Mark McKenna

We’ve heard a lot about health as an important use case for AI. It will kill us.

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

"There is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm. Calls for his resignation now number in the thousands." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@rtushnet.bsky.social, @markpmckenna.bsky.social, and I filed an amicus brief opposing THQ's argument that Mar Vista can't make a horror movie called "Alone in the Dark" about, well, people who are alone in the dark because it made a video game with that name ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/0311469...

Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father from ICE detention center A photo of Ramos wearing a bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack as he was being detained went viral, sparking national criticism.

“U.S. District Judge Fred Biery excoriated the federal government, saying the case ‘has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children.’” www.ms.now/news/liam-ra...

still from a video showing federal agents on a roof shooting tear gas at protesters in portland, OR

you can’t focus group this. you can’t means test it. just make it fucking stop.

Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."

This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.

How Trump's AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism A conversation with George Washington University Law School scholar Spencer Overton about his forthcoming paper, "Ethnonationalism by Algorithm."

In a forthcoming paper, legal scholar Spencer Overton says the Trump administration's AI policy is another critical arena for its efforts to advance ethnonationalism, ensuring that problems such as algorithmic bias and discrimination are encoded into the systems that will shape the future:

And when that happens, you can take it to the bank that the Court will then say exactly the opposite of what they’re saying now.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

It’s much worse than that. They are executing alleged drug smugglers with zero process. Even if we had the death penalty for smuggling, this would be an outrageous violation of the law.

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Great @jotwell.bsky.social piece by @rtushnet.bsky.social reviewing Dustin Marlan's piece on trade dress in the Supreme Court (and the mysterious tertium quid) cyber.jotwell.com/distinguishi...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

According to Trump judges, whatever Trump says goes. I mean, he’s such an honest broker.

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

For the last panel today, we’ve got a panel on how IP rights do and don’t serve as a signal to consumers, covering patent, copyright, trademark, and false advertising, with Chris Cotropia, @jnvictor.bsky.social, @markpmckenna.bsky.social, @rtushnet.bsky.social, and me #conspicuousconsumers

Illinois Sues to Block Trump’s Deployment of Texas National Guard in Chicago Read more here.

Since taking office for his second term, Trump has been federalizing the National Guard by sending its troops to largely Democratic-led cities. His latest target? Chicago.

Here’s where things stand with his deployment of troops to the Windy City👇
https://bit.ly/4q4KEL4

Kavanaugh stop.

Michigan Avenue right now.

@hartzog.bsky.social and @markpmckenna.bsky.social argue for more precision in their references to “scale” in regards to technology. Differentiating between “scale as more” and “scale as different” H & M suggest they have different implications for regulation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Trump’s U.N. Speech: A World of His Own False claims, imagined triumphs, and a fantasy take on global affairs.

Fact-checker @glennkessler.bsky.social takes apart Trump's delusional United Nations speech with, well, facts.

open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...

Sadly, it apparently is our policy

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable