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A book seller told 404 Media that, normally, on a good week, he’d sell about 20 books. Since April, he has regularly sold hundreds of books a week. While the seller didn’t have clear evidence that the purchases were being made by AI companies, the purchases made him suspect that they were.

SCOOP: A little over a month ago, the Pentagon was bragging that half its workforce was using AI. Now the army is saying they’re burning through tokens and need to limit use. For @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-ar...

I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.

ICYMI last week @wired.com: ICE is renewing its contract with Thomson Reuters for accessing some their suite of proprietary databases. In the description, ICE says the tools will be used to ID "unaccompanied minors" and identify fraud. w/ @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-un...

NEW: A renewed ICE contract with a top data broker points to the agency using surveillance tools on unaccompanied minors as well as their sponsors, traditionally the remit of the Office of Refugee Resettlement at HHS. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social report:

And if you're someone working in gov/immigration/tech/etc and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82

NEW with @carolinehaskins.bsky.social: ICE is renewing its contract with Thomson Reuters for accessing some their suite of proprietary databases. In the description, ICE says the tools will be used to ID "unaccompanied minors" and identify fraud. www.wired.com/story/ice-un...

NEW with @carolinehaskins.bsky.social: ICE is renewing its contract with Thomson Reuters for accessing some their suite of proprietary databases. In the description, ICE says the tools will be used to ID "unaccompanied minors" and identify fraud. www.wired.com/story/ice-un...

NEW: ICE is expanding its powers by using tools from the subsidiary of data broker giant Thompson Reuters to "identify unaccompanied minors" and purported "fraud" suspects. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/ice-un...

NEW w/ @telliotter.bsky.social: ICE renewed its contract to buy data from Thomson Reuters at an upped rate of $25 million/year Now, ICE says, it has an urgent, “multiplied” need for data to ID “unaccompanied minors” and anyone involved with “fraud of government funds": www.wired.com/story/ice-un...

A statement from WIRED leadership.

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

If you've ever tried to cancel your @nytimes.com subscription, you know that they're gonna haaaaaate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's "click to cancel" rule.

Have you been affected by Trump's funding cuts? I'd love if you'd share your story here. Any cut counts, including the ones allowing the Cyclospora parasite to sicken thousands of people with explosive diarrhea.

“People say technology is just a tool that you can do good things or bad things with. That often is said to hide the ways in which technology makes certain realities more or less likely. So when you design tools in particular ways, there are foreseeable uses of those tools.” @hartzog.bsky.social

Several friends experienced pretty terrible depression + other side effects on birth control, and often women are left to navigate this alone, both medically and in partnerships. The piece threads the needle of valid critique while acknowledging we’re in precarious waters on this topic politically.

Members of DOGE who were working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used artificial intelligence to inform policy decisions. Now, the agency appears to be denying FOIA requests about it.

today, ny becomes the first state with a statewide data center moratorium even though the hochul data center pause is less aggressive than ny's data center moratorium bill passed in may, it's still "a gigantic step forward," one advocate told me

The lawyers I spoke to had lots of questions about what exactly that means, and so do I! If you're a government worker or someone working in tech and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82. We can speak anonymously.

It's legally permissible to withhold documents that are part of the "deliberative process," to allow gov workers to give ideas and feedback before a rule or policy is finalized without fear. Now HUD is saying that material labeled "deliberative AI input" falls into this protected category, too