So many crimes happening here.

#FCPA meets the Epstein files! Because of course it would #compliance

On the “huge vibe divergence” between tech and finance on AI: Enhanced AI tools are <offering> much more to the world, but AI is also <asking> much more of investors. sherwood.news/markets/why-...

Not sure KMPG has thought this one through - if it is pressing its auditor to lower fees because of AI, does not that encourage its own clients to do the same? rpt here by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c891...

So right away I wonder whether corporate donations to these charities might be construed as a bribery and corruption risk #corruption #FCPA #BriberyAct #compliance

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The admin is creating incentives to not hire POC unless they clearly, explicitly have objectively superior CVs. Otherwise, you have to create an extensive record justifying the hire. Meanwhile, if you reject POC, you are confident the administration won't pursue a lawsuit.

This McKenzie Scott idea is actually really good #WaPo

Biased data in, biased outcomes out.

Too corrupt for Trump’s DOJ lol

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

Pretty much the entire history of technological innovation is a new product that’s worse but cheaper. Your electric razor is not as good as a barber with a knife, your AI is not as good as an executive assistant, even your mass produced wine is not as good as 500 year old vine grown French wines.

another @thiccreese.bsky.social banger www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

And these dolts wonder why nobody wants to work for them any longer… #compliance

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained body cam footage of the FBI raid on Fulton County's elections hub. In one video, Fulton police and the FBI spar over the search warrant to seize the 2020 ballots. "One way or another, the records are coming with us today," an agent said.

Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting." My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I built a law firm to stop it. I started Democracy Docket as another tool in the fight for democracy. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

Exposing SpaceX to potential fines of up to 4 per cent of revenues by merging it with X is a choice, certainly

Spain to seek social media ban for under-16s, PM says

New Trump admin slogan just dropped

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

‘We will pay whatever it costs to spend less money'

It was JUST 45 days ago that Trump destroyed the brand of the Kennedy Center by slapping on his name. And already Trump says he has to close it.

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.

These billionaires are going to tank the economy and kill us all www.cio.com/article/4125...

Grok’s nudification scandal shows how “free speech” rhetoric is being used to obscure any ethical responsibility for real-world harm. @noupside.bsky.social and @berinszoka.bsky.social explore the laws in play and what might be done to address the issue in the U.S.

Just read this ruling and…

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

A question I wonder about: Will Warsh maintain the Fed’s ethics system or curtail it? He’s a pretty rich guy and the current rules could weigh on him.

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a new open-source AI agent has gone viral across tech spaces. it requires persistent access to devices, can read & write files, and is easily misconfigured when set up. it’s a security nightmare & we’re only at the beginning of AI agent adoption 🫠 www.axios.com/2026/01/29/m...

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company's stuffed animals. www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...

Smells to me like (a) the majority decided against his tariff powers; (b) the minority are slow-rolling their writing of a dissent opinion; and (c) CJ Roberts or one of his Republican allies wrote the majority, and are going along with the slow-roller minority rather than just publishing the opinion

Trump is obessed with Georgia because he is in fundamental disbelief that a former state of the Confederacy could muster a multiracial coalition that cost him the election here. It is racial grievance and entitlement all the way down.

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SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

NEW: After a federal agent allegedly attempted to enter Google's campus in Cambridge last fall, the company's DeepMind employees are asking the tech giant to protect them. Maxwell Zeff has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/google...

"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

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"Stephen Miller has believed that if he just created enough fascist spectacle, people would learn to love his thuggery. That was always failing because — it turns out — not as many people get erotic pleasure out of watching armed men roll around in the street on top of a brown person..."

While this is a smart and compassionate move by #Target, I immediately wonder about the HR implications of segregating employees by race, even for good reasons #compliance #HR

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

The CBP agent pushes a woman onto the ground and peppers sprays her, the man is trying to protect her from them and help her up, which they respond to by pepper spraying him, tackling him, and then shooting him from behind. It’s one of the most upsetting things I’ve ever seen happen in America

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

Minnesota protestor: "We're performing CPR on what already may be a corpse called the Constitution."