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Trump uses the phrase "like no one has ever seen before" like no one has ever seen before
This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.
numbers stations are so weird and neat
Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started.
Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!
This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
Just another day in the bad cyberpunk novel we are all trapped in
This is literally disgusting, politically and personally.
But at least this means that from now on, I can call him "Beta Brendan" forever.
Afraid not, IRL only
Time is running out to RSVP for this event at Georgetown next Thursday 3/26 on AI and internet scraping, with experts from my organization, @cdt.org, as well as from Google, Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Cloudflare, New York Times, and more!
The only CA SB 1074 from Wiener in 2025-2026 session I can find is this one about telephone sales; can you point me to the right bill? Did you maybe misstate the bill number? Or am I missing something obvious? Thanks! legiscan.com/CA/text/SB10...
This is a dramatic reversal of the FBI's commitment in 2023 to halting bulk collection on Americans' through data purchases.
Extremely alarming for privacy
www.wired.com/story/fbi-pu...
Strikingly, all panelists seem to agree that the supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was appalling and a massive affront to American values and the First Amendment.
We at @cdt.org have an amazing lineup for our 3/26 event on AI and internet scraping with @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social, including @archive.org, @wikimediafoundation.org, @cloudflare.social, @sparcopen.bsky.social, @nytimes.com, @eleutherai.bsky.social, and more!
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
No ethicist per se but the research library coalition SPARC is on a panel
How can the public internet adapt to the proliferation of bots and the diminishment of human eyeballs due to AI products, while still preserving an open and reliable information ecosystem? How must tech and law change? Full event description and RSVP here: www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institu...
Internet + AI policy friends: RSVP to join @cdt.org at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social on Thurs March 26 for a lively morning of panels and talks on internet scraping and the future of the open web in the AI age--with perspectives from AI labs, web publishers, scrapers, & a range of experts.
#Billionaires aren't going to #space because they love #scifi. This is a game of Monopoly, and they are playing to Own the Pipes.
www.techpolicy.press/in-the-twent...
my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on space-based economic capture
#academicsky #space #newspace #spacex #nasa #blueorigin
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
EFF's Cindy Cohn unboxes her new book, Privacy's Defender! It hits shelves TOMORROW, March 10th. Order your copy today and see if Cindy is coming to a city near you for the tour! www.eff.org/Privacys-Def...
If Americans can’t figure out why we’re starting a war with Iran, then frankly they don’t deserve to know.
by Karoline Leavitt
Just thinking about how lots of people in the White House are making money off of this
Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense
Either the DOD is taking a softer stance with OpenAI (which seems hard to believe) or OpenAI is prepared to make more concessions here than it is acknowledging
