It is really early to tell the significance of this bc it could all be reversed on appeal on both whether the judge's early 1A and 230 decisions were correct (which allowed this to proceed to trial) and then the jury's decision as well.
This will likely be years before it is final -- or not!
Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
Seen in Deptford
In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.
singularityhub.com/2025/03/28/w...
There is evidence that when asked to explain how they reach a decision, models will sometimes provide plausible explanations that don't match the steps they took.
Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analysts and soldiers told the Kyiv Independent.
Kanaky protester from New Caledonia
Some news on @euractiv.com out of New Caledonia, where TikTok is free to return after a defeat for the French government
www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
Högsta domstolen: EU:s dataskyddsförordning kan få betydelse för om det råder sekretess för personuppgifter i brottmålsdomar även på det grundlagsskyddade området www.domstol.se/hogsta-domst...
Last summer, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and I produced a short podcast series, Autocracy in America. We talked about the changed that preceded an assault on democracy in other countries, and we found them here. Perhaps useful background for the current moment.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/aut...
Alltid redo! (Har inte riktigt kommit igång på denna plattform men ska försöka göra det.) @isobelhk.bsky.social
NY Post headline saying: The incredible, blind arrogance of the 'fact checking' censors By Post Editorial Board
I've been saying for years now that the GOP considers any attempt to correct their lies as "censorship" and eventually it would lead to this.
More speech is now called censorship.
Jack Smith's report on the election case against Trump has been released. The 174-page .pdf can be downloaded here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
Romania's Constitutional Court has annulled the country's presidential elections, including the first round and the upcoming runoff initially scheduled for Sunday (8 December) between far-right candidate Georgescu and Elena Lasconi.
✍️ Charles Szumski
🔗 eurac.tv/9XBf
Medically adapted foundation models (think Med-*) turn out to be more hot air than hot stuff. Correcting for fatal flaws in evaluation, the current crop are no better on balance than generic foundation models, even on the very tasks for which benefits are claimed.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change