Wesley Tanaka

BREAKING NEWS: This is an announcement that has been decades in the making.   On December 5, 2022 a team from DOE's @Livermore_Lab made history by achieving fusion ignition.   This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and America’s national defense forever.

1.14.2022: (correction on date) Large volcanic eruption near Tonga (Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano) today as seen from outer space. Shown on visible imagery using the Himawari satellite. #hiwx #tsunami #earthquake

Correlation does not imply causation, from @ProfEmilyOster emilyoster.substack.com/p/coffee-defin…

History, law, and different designs of systems of checks and balances between different autonomous government institutions will have a lot of lessons to teach. 8/

By definition, it's the platforms that are able to gain legitimacy which will be the ones that people believe are the most appropriate and proper ones to exist. 7/

What should stay on the internet? Internet platforms remove content that violates their terms as a matter of course. These decisions are getting increasing scrutiny. I am interested in understanding and cataloguing as diverse a set of perspectives as I can find about this. 1/

Huh? scientificamerican.com/article/pupil-…

@steveglista @ShibaniMahtani @drewharwell All three lenses, not just "where", seem necessary to apply here. The current process for choosing seems to be: Wix decides. Then, like here, sometimes civil society successfully pressures a reversal. It's not the worst possible process, but it might not be the best either.

To be clear: the Hong Kong police requested a foreign company to take down a website, involving people *outside of Hong Kong* and they complied. When they said the NSL applies to anyone, everywhere, it was hard to imagine global companies complying — but here they are.

Content moderation is hard, Stanford Law School edition. thefire.org/law-students-g…

"Child-care workers, for example, give much more to society than they take from it, generating almost 10 times as great a social product as they capture in private wages." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"software supply chain" is one of those phrases that creates new mental connections all by itself techrepublic.com/article/how-ve…

The "smile in the sky" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumzen…

The 1,138,841 most frequently assigned texts in college courses galaxy.opensyllabus.org