Bahrad Sokhansanj
@bahradlaw.com
AI & Biosecurity Law | Saskatonian-Angeleno
Now that I have an employer: views are very much my own and not theirs.
Now that I have an employer: views are very much my own and not theirs.
If journalists covered the final days before the deadline for a large multi-investigator grant proposal...
January 10, 2026 at 7:07 PM
If journalists covered the final days before the deadline for a large multi-investigator grant proposal...
Going to Culver City Hall at 11.
January 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Going to Culver City Hall at 11.
Going to City Hall at Culver City at 11 am.
January 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Going to City Hall at Culver City at 11 am.
This makes me feel less badly about how LA 28 is going.
January 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This makes me feel less badly about how LA 28 is going.
*Access Hollywood. Whatever
January 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
*Access Hollywood. Whatever
Turns out the Hollywood Reporter video is deeply relevant to understanding Trump's foreign policy doctrine.
January 9, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Turns out the Hollywood Reporter video is deeply relevant to understanding Trump's foreign policy doctrine.
When they have lost their minds
January 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
When they have lost their minds
I did not know this story! Awesome to see a Prairie kid do so well. Lougheed is in the middle of nowhere. Vermillion is a small town but at least on a major highway. This is so cool. Immigrant families running the local motel / restaurant / gas station is a real part of the Western Canadian fabric.
January 8, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I did not know this story! Awesome to see a Prairie kid do so well. Lougheed is in the middle of nowhere. Vermillion is a small town but at least on a major highway. This is so cool. Immigrant families running the local motel / restaurant / gas station is a real part of the Western Canadian fabric.
Sure but that's a bloc that will read and provide lavish patronage to a newsletter not the audience of a linear network.
January 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Sure but that's a bloc that will read and provide lavish patronage to a newsletter not the audience of a linear network.
The Republicans were bragging about making inroads into the Somali community like a year ago.
January 8, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The Republicans were bragging about making inroads into the Somali community like a year ago.
But the health risks have also been wildly overstated, as shown in this very independently funded academic study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
But the health risks have also been wildly overstated, as shown in this very independently funded academic study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Meanwhile if you were to opine on the economic impact of price regulation these same people loudly insist you stay in your lane.
January 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Meanwhile if you were to opine on the economic impact of price regulation these same people loudly insist you stay in your lane.
Yes I heard that on KCBS this morning (which is doing a decent job of covering it).
January 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Yes I heard that on KCBS this morning (which is doing a decent job of covering it).
My view is that the issue is that there has been that, for AI safety, there's a consensus on catastrophic risk and AGI risk. Anything short of that there's a dispute about, and accelerationism generally dominates, where regs for non-existential risk are seen as actively harmful, so ignore instead.
January 8, 2026 at 8:39 AM
My view is that the issue is that there has been that, for AI safety, there's a consensus on catastrophic risk and AGI risk. Anything short of that there's a dispute about, and accelerationism generally dominates, where regs for non-existential risk are seen as actively harmful, so ignore instead.
Well that's one of the few areas where law enforcement agencies have actually been pretty OK with accepting limits, because shooting the driver of a moving vehicle is going to have a lot of potentially bad outcomes. The objective at that point is to disable and stop the vehicle first.
January 8, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Well that's one of the few areas where law enforcement agencies have actually been pretty OK with accepting limits, because shooting the driver of a moving vehicle is going to have a lot of potentially bad outcomes. The objective at that point is to disable and stop the vehicle first.
Totally. Though JD says they will go door to door next once they staff up. Of course also they aren't going into Florida, Texas, and other purple and red states to the same degree.
January 8, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Totally. Though JD says they will go door to door next once they staff up. Of course also they aren't going into Florida, Texas, and other purple and red states to the same degree.
We have riends who are saying that they raided their kid's day care and took the cook, maybe other people? The day care.
January 8, 2026 at 6:32 AM
We have riends who are saying that they raided their kid's day care and took the cook, maybe other people? The day care.
Senate majority leaders after Dole haven't really been charismatic leaders. Anyway it doesn't really matter if Tina Smith and Ruben Gallego and other people get on TV and effectively convey messages. The US system isn't like Canada is now (during the Mulroney years the Rat Pack made up for Turner).
January 8, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Senate majority leaders after Dole haven't really been charismatic leaders. Anyway it doesn't really matter if Tina Smith and Ruben Gallego and other people get on TV and effectively convey messages. The US system isn't like Canada is now (during the Mulroney years the Rat Pack made up for Turner).
It helps that some very mod Dems--Angie Craig in particular--have been very strong on this. Also Smith and Frey using F bombs drew attention.
January 8, 2026 at 5:19 AM
It helps that some very mod Dems--Angie Craig in particular--have been very strong on this. Also Smith and Frey using F bombs drew attention.
This is awful but to couple it with the Administration doubling down on lies and gaslighting and people going along with that has me in a very dark place, and for all the annoying aspects of Bluesky thanks to you and everyone else being on here.
January 8, 2026 at 12:29 AM
This is awful but to couple it with the Administration doubling down on lies and gaslighting and people going along with that has me in a very dark place, and for all the annoying aspects of Bluesky thanks to you and everyone else being on here.
You'd think but a lot of this stuff doesn't make it into records. Cops have strong unions. You can always see the pattern though. I also wonder how many of these guys were COs, including at privates.
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
You'd think but a lot of this stuff doesn't make it into records. Cops have strong unions. You can always see the pattern though. I also wonder how many of these guys were COs, including at privates.
It's more of a pedophilia platform than app really
January 7, 2026 at 11:44 PM
It's more of a pedophilia platform than app really