Again, tech companies open embrace of authoritarianism and the fact that every new product is a more invasive spy device than the last one are not coincidences.

Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta’s With Several Styles, Oval Cameras Also: The latest on the foldable iPhone.

Apple is bothered by the fact that Meta has the pervert glasses market cornered.

Five alarm fire here

FCC’s Brendan Carr: Trump is ‘winning’ against ‘fake news media’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr on Friday said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that President Trump is “winning” his feud against the &…

Members of the Trump administration are bragging about targeting media that criticizes his agenda.

Congress: Protect Our Free Press The Broadcast Freedom and Independence Act is our chance to rein in the FCC's out-of-control attacks on our free press. Congress must act now to pass this bill.

Tell Congress: Protect our free press and First Amendment rights.

sneaky + maddening surveillance pricing practices from Floor & Decor. same product, all labeled “clearance”

in DC on normal safari: 6.20
safari private browser: 5.17
@duckduckgo.com 3.88

in VA regular safari: 6.20

VPN buffalo safari: 4.87

@dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social
@councilofdc.bsky.social

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

here's the clip of Gorsuch on "Roman law sources"

Gorsuch appears to be pretty skeptical of Sauer’s argument. I wish I could fully convey the disdain with which he said “Roman law sources” when describing the govt’s citations.

Bruce Springsteen Lends ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ to ACLU For Birthright Citizenship Video Ahead of Supreme Court Case Bruce Springsteen lends 'Born in the U.

We're honored to have Bruce Springsteen's support in the fight for birthright citizenship.

The Constitution, not the president, defines who gets to be an American — and we're headed to the Supreme Court to defend this essential right.

Nicole Ozer smiles at the camera, wearing black-framed glasses and a black shirt with four gold buttons across the shoulder while sitting in a red chair.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Nicole Ozer, @nicoleozer.bsky.social, has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1!

Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5)

Awesome choice @eff.org !

‘Warrants or bust’: House hard-liners deliver ultimatum ahead of spy powers vote A long-brewing confrontation over Section 702 surveillance authorities comes to a head next week.

We agree: The government can't spy on our private communications without a warrant.

It's really that simple.

People will react to news of major security vulns with "The only way to stay secure is to live as a hermit and throw your devices into the sea" and then keep chattering on the internet in a deeply unhermitlike manner while not throwing their devices into the sea.

NEW: I went to the Polymarket "Situation Room" bar and it was a disaster.

The host—Polymarket's head of growth—previously worked for MrBeast and that playbook was on full display even if the actual displays... didn't work.
www.wired.com/story/polyma...

why pay for a Super Bowl ad when you can just buy a newspaper, fire thousands of people, and make the stories advertisements for your creepy surveillance system

Lindsey Graham on Kharg Island: "We did Iwo Jima. We can do this."

When Conversations with AI Become Evidence Ava Malkin discusses the use of AI chat histories as evidence, raising urgent questions about privacy, admissibility, and legal risk.

What you tell AI may not stay private as courts are beginning to allow chatbot histories as admissible evidence—raising urgent questions about privacy, and legal exposure, Ava Malkin discusses.

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside.

On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors.

She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.

Good to remember that OpenAI reserves the right to call the cops on you and your chat logs are not in any way privileged.

i hate my editors

Tulane implements facial recognition software for employees, sparking confusion, controversy • The Tulane Hullabaloo Tulane University is bringing the facial recognition technology, CloudApper, an add-on to  Oracle Cloud, to campus work

Often when things like this are “optional” it’s a trial balloon for making them mandatory.

6,000 Pages Of Romantasy Later, Judge Sinks Author's IP Suit - Law360 A New York federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular "Crave" series, issuing a lengthy opin...

"A ... federal judge has dismissed a writer's lawsuit accusing a bestselling fiction author of stealing her romance-fantasy book drafts to create the popular 'Crave' series, issuing a lengthy opinion finding tropes of the genre —such as 'hot, sexy, dangerous boys'— are not protected by copyright."

Pauli Murray Set the Blueprint for Civil Rights and Gender Equality From dismantling ‘Jane Crow’ laws to advancing the rights of protesters, Murray’s legacy inspires today’s activism for racial justice and gender equality at the ACLU.

Pauli Murray was among the first to theorize that the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under law could be used not only to challenge laws that discriminated based on race, but also on sex.

Their legacy lives on during Women's History Month and every month.

BREAKING NEWS: A judge this morning allowed the lawsuit by @aclusocal.bsky.social & Walkup Melodia against the UC Regents on behalf of Palestine solidarity activists from UCLA (2 students and 2 faculty members) to proceed, marking an important preliminary victory for student speech on CA campuses.

DOGE mishandled your Social Security data. Here’s what that means. A whistleblower alleges that staffers with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency have exposed with Americans’ Social Security numbers.

A whistleblower has revealed that DOGE staffers uploaded millions of Americans' Social Security information to an unauthorized server.

The Trump administration's recklessness with our data should be a wake-up call that it's time to update our decades-old laws so that our privacy is truly protected.

Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet An age-gated internet comes with huge privacy risks.

The UK's forays in age verification underscore that it its not only ineffective, but violates our privacy and keeps teens and adults from online life, blocking social media, online videos, streaming, and even gaming. www.theverge.com/analysis/715...

EPIC Law Fellow @kara-williams.bsky.social, Grace Gedye of Consumer Reports, and @cvenzke.bsky.social of the ACLU attended ACM’s FAccT conference to present a tutorial on the landscape of U.S. state AI policy and stakeholders. @facct.bsky.social