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Do you have a long drive, walk, or downtime ahead of you this holiday weekend? Consider listening to this podcast discussion with @karenhao.bsky.social about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, just out from Penguin Press: www.techpolicy.press/decolonizing...
Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI | TechPolicy.Press
Hao's new book is Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, out now from Penguin Press.
www.techpolicy.press
May 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Do you have a long drive, walk, or downtime ahead of you this holiday weekend? Consider listening to this podcast discussion with @karenhao.bsky.social about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, just out from Penguin Press: www.techpolicy.press/decolonizing...
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Interesting. Our team has argued that misinformation isn’t just about bad facts, but faulty frames — and that its solution isn’t better facts, but better frames. This research finds some support for that hypothesis and an approach based on alternative, but positive (rather than corrective) frames.
“Bypassing” is a promising strategy for countering misinformation by sharing truthful, positively framed statements instead of direct corrections. New research shows it can correct misperceptions effectively, especially when people are still open to learning.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/misg...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/misg...
Is There a Better Way to Fight Misinformation?
What if the best way to counter misinformation isn’t arguing facts, but offering better truths instead?
www.psychologytoday.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Interesting. Our team has argued that misinformation isn’t just about bad facts, but faulty frames — and that its solution isn’t better facts, but better frames. This research finds some support for that hypothesis and an approach based on alternative, but positive (rather than corrective) frames.
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That fear you have, that maybe even small decision to limit what you say or where you go, even for US citizens, it means we’re living under authoritarianism.
We're going from "foreign tourists afraid to visit the US" to "US citizens afraid to go abroad because of what could happen when they return to their own country"
I was waiting for this—evidence of CBP overreach at a US/Canada *land* border.
Well, here it is: a *US CITIZEN* detained in Vermont, handcuffed, and confined to a cell across from his wife.
They could have been transferred to an ICE facility.
Cross in airport pre-clearance if you can.
Well, here it is: a *US CITIZEN* detained in Vermont, handcuffed, and confined to a cell across from his wife.
They could have been transferred to an ICE facility.
Cross in airport pre-clearance if you can.
April 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
That fear you have, that maybe even small decision to limit what you say or where you go, even for US citizens, it means we’re living under authoritarianism.
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Even before the election, the Naval Academy cancelled a speech by a historian who studies authoritarian governments, after Republicans in Congress pressured leadership. We wouldn't want our military learning about how democracies collapse.
pen.org/press-releas...
pen.org/press-releas...
Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat at Behest of Republican Politicians Threatens Institutional Autonomy - PEN America
PEN America sharply criticizes some Republican members of Congress for scrutinizing academic decision-making at the Naval Academy, including insinuating that a lecture invitation to scholar Ruth Ben-G...
pen.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Even before the election, the Naval Academy cancelled a speech by a historian who studies authoritarian governments, after Republicans in Congress pressured leadership. We wouldn't want our military learning about how democracies collapse.
pen.org/press-releas...
pen.org/press-releas...
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Well worth reading.
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship (Gift Article)
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
www.nytimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Well worth reading.
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
The obvious point here is that some presented "woke" as an existential risk to speech and academic freedom, and some people warned about govt censorship as a bigger threat.
The former were not just wrong but paved the way for govt censorship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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Worth a watch, even if you’ve read them already
20 Lessons on Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
20 Lessons on Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Worth a watch, even if you’ve read them already
20 Lessons on Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
20 Lessons on Tyranny
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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A “hoax.”
I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
January 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A “hoax.”
I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
I have experienced a curious mix of feelings while having a significant portion of my life’s work in books and the art of my friends distorted and vandalized by post-literate fascists for the last few years. The feelings right now are uniquely awful.
www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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Vouchers (despite voter rejection) and attacks on vulnerable students—from K12 through higher ed.
And the billionaires I write about in The Privateers will have their say.
I talked to TIME about what the new Trump term means for education.
time.com/7174651/what...
And the billionaires I write about in The Privateers will have their say.
I talked to TIME about what the new Trump term means for education.
time.com/7174651/what...
What Trump's Win Means for Education
Trump has pledged to dismantle the Department of Education, among other things.
time.com
November 10, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Vouchers (despite voter rejection) and attacks on vulnerable students—from K12 through higher ed.
And the billionaires I write about in The Privateers will have their say.
I talked to TIME about what the new Trump term means for education.
time.com/7174651/what...
And the billionaires I write about in The Privateers will have their say.
I talked to TIME about what the new Trump term means for education.
time.com/7174651/what...
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Kudos @nytimes.com for getting the school voucher lobby on record to admit they don’t care what real voters say—they’ll just keep ramming vouchers through red state legislatures anyway.
Same playbook as rollbacks to abortion rights, btw.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...
Same playbook as rollbacks to abortion rights, btw.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...
Voters to Reject Private School Vouchers in Colorado, Nebraska and Kentucky
The results were part of a wave of ballot measure outcomes that teachers’ unions had sought. Nevertheless, private-school choice is growing nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Kudos @nytimes.com for getting the school voucher lobby on record to admit they don’t care what real voters say—they’ll just keep ramming vouchers through red state legislatures anyway.
Same playbook as rollbacks to abortion rights, btw.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...
Same playbook as rollbacks to abortion rights, btw.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...
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Appreciate this new @baptist_news coverage of the failed voucher referenda in 3 states on Election Day.
Plus my book The Privateers and my own personal, professional and faith journeys on this issue.
baptistnews.com/article/vote...
Plus my book The Privateers and my own personal, professional and faith journeys on this issue.
baptistnews.com/article/vote...
Voters in three states reject school vouchers
Voters in Colorado, Kentucky and Nebraska rejected taxpayer-supported voucher programs for private schools. The 2024 “no” votes may represent the most significant speed bump for “school freedom” since...
baptistnews.com
November 8, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Appreciate this new @baptist_news coverage of the failed voucher referenda in 3 states on Election Day.
Plus my book The Privateers and my own personal, professional and faith journeys on this issue.
baptistnews.com/article/vote...
Plus my book The Privateers and my own personal, professional and faith journeys on this issue.
baptistnews.com/article/vote...