Greg Linden

@glinden.bsky.social

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 4h

EVs now represent more than 10% of new car sales in 39 countries, including Vietnam at 38% and Indonesia at 15%.

In the U.S., that figure is less than 10%.

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America is falling behind in the global EV race – that’s going to cost the US auto industry

Electric vehicles are a fast-growing share of auto sales in many countries, and Chinese automakers are benefiting as the US industry pulls back.

buff.ly

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Ann Bartow, Greg Linden

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 6h

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent. Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent

Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, Dana R. Fisher, Greg Linden

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 7h

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 9h

I have so many stories I could share about this. I'm sure everyone does. newrepublic.com/article/2063...

How Companies Profit by Annoying the Hell Out of You

A new report reveals that sneaky fees, excessive paperwork, spam calls, and other annoyances cost Americans $165 billion annually in wasted time and money.

newrepublic.com

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 10h

This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...

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https://www.ft.com/content/a5cf86ec-47cb-448f-b4a3-56ca6390ad8e

Elon Musk is betting that AI’s future lies not on Earth, but in orbit — a claim he has put at the centre of his $1.25tn plan to merge SpaceX with his lossmaking start-up xAI.

The tech billionaire, who aims to launch an initial public offering for the newly combined company this year, argues that vast fleets of satellites powered by solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of space will become the cheapest way to generate AI computing power. Musk believes this will happen within the next three years.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 12h

@hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book, “Clearing the Air”, will be published in North America on February 17th! (link to pre-order now in 🧵 )

Hannah, our Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead, published her first book, “Not the End of the World”, in 2024...

A picture of Hannah Ritchie's book Clearing the Air

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1d

AAAH AAAAhhhh AAAAHHHHHHHHH

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

www.reuters.com

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travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 1d

I take your point! We did think a lot about the boundary for our term. Our argument is that the term is useful because these systems uniquely elicit *context* to facilitate post interpretation, which is not the goal of other crowdsourced systems. Check out section 4 of the paper!

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 1d

Having said that, in a differentl project here on Bluesky we are exploring the use of behavior data for reputation. Make sure you subscribe and like @stechlab-labels.bsky.social if you haven't seen it before!

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting! (side note: TrustRank author Zoltan was my officemate; Hector was our advisor). We thought a lot about the boundary of CCS. I don't think we'd say implicit/behavioral data is immediately included, though one can imagine using it for what we called "Curation" @travislloydphd.bsky.social

Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 1d

The reason I ask is that, historically, the use of implicit and explicit behavior data for reputation has been important for what content gets attention and what content is ignored or removed. And the term CCS might touch on that, if not embrace it fully. Eg:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrustRank

TrustRank - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting, I like the discussion of how Community Notes can't replace content moderation. But I struggle with broadening Community Notes to the term CCS as I'm not sure where it ends. CCS doesn't include, eg, click, follow, rating, and other data that may be used for popularity or reputation, no?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

Great explainer from @ericlevitz.bsky.social about whether Trump is trying to rig the midterms (yes) and whether it'll work (almost definitely not, but the fact that we're having this conversation at all is not great, bob) ... gift link

Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail.

The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.

www.vox.com

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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 1d

Getir raised money at a $12bn valuation less than three years ago; now appears to be worth less than $2bn. Congratulations to everyone who ordered frozen pizza, diet pepsi and a washing-up brush from their sofa at 10pm: big venture capitalists funded your lifestyle.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Uber Agrees to Buy Getir’s Delivery Business in Turkey Expansion

Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Turkish company Getir’s delivery operations from its controlling shareholder Mubadala Investment Co. in a deal that will bolster the US company’s position in t...

www.bloomberg.com

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸HASSETT: SHOULD EXPECT SLIGHTLY LOWER JOBS NUMBERS. LOWER JOBS NUMBERS SHOULDN'T TRIGGER PANIC

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a kid, the super bowl ads were all beer, cola, and Doritos. Then it was dot-coms. A couple years ago it was all crypto. This year is all AI slop, surveillance, and online betting. What a grim reflection of the world the tech oligarchs have wrought.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 2d

And that doesn't count the redactions and millions of documents DOJ is still hiding

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 2d

What will it take to impeach, convict, remove from office and then criminally prosecute the co-conspirators in this criminal, and likely treasonous, Republican regime?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by R. M. Wilson, Mark Rice, Greg Linden

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

The first big social media addiction case in the US is going before a jury. Tech Policy Press fellow Varsha Bansal breaks down what's at stake and what to expect in court, from executives testifying to troves of internal evidence showing companies knew the harm their designs caused.

What Does the First US Social Media Addiction Trial Mean for the Tech Industry?

Is social media addictive? And if so, can social media companies be held responsible? Varsha Bansal reports from Los Angeles.

www.techpolicy.press

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2026 all the things @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d

"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

Greg Linden @glinden.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely will cause long term harm, making it harder for people to find good books among the crap, eventually hurting revenue as people decide that Amazon is an unreliable place to find books. Spam business models only work briefly.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

"More than 200" AI slop novels collectively selling "around 50,000 copies" proves that not one of them was actually good enough to create any organic interest. The entire business model is scamming people looking for something fun to read, thereby polluting the same waters where real books are sold.

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 2d

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 2d

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

The New Fabio Is Claude

www.nytimes.com

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 2d

Bezos: "Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."
The most-read story on the WaPo website was written by a team Bezos' leadership just sent to the unemployment line.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

"the data tells us what is valuable and where to focus" is killing half of the journalism industry

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

Jeff Bezos' statement, his first since last week's layoffs: "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus."

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🔱Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, the former subscribers who canceled by the hundreds of thousands are an intriguing data point, one would think.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3d

On a platter, my Liege
@anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, Greg Linden

Cate Brown @catebrown.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump last spring.

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

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