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Don't let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected--be careful Republicans!

Anthropic: “We’ll work with the military on everything except autonomous killer robots and mass surveillance of Americans.” The Pentagon: “We don’t plan to do those things.” Anthropic: “Great, put it in writing.” The Pentagon: “No.” Trump: “BAN THEM FROM THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT.” This may be one of the most consequential AI policy decisions in history

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not. Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse. This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected. They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

I just want to name how profoundly disgusted I am, and I think we should all be, by this set of demands. Almost all of this is entirely, profoundly unenforceable — meaning it's meaningless! (Who could possibly look at this administration's record, to say nothing of ICE's policy of violating court orders, and think that almost any of this would have any material impact.) They have abandoned any demands regarding ICE's obscene budget. They have abandoned anything related to creating a mechanism for victims to sue ICE for its constitutional violations. They have abandoned anything related to stopping ICE from subverting the upcoming elections. And this is Dems' opening bid! This is the "full loaf" that they are, I am sure, prepared to accept a slice or a crumb from! Just a profound, profound political failure, in the face of outright fascism. I think this merits — or actually necessitates — an outraged response.

The four prosecutors who spearheaded a $250 million Minnesota fraud case will not be in court at the next trial because .. they've all left their jobs in recent days, along with more than a dozen others in a growing wave of resignations cbsnews.com/news/minnesota…

STOP USING YOUR NOTES APP AS A PASSWORD VAULT STOP USING YOUR NOTES APP AS A PASSWORD VAULT STOP USING YOUR NOTES APP AS A PASSWORD VAULT STOP USING YOUR NOTES APP AS A PASSWORD VAULT STOP USING YOUR NOTES APP AS A PASSWORD VAULT STOP USING YOUR NOTES APP AS A PASSWORD VAULT

they showed us an example of a legal, judicial warrant vs an ICE administrative warrant

Really can’t get over this video of more than a half dozen ICE agents forming a tactical perimeter at a suburban Minnesota Target so their commander can use the bathroom, cosplaying like they’re in Fallujah. What an absurd waste of taxpayer dollars.

@ax_onoken Is it open already? I’m in Taipei and want to visit

メロンブックス台北支店ギャラリー併設でオープンか！海外の実店舗に作品が並ぶと思うと付加価値でかいなぁ。次のアルバムでも委託継続しよう。melonbooks.co.jp/special/fair/s…

Find you someone who looks at you the way Justice Gorsuch looks at cert. petitions involving tribal sovereignty.

Law enforcement officers who lie *should* be fired... But, I'm sorry to say, they aren't. So routinely we have a term you should know: testilying.

A particularly funny example of the principle that “cops frequently lie in sworn court testimony.”

Perfect example of why jury trials matter. The government had to argue—in public—that throwing a sandwich at a man in a bulletproof vest caused “fear of immediate bodily harm.” And the jury called that what it was: overreach. Prosecutors shouldn’t go unchecked.

A lot of the anti-SNAP rhetoric seems to be coming from people who think that people living in poverty should be eating prison rations and whatever they can scrounge from the nearest dumpster. Just an unfettered kind of evil that wishes undue suffering for the poor.

Crim defense lawyer here and I can tell you 100% of the welfare fraud cases I’ve seen are the government preying on the ignorance of poor people who fail to fill out paperwork properly or fail to update their new employment history (get a new job a raise etc)

I’ve been on SNAP. you have to prove you qualify for it every 6 months. They do not give you enough to feed a family, this is on purpose. They tell you this. Nobody can defraud the govt that easily. You know who can and did? Brett Favre.

@am_yers my con law prof was there with Trump and Giuliani during J6 bc he was one of trumps lawyers so I really have no idea bc he’s disbarred 😆 😂

What are they teaching in con law these days

@WaqarVick Without fail, I’m always in trial over Thanksgiving like whyyyyy

Why does the fall criminal trial docket always feel so punishing?