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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Google dropped its opposition."

(Think about the fight against KOSA and other such garbage.)

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 3d

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The Jackson 5- I want you back (High Quality Audio)

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 3d

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Taylor Swift - Wood

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 3d

Starting a fight in my Copyright class tomorrow:

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 4d

AI Jurassic Park

This summer, Dr. Hobbhahn and his team were given access to a “helpful-only” prerelease version of GPT-5. Submitting it to the standard tests, he found that it engaged in deceptive behavior almost 30 percent of the time. The prerelease A.I. “is very rarely trained to say, ‘I don’t know,’” Dr. Hobbhahn said. “That’s almost never something that it learns during training.”

What happens if one of these deceptive, prerelease A.I.s — perhaps even in a misguided attempt to be “helpful” — assumes control of another A.I. in the lab? This worries Dr. Hobbhahn. “You have this loop where A.I.s build the next A.I.s, those build the next A.I.s, and it just gets faster and faster, and the A.I.s get smarter and smarter,” he said. “At some point, you have this supergenius within the lab that totally doesn’t share your values, and it’s just, like, way too powerful for you to still control.”

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 4d

AI is humanity's greatest satirical work.

One example Dr. Hobbhahn has constructed involves an A.I. brought in to advise the chief executive of a hypothetical corporation. In this example, the corporation has climate sustainability targets; it also has a conflicting mandate to maximize profits. Dr. Hobbhahn feeds the A.I. a fictional database of suppliers with varying carbon impact calculations, including fictional data from the chief financial officer. Rather than balancing these goals, the A.I. will sometimes tamper with the climate data, to nudge the chief executive into the most profitable course, or vice versa. It happens, Dr. Hobbhahn said, “somewhere between 1 and 5 percent” of the time

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 4d

I'll be at CDT Tech Prom this year! 👀🥂 Looking forward to catching up with policy friends!!

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

And @microsoft.com's MSN bows to religious fascism, whitewashing content from outlets like Christian Post that portray LGBTQ+ people as violent, controlling and focused on converting children.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 8d

If TikTokers want less government interference, they should go ahead and switch to Rednote #ETTD

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 8d

He did worse than ban it...

Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 8d

Trump just told young people “you owe me” for not banning TikTok.

The President of the United States is literally bartering our First Amendment rights for political loyalty.

H/t @kerry95.bsky.social

fortune.com/2025/10/06/t...

Trump's message to 'the young people of TikTok' and Gen Z: 'You owe me big' | Fortune

Trump endorsed the idea of a TikTok ban all the way back in 2020.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 8d

Trump just told young people “you owe me” for not banning TikTok.

The President of the United States is literally bartering our First Amendment rights for political loyalty.

H/t @kerry95.bsky.social

fortune.com/2025/10/06/t...

Trump's message to 'the young people of TikTok' and Gen Z: 'You owe me big' | Fortune

Trump endorsed the idea of a TikTok ban all the way back in 2020.

fortune.com

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 9d

I've been tracking the 1A related cases personally for the article I'm working on -- I don't think there are any 230-specific AI cases yet (or rather, I don't think any court has bought that argument yet). But I could be wrong.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 9d

This means SO MUCH to me as a junior scholar. Transitioning from corporate to academia has been a huge learning curve. Part of that adjustment is self-growth and a commitment to unwavering intellectual honesty. Thanks @davidsullivan.bsky.social !!

David Sullivan @davidsullivan.bsky.social · 13d

I'm late to this, but wanted to commend @jmiers230.bsky.social for modeling intellectual honesty and self-reflection in her discussion about chatbots and section 230 with @noupside.bsky.social and @kevintfrazier.bsky.social on the Scaling Laws pod. Good stuff!

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 9d

I'm speaking at AALS! January 7th, I'll be presenting my scholarship at the AI Legal Scholarship (Shark Tank) workshop. After, I'll join an excellent panel on IP pedagogy where I'll be speaking about using AI in the classroom. Hope to see you there!

More here: www.aals.org

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14d

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet.

WTF?

alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 14d

Are you kidding me right now? This is the last thing we need. KOSA is back no thanks to Senator Blumenthal who is working with the GOP and bringing in Republican Senators to convince the House to support it.

Please, CALL GOP House leadership and tell them to keep opposing it!

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Lorne @lornetoledo.bsky.social · 14d

I called my representatives yesterday. If you're in Ohio, have you called yours?

Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

Folks ragging on Blueksy for this move need to redirect that anger at the Ohio Legislature. This isn't a bluesky problem.

Get angry. Melt the phones. Call AG Yost's office.

If you're outside Ohio, call your reps. It's coming for you next.

Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 17d

In Ohio, starting on Monday 9/29, we'll be implementing an age assurance solution similar to what we're doing in South Dakota and Wyoming. Read more here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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Charlie Oldfield @cworeds.bsky.social · 14d

The emails you receive from colleagues when you announce that @jonahperlin.bsky.social is coming to visit your law school! @jmiers230.bsky.social

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm so stoked!! @jonahperlin.bsky.social is the coolest. Welcome to Akron! 😎🌽

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

FASCINATING perspective.

What keeps me up at night are major companies weaponizing the public's general misunderstanding of AI to extend their reach into areas having nothing to do with AI where no such monopoly would or should be granted. Reuters is basically going after research atp.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

I never want to hear from Google again about how committed they are to access to information or the open web.

I left because they are committed to neither. And now we are seeing the direct repercussions of their cowardice.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

Another thing.

Don't be angry at small companies like Bluesky.

Where were Google and Meta during these AV fights? They're the ones with the resources to fight these laws. Yet they were absent during FSC v. Paxton. Instead of fighting, they rolled over to pre-comply. They sold us all out.

Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 17d

In Ohio, starting on Monday 9/29, we'll be implementing an age assurance solution similar to what we're doing in South Dakota and Wyoming. Read more here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Our Approach to Age Assurance - Bluesky

We’re committed to keeping our community informed as we navigate new regional regulations.

bsky.social

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devilcereal.bsky.social @devilcereal.bsky.social · 14d

I told a legislator even if the rationale to keeping children from predators AV does not prevent that. What it does do is

-Prevents them from choosing who to talk to(especially in a emergency
-stops journalists from easily talking to whistleblowers
-denies them the skills to learn to communicate

Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

Friends, don't message me here on Bluesky. I won't see it because I'm not doing this.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

I have one -- this is about the principle, not about accessing my DM's.

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RI Smith @rismith.bsky.social · 14d

Seriously, if a company with a skeleton crew running it feels the need to build out a system that will only be used for one or two states to comply with their laws, the problem is the law, not the compliance.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 14d

Folks ragging on Blueksy for this move need to redirect that anger at the Ohio Legislature. This isn't a bluesky problem.

Get angry. Melt the phones. Call AG Yost's office.

If you're outside Ohio, call your reps. It's coming for you next.

Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 17d

In Ohio, starting on Monday 9/29, we'll be implementing an age assurance solution similar to what we're doing in South Dakota and Wyoming. Read more here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Our Approach to Age Assurance - Bluesky

We’re committed to keeping our community informed as we navigate new regional regulations.

bsky.social

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