Joanna Bryson

Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI Musk can't convince judge public doesn’t care about where AI training data comes from.

A judge denied a motion for a prelim. injunction "while supporting the #government’s interest in helping the public assess how the latest #AI models were trained. The lawsuit will continue, but xAI will have to comply with California’s #law in the meantime": arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ethics

President Obama speaks at Jesse Jackson's Homegoing Service in Chicago YouTube video by WRAL

I can just barely imagine those Saturday morning meetings. I was in Chicago at that time too, but I wasn't getting up Saturday mornings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdIw...

I was very unusually in a hotel room with nothing to do and randomly turned on the TV and watched (one of?) the moment(s) that made @duncanc.bsky.social famous, involving Zicron. We were in a think tank together but I'd never really known.

In June 2007, investment bank Bear Stearns froze redemptions from two of its hedge funds. The funds had reported losses on their subprime mortgage assets triggering withdrawals by investors. The… | H... In June 2007, investment bank Bear Stearns froze redemptions from two of its hedge funds. The funds had reported losses on their subprime mortgage assets triggering withdrawals by investors. The rest...

Oh goodness very not good. This would be sooner than I thought. I thought it would be when the AI bubble burst, but didn't anticipate the scale of what IL & US are doing in & around Iran come to think of it. (Glad I've never owned a car.) @helenamalikova.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/helena...

The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It The Atlantic Piece Just Scratched The Surface

Sobering views from Phillips O'Brien regarding the Iran War. His assessment is that US participation is the result of government corruption.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

@conjugateprior.org

Europe again embraces unforced errors that help the wrong side. The pressure is not being put on the Hungarian government. It is being put on the Ukrainian government.

EUrope is pressuring the wrong side.

"The collective power of all those in Brussels should be used to block the ambitions of people like Putin and Orbán, not to twist the arms of Ukrainians while they’re fighting on Europe’s behalf."

#StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 #EUpol🇪🇺

landsbergis.com/europe-again...

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

I really valued some few conversations with actual Googlers, but I'm pretty sure one was a glasshole. I was anyway pitching digital governance carefully to strangers, but had also been drinking so wasn't thrilled when I finally noticed. Anyway Meta BAD; newspapers GOOD.
www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

Best #tachgoogle content: a panel on AI & Science w/ @alenabuyx.bsky.social @fabiantheis.bsky.social
Yossi Matias & Jakob Uszkoreit. IMO could think harder about whether battlefield med & alchemy solutions antiscale to rare resources like planets, and the consequence of unrestricted amplification.

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

#NihilismAndTechnology

Ha ha ha good luck to the team! But “come to Berlin, we’ll show you Mannheim” is maybe not a leading contender for sales pitches.

The Black Death’s counterintuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity New study finds that plant biodiversity collapsed in landscapes where arable production was abandoned during and after the Black Death era.

Here’s the conversation piece Basically, until recently, human propensity to differentiate and innovate seems to have facilitated wider biological innovation as well. Contemporary technology-enabled scales of homogenisation are disrupting that. Via @annecurrie.bsky.social

There’s also a nice positive-vision paper linked at the bottom of the conversation piece about the below. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... haha terrible picture for it there.

There’s also a nice positive-vision paper linked at the bottom of the conversation piece about the below. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... haha terrible picture for it there.

Yes, reminds of how wolves increased biodiversity when reintroduced to yellowstone.

Seriously “US-Israel war on Iran” as per top of thread is pretty good.

“What’s happening now”

By @davidwlawson.bsky.social among others.

Iran war: Israel launches more attacks on Tehran, Beirut Israel has said it struck targets in Lebanon and Iran as the war in the Middle East enters its seventh day. The attacks were part of a "broad" new wave of strikes on the Iranian capital, Israel said. ...

One problem with calling it the Iran war is obscuring what Israel is doing to Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza.

www.dw.com/en/iran-war-...

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

IACESR 2026 – 10th Biennial Meeting

We’re excited to announce our keynote speakers:
Will Gervais • Rebekah Richert • Quentin Atkinson • Larisa Heiphetz Solomon

📍 Brno, Czech Republic
📅 1–3 July 2026 | Masaryk University

Registration open soon. Stay tuned.

#IACESR2026 #CognitiveScienceOfReligion

I'll be here off & on today, I have to go to @hertieschool.bsky.social for a talk and some meetings in the afternoon...

But I do love the idea of creating sub genre of starting and ending papers differently, e.g. "cooperation in nature is a well established and well understood phenomena" "consciousness by which we here mean access to explicit memory is well understood computationally" #science 2/2

But I do love the idea of creating sub genre of starting and ending papers differently, e.g. "cooperation in nature is a well established and well understood phenomena" "consciousness by which we here mean access to explicit memory is well understood computationally" #science 2/2

True, but also science is a social process for optimising an abstraction of truth. As such, that optimisation necessarily must be updated for the present cultural context, and even were that fixed, cognitive constraints mean it can never be entirely finished 1/2 cc @davidpowell.bsky.social

Actually @deutschewelle.dw.com does for short further down into articles bsky.app/profile/j2br...

that's about the "war" part, I thought the question was about the "Iran" part. e.g. "Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine"

Trump vs Sanchez: Why Europeans should back Spain against US threats – European Council on Foreign Relations The US has threatened Spain with a trade embargo for refusing it access to Spanish military bases. European leaders should use this moment to show they are capa

European leaders must see Trump’s administration coercion for what it is and respond collectively to defend the autonomy of the EU and its member states - a good piece in @ecfrpower.bsky.social
ecfr-eu.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ecfr.eu/...