CONVERGER at kevinbankston.substack.com. Senior Advisor on AI Governance @cdt.org. Teaching AI law @georgetownlaw.bsky.social. Imagining futures @imaginationasu.bsky.social. My opinions, not theirs.https://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mz24oaeepc2vThis is sadly the future of most useful online information repositories due to scraper bots and AI agents. Not ideal but a rational reaction. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Oct 2026 20:38 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz24oaeepc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3myzkzwqmpc2iThe Stealth Bot Prohibition Act would force crawlers to reveal their identity, threatening public-interest tools used by journalists, archivists, & researchers while failing to stop AI bot harms. Bad idea! [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Oct 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3myzkzwqmpc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mywudn5iws2iAI data portability is broken, but @cdt.org just built a tool to make it better: Selective Memory. Turns out that with a little extra coding, we can have AI chat portability and privacy at the same time. And if we can build this, certainly the planet's biggest companies can! https://cdt.org/insights/ai-data-portability-that-preserves-privacy-is-possible-cdt-built-a-new-software-tool-to-prove-it/28 Oct 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mywudn5iws2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mwdzdjodqc2uA question for your inner twelve-year-old: PIRATES VS. NINJAS: WHO WOULD WIN?? I’ll be answering that question in a new comic miniseries coming to @kickstarter.com next spring, with artist @federicosabbatini.bsky.social! Visit kickstarter.com/projects/kevinbankston/pirates-vs-ninjas-1 for more! https://kickstarter.com/projects/kevinbankston/pirates-vs-ninjas-125 Sep 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdzdjodqc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mtgsi66vr22xThe integration of AI into traditional content pipelines is well underway: Netflix has used generative AI in *300* movies and shows just in 2026. More on AI's collision with Hollywood in this week's Converger: https://converger.kevinbankston.com/p/convergers-ai-in-hollywood-roundup19 Aug 2026 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgsi66vr22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mte7wlg43k2dSummer 2026: AI and Hollywood are Colliding. Which studios are adopting AI fastest, which filmmakers are inviting the tech and which are rejecting it, what are the latest tools and trends? Read the latest CONVERGER newsletter to find out. https://converger.kevinbankston.com/publish/post/21164027918 Aug 2026 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mte7wlg43k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mt4ycnxkjc2yWhy is Wonder Woman storming the Oval Office to confront the President? Across the Marvel & DC universes right now, authoritarian villains and billionaire oligarchs rule, and the heroes are now insurgents fighting the power. Gee, wonder what that's about? https://converger.kevinbankston.com/p/when-villains-rule-how-marvel-and15 Aug 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt4ycnxkjc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3msvcfbvqac27Why is Iron Man teaching people to make Molotov cocktails? Across Marvel & DC comics, in an obvious response to current politics, authoritarian villains & billionaire oligarchs now rule while the heroes are insurgents fighting the power. Read more: https://converger.kevinbankston.com/p/when-villains-rule-how-marvel-and12 Aug 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvcfbvqac27https://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mst5dxpyos2yMy new article highlights how today's biggest comic creators like @ssnyder1835.bsky.social @denizcamp.bsky.social @attackerman.bsky.social @jason-aaron.bsky.social and @tomking.bsky.social are injecting timely anti-authoritarian themes into their entertaining-as-hell DC and Marvel superhero stories. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mst5dxpyos2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3msspir4cnc24Batman, Superman, & Wonder Woman are fighting white supremacist cops, ICE, & billionaire oligarchs while the Avengers are fomenting a leftist revolution. How did comics become woke AF? And how much longer will their corporate owners allow it? My latest newsletter: https://substack.com/home/post/p-21048178011 Aug 2026 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msspir4cnc24https://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3msqomwb6ts24Would you be surprised to learn that the most mainstream anti-authoritarian art right now is in...corporate comic books? Subscribe now at converger.kevinbankston.com to catch tomorrow's essay, "When Villains Rule: How Marvel and DC Comics Became the Unexpected Anti-Trump Art Form."10 Aug 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqomwb6ts24https://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mqa3fs3dr22mThis is the most delightful nerd news I've heard in awhile. Look forward to getting the literal magazine in my mailbox. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jul 2026 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqa3fs3dr22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mp24encmnc25Sadly ironic that today's the 55th anniversary of an overreaching White House going to the Supreme Court to try to block the Pentagon Papers' publication, and now with Anthropic's Fable we're seeing another historic prior restraint by an equally lawless administration. #FreeFable24 Jun 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp24encmnc25https://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mog2wkbz322uGreat thread from @cdt.org's First Amendment maven, @kateruane.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Jun 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mog2wkbz322uhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3modcwswn522lMy brother's a Hollywood creative exec. I dragged him to the 'AI on the Lot' conference to see the future. Then I interviewed him: “They keep talking about saving time and money. I live in Burbank, man—that ‘time and money’ are all my neighbors.” https://converger.kevinbankston.com/i/201583118/ai-on-the-lot-debrief-iii-technology-brother-vs-hollywood-brother-with-matthew-bankston15 Jun 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3modcwswn522lhttps://bsky.app/profile/bankston.bsky.social/post/3mo67r6e7bs2rUh, I think cyberattacks happen on the internet. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jun 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:fpuqesldjwanucepchoapyhh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo67r6e7bs2r