjohnson.bsky.social and I used it to look into Todd Blanche's crypto holdings. Now you can dig into it yourself.

🚨BREAKING: Palantir just got a no-bid government contract that could be worth up to $75 million — to help the Agriculture Department assign desks and monitor office space.

Front Groups working with Zionist actors are promoting Islamophobia Australian front groups have been working to promote the idea that the Greens make many cultural identities less safe. It's - loosely - part of a global Islamophobia industry.

in activity w neocon think tanks like American Enterprise Institute which promoted US wars in the Middle East, belligerents from tank ➡️ White House.

Long survey of Islamophobia Network w Australian tie ins. Is Advance becoming a node, with US 🕌-hate group rep here?
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The Shadow Campaign Behind The Iran Strike As U.S. forces attack Iran, a dark-money network of anti-Muslim billionaires, fossil fuel empires, and arms dealers is suddenly far closer to its goal.

2/2 @thelever.bsky.social (see their Masterplan podcast series/book for one of the 👌 histories of US Atlas Networked activity) pointed out that the Islamophobia network (funded by many Atlas donors) has been driving war on Iran. The Islamophobia network overlapped
www.levernews.com/the-shadow-c...