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Prime rib for us, shrimp and chicken for the pups. I added cardimom in the dry rub to add some extra Christmas cheer! Merry Christmas everyone 🎅 🎄 ❤️

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.

NEW: A newly enacted NY state law requires retailers to reveal whether it used "surveillance pricing" to decide how much you pay for goods. Target, for example, shows the alert on a pop-up when you try to buy eggs online. @regret.bsky.social—@wired.com's new investigative data reporter!—reports:

Spatchcock turkey, the way God intended 😤

Washington Court Rules That Data Captured on Flock Safety Cameras Are A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep automated license plate reader (ALPR) data secret.The Skagit County Superior Court in Washington rejected the attempt

A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep ALPR data secret, making it clear that the public has a right to these records even when the government uses a third-party vendor to conduct surveillance and store personal data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

So GINA for faceprints? That's the next step if this gets out of containment

Can "second life" EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage? Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.

Today on Volts: Redwood Materials, the biggest battery recycler in the US, has launched Redwood Energy, which will gather used batteries & hook them up to power banks to serve as grid-scale storage until they're depleted. I talk with the CTO about the logistics & potential of second-life batteries.

Happy belated Diwali to all that celebrate. May your path to happiness and success be lit 🪔

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Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

YouTube video by Ryan Goodman Illegal Caribbean Boat Strikes

"SOUTHCOM was concerned about the operations not being lawful," per CNN reporting.

Not surprised.

I served in Pentagon assessing counterterrorism operations. I explain constitutional and international legal problems with these Caribbean strikes.⤵️

youtu.be/DHXz_y6Updg?...

Happy Cybersecurity Awareness month

www.techradar.com/pro/security...

In today's version of, build it and it'll be exploited:

Chula Vista, police reports and AI: What you need to know San Diego County's second-largest city is embracing AI tools for policing as California considers new regulations.

“The judge or the prosecutor doesn't know which portions were written by the AI and which portions were written by the officer,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told KPBS News. “It interjects a lot of uncertainty — and a lot of deniability for the officer.” www.kpbs.org/news/public...

The law that gave companies a safe harbor for monitoring & sharing cyber threat intel (CISA 2015) has expired. Here’s what the lapse means for oversight, contracts, and data sovereignty →

Ring says police partnerships help solve crimes. What does it mean for your privacy? Since Amazon acquired Ring, the company has waffled on its messaging around crime and fallen under scrutiny for data privacy failings. Recently announced partnerships with police departments and weapons manufacturer Axon signal a renewed focus on using private cameras to fight crime.

While Ring has offered end-to-end video encryption since 2021, it isn’t the default setting so users should look into changing the privacy settings on their security cameras, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told WBUR’s Here & Now. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/...

I'll be posting a shareable PowerPoint on next steps tomorrow, Oct 1. I've been advising my clients to look beyond government sharing and into contracts & privacy frameworks (policies, employee notice & consent). We've lost a liability shield that has a huge blast radius in the US cyber community.

Appeals Court: Abandoned Phones Don’t Equal Abandoned Privacy Rights The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and most of the Western U.S., just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn’t abandon your Fourth

En U.S. v. Hunt, tener el “hardware” no autoriza hurgar en los datos: la corte trazó la línea y la búsqueda pasó solo porque hubo orden judicial posterior. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

3/3 So what was so disingenuous to me about the article? It was an ad to get lawyers to use LexisNexis's AI, wrapped in "concern" for their clients.

Will they absolve attorney users of liability for use if their model is inaccurate? Will they provide notice of CA court's requirements?

California Courts Announce New AI Regulations | Foley & Lardner LLP On July 18, 2025, California's Judicial Council approved a set of rules for integrating generative AI into judicial operations. With the...

2/3 Are there security and privacy (attorney-client) risks to using Open Source models? Sure, but that is unrelated to the *accuracy* of the model

CA courts announced rules around the use of AI—completely unrelated to the origin (Open Source of it all) of the model.

www.foley.com/p/102l07z/ca....

LexisNexis exec says it’s ‘a matter of time’ before attorneys lose their licenses over using open-source AI pilots in court | Fortune AI is rapidly being adopted into law firms across the country, and it’s raising stakes for attorneys and their clients alike.

I find this article disingenuous. It's not an Open Source problem (like the article builds the case), but an accuracy and processing problem inherent to *all* LLMs. Transparency in plain language key

Are there security risks inherent to Open Source AI models? .... 1/3

fortune.com/2025/09/24/l...

Herbs and Rye off the strip makes a mean old fashioned and ribeye 👌

Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

"To counter the troublesome ambition of such men, Lincoln called on his fellow Americans to renew the framers' values and to embrace the Comstitution and its laws."
- Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Thanks for sharing!

There is no way nvidia sells chips in China - at least in a meaningful way. Do you think the country that pulled off Operation Shady Rat would open themselves up to potential hardware backdoors from an adversarial country?

Are these the same ones whose glasses thought zoo animals were demons in disguise, sparking an online conspiracy theory that zoo animals are literally covert agents from hell? Or different group of AI glasses folks?

My personal gripe about the topic is that most people I interact with see the issue as black or white. The world is frequently gray, nowadays its 3 LLMs in a trench coat. And there's a famous saying about humans trying to force life into their own box of ideals - notoriously a terrible idea.

Brothers killing brothers, fathers killing sons is always a visceral description. Sitting with that and thinking about the circumstances that would drive that special type of violence, and the PTSD that they'd have to live with.

I see their vision, and I hope they'll end up with something productive. If companies thought they were playing Whack-A-Mole under state privacy laws, its about to get a lot more fragmented.

We're going to start seeing more enforment from State AGs over the next few years

The Bay Area has such good colombian food 😋