Phil

Wild how you never see this stuff in mainstream/legacy media

Plus, just think how cool the new E. Jean Carroll and Letitia James Memorial USAID Headquarters Building will be. What a symbol it will be for our commitment to helping the world.

“Honestly, you should just use your phone less anyway, and you’ll be happier”

Fantastic and insightful talk from @micahflee.com

TIL 👀up

Signal is also down due to Amazon AWS outage. So yeah, secure and private communication is also dependent on reliable infrastructure.

Who’s Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court? It seems like every day brings another news story about a lawyer caught unwittingly submitting a court filing that cites nonexistent cases hallucinated by AI. The problem persists despite courts’ stan...

New from me: Who are the attorneys filing AI-tainted briefs in court?

After @404media.co ran an article based on Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases database, I analyzed 114 US cases. They're almost all solo or small firms, usually plaintiff's-side.

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitt...

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

I miss movies written this well.

A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.

Survived.

Today seems like a good day to do an Olympic distance triathlon. #triathlon #running #runsky

You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.

To Donald Trump and his administration:

If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

This one - from Gov Bob Ferguson to Pam Bondi- equally worthy of praise.

Read Civil Discourse, my newsletter on Substack, and be prepared for the coming week. Knowledge is an important part of our power. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Yeah!!

@relativity.com has an incredible Justice For Change program! That team has some of the smartest people I have ever met.

Introducing the LTH / JTA Access to Justice Map Legaltech Hub and Justice Technology Association have joined forces to collect information on the ever-expanding ecosystem of companies and organizations creating and using technology to improve acces...

Cool thing I was proud to be part of - LTH (who I work for) partnered with the Justice Technology Association to start tracking legal tech companies in the A2J space, both those that create B2C A2J products or offer discounts for non profits/edu. www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/int...

I really need to know what series of events led to this sign.

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Finished my morning workout. @garmin.com AI jumps in with a solid burn. #triathlete #running #swimming #cycling #runsky #bikesky #swimsky

Fabian Nicieza?

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process.

It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.

Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Who would have guessed that someone for whom all business and legal negotiation is based on bluff and bluster would have had nothing other than bluff and bluster in international affairs.