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maddy varner
@tenuous
writer at @wired magazine. data journalist, technologist, quilter. prev @ftc @themarkup @propublica
maddyvarner at gmail dot com Katılım Ağustos 2012
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"…a second, far larger database…appears to be pulled from the Garden’s Salesforce…One of the reporters on this story is included in the database, as is Zohran Mamdani…(he cosponsored a bill banning places like MSG from collecting any biometric data.)"
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities An MSG database tracked hundreds of celebs, Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.” @NoahShachtman @tenuous wired.com/story/madison-…
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People are missing that he did include Arthur Ave it’s just Little Albania now. Get with the times!
New York Post@nypost
Mayor Mamdani's map of NYC immigrant neighborhoods sparks outrage for ignoring Little Italy: 'Terrible mistake' trib.al/EEDtYW8
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It's appropriations bill season! This year, that apparently means banning the FTC from enforcing laws around unfair methods of competition? 🆗🆒
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NEW: ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal watchdog that normally does things like inspecting detention facilities and investigating employee misconduct, has also been investigating what people say online about ICE and its employees:
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It's not exactly clear how The Intercept lost control of its Signal tip line, but if you don't use your account for a certain amount of time, it can go dormant and then be claimed by somebody else.
In general, if a news organization is not checking its tip line, A) they're not a real news organization and B) they should not advertise a tip line, which encourages people to take risks to their job and to their safety and freedome for no purpose, if it's not even being checked.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
🚨 Months ago, The Intercept lost control of its Signal tip line to an unknown third party, which has been operating it actively. The Intercept recently learned of the breach and posted the innocuous-sounding update below, chalking up a change in the Signal account username to "security best practices." In reality, it's a devastating operational security collapse and The Intercept should publicly address it so that sources who may have been trying to leak to the outlet understand they may have been compromised. Please share this post so potential sources become aware of the risk they may have been duped into. Details below:
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@megangrA it still hinges on a vague consumer expectations argument (the current commission’s stance on unfairness makes things harder for them, I think!)
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impossible to comply with both state and federal law, or where the state law stands as an obstacle of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.”
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See footnote 49 of FTC proposed “Woke AI” policy statement. Clever way to try to preempt state AI reg without actually doing anything at federal level.
“[S]tate law is pre-empted when it actually
conflicts with federal law. Such conflict will be found when it is….
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ok this explains why one of the sections starts with “Nearly ninety years ago, Congress gave the Commission the authority to protect consumers [...]”
Charlie Bullock@CharlieBull0ck
I've never felt more kinship with a government agency than when I learned that the FTC blew their deadline to publish this nine-page policy statement so badly that the law they're supposed to be preempting no longer even exists
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is there an API for federal statute. does everyone really expect me to actually look up the citations by hand.
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I don’t particularly care that this woman thinks I’m a bullshit journalist. My work can speak for itself. But dragging WIRED’s reporting fellow—a student and an extremely talented young reporter—into whatever fever dream you’ve mistaken for reality is both cruel and bizarre.
Jackie Singh@HackingButLegal
🚩 Why is a random non-journalist Russian "Yulia Almazova" on the byline for a breaking story about a Peter Thiel concern? Another limited hangout from WIRED. What could this imply about how this coverage may have been shaped? What might this story be hiding from us? 🤔
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Unable to make it to the Knicks parade in person? I spoke to @WTTDOTM, who has an alternative for you: wired.com/story/how-to-w…
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found my new favorite restaurant (extremely sopranos-ass italian joint--sat us in a horrible location because we were under-dressed, name plates at every table indicating which family it belongs to, neighboring diners were gossiping about "sal's epstein connection")
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@TraceyRyniec @DavidCornDC FOIA doesn't have an exemption for work communications made from private accounts and federal employees are supposed to make sure their agency have copies to comply with the Federal Records Act. But I get what you mean lol
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@DavidCornDC It's not legal for her to use a private email. This would not be accessible under FOIA. But maybe someone should sue her for access to whatever account she DID use.
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A nugget buried in the big NYT piece on how the Trump White House had an internal freak-out over the Epstein case....If Bondi didn't use DOJ email, what did she use? I recall a time when the right (and the NYT) went ballistic over a Cabinet official's use of non-gov't email.
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Did banks intentionally target conservatives for debanking or are they disproportionately among those who got debanked? If only there was some sort of “impact” analysis that one could do…a “disparate” one perhaps…
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