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How Congress Can Delete DOGE | TechPolicy.Press Rebecca Williams explores how DOGE’s budget can be restricted—if Congress decides to act.

Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE:

www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...

Letter from 21 legacy US Digital Service staff who resigned, saying they can no longer work for DOGE.

"We will not use use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize American's sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

A new research paper from Google says generative AI could “distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus,” and in many cases is already doing that:
www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

An email from Waymo support detailing a "Terms of service violation".

Big Tech doesn't want you to ghost ride the whip

The Maker of ShotSpotter Is Buying the World’s Most Infamous Predictive Policing Tech SoundThinking is purchasing parts of Geolitica, the company that created PredPol. Experts say the acquisition marks a new era of companies dictating how police operate.

Scoop: ShotSpotter is buying Predpol, a controversial “predictive policing” company previously shown to disproportionately target poor and Black neighborhoods.

www.wired.com/story/soundt...

New from me: the NYC subway has since 2020 been using an AI system to track alleged fare evasion, with plans to significantly expand it by the end of this year, gov docs show.

iMac G4 from 2002, "I'm not ready for the Internet" is selected in the Internet Connection wizard

In retrospect I should have picked this option

CC @pamela_herd @donmoyn (who are not on this app yet) -- curious if this language is used more often in practice to avoid requiring documentation, or to require it punitively.

NYC's SNAP documentation guide, stating "Citizenship must be documented only if it is questionable."

Very legal & very cool!

the old hellsite is dying. the new hellsite struggles to be born. this is the time of posts.

Corner fell off...