🚨EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot tells MeidasTouch they filed FAA and NASA safety reports after lighting from Trump’s UFC event at the White House allegedly flooded their cockpit on approach to Reagan National. The pilot called it “10 times worse than any laser illumination event” they’d ever experienced. meidasnews.com/news/white-ho…

The biggest legacy of KOSA won't be safer kids online. It will be a larger system for verifying identities and collecting personal information across the internet.

More good news. Your federal judiciary at work.

BREAKING: In a shocking maneuver, Senate Republicans just BLOCKED a Democratic effort to BAN federal troops from entering polling stations or seizing ballots or voting machines. Makes you wonder what they’re planning this November…

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty. James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history. Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired. The wall is still empty.

RIP David Hockney. There are infinite images I could post. Across medium, technology & time, relentless in returning the gaze to see better; colour, value, detail, mystery, wonder, joy in the world, inviting us to do so too. His life is a manifesto of what art can be. My hero

Trial for state AG claims in the social media addiction case set for August 12. Will be 8 jurors and no alternates. Advisory jury. Unclear to me if actual jury and an advisory or just the latter. I think the latter. So brief.

Defending #FreeSpeech & #Privacy. #ASAA

KOSA will not make kids safer, it will not empower parents. But it WILL help build that digital ID infrastructure and data pipeline.

New Yorker recently. This idea will never die.

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein likely had every major U.S. politician on video doing something terrible to a child, according to former CIA officer David Robert Steele.

A German court rules that Section 230 protection does not apply to AI garymarcus.substack.com/p/ma… It could be a similar story here.

It’s difficult to overstate how profoundly abusive—in the legal sense—this move is. Google‘s dominant position means artists don’t really have a meaningful choice about whether to license their work to YouTube. They have no ability to negotiate better terms.

🚨Breaking news that could be huge, and enormously bad for GenAI, if other countries make similar decisions. the-decoder.com/landmark-ger…

🚨KOSA update: To make a long story short, the White House is pushing for a package on Capitol Hill that bans AI regulation in exchange to pass #KOSA and other age verification laws. R's working with White House on this while D's are also negotiating. A deal could come in weeks.

Everything All At Once: Bill C-34 Combines Platform Duties, a Kids' Social Media Ban, AI Chatbot Regulation, and a Powerful Digital Safety Commission Into a Risky "Trust Us" Bet michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/ever… via @mgeist

New York has passed a new law, the first of its kind in the United States, requiring clear labels on news content made with AI The law, called the NY FAIR News Act, states that any news story, weather report, sports update, entertainment article, or similar content must display a prominent, easy-to-see notice if it was mostly created by AI. The rule applies across all formats, including newspapers, websites, TV, radio, podcasts, images, and videos. The notice must appear at the top so readers or viewers immediately know whether a human reporter wrote it or if AI did most of the work. The State Senate and Assembly approved the bill on June 8, 2026 and now awaits Governor Kathy Hochul’s signature. If signed, the law will take effect 60 days later The rule does not apply to content that includes enough human work to qualify for copyright protection. There are no fines for individuals only the state attorney general can enforce the law against companies that violate it.

"Sometimes well-intentioned laws are unconstitutional. That is the case for a bill that recently passed the California Assembly to prevent children under the age of 16 from opening social media accounts." — Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky via @sacbee_news: bit.ly/4vAVcTW

An article by Professor @PamelaSamuelson has been selected as one of the best intellectual property papers of 2025 and will be included in the next edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, published annually by @thomsonreuters: bit.ly/4uMe2a5 #BerkeleyLaw

Ending anonymity. Expanding speech bans. State-ordered takedowns. These are pillars of the Internet in China, Russia, and Iran. Increasingly, they have become features of European policy. In @ForeignAffairs, @JMchangama examines how Europe lost the plot on online speech.