michael h keller

Isn't it funny how little regulation there is for this tech (genAI) that is so easily making CSAM?

Excellent reporting from @charliesavage.bsky.social and @julianbarnes.bsky.social starting with the "plain reality" that there was no warship, and no fighting going on, in the Sept. 2 strike, or any of them:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

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Red light CRIMINAL summonses against cyclists.

Based on where enforcement happens, this is not just.

This is the first chart drafted by an AI assistant, and then reviewed by a human editor, to be published on the Reuters homepage.

Latest piece on the effects of the immigration crackdown: Internal DHS documents show that investigators have rescued or identified 300 fewer child sexual abuse victims this year compared to last year.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Last week, we wrote about DHS agents being pulled off child exploitation + terrorism investigations to arrest undocumented immigrants. Now we've seen internal data showing drop in drug + weapons cases.

- Drug arrests ↓ 11%

- New drug cases ↓ 15%

- Weapons seizures ↓ 73%

In 2019/2020ish, I was at a meeting where child safety folks were talking with tech industry folks about how to work together more.

I overheard a dismissive comment from some people from Meta sitting behind me: "How do they expect us to do any of this at our scale?"

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

We originally set up an alert to track our mentions @towcenter.bsky.social - but soon found that my name cropped up a great deal, (false ‘Dr’ added), talking about the things I talk about (tech + media) but none of the quotes were real. AI slop me has been pretty busy….

Thanks for reading. It was a big team effort.

This is a great piece of investigative reporting ⤵️ ⤵️

The immigration crackdown comes at a real cost, investigators told me. Here's one particularly poignant example I learned about: Videos have surfaced online of an unidentified child currently being violently sexually abused but agents don't have enough time to investigate and have lost a key contact

Based on data we got in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, DHS statistics show that the agents have worked about 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation than is typical and at least five times as many hours on immigration enforcement.

Thomson Reuters, has a Foundation, focuses on press freedom, funds research, runs a ‘Trust’ conference …and also uses a data brokerage business that helps ICE boost its surveillance capabilities

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations

The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not 247 points by stillatit 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 200 comments Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link. I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation. Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn't get a clear signal whether the content is any good"[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn't fair to use his platform to promote other links/platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after. [0] https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985464687350485092 [1] https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1979994223224209709

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not.

They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly).

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

This is part of a global push to roll back privacy laws by companies that are constantly in trouble for violating privacy laws.

Here in California, they’re currently trying to amend CIPA (state wiretapping statute) to legalize wiretapping for “commercial purposes.”

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Hi, I've been working on a lil' something.

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Our office released a new study highlighting rampant illegal parking across Downtown Brooklyn. Vehicles block sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes & loading zones - making it more dangerous for New Yorkers to get around the neighborhood.
www.lincolnrestler.nyc/s/Illegal-Pa...

Reupping for the Sunday crowd =>

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

A line chart that spans the years 2003 to 2023, with lines in different colors showing the trends in the share of total highly-cited clean energy research taken up by China, the United States, the European Union, and the total from other countries or regions. The United States dominated two decades ago, making up roughly a third of the total highly cited research. But China quickly rose from roughly 5% to nearly 50% of the highly cited clean energy research, while the United States and European Union declined.

Over the past two decades, China has leapt ahead of other countries in innovations in the energy mix of the future: solar, wind, batteries, and newer frontiers like smart grids.

Latest in the Power Moves series with Max Bearak:
🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You're forgetting the crucial role played by the magic gloves that control the video. Why have precogs if you can't do the hand-wave rewind bit?

What percentage of GPT training is now just making sure it can draw a pelican riding a bicycle?

Here's the full report: www.esafety.gov.au/industry/bas...

And the tldr: www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/med...