Pamela Samuelson

Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.

Planning your week? 🎉

Join the #InternetArchive to celebrate The Web We’ve Built — from the first pages to 1 trillion & counting. 🌐

📅 Weds, Oct 22
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#Wayback1T #Livestream

Anthropic and Deloitte Partner to Build AI Solutions for Regulated Industries | PYMNTS.com Anthropic and Deloitte have partnered to build artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that include compliance features to enable their deployment in

Anthropic and Deloitte Announce Global Partnership to Deploy Claude AI Across Regulated Industries

SCOTUS spent Wednesday morning trying to figure out a way to legalize racial gerrymandering. trib.al/TvPE4dc

The justices appeared to single out Section 2, which (if gutted) would wipe out Black congressional representation in the South—at a scale unseen since the end of Reconstruction

And they accuse us of hating America?!?!

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

BREAKING: Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of George Santos, according to a Truth Social post.

This is potentially a massive story. Did DOJ plan for survivors? Do they have sufficient evidence to prosecute? What is US jurisdiction to prosecute? Where will they go next? When is their court date? Will they be indicted? Held at Gitmo? Returned to Venezuela? Be Epsteined?

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

Tracking Digital Censorship Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.

We're tracking digital censorship, and we hope you'll help. /end

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Spread this around. Missouri and Ohio Democrats need at least 100,000 valid signatures to take on Republican gerrymandering maps. This is the fight 🔥

And we are too busy burning the planet with AI, ripping each other apart and killing each other to do anything about it.

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns Read more here.

Pro-voting groups warn that if the Supreme Court rules to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, it could give the GOP at least 19 more U.S. House seats — seats that were directly created by the provision. https://bit.ly/4q7aQ7D

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Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares
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Colombian president says US military struck Colombian boat, killed his citizens The last boat struck by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday.

The murders of the Venezuelan and Colombian fishermen are crimes against humanity. Can’t the people that ordered this and carried it out be prosecuted? Does the SC’s immunity ruling protect trump? I don’t want people who co-sign murder on the Supreme Court!
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At 11am I will try to live-blog, for @lawfaremedia.org , the hearing in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas corpus) case in federal court in Greenbelt MD. Abrego is seeking release from detention under a SCOTUS precedent called Zadvydas v Davis (2001). ...
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Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI - Law360 Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruli...

Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI www.law360.com/classaction/...

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Here's the concern: It's technically possible for a committed amateur to make chem or bioweapons (variants of smallpox, polio, anthrax). The information's out there on the internet. It's just obscure and incredibly hard to learn. But now we're building "PhD level custom tutors" for everyone.

ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions NBC News found that OpenAI’s models repeatedly provided answers on making chemical and biological weapons.

New: We jailbroke four versions of ChatGPT to get instructions on how to create viruses and chemical weapons.

The instructions were all flawed, and the it didn't work on GPT-5. But 4 of the 5 big AI companies have internally found their top models are close to being able to tutor bioterrorists.

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals * US politics live – latest updates A federal grand jury indicted Letitia James, the New York attorney general, for bank fraud on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Lindsey Halligan, the US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, personally presented the case to the grand jury on Thursday, the person said. US attorneys do not typically present to a grand jury. Continue reading...

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"

Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation OpenAI’s likeness protections for living “public figures” don’t apply to “historical figures.”…

The deluge of AI-generated videos featuring deceased public figures has already forced OpenAI to change the way Sora handles copyrighted works.

‘Hollywood 2.0’: How the Rise of AI Tools Like Runway Are Changing Filmmaking Visual effects artists are turning to green screen AI tools from companies such as Runway to save time and money on productions.

See also variety.com/2023/artisan... (from 2023)

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus... (from this year)

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

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Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.