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Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus. arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are helping troubled people plan mass shootings, our new investigation shows

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Yes, and: #RFKJr & allies are making money on all this. Then we have Russ Vought who wants to tear down everything, Jay Bhattacharya and others who are still nursing grievances for their poor scholarship in 2020. Eugenics, nihilistic, religious zealotry and revenge are a heady dangerous mix.

Both Donald Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania Trump’s legal immigration papers: How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities despite her blatant lie under oath about her college degrees?

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

Iran said “No more cease fire” and Nasdaq said “Yes there IS a cease fire, this conversation is over”

Researchers invented a fake disease to test the spread of misinformation, and it worked a little too well. ChatGPT gave medical advice for 'bixonimania,' found in bogus preprints that thanked Starfleet Academy. They were only preprints, but it does highlight a significant area of concern. #MedSky

I think people should respond this way any time they are asked this question bsky.app/profile/dipl...

How did he manage to bankrupt casinos?

This was 2016. Hillary warned us. Her #CupOfJoe was full of the hard truth. Kamala warned us again in 2024. This chaos could have been avoided if so many people in this country weren’t afraid of strong women. Oh yeah…FDT.

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

I’m not the only survivor noting this today. 👇🏼

NEW: Iran-linked hackers are attacking US critical infrastructure around the country, according to a warning from federal agencies and confirmation from the company whose component is being exploited. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/iran-l...

Congress should immediately return to DC, reintroduce, and pass the Thomas Massie - Ro Khanna war powers resolution. And if the Cabinet won't invoke the 25th amendment, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings. This man is unfit to serve.

"… higher education must develop students into fluent, intelligent, and ethical users of #AI and work to ensure that the benefits of AI reach broadly across communities," writes Marie Lynn Miranda in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4dvOxot

What a tragic and unnecessary loss brought on by cruel policies cruelly enforced. The broader picture is that while some of the GOP's war on science will be reversible, some won't. Never again in my lifetime will the best and brightest from around the world want to study and work in the US.

This is hilarious because it implies that her husband DID call her while she was in space on the ISS to ask her help in looking for something. 💀🌌

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

How republicans in Congress can ignore this is beyond me. He needs to be removed immediately. @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social let’s see impeachment articles. Now.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

BREAKING: Donald Trump meets privately with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth to assure them their jobs are secure, amidst swirling rumors that they may be the next cabinet members to be fired. #KashPatel #PeteHegseth

Most Americans still instinctively think of America as rich & modern & powerful and emerging economies as vaguely primitive & backward. Man are we going to have to update those assumptions. We have met the shithole country, and it is us.

🙄 Once you see it, you can't unsee it

'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal' The reason for the dismissal? Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers. Arguably the more consequential firing today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

First-of-a-kind ‘smart’ drugs help fight cancer cells #NBTintheNews www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/first-of-a-k...

"The immigration agency signed a $2 million deal in 2024 to acquire spyware manufactured by Israeli company Paragon, which is designed to covertly access private messages and other data stored on mobile phones."

11/12 Across all three papers, the same pattern: transparency — simply telling people they're being manipulated — reduces AI-driven influence at best partially, and often not at all. This is a critical problem, because the EU AI Act relies heavily on transparency as its main tool.

A generic warning ("deepfakes exist") had no effect on whether people thought the video was fake — but still shifted guilt judgments compared to a content-free control. "Seeing is believing" persists even when you know what you're seeing is fabricated. 5/10

“By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none.”

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Given autonomous control of other software, #AI programs shared private medical details and deleted files without permission. https://scim.ag/4bvQgc0

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

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I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

Elon Musk and billionaires get a tax cut. 7 million Americans with Alzheimer’s get further from a cure. As a caregiver, I am sick and tired of this. We must fund medical research. Millions of American families depend on it.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.