Matt Kelly

NEW: Trump's war on fraud beset by downsized law enforcement workforce, as young prosecutors & agents struggle to meet intense DOJ/White House pressure to surge fraud cases. VP Vance boasts historic progress, but current & former officials describe challenges. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I'd hate to see this kid's therapy bills in another 20 years. JFC, what a parenting fail.

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems ft.trib.al/6GsEjJn

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

It’s striking that the GOP has a massive cash advantage even when Trump is currently causing lasting harm to the US and global economy. What does that say about the interests of capital?

So Trump is just announcing self-appointed Star Chambers to drum up charges against people he doesn't like? Wouldn't the Fed have its own internal investigations team to look into Cook?

The MIT Media Lab, together with other research teams, has just launched this FANTASTIC open benchmark measuring AI's impact on humans. It assesses physical, psychological, and social dimensions through great visualizations and simple language. Explore the full benchmark below:

This is what crowd out looks like.

Good point.

Sam Altman and other AI CEOs should be much more specific about the 'bad things' they want the world to accept. Many people may not be willing to accept them.

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

I don't think this opinion is unpopular at all. Sounds like the opinion most people have about AI right now.

The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo

Last year it was ‘chatbots have been endorsing lots of people’s delusions and we didn’t notice.’ This year, its ’agents have been hacking lots of websites and we didn’t notice.’ Seems there’s a problem with controlling this technology and monitoring what it is doing.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

#compliance

💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

It's the sloppiness that kills me. They can't take the time to clean up the URL? www.ft.com/content/7d0f...

Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵

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A secret report shows Florida property insurance companies claimed losses while shuffling billions of dollars into sister companies. After our reporter obtained the report, the state Senate demanded the Sun Sentinel destroy all copies of it or face legal civil or criminal “implications.”

Or, at the rate we’re going, just wait until 2049 and then go for a walk outside.

Listen to Margaret

The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

Some people have been wondering...

1. Most people find AI only modestly useful, a more clever Google. 2. Many people building AI or using it obsessively worry it could severely damage or destroy humanity. The gap between these realities helps explain why confusion and fear are exploding.

Some thoughts on existential AI risk

1996: ‘Yes! My favorite band is hitting the club at 10 pm Friday night!' 2011: ‘Yes! My favorite band is hitting the club at 9 pm on Wednesday night!' 2026: ‘Yes! My favorite band is hitting the club at 6 pm on Sunday night!’

> @techcrunch.com @mapquest.com techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/m...

here is a non-paywalled copy of my new ABA Antitrust piece on Antitrust Remedies for Tech Monopoly. Short and to the point. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mystery solved: the Freedom Fuel Network was able to charge so little for gas because it stiffed its supplier and refused to pay for it

Ninth Circuit panel says 3-0 that Kalshi’s “sports events contracts” are not swaps under the CEA and Nevada gambling laws aren’t pre-empted by CFTC rules for prediction markets. A massive blow to the industry: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

New: The U.S. Sentencing Commission is proposing major operational reforms, including requiring a supermajority vote to approve certain actions and giving the public defender community a seat at the table in policymaking decisions. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Brilliant

Why banks find it so hard to manage reputational risk - column here from @thekrazykobra.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ffd3...

can someone rename gas to $2/ gallon

Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...

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DOJ fired career prosecutor Sunita Doddamani for working on a case she was assigned to prosecute. Now she’s suing, alleging political retaliation. This is what weaponization at DOJ looks like. Punishing career employees because leadership doesn’t like the cases they handled.