Tiffany C. Li

This repost is also a RICO CRIME

You can’t reform this. No amount of training can fix the cruelty at the core.

There's no way you can keep funding a federal government who's primary mission is to inflict pain on the population. Every federal agency from McMahon at DoE to RFK shredding HHS and everything in between. Every day we let them stay open is more time we'll need to repair the damage they've done

This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry must be destroyed.

Thank you for always being at the forefront for privacy in the Senate!

Wyden, Paul and Bipartisan Senators Reintroduce the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

2. ICE is buying your private location data from sleazy data brokers through a legal loophole. I've had a bill to stop this since 2021. I'm renewing my push to get it passed into black letter law as soon as possible.

Wyden, Merkley and Markey Demand ICE Stop Using Mobile Facial Recognition App | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

I’ll send you an email

'Grok' Chatbot Is Bad for Kids, Review Finds The chatbot on X suggests risky behavior, and is unsafe for teens, Common Sense Media says.

You don’t say.

NRA, is this your king?

Lmk if interested in exploring co-authoring something on this!

Every time someone tells me that interoperable protocols are too complicated for the average person, I point out that they use email and the web.

The goal needs to be to get atproto to the point that it is just "how the internet works" and the details fade into the background like https & smtp.

Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.

For the snow day crowd! For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about the anti-authoritarian turn in recent prestige series, and the morally courageous characters of The Lowdown, Pluribus ,The Pitt, Andor, et al lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...

“Critics say the N.I.H. has failed to address the risks that the data … could be misused in unethical research, for commercial purposes or by foreign adversaries.”

I’ve been one of those critics for a while. We need ethical research, yes, but not without real safeguards for genetic privacy.

Just published an essay on this

www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it “The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Sure it will be really easy to determine why regulations were written. If the government does this, it should be required to preserve the AI prompts and all communications with the LLM.

That is definitely not going to happen with current circumstances as they are, but that is a good, practicable idea. Have you written on this?

Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....

‘The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”’

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

In a city of billionaires, taxi workers who were swindled by elected officials are still begging for debt relief. As driverless Waymos circle them, 40% of medallion holders have had their medallions foreclosed upon. Likely hundreds are in bankruptcy. Others have died from the stress. #debtreliefnow

EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes Elon Musk's company faces fines of up to 6 percent of its daily turnover.

EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Apropos of the TikTok news last week, I have a piece coming out abt how the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the ban-or-sale law belongs in the First Amendment anticanon. It's not just wrong, but so wrong we should hold it up as an exceptional symbol of wrongness.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is a great paper. SCOTUS was not just wrong to uphold the TikTok ban but deeply, consequentially, historically wrong. Holmes and Brandeis are turning in their graves.

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

2023 post from Avery Edison: I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

I get it, Amanda. I was also traumatized watching The Brave Little Toaster as a child

Yeah or one person made a Costco run