andrew ⓕ lyons
@andrewfordlyons.net
Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs via Internews. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.
NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.
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Democrats pre-announcing they will not use their leverage is an invitation for this president. Sure enough, he has cut off social services spending to 5 states, despite a signed appropriation for them. We're still in a slow-motion shutdown. From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/07/t...
prospect.org/2026/01/07/t...
If Democrats Won’t Shut Down the Government, Trump Will - The American Prospect
Congress is moving to avoid another lapse in funding, but a freeze in welfare support to blue states shows what’s missing in the debate.
prospect.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Democrats pre-announcing they will not use their leverage is an invitation for this president. Sure enough, he has cut off social services spending to 5 states, despite a signed appropriation for them. We're still in a slow-motion shutdown. From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/07/t...
prospect.org/2026/01/07/t...
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Protesters in Iran have seized two cities. Residents of Abdanan and Malekshahi have pushed out security forces and are celebrating their victory.
January 7, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Protesters in Iran have seized two cities. Residents of Abdanan and Malekshahi have pushed out security forces and are celebrating their victory.
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✨ Updated preprint ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
![Figure 1
Illustration of why AI systems cannot realistically scale to human cognition within the foreseeable future: (b) Human cognitive capacities (such as reasoning, communication, problem solving, learning, concept formation, planning etc.) can handle unbounded situations across many domains, ranging from simple to complex. (a) Engineers create AI systems using machine learning from human data. (d) In an attempt to approximate human cognition a lot of data is consumed. (c) Making AI systems that approximate human cognition is intractable (van Rooij, Guest, et al., 2024), i.e., the required resources (e.g. time, data) grows prohibitively fast as input domains get more complex, leading to diminishing returns. (a) Any existing AI system is
created in limited time (hours, months or years, not millennia or eons). Therefore, existing AI systems cannot realistically have the domain-general cognitive capacities that humans have. [Made with elements from freepik.com.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24ngrqljhck7hpvbgrg7a23k/bafkreie5dbxbxpaszqwfbgne6pi7kf26im6chq45olvzxyyrg7eitq6uue@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
✨ Updated preprint ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂
The U.S. is not run by someone you can negotiate with, people who think that's the way have bought into the brand of this regime, not the practical reality of it. It already had what James is talking about here and knew that. It isn't enough for them.
James Landale: "[Europe] say look, you can protect US interests, it doesn't have to involve US control over sovereign territory owned by another [NATO member]"
This misses the point. Its not about more military bases. The US wants Greenland in order to own/control its resources
This misses the point. Its not about more military bases. The US wants Greenland in order to own/control its resources
January 7, 2026 at 9:44 AM
The U.S. is not run by someone you can negotiate with, people who think that's the way have bought into the brand of this regime, not the practical reality of it. It already had what James is talking about here and knew that. It isn't enough for them.
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Now that everyone is talking about Greenland and mutual defence in Europe... it's perhaps a good time to read my piece for @csds.bsky.social again: csds.vub.be/publication/...
Mutual Defence in the European Union? The Imperative of Article 42.7 in Case the United States Abandons European Defence - CSDS
When Europeans discuss mutual defence, they mostly think about NATO’s Article 5. The mutual assistance clause in the European Union (EU) treaties is often overlooked, but it deserves more attention.Eu...
csds.vub.be
January 7, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Now that everyone is talking about Greenland and mutual defence in Europe... it's perhaps a good time to read my piece for @csds.bsky.social again: csds.vub.be/publication/...
Fades away like the future of the Democratic party seems to be doing.
The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway
January 7, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Fades away like the future of the Democratic party seems to be doing.
The U.S. has threatened to attack Denmark to acquire part of its territory. That should be headline news.
January 6, 2026 at 9:53 PM
The U.S. has threatened to attack Denmark to acquire part of its territory. That should be headline news.
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Want to know how to track Homeland security spending by looking through government databases? EFF's Dave Maass has put together a handy how-to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases
The U.S. government publishes volumes of detailed data on the money it spends, but searching through it and finding information can be challenging. This guide covers the key databases that store infor...
www.eff.org
January 6, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Want to know how to track Homeland security spending by looking through government databases? EFF's Dave Maass has put together a handy how-to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Working as a journalist in Venezuela remains perilous.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Venezuela detains journalists and seizes communication devices after Maduro’s removal | Venezuela | The Guardian
Thirteen of those detained were released according to the country’s National Union of Press Workers
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Working as a journalist in Venezuela remains perilous.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Nvidea announced it's autonomous car platform Alpamayo will make an AI drive as well as humans, which sounds like a huge step backwards. I've seen humans drive.
January 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Nvidea announced it's autonomous car platform Alpamayo will make an AI drive as well as humans, which sounds like a huge step backwards. I've seen humans drive.
Navigating tech sovereignty is going to be harder in the emerging world of 'back yard' hegemonic geopolitics.
Too many people in Europe forget that Telegram is a Russian app, reliant on Russian infrastructure, owned by someone who spreads Kremlin disinformation
January 6, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Navigating tech sovereignty is going to be harder in the emerging world of 'back yard' hegemonic geopolitics.
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Bari Weiss's Free Press website ran this screed by Matt Taibbi defending his lawsuit against a book author.
But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...
But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...
