Jed Brown

Debt finance is really hard to understand for those not well-versed in financial markets, so here's a helpful explainer. A key takeaway: investors in debt are seeing big problems with Big Tech's thesis on AI and charging more to cover its risk-taking.

I wanted to "respectfully" share with you the reaction of the architect of the 134 and 135 initiatives. They talk a big game about what they want you to "think" they want to accomplish, but the tone and the slurs are the real story.

Really enjoyed this ep of @techpolicypress.bsky.social 's The Sunday Show with @alondra.bsky.social , Emily Tucker and @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/the-edge-dia... >>

🤣🤣the Deloitte report is SO WOEFUL the West Australian govt wants it's $$ back Expert in public governance on Deloitte errors:“they’re so extensive tt you probably need a new report, or at the very least someone to go thru that material from the ground up & rework it manually without the use of AI"

It is interesting that courts are willing to just come out and say that we want human reasoning. Academic disciplines seem institutionally loathe to say the same thing

Apollo says profit margin is increasing for the Mag-7. Meanwhile, free cash flow is decreasing most everywhere (Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, and now Meta report negative cash flow; Microsoft's has declined). Nvidia circular financing can't prop up everything www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

> A fraternity member who videoed the incident got death threats from other members [..] and a group of fraternity members went to his house to “beat the sh– out of him,” but he wasn’t home. After that, the student dropped out of school [..]. National frat leadership “refused” to show [..] the video

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

India's surveillance state is escalating. 130 million voter registrations purged and over 5000 preemptively arrested as gov "treats the desire to protest as a latent security threat". Tech reduces the cost and deflects accountability for despots to implement their will. Shoddiness is a feature.

This is genuinely some of the most worrying news I have seen in the past few years, in terms of the ongoing effort to hold the AI industry accountable on climate Me losing work because the org I'm pitching to is funded by Anthropic is far more of a threat than actual competition from generative AI

Remote bricking the Save function in standalone Office to upsell an MS365/Copilot subscription.

She's such a better steward for this than Bernie is, if folks didn't want men to be the leaders all the time, that would be incredibly obvious.

I'm out here sweating in the theory mines, discussing gender and race and tech, and these chucklefucks just tweet it out.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a recognition that Meta/TikTok/YouTube/X are permanent thumbs on the scale until we crush them.

No matter how they try to spin it, the UNC administration did this because they like being part of a repressive state apparatus www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/u...

Have you registered? This session in the AAUP’s fall webinar series on AI spotlights materials from our new Toolkit for Activism on AI to share strategies for investigating and challenging retirement fund and endowment investments. Register at: www.aaup.org/event/higher...

I don't know where the author read 11% (Computer Science enrollment is down 27% since 2025 and 34% since 2024). With more decline in the pipeline because first-years are down about 50% and I don't see an enrollment surge on the horizon (more likely the opposite). data.colorado.edu/reports/enro...

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This will make the Internet a intolerable place for Black folks. Depending on the licensing of that data, if it's open; it'll be great for moderation (to understand language) but great for harassment (by exacerbating digital Blackface). Are there any ethics folks working at Howard?

This was such a great conversation! It was clear the hosts knew exactly the right questions to ask about Title IX. We walked through how the entire system was designed to betray survivors—and delivers on that goal.

I hesitate to platform this, but… If you’re wondering what Title IX administrators are saying right now about Cornell, this is your best window. ATIXA is the largest consulting organization that sells schools their Title IX materials.

something that occurred to me is, everyone knows it’s possible to become a musician with work and practice. but you can’t work on and practice music while staring slackjawed at your phone. the real promise of generative AI is the ability to ‘make’ ‘art’ without reducing your slackjawed scroll time

One of the largest gas exporters in the US now providing off-grid gas power to data centres as well as gas processing terminals. 10 GW of gas ~ 40 MTCO2-e of annual emissions. Like opening 11 new coal plants. ventureglobal.com/2026/10/15/v...

The linked website is not just non-authoritative, it has actively false information on it. Relying on the (almost certainly AI-generated) legal information on this website is VERY DANGEROUS.

Pro se plaintiff files complaint in which 31 of 32 citations are erroneous. Defendant moves to dismiss; plaintiff retains counsel who submits amended complaint riddled with errors. How? By accepting client's "materials and authorities" and using "AI". flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/down...

There's an underappreciated issue on the horizon for federal permitting. The issue is not specific to BAAJA, the draft permitting bill, but I believe BAAJA would make the issue worse. The issue comes from generative AI and has been eating away at academic peer review for the last couple of years.

Agents are malware. "Alignment" is divination. We know how to build security, but "AI" vendors have sold investors on a fantasy that "agents" will do everything without friction. They are incapable of security engineering and a lot of debt rests on issuance of a "get out of liability free" card.

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collecting the #AISUMMITIE threads in one place Here's one bsky.app/profile/abeb...