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Wait what happened exactly?

We need to get dirty librarian money out of government.

Of course the successful book author is on the side of Big Library.

It fits the pattern of social media CEOs insulting their users.

That's Not How Recusal Works, That's Not How Any Of This Works! I've Got A Lot Of Problems With You People, And Now You're Going To Hear About It.

Good essay on the recusal question by @kenwhite.bsky.social Don’t bet on recusal. The Aileen Cannon circus has just started its second act. https://open.substack.com/pub/popehat/p/thats-not-how-recusal-works-thats?r=7ti3o&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

San Jose > San Francisco

Betting on “institutional integrity” in the post Trump era feels like a shaky bet.

If Trump is convicted before the election, he can still run for President, but he can't legally vote for himself as a resident of Florida. 🤯

Have an AI idea or company you want to pitch? As long as it’s not a chatbot come pitch it to Norwest Venture Partners at the “Anything But Chatbots” hackathon+pitchathon.

https://lu.ma/hackathon-6-25

Blueskies get priority. Comment below with your product name and I’ll look for your signup.

Been a bit from Bluesky for a bit. What’s new?

New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.

AI Tutors for All?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/business/khan-ai-gpt-tutoring-bot.html

Be careful: your associate might add themselves to Super Lawyers and expense it to the firm.

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I've been following the Genius v Google stuff a bit and I'm glad that there's some indication that Terms of Service may not be considered legally binding contracts.

I remember someone trying to calculate how long it would take to actually read all of the EULAs/ToS/ToU/etc. we agree too daily.

Also, was it a clickthrough or an actual "get the board of regents to sign this document" type of thing?

If I know anything about professors, I'd be shocked if more than 1% approached even the department chair before saying yes to any kind of clickthrough.

Anything good? I'm always waiting for the time some tech company demands all of our firstborn in the EULA.

I think the definition of a PhD program is devoting huge amounts of time and resources on shit that's insecure.

It's OK though. Some grad student's going to plug in a USB drive and save the data before the deletion happens, just like the librarians at the LoC during the War of 1812.

Why monopolies are bad and competition is good. Hence, the raison d'etre for Bluesky.

I think the assumption that university researchers could have renegotiated contractual terms with Twitter is fanciful.

And it's not like there are many alternative sources for this kind of data. The only choice is to not do the research at all.

I think this is the rare time when you've missed the point. Book burnings aren't bad because they're illegal. In fact most of them were perfectly legal or even legally mandated.

Twitter destroying research archives may be legal, but it's still needless destruction of human knowledge.

👎 Most people can't afford to die.

A traditional burial funeral in Canada with a viewing or visitation, reception, casket and grave plot and marker is going to cost in the $7,500 to $10,000 range.

https://eirene.ca/blog/funeral-costs-questions-and-answers

There's an assumption here that the researchers had a choice besides agreeing to whatever terms Twitter imposed. Raise your hand ✋ if you've read all the clauses in the Twitter terms of service.

Sauce: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/politics/ron-desantis-fec-filing-2024/index.html

Late stage affluenza

Dumb and DeDumber

Meta Fined $1.3 Billion for Violating E.U. Data Privacy Rules The Facebook owner said it would appeal an order to stop sending data about European Union users to the United States.

AI researchers: do you have a strategy for GDPR? If not let’s talk!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/business/meta-facebook-eu-privacy-fine.html

At the world’s first Law x LLM hackathon at Stanford CodeX.

This is misinformation. Red pandas were the first to be called “panda”. giant pandas wish they were them

We are at the precipice of a historic event.