Matt Taibbi: To Protect Free Speech, I’m Suing the Man Who Defamed Me
There’s a difference between censorship, which prevents speech, and seeking restitution for a harmful lie already in print. That's why I'm suing the man who defamed me, writes Matt Taibbi.
www.thefp.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Bari Weiss's Free Press website ran this screed by Matt Taibbi defending his lawsuit against a book author.
But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...
But the Free Press apparently never reached out to the author. Even though Weiss spiked that 60 Minutes piece for not reaching out to enough Trump officials www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibb...
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Stephen Miller logic is to walk into a bar holding a loaded AR and telling them to give you all their money.
It’s not a robbery, because you’re not pointing the gun rifle at them.
They will of course give you their money, because what are they going to do?
Fight you?
Silly.
It’s not a robbery, because you’re not pointing the gun rifle at them.
They will of course give you their money, because what are they going to do?
Fight you?
Silly.
January 6, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Stephen Miller logic is to walk into a bar holding a loaded AR and telling them to give you all their money.
It’s not a robbery, because you’re not pointing the gun rifle at them.
They will of course give you their money, because what are they going to do?
Fight you?
Silly.
It’s not a robbery, because you’re not pointing the gun rifle at them.
They will of course give you their money, because what are they going to do?
Fight you?
Silly.
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Glenn's streaming show is put out by Rumble, which is backed by JD Vance and Peter Thiel. It also has a relationship with the president's
media company.
Marketing materials describe the show as, "unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction."
media company.
Marketing materials describe the show as, "unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction."
Glenn Greenwald says Nick Fuentes' authenticity makes it easy for critics to "demonize and attack you by taking these quotes that can sound not just very racist, but very almost Nazi-like and kind of an extermination rhetoric." Um, yea. People who use Nazi-like rhetoric tend to get labeled a Nazi.
January 6, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Glenn's streaming show is put out by Rumble, which is backed by JD Vance and Peter Thiel. It also has a relationship with the president's
media company.
Marketing materials describe the show as, "unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction."
media company.
Marketing materials describe the show as, "unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction."
So far, you get an emergency powers law that targets anyone perceived to "support calls for sanctions or any foreign harm, and allows for lifetime political disqualification and confiscation of property."
January 6, 2026 at 8:35 AM
So far, you get an emergency powers law that targets anyone perceived to "support calls for sanctions or any foreign harm, and allows for lifetime political disqualification and confiscation of property."
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Palestinian member of Israeli parliament, Ahmad Tibi, called the Israeli police a "mafia" and then called a police spokesman a "loser" and "rascal".
The police in turn are demanding an apology and are implying that Tibi, who has parliamentary immunity, could be prosecuted
The police in turn are demanding an apology and are implying that Tibi, who has parliamentary immunity, could be prosecuted
Police demand Arab MK apologize for insulting force’s spokesman on air
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www.timesofisrael.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Palestinian member of Israeli parliament, Ahmad Tibi, called the Israeli police a "mafia" and then called a police spokesman a "loser" and "rascal".
The police in turn are demanding an apology and are implying that Tibi, who has parliamentary immunity, could be prosecuted
The police in turn are demanding an apology and are implying that Tibi, who has parliamentary immunity, could be prosecuted
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A poll reveals that nearly half of left-wing Israelis highly rate the IDF's moral conduct in the Gaza war. If this is the group expected to oppose the immoral use of force, then the left did not fail in its criticism, it forsook the need for it | Opinion
Yagil Levy
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
Yagil Levy
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
Why Israel's left is also to blame for Gaza war crimes | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:42 AM
A poll reveals that nearly half of left-wing Israelis highly rate the IDF's moral conduct in the Gaza war. If this is the group expected to oppose the immoral use of force, then the left did not fail in its criticism, it forsook the need for it | Opinion
Yagil Levy
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
Yagil Levy
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
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three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Senior Pentagon officials making Star Wars comparisons I will do in my head but would never type.
January 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Senior Pentagon officials making Star Wars comparisons I will do in my head but would never type.
There are no rules.
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale on blowing up “commies” and their gravesites: “Exactly. What do you think founding Palantir was supposed to be about?”
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
There are no rules.
An article that's going to inspire the most insufferable LOTR discourse today. Listen, we can't help if fascist trash pick up a fantasy adventure book and read it wrong, or use it to justify what they were going to do anyway. They also name their companies after the tools used by the baddies.
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
How did The Lord of the Rings end up so beloved by the right wing?
www.independent.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:37 AM
An article that's going to inspire the most insufferable LOTR discourse today. Listen, we can't help if fascist trash pick up a fantasy adventure book and read it wrong, or use it to justify what they were going to do anyway. They also name their companies after the tools used by the baddies.
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words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
January 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
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As a US-born daughter of a Cuban exile 1) the Cuban govt sucks 2) there is a long, long history of the US trying to take over Cuba for its own reasons and that. also. sucks.
Also this comemierda ⬇️? pathetically cares about no one but himself.
Also this comemierda ⬇️? pathetically cares about no one but himself.
WELKER: Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next target?
MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah.
WELKER: Is that a yes?
RUBIO: I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes
MARCO RUBIO: Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem. Yeah.
WELKER: Is that a yes?
RUBIO: I think they're in a lot of trouble, yes
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
As a US-born daughter of a Cuban exile 1) the Cuban govt sucks 2) there is a long, long history of the US trying to take over Cuba for its own reasons and that. also. sucks.
Also this comemierda ⬇️? pathetically cares about no one but himself.
Also this comemierda ⬇️? pathetically cares about no one but himself.