Some new background work out examining an important topic - national digital ID - that is going to become increasingly salient as agentic & generative AI transform fraud and abuse in new and novel ways. (And beyond fraud, as agentic AI leads to agents credentialed to act in new and novel ways) RE:
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Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
CJ Larkin and Renée DiResta's latest piece for Tech Policy Press explores how legitimacy and public value have been built—or undermined—in exi...
Today I planted a fig tree, weeded the garden, made pickles with cucumbers and dill that we grew, then made homemade cherry pie filling because “the cherries got wrinkly, mom”. I will be making tradwife ASMR homestead content from here on out. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreidjjgcewsgdbakc6oc6nabfgawxjgjauc6k35zta52pccnbavyuxa https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreic4shxibsn7pet4sxux6q3yao2yql5mvmhim2gh7mozxxa6p3iqme
🌱 incredible story over on Plant Reddit in which a person appears to have been eating pepper leaves thinking it was basil and now has convinced himself his basil has a tumor rather than coming to terms with eating pepper leaves the whole time. [www.reddit.com/r/Horticultu...](https://www.reddit.com/r/Horticulture/s/EDOzWoFuyE ) https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreie3wci5vdp7b5jtt6mb5sypau5f565jrumgrwf5ojsnuehhxijjam
I wrote this a year ago when Stanford told Jim Jordan we wouldn’t study the 2024 election, & I wasn’t being renewed. Jordan took a victory lap: House Weaponization had exercised “robust oversight” over Stanford. It wasn’t Jordan’s place to dictate research agenda. [www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...](
Opinion | What Happened to Stanford Spells Trouble for the Election (Published 2024)
Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.
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 [Opinion | What Happened to Sta...](
Opinion | What Happened to Stanford Spells Trouble for the Election (Published 2024)
Universities that cataloged election lies and disinformation are being targeted with the same tactics they sought to uncover.
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🌱 I restarted my hydroponic setup after leaving it empty for a couple months bc of spider mites. First time trying Bok Choi and it is exploding. I didn’t thin it bc I didn’t know what to expect. All of these were started at the same time. I put it in a unit with eggplant. 🍆 🥬 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreib43c3qeozsb4zs5vdwhj6cqx4p2auzd3tusbh7anwdqzbyimq524
“If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” needs to be added to high school civics curriculums. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreids6sx6k6zuhf3kcca6pgof3x6zvbd2uvai6cerdag2lcahypkoyu
Over here working. OH my 4yo: "Siri, show me pictures of vampires burning"
Media coverage of this topic for the last ~6yrs has been a hype coaster in which many researchers have given fairly measured risk assessments detailing capabilities which were often blown out into "ZOMG AI IS GOING TO SWAY AN ELECTION!" Followed by "AI DID NOTHING!" [www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/t...](
A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediti...
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A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediti...
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I wrote a similar response to a similar argument in a libertarian law pub —just came out! The arguments are well-trod by this point; my essay responds to a specific provocation. Look: the structures for discourse are different now. Sensemaking changed. So: we adapt. [lawliberty.org/content-mode...](
Content Moderation Is Not Censorship – Renee DiResta
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Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social)
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real...
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Content Moderation Is Not Censorship – Renee DiResta
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Ten yrs ago today, from my personal screenshot archive: RFK Jr w/Louis Farrakhan fighting against a pro-vax bill (SB277) in CA following the Disneyland measles outbreak. To make the CA antivax mvmt look less white & rich -was crunchy lefties then- RFK appealed to NoI. Told them MMR hurt Black boys. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreihonuz2evrgll3mzjve7ddoz3seyu57fjat3uqoqlhdamstodav7u