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One of the things Jay laid out at SXSW earlier this week. Bluesky has a robots.txt-like proposal to allow users themselves to declare if they're okay if they're data is used for AI training.

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From one of my group chats, someone suggests: “Global Ordinance Alliance for Tactical Security of Europe”

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lmfao fantastic

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The National Weather Service took more than 150 years to build. Forget flight or the internet or whatever - public-service systems like this are the marvels of the modern world. Conceptual cathedrals, constructed across generations and dedicated to the public good.

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New from @zialcita.bsky.social: Inside one of Denver’s last independent pharmacies. denverite.com/2025/02/25/d...

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reprehensible

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The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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I am still mad that crypto now stands for cryptocurrency and not cryptography because the crypto wars are back except they aren't because crypto doesn't mean what it used to www.theverge.com/policy/61213...

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Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...

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"The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies."

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🇩🇪👀 From 160,000 to 250,000 people took part in the protests in Berlin against right-wing extremism and for distancing CDU from AfD, - Welt

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Goldman's summary of the oral arguments in FSC v. Paxton today is spot on. He also includes key points as to the difference between checking IDs at physical venues vs. online:

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Facebook has the 1A right to moderate (essentially) however it wants. But this is not making that decision freely, whatever Zuckerberg's own opinions. It is transparently because there's about to be a US government that has zero respect for free speech and will punish and retaliate at Trump's whim.

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Honestly, the Let's Encrypt folks don't get nearly enough credit for basically protecting the entire fucking internet, by making it absolute bog standard to encrypt everything. It happened so fast and so many people were skeptical.

submitted 85 days ago • 19 comments

keep it going ;)

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Khan is on a roll today. A third case just dropped: www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

among many other problems, this would almost certainly be a disaster from a data protection compliance perspective

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As many of you following main might know @hf.co released 1M posts scraped from the @bsky.app Firehose API. It was a mess. People got angry, and I thought -- #privacydisaster. So I decided to write about it. insights.priva.cat/p/privacy-di... Let's unpack this a bit... 👇

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pretty succinct summary of the issues around public data use … “sorry, this was unethical” vs “lol ethics won’t stop me”

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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

submitted 108 days ago • 63 comments

Highly informative threat, thanks Professor. Many key points - limitations of IRBs, the ethics of "public data", the law of public data, the role of user expectations, and more...please read to understand not just researchers/companies using user data, but the implications for AI & scraping broadly.

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To paraphrase @pfrazee.com, if every user here is basically its own website, is there a world in which every profile on AT Protocol gets its own robots.txt?

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really interesting discourse branching out of the HF ML training issue. still working out thoughts, but seems there ought to be better ways to signal at the protocol level whether common secondary uses of public data are ok. public/not public seems not to align with or support emerging social norms

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

many reasons (next to none of which are thoughtful policy) but drafting a policy that complies with global requirements is extraordinarily cumbersome. quite challenging to “comply” in less than 4000 words for a global company of any complexity

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order granting motion to dismiss better be delivered by kendrick himself as a multipart diss track

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THEY DOXXED EA-NĀṢIR

submitted 111 days ago • 61 comments

Just out of Google Adtech antitrust closing arguments. Although judge didn’t reveal her decision, I read enough tea leaves to be confident in DOJ victory.

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Let's Encrypt is now used by more than 500,000,000 websites!!! I could not be more happy and proud of everyone who has played a part in this colossal contribution to online safety, integrity, and confidentiality:

submitted 112 days ago • 6 comments

WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit. It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.

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