Mariam Baksh

What To Know About Data Centers As the use of AI increases, data centers are popping up across the country. The Onion shares everything you need to know about the controversial facilities.  Q: What do data centers need to run? A: Wa...

theonion.com/what-to-know... Excellence.

posting in an effort to wrap my head around this as I only encountered it while covering AI nuggets in the defense authorization bill...Here's the vote www.senate.gov/legislative/...

For those keeping track, Susan Collins of Maine also voted against the release of the files. The only [2] Republicans who voted for their release were men.

On the left, the NYT valorizing Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski for standing up to Trump. On the right, a commenter on the blog of a local independent writer, a few days later when she cast the deciding vote to block release of the Epstein files.

Now it would be a righteous riot if the special session, which the tech industry pushed for, ended up resulting in a bill that is much stronger for consumers. The new Rodriguez proposal--the Sunshine bill--doesn't seem to have the loopholes and safe harbors of the CAIA.

Also, the disclosure requirements in the CAIA have carveouts that will allow companies to withhold anything they deem related to their "trade secrets" or "intellectual property" so it still kind of a gamble that consumers will get useful info, IMHO

Okay, but I'm pretty sure the current law that it would replace also takes away the private right of action and in addition has a huge liability shield for companies...https://www.levernews.com/lawmakers-backtrack-on-ais-get-out-of-jail-free-bill/

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

This feels like a new low from Zuckerberg: www.reuters.com/investigates... The Wall Street Journal report from back in April has more details on how he pushed staffers to undo the related guardrails. Truly disgusting.

will be interesting to see how much property owners under the restrictions of DOJ's settlement continue to rely, or not, on algorithmic price setting tools like RealPages'.

Fun turns of phrase at the judiciary on AI and Copyright: "The death-knell doctrine" and the issue of "the rare changelings."

AI appreciation day, now? Give me a break, JFC

from my inbox this recess week, pls send help:

Government attempts to deport stateless Palestinian woman again despite court order The government attempted to deport a stateless Palestinian woman for the second time Monday, despite a court order barring it from removing her from a Texas district.

The potential deportation of the leading mayoral candidate for NYC is rightfully getting a lot of attention, but there are also stories like this one: abcnews.go.com/US/governmen...

Right-Wing Republicans in Congress Attack Mamdani With Islamophobic Comments

Nancy Mace is especially sickening here. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u... The update of Hochul defending him against Trump is good at least...

Nancy Mace is especially sickening.

Beyoncé faces backlash after wearing shirt with anti-Indigenous language — Guardian US T-shirt worn during a Paris concert sparked criticism for calling Native Americans ‘the enemies of peace’

That she hasn’t apologized for this is the wreckage of tribalism. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

Don't look away. Read every one of these soldiers' quotes. Understand the nature of what's happening here. #WarCrimes
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Can confirm: my homemade hair mask--egg yolk, avocado, banana, coconut oil and honey--is delicious!

Guess what's good for the goose ISN'T for the gander?

Funny how when the conversation is about regulations the private sector describes the government as overly risk averse but then when it's about "public-private partnerships" and technology transfers, the government needs to help the private sector "de-risk" their investments with taxpayer dollars.

Our little station in Fort Reno Park today. No kings, dammnit.

PS. It appears the judge who issued the order is no longer assigned to this case...not sure what that now means.

It is even suggested on information and belief that “the model underlying [Character Technologies’ LLM] was invented and initially built at Google.”

In short, what this mom is saying is: Google knew, Google knows.

Shortly thereafter, but WHILE STILL WORKING AT GOOGLE (my emphasis), the Individual Defendants began working on the startup that would become Character Technologies. (Id.).

That was from (Id. ¶¶ 57–60 (quoting Emily M. Bender, et al., On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: ... doi.org/10.1145/3442...). Still, Google “encouraged the Individual Defendants to stay at Google and to continue developing the technology underlying the LaMDA model.”

...‘humans are prepared to interpret strings belonging to languages they speak as meaningful and corresponding to the communicative intent of some individual or group of individuals who have accountability for what is said.’”

Google employees raised concerns that users might “ascribe too much meaning to the text [output by LLMs], because ...

A US District Court judge ruled that Google must remain as a defendant. Below is some of the related portion of the decision, check out my highlight in caps...: