i chat*GPT** all the time. *about **the Gallons of Pollution we Treat Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

sewers are data centers.

What a nice photo! I'm sad to hear that he's no longer with us. They're such small creatures, but they take up such a big place in our hearts 😢

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

Another exciting—and slightly terrifying—book excerpt on @wired.com today: A chapter from
@profferguson.bsky.social’s new book ‘Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance’. Read it here.

www.wired.com/story/book-e...

I expected this CA verdict. Courts/juries are likely to look to a three part test - CHI: the Context, its sensitivity, and the Control of defendant over it; the nature of the Harm and the extent of its irreparability; and Intent/knowledge. More here, p. 1759 lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/file...

"Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees, and lied to the public about what they knew,” New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said in a press release."

Meta hit with $375M verdict in New Mexico child safety case The verdict marks a win for state regulators targeting tech platforms over harms to young users, as Meta vows to appeal.

That CA verdict comes on the heels of yesterday's NM verdict: "The verdict stipulates that Meta must pay $375 million in civil penalties for violating New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act, a consumer protection law." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark lawsuit on social media safety The jurors awarded the plaintiff $3 million in damages, finding Meta 70% responsible for harm caused to her, and YouTube responsible for 30%.

"The jury stated that Meta's and YouTube's negligence were a substantial factor in causing harm to the plaintiff...and that the companies failed to adequately warn users of the dangers of Instagram (Meta's platform) and YouTube (which is owned by Google)." www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Interested in tech procurement? Here's a new piece from me: www.andreamm.com/_files/ugd/2... It's part of a symposium coming up on April 17 at UVA Law. You can read all the papers here: www.vjolt.org

"Using ChatGPT and failing to check the case citations it provides constitute not only a lapse in professional judgment, but also a violation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11."

If you have specific questions, happy to give you my two cents fwiw. Mine have both been Flemish giants house rabbits and free roam...and sometimes outsmarted me. But I respect that.

Good pets. Rabbit personality tends to be a cross of a dog and a cat, but each one is unique and breeds vary. Often, like dogs, the bigger they are, the more chill they are. They're quiet, use a litter box, and much lower maintenance than a cat or a dog. Good recyclers of veg and paper.

Interested in what Hannah Arendt would have thought of our present moment in tech? She told us.

New from me - Exploit Machina lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/...

It’s an owl. It’s superb. What more do you want? Ok, it also looks like it wants to kill you.

#superbowl

brown wastewater cascades over a series of weirs into a churning frothy channel at a sewage treatment plant.

in a world of social networks churning with artificial slop trends, we prefer to be your social network trusted for actual slop treatment.

Juicero is still the greatest example of Silicon Valley stupidity A year after its fall, the connected juicer still has lessons to teach about startups and spinach recalls.

Inside voice: Did they forget the lessons of the Juicero? www.cnet.com/culture/juic...

'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

A "'Bespoke AI Family Hub' refrigerator received the overall 'Worst in Show'..'Everything is an order of magnitude more difficult,' [the award presenter] said of the fridge that also uses computer vision to track when food items...and can advertise replacements." apnews.com/article/ces-...

"The study, published in Nature, found that the printed circuit board...accounts for 70% of its carbon footprint...
The researchers suggest...chips using common metals like copper instead of rare minerals...and mak[ing] devices modular so the circuit board can be reused"

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

On the Internet, everyone knows you're a dog.

How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See

Bonus question: how good are the sensors at detecting very short humans? See, e.g., the Kit Kat Incident www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Well of course... Wait til they encounter hooked turns & trams in Marvellous Melbourne

a monkey is sitting at a desk with a laptop computer . Alt: A monkey is sitting at a desk with a laptop computer that it shoves away from itself in disgust, channeling its dissatisfaction with the machine's proximity in what might be a metaphorical commentary on the state of the modern technology economy.

Botsplaining: When you instruct an AI tool to eliminate all sycophancy, but it still defaults to wasting your time with vaguely patronizing replies, e.g. "You have correctly identified a problem!," before it attempts to correct what it did wrong.

I think about this tweet a lot

We certainly live in "interesting" times.

A video pinball machine with a blue screen of death

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

California issues historic fine over lawyer’s ChatGPT fabrications The court of appeals issued an historic fine after 21 of 23 quotes in the lawyer's opening brief were fake. Courts want more AI regulations.

California's Judicial Council "two weeks ago issued guidelines requiring judges and court staff to either ban generative #AI or adopt a generative AI use policy by Dec. 15": calmatters.org/economy/tech... #ethics #law #courts #tech

The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon This week, the trial starts in a consequential FTC lawsuit against Amazon. The suit alleges that Amazon for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.

FTC vs Amazon opens this week over dark patterns - design tricks that make you accidentally subscribe and struggle to cancel. "The question is when design crosses the line where a reasonable consumer doesn't have a fair shot of understanding what's going on" says @andreamm.bsky.social bit.ly/4mvJV2f

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers