it's true that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
but that's why we have fee-shifting.
!”Records show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein funded a student’s UC Berkeley School of Law degree in return for referring female “assistants.”
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they're calling it crete-ed rivalry
“Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.”
Powerful testimony by @ariezra.bsky.social before the California state assembly about surveillance capitalism’s impact on marginalized communities especially queer kids. @cybercivilrights.bsky.social
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What's missing? The public. Decisions about whether AI can surveil American citizens or autonomously deploy lethal force are being settled in a contract dispute. No Congress. No democratic deliberation. No accountability. We've outsourced questions about the use of force to a corporate negotiation.
The irony is stark: a private AI company is holding the line on guardrails against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons—while the federal government pushes to remove them. After revoking Biden's AI safety policies, the Trump administration is now pressuring Anthropic to abandon its own.
Here's the full note from Walsh.
This week, EPIC joined a group of national consumer protection and privacy groups to urge the FTC to crack down on hidden surveillance pricing by requiring companies to tell consumers when they are using the invasive practice.
Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
We've been saying this for years now, and we're going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that…
Thread. Joey has done essential work documenting what actually happened at UCLA, and debunking the Trump Administration's florid allegations.
Federal Court Holds AI Chats Are Not Privileged www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fe... #AI
What are we even doing here, folks. The thread has been lost ages ago.
On Tuesday, EPIC filed an amicus brief defending New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act against the National Retail Federation’s inaccurate claim that the law violates the First Amendment. (2/4)
olympic hockey making me miss the kissing
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.
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Actively working towards dead internet theory
“The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. And yet they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success.“
really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
Sarah Brayne, Sarah Lageson
and Karen Levy have a nice paper on “surveillance deputies.” Ring wants to deputize your pet dog. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
NEW: The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today.
"I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."
Law Dork:
I am running out of ways to convey how disconnected from reality Trump's judicial nominees are. They can't say that Trump lost the 2020 election, they won't say that the January 6 insurrection happened, they don't acknowledge any fact about anything if Trump hasn't authorized them to believe it
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”
This story clearly demonstrates that to safeguard against authoritarian government surveillance, we must reign in surveillance capitalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
I have a page of advice for junior scholars that has a lot more on how to decide what to write about.
james.grimmelmann.net/files/advice...
BTW, if Senate Dems want technical reforms, here's one: amend 8 USC 1357 so DHS agents do not have power to arrest without a judicial warrant unless they are GS-1811, grade of GS-13 or higher.
Real criminal investigations would be unaffected, but CBP & ICE goon squads would be severely limited.
