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Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.

“Justice systems across the world are struggling to address harms from deepfakes that are increasingly used for financial scams, in elections, and to spread nonconsensual sexual imagery.”

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

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First take out of arguments: Despite efforts by Sotomayor to put off a decision, it appeared the Supreme Court will subject Colorado’s conversion therapy ban to strict scrutiny under the First Amendment, with a majority likely to strike it down outright.

More to come at Law Dork:

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it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

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New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

Coverage of the unsealed XiaoFeng Wang search warrants:

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Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

The EFF obtained these docs and shared them with us. Their writeup is here:

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

On top of all of this, and separately: Since we published this story, the Sheriff I talked to and who has been the main figure in this has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing his employees and for aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury about it

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Another Generic Abortion Pill, New Supreme Court Term, and More: October 6 News Roundup Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.

A new Supreme Court term stacked with cases from Christian nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, an arrest warrant issued for a "shield" law abortion provider, new data on post-Dobbs pregnancy criminalization from @pregnancyjust.bsky.social, and more in this week's news roundup:

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America is now one big bet on AI It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

A framed painting against a pink wall, by Henry Singleton, depicting Ariel (the spirit from The Tempest) riding a bat through the night sky. The painting is about 205 years old. Seen at the William Blake exhibit at the National Gallery, Budapest. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/singleton-ariel-on-a-bats-back-n01027

how I am getting around while commercial air travel is affected by the shutdown

From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

this one’s been on ice radar for a long time. but they are tracking all similar sites and apps, as well widely alerting local police to their use by residents, claiming they promote violence.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

DOJ argues about ICE officers being doxxed.

Ellis responds at length, discussing doxxing and threats faced by judges and acknowledging how horrible it is, but says "that doesn't mean that you then get to do this job and be anonymous. ... Under the rule of law, it is important to be transparent."

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

Today, MSNBC (newly independent from NBC News) and CBS News (now led by Bari Weiss) shared their new journalistic principles. A close reading shows some striking differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

If you've been following my six-month quest to unseal the search warrants for XiaoFeng Wang's homes, huge news:

I won.

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Newly unsealed warrant shows search of fired IU professor's homes part of federal funding fraud investigation The records show that U.S. agents searching Wang's homes were looking for funding applications, including drafts, and submissions to the National Science Foundation. An inventory of 42 seized items li...

After 6 months, an Indiana federal court granted @riana.bsky.social's motion to unseal the search warrants for fired Indiana University cybersecurity professor XiaoFeng Wang homes. The unsealed warrants reveal new details about this strange and perplexing situation www.ipm.org/news/2025-10...

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.

Good summary of the state of play on Kavanaugh Stops (aka ice detentions based solely on race)

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...