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Mostly replying to cat pictures and occasionally posting about tech policy... CVXPY Maintainer he/him

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Meanwhile, I'll remind folks that everyone cheering on New Mexico's big lawsuit win against Meta... that one of the remedies NM's AG is seeking is stopping Meta from offering encrypted messaging. Indeed, some of the "evidence" against Meta was literally "they offer encryption."

🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇@riana.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Disincentivizing widely-used online services from offering strong encryption. During a war with Iran. A country that's been conducting cyber operations against U.S. targets for years. That's what both parties think belongs in the NATIONAL DEFENSE BILL.

But here's the important part: Just because ACA 22 got the more dangerous measure off the ballot *doesn't* mean ACA 22 should pass on the ballot. You should vote No on ACA 22.

Fire DeJoy? Oh... postmaster generals hired under a harvest moon, on a year that ends with a prime number, in a year that the ambient temperature changes from the average by more than 3.4 degrees do not apply.

Absolutely disgusted that ever justice used a hyphen instead of an en dash in Rooker–Feldman. Feeling betrayed by the secret SCOTUS style guide. May write in with a complaint.

Every other thing on that list has serious problems too, but the inclusion of a "real names" mandate in any list like this proves the speaker a) knows nothing about the actual science of online behavior b) is more motivated by punishing Bad People than stopping online abuse

This was the CEQA EIR for Playa Vista "We wanted a bulletproof EIR. Bulletproof EIR meant if you fired a bullet at one end of the document, it can't come out the other end" - LA City Councilmember Ruth Galanter

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The Anthropic export ban is brought to you by the same people responsible for the TikTok import ban, the U.S. government Anthropic use ban, and dialing pre-release review of A.I. models from 60 days down to 30. There is no coherent underlying theory of AI regulation.