Please contact your representatives - and congressional leadership - and tell them to protect online anonymity and the Fourth Amendment.
Tech cos are looking for this next trillion in this business. It’s not about kids. And congress is doing their bidding.
The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases.
We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.
FTC just declined to enforce COPPA, an actual law.
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No, I'm an academic who has struggled with suicidal ideation all of my life who understands just how important it is to have access to tools that can provide judgment and stigma free help.
I advocate for all of the folks in similar positions that have received immense help from chatbots.
This is soooo the vibe we all need right now.
Just purchased. Can’t wait.
Most important thing I’ll do this month: I just spent 10 minutes emailing my congress members AND leaders of the 2 parties.
The Fourth Amendment is the one that makes so many of the others possible.
Taylor gives the script below.
When your kids safety bill isn’t really about the kids
“Last week, the FTC said it would decline to enforce COPPA, a landmark law that mandates the protection of children’s data, in order to incentivize ID verification.”
This is a risk for everyday ordinary people. Not just minorities or protestors.
What a dramatic difference from the statement of Palantir’s CEO, which he made about 2 days ago.
I still can’t believe people aren’t talking about it more.
This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)
I think I’m going to get back into diagraming sentences.
Someone just reminded me of the activity and damned if I wasn’t really happy all the time when I was diagraming sentences.
Better than sudoku?
The crazy thing is that this is a Chinese firm, which just announced that it’s going to maintain the ability to mine huge amounts of UK and European citizens’ private comms, but the BBC is leading with the “it’s good that they can intercept our data” spin.
This almost seems quaint after reading Palantir’s CEO’s post today. TLDR: our business model is surveillance; there’s a lot of money in surveilling people for governments; if you don’t do it for them they’ll commandeer your company. Plus defending using the R word b/c it didn’t hurt his engagement.
“Artificial intelligence will be a core experience of the software” (not “powered behind the scenes by AI for maximum efficiency,” but front/center)
“transparent glass elements and a floating taskbar” (making OS usage a constant exercise in suppressing a scream)
And “new hardware requirements”
Psychology has a name for this pattern: hyperindependence. It often forms when someone has to self-manage too early, whether emotionally, practically, or both. Independence becomes a strength — but also a shield.
#News
Makes you wonder: are they really that stupid, or are the investing in/funded by these lobbies?
Next up: Dems are failing because sometimes we treat women like people.
“The price of being an ordinary member of society should not be having all of your online activity tracked, assembled and used to manipulate you.”
“The sky will not fall if we get the reasonable privacy rules we deserve.”
“It would mean…that a flashlight app for your phone wouldn’t be able to collect your location data and your fitness trackers wouldn’t be able to share your health data with third-party advertisers.”
Proposed MA privacy includes data minimization: “The heart of the privacy bill that the Massachusetts legislature is now considering is a…rule that companies should collect and use only the personal information that they need to provide services for consumers…
“Fish” can be both singular (one individual) and plural (multiple individuals of the same species.) “Fishes” is multiple species.
🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐡🐟 Fishes
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
Is anyone else having trouble posting or clicking into elements like Profile on BSKY?
Can’t tell if they’re trying to force me to update my app or if there’s an outage.
I joined 300+ security and privacy academics in calling for a global pause on online age verification: www.politico.eu/article/age-...
Thinking back to when Pam Bondi said she had the Epstein files on her desk and would be reading them later.
Millions and millions of pieces of paper. I’d like to see that desk.
Ah yes, governments are famously flexible about letting you “tweak” the terms of a contract after it’s been signed.
Put this in the “never happened” pile.
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
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The tech industry has spent decades asking to be trusted to self regulate instead of having laws guiding their behaviors. This has led to the lowest of voluntary standards.
Now, their defense for lowering the bar even further is “there’s no law against it.”
this is 18th century philosopher David Hume telling us to get off social media: "Only in the absence of lively impressions & heated passions will the brain be willing to succumb to the pursuit of reason--the tracing of a cognitive logic of ideas, often against customary association..." (D. Bates)
“…spam campaign were temporary while the company worked to implement better safeguards.”
“The Copilot Discord channel has recently been targeted by spammers attempting to disrupt and overwhelm the space with harmful content not related to Copilot,” a Microsoft spokesperson told us, adding that the “blocking of terms like ‘Microslop’ and some others associated with this…
“After users found simple workarounds for the new rule, like spelling it “Microsl0p,” the company’s moderation team locked the entire Discord server and hid its messaging history.”
Their messaging is epic DARVO: we are the victims of an attack by this vicious spammers. 😂
See next.
