Welcome to the future in all its (involuntarily loud) "optimized" glory. 😑

The noble capybara, a friend to all and, imho, inspo for the future of tech regulatory design. See slide 43: www.linkedin.com/posts/amatwy...

Art History Animalia@arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy #CapybaraAppreciationDay! Please enjoy this 17th c. book illustration of a #capybara chilling under a banana tree in Brazil🍌 📕A Relation of a Voyage made in the Years 1695, 1696, 1697 on the Coasts of Africa, Streights of Magellan, Brasil, Cayenna, and the Antilles... by François Froger, 1698.

Are you looking for a funded PhD opportunity? Are you interested in neural tech, law, and human rights? If so, here's an *amazing* one. www.linkedin.com/posts/amatwy...

Are you looking for a funded PhD opportunity? Are you interested in neural tech, law, and human rights? If so, here's an *amazing* one. PhD in Law Opportunity with Professor Jennifer A Chandler…...

Are you looking for a funded PhD opportunity? Are you interested in neural tech, law, and human rights? If so, here's an *amazing* one. PhD in Law Opportunity with Professor Jennifer A Chandler, Uni...

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@neorsd.org I'm a fan of sewer and Cuyahoga River (on fire) history. Has Ohio ever had a sewer issue equivalent to the London Great Stink of 1858? If not, do you have a favorite comparably stinky (and toxic) US sewer drama? Thanks!

@velshi.com Appreciated your piece on AI and data centers today. But AI isn't "smarter" than humans, just faster; the AI biz hype is based on false assumptions. You might find my recent law review article Exploit Machina of interest, in particular Part III. lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/...

What do I think the answer is for preventing tech history from unproductively repeating itself? See pages 1758 et seq. for the federal part of my answer. TL;DR: A new Bureau of Technology Safety (BoTS) with a futures/ policy branch + a pilot projects branch lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/file...

Meta's latest attempt to stop the progress of my 2018 GDPR access complaint dramatically failed in the Irish High Court last week www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Meta loses High Court challenge to possible €430m fine

Data Protection Commission has power in inquiry into individual complaint to make orders affecting general data access practices, High Court rules

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Unfortunately, it looks like it's time for me to repost my article about the relationship between First Amendment protection and security research (again). IYKYK. scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol107/...

sewers are data centers.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Another exciting—and slightly terrifying—book excerpt on @wired.com today: A chapter from @profferguson.bsky.social’s new book ‘Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance’. Read it here. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy

Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

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"The jury stated that Meta's and YouTube's negligence were a substantial factor in causing harm to the plaintiff...and that the companies failed to adequately warn users of the dangers of Instagram (Meta's platform) and YouTube (which is owned by Google)." www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark lawsuit on social media safety

The jurors awarded the plaintiff $3 million in damages, finding Meta 70% responsible for harm caused to her, and YouTube responsible for 30%.

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Interested in tech procurement? Here's a new piece from me: www.andreamm.com/_files/ugd/2... It's part of a symposium coming up on April 17 at UVA Law. You can read all the papers here: www.vjolt.org

"Using ChatGPT and failing to check the case citations it provides constitute not only a lapse in professional judgment, but also a violation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11."

Eric Goldman@ericgoldman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In a hallucinated citations case, the court sanctions the supervising attorney for failing "the important duty of ensuring that he & the attorneys who report to him read each cited case & check every citation before filing a motion" 🤖😵 digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Interested in what Hannah Arendt would have thought of our present moment in tech? She told us. New from me - Exploit Machina lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/...

#superbowl

in a world of social networks churning with artificial slop trends, we prefer to be your social network trusted for actual slop treatment.

A "'Bespoke AI Family Hub' refrigerator received the overall 'Worst in Show'..'Everything is an order of magnitude more difficult,' [the award presenter] said of the fridge that also uses computer vision to track when food items...and can advertise replacements." apnews.com/article/ces-...

'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells

Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

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"The study, published in Nature, found that the printed circuit board...accounts for 70% of its carbon footprint... The researchers suggest...chips using common metals like copper instead of rare minerals...and mak[ing] devices modular so the circuit board can be reused"

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 7mo ago

The most surprising part is that the plastic isn't the biggest problem.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

On the Internet, everyone knows you're a dog.

Well of course... Wait til they encounter hooked turns & trams in Marvellous Melbourne

Reuters@reuters.com · 8mo ago

Waymo to issue recall over self-driving vehicles driving past stopped school buses reut.rs/4pNBXUb

Botsplaining: When you instruct an AI tool to eliminate all sycophancy, but it still defaults to wasting your time with vaguely patronizing replies, e.g. "You have correctly identified a problem!," before it attempts to correct what it did wrong.

a monkey is sitting at a desk with a laptop computer .

Alt: A monkey is sitting at a desk with a laptop computer that it shoves away from itself in disgust, channeling its dissatisfaction with the machine's proximity in what might be a metaphorical commentary on the state of the modern technology economy.

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I think about this tweet a lot

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

California's Judicial Council "two weeks ago issued guidelines requiring judges and court staff to either ban generative #AI or adopt a generative AI use policy by Dec. 15": calmatters.org/economy/tech... #ethics #law #courts #tech

California issues historic fine over lawyer’s ChatGPT fabrications

The court of appeals issued an historic fine after 21 of 23 quotes in the lawyer's opening brief were fake. Courts want more AI regulations.

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FTC vs Amazon opens this week over dark patterns - design tricks that make you accidentally subscribe and struggle to cancel. "The question is when design crosses the line where a reasonable consumer doesn't have a fair shot of understanding what's going on" says @andreamm.bsky.social bit.ly/4mvJV2f

The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon

This week, the trial starts in a consequential FTC lawsuit against Amazon. The suit alleges that Amazon for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.

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