Translation: "If ChatGPT can help terrorist organizations around the world create new bioweapons and cyberattacks, just imagine what it can do to reduce your company's labor costs!” #AI
www.axios.com/2026/04/06/b...
I think what's even worse here is that, at least according to the #AI people, if you don't use their hated products, you'll fall behind, lose your job or never get one, etc. They hooked the younger people on social media through algorithms and dopamine; they are hooking them on #AI through fear.
"No later than March 1, 2026 – Agencies are required to post the final human readable and NIEM-XML versions of their Fiscal Year 2025 Annual FOIA Report on their websites."
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"This is the most transparent Department of Justice in our nation’s history. " There has never been a transparent DOJ in our nation's history, including this one. And this DOJ has STILL not posted its required 2025 annual #FOIA report. #docsoritdidnthappen
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To be clear, yes, FOIA officers on the whole do the best they can. The problem is the political people. And also to be clear, the Biden DOJ was also terrible and regularly broke the law too.
It's like they've given up any pretense of caring about complying with the law.
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928) (“If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy[.]”).
Well said.
I too am (proudly) GenX but I've succumbed to the ease of just doing what the phone tells me nearly all of the time. Which is what's so scary about outsourcing intelligence to Sam Altman and Elon Musk, etc.
This 2024 article largely nailed it, and this Sutton quote is terrifying: “Biological extinction, that’s not the point[.] The light of humanity and our understanding, our intelligence — our consciousness, if you will — can go on without meat humans.”
tinyurl.com/sv2wtajz
Exactly. What's even the point of being human without it?
100%. GPS reliance harmed spatial memory. AI for thinking is doing the same to the ability to think. Losing spatial memory maybe isn't that bad. Losing the ability and desire to think is losing our very humanity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Also: “If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy[.]" Olmstead v. US, 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928). Regardless of whether the accusations were well-founded, the FBI broke the law by withholding them.
Of course, Epstein Act has no privacy exception for people accused, and says: No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
1. DOJ likely violated the Epstein Act. 2. DOJ likely violated #FOIA under precedent from the Abramoff/Tom DeLay investigation: privacy for high-ranking pub officials is often outweighed by the public interest in knowing whether DOJ "pulled its punches."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
Also: “If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy[.]" Olmstead v. US, 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928). Regardless of whether the accusations were well-founded, the FBI broke the law by withholding them.
Of course, Epstein Act has no privacy exception for people accused, and says: No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.
Expect a lot more of this (stock price was rewarded), and remember it has only been made possible through unlicensed copyrighted material, pollution, higher energy prices for consumers, and politicians of both parties who want data centers in our back yards to benefit their campaign donors.
Tech bro Jack Dorsey can't be bothered to use proper grammar/capitalization when announcing 4000 people are being replaced by bots at a "strong" company with "gross profit [that] continues to grow."
#teamhuman
Welcome to the Windy City, my friend. Home to five-day #FOIA response deadlines!
I'm very excited to announce that I am co-hosting a snarky new #FOIA and government transparency podcast on Bloomberg with my good friend @jasonleopold.bsky.social. Check it out!
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Our 2024 #FOIA numbers are in! Our suits resulted in the release of 106,966 pages of government records to our clients. These are documents that, but for a lawsuit, would never have been produced, or would have been slow-rolled for years. ☀️☀️☀️
Really enjoyed this! Thanks so much for the invite.
Hey #FOIA friends. Here's a site that tracks all of our new cases and developments, for our clients who have consented to including their cases.
www.loevy.com/first-amendm...
I'm trying to be open-minded about all this, but how is a new flag a good use of time and resources? Is there something about the current flag that's problematic?
It’s f’ing golden!
Great coverage by @niemanlab.org and @andrewdeck.bsky.social of our Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against OpenAI. For digital publishers unhappy with the use of their content to create AI bots that compete with news business, this is the path forward.
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/copy...
Makes me miss Marie’s Riptide Lounge. And the old Tuman’s, where the furniture was salvaged from what college kids threw out.
Big news on the AI copyright front. Today our claims for The Intercept against OpenAI survived dismissal. There is a viable DMCA cause of action for news publishers without copyright registrations based on the unauthorized use of copyrighted material for the purposes of AI training.
Thanks to @jasonleopold.bsky.social @mvtopic.bsky.social and @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social at @reporterscommittee.bsky.social for sharing their insights
