Kate Klonick

If Shadowfax didn’t sound like a brooding 1990s communications machine with a thermal printer glaring at you from the gloaming, I am 110% positive some tech bro would have named a company after it by now.

The corruption is so bad. Just so so so bad. And brazen.

This is wrong. Joel was NOT a MAGA fan he was an old school GOP person. And the fact that he’s being replaced by Dina McCormick, former Trump adviser, tells you all you need to know about where Facebook is betting.

Hearing from sources that former Trump Advisor Dina Powell McCormick is taking Joel Kaplan’s job as head of policy.

Why the fuck are we here?

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Great, so we can't look up to Kimberly Guilfoyle anymore?

The indy protest schwag at the MUSK premiere did not disappoint.

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

Hey @joshtpm.bsky.social remember Alberto Gonzalez, the attorneys general firing scandal, and the dismantling of the DOJ honors program? Maybe we hallucinated it.

How?!

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. -Langston Hughes

There’s a paradox of entitlement where folks demand better service, response time, and customisation to their tastes from smaller rather than larger providers. That only really works when the price is higher and the volume is much lower for those providers. 1/6

An Incomplete List of Morally Binding Accords in my Family: A Morally Binding Accord for No Screens at the Table A Morally Binding Accord to Put Dirty Dishes in the Dishwasher (is it so hard?!?!) A Morally Binding Accord to Not Put an Empty Milk Carton Back in the Fridge

An Incomplete List of Morally Binding Accords in my Family: A Morally Binding Accord for No Screens at the Table A Morally Binding Accord to Put Dirty Dishes in the Dishwasher (is it so hard?!?!) A Morally Binding Accord to Not Put an Empty Milk Carton Back in the Fridge

Your periodic reminder that "the company ignored employees' warnings" very often just means "people discussed what to do and not everyone agreed." Having these conversations is good. Fearing that open discussion will lead to gotcha headlines is bad.

lol @bencollins.bsky.social I see you. theonion.com/creatively-t...

Incredible how, like vaccines and reading with phonics, we need to keep learning these lessons over and over again.

Omg this was a deep troll, people. Silicon Valley (the place, and I guess the show?) is just full of tech nerds making LOTR analogies/quotes/naming companies after parts of it. It’s core. Which btw Tolkien would hate because the man did not like allegory.

What a great question.

Damages here are TBD but theoretically could reach the $ hundreds of BILLIONS. I hope all those sucker AGs who just settled their Cambridge Analytica claims for $460 million spread across fifty-ish states and territories are having uncomfortable conversations rn.

Really cogent, smart analysis of the most realistic threats to the midterms. @rickpildes.bsky.social is one of my Go Tos on all things law + elections and this is why. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...

Despite 1st Circuit's 9/18 ruling invalidating DHS's 3d-country removal policy, DHS claims the decision hasn't yet taken effect. Class counsel fears a flight will take class members to Burundi, Rwanda, & Central African Republic *tomorrow.* Asks 1st Cir for emergency action.

Great oped from @jessicacweiss.bsky.social in the NYT today on the Trump Xi future. She is a voice you have to be listen to on the China-US AI narrative. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

If a nihilist 3 year-old was in charge of a bumper sticker factory.

We’re going to look back at this time when we built machines to hack ourselves, and destroyed vaccines that saved our children and be like: “What? Were too many people _staying alive_?? Was _that_ the problem they were solving for??”

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

We should do this to people outside Montessori kindergartens. m.youtube.com/shorts/ii0Wy...

At TrustCon this year I talked about a technique we’ve developed for automatically optimizing content-moderation policies, using an inversion of the binocular labeling approach Zentropi had already pioneered. Today we're shipping the tool that technique became. blog.zentropi.ai/optimizing-o...

Made a few small changes to the AI Crisis Flowchart

I’m pretty sure this billboard is just for the target audience of people who teach both AI law and trust & estates, which is to say me.

People 2014-2024: “We don’t want robots reviewing our content! We demand human review!” People in 2026: “Holy shit, did you know humans are reviewing our content!? How creepy! We only want robots!!”