I guess “do what Trump often does and endanger prosecutions with inflammatory tweets declaring the preemptive guilt of the accused,” maybe?
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I guess “do what Trump often does and endanger prosecutions with inflammatory tweets declaring the preemptive guilt of the accused,” maybe?
I very literally do not know what you want him to do here
Is the premise of this story that the mayor should make lighthearted video content about an ongoing criminal investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
I tell you what, I love doing my taxes amid the Omnicrisis
A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The primary aims of AI images targeting Trump's political opponents are, of course, to harass, demean, and discredit them.
But they have a secondary effect: to overwhelm the internet with unusable, false, unstable information, and then to mock the idea of finding out what’s true at all.
Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.
Perhaps the biggest point of interest convergence between AI and fascism is the way they exhaust people's capacity to belief in the very concept of knowable truth www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...
This one is a must-read.
Very incisive analysis of the effect weaponized AI disinfo is having on our civic space.
True. The first website I remember regularly checking ever was called Cute Overload and it was just cute user-submitted photos of animals. Can you even imagine how unusable it would be now?
Thank you for taking the time to read it!
lol I’ll see you there with my own car-bag
Holy shit
Thank you bud! went to a Covid safe clothing swap yesterday and thought I might see you! I got a full-on Morticia dress 🥲
Oh my God
"Debunking is good, but it's not sufficient…Resilience is built when societies lower the spread capacity of bad information & raise the verification capacity of ordinary people-without outsourcing everything to heroic fact-checkers."
indeed really hoping one day my cool shirt is just a museum relic
People may believe they’re being righteous, sharing false information & doctored images. “‘In the moments where it matters most,’ DiResta says, ‘You’ll see people do the least amount of checking.’”
"In fact, it’s one of the major tasks of modern disinformation—not to persuade people in something, yet to discourage them, turn them into passive, tired, exhausted mob.”
Disinformation is bad, from either side.
Increasingly realistic fake images are creating a sense that it's impossible to figure out what's true or knowable, and thus to make decisions. As disinformation scholar Dmytro Iarovyi told me, prolonged, sustained disinfo "changes people’s capacity to participate meaningfully in democratic life."
A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse?
Every day can be international women’s day if you just maintain an extremely fixed delusion about how things are going
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
AI companies have “hit the ceiling on the places where it’s useful and easy to sell,” so they over-hype their products' capabilities to attract the venture capital required to squeeze out competitors, EFF’s Katharine Trendacosta told @MotherJones. www.motherjones.com/politics/20...
A wave of quittings shows the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley.
Please tell her she’s serving
“The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it’s too powerful to stop and too important to abandon."
ALSO TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on photographing the joyous 2019 Eris Parade after a previous one ended in police violence. "The parade takes on a life and a logic of its own, and being within it is to be, for a time, part of a creature much larger than yourself." flaminghydra.com/encore-in-ne...