If you haven't been paying attention to niche national security law, you should now. This surveillance program collects communications from all over the globe--and when folks talk to people in the US, the US side of the convo is stored and the FBI can sift through it without a warrant.
A lil 🧵:
[And the way it fails is when you post through it ad nauseum]
nwolb = dniM
I truly did not know such pants existed till just now. Am I better for it? Hard to say
This entire "debate" about whether law enforcement agents need to get warrants to do things that the 4th Amendment has basically always required law enforcement agents get warrants for is, among other things, extraordinarily exasperating
Will more than make up for any menswear deficits when he explains he's a janitor
All I can think about is the difference that choosing a Cousin Vinny over a Michael Clayton gif has on the quoted post's energy
Perfect
This is like the AI generated output for "90 seconds of Jack Donaghy's uncharismatic business school classmates talking"
I'm not the biggest Dune guy. But seems like a real missed opportunity to not have released it simultaneously with The Drama, so we could get a Zendaya-Pattinson double feature. Duama? The Drume? We could've work shopped the portmanteau.
To paraphrase the keymaker, our closets have only what they are meant to have
The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702
Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public "will be stunned" to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you've followed Wyden's…
tough look for a man with a line of antiperspirant deodorant
"We lost against the law firms & universities that challenged our retaliating, but this time we got it!"
We don't need the Bernstein cases to conclude that models and outputs are protected speech. The Hurley / Tornillo / Moody line of cases say that curating and disseminating expression (even via algorithms) is a protected editorial activity.
That's precisely what model devs (like Anthropic) do.
Cool. Not like there have been, oh I don't know, credible concerns about incorporating AI into ongoing mass surveillance literally last week
As is often the case, I agree with Jess here, and I think Alan's version of things would effectively eliminate the First Amendment for code. The gov't should not be able to compel a developer to build specific features, whether it's backdoors or removing safety guardrails.
sighs in scramble suit voice modulator
Ballmer will have 260,000 AI companions specifically for delivering gut punches (which will be in the Windows 12 TOS)
Worth reiterating that Congress could address this problem by closing the data broker loophole--& the House did so less than 2 years ago: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
David Ellison "will readily throw the First Amendment, CNN's reporters and HBO's filmmakers under the bus if they stand in the way of expanding his corporate empire and fattening his pockets," FPF Seth Stern said.
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Super awesome that we're not going to enforce the law we have *specifically to protect children's privacy* against some of the most invasive surveillance of kids (and adults!) we've ever seen. Makes a ton of sense.
biggest fucking losers
On the ideals of the Olympics, the fiction of hockey romance, and the real world: defector.com/the-u-s-hock...
“It is a reminder that even right now, even as the fight rages on, there is time for joy, there is time for art, there is time to celebrate difference and self, and to insist that you too can be free.
Because they want you to forget that.”
