Knowing how often face recognition and other AI-based recognition and decision making tech gets things wrong--to take its decision as unimpeachable even if a person can *prove* they're a US citizen is unspeakably bad.

big ups to EFF’s lawyers and happy huluween, marco theintercept.com/2025/10/16/u...

tech guys got tired of inventing the bus so now they keep inventing ED-209

EFF’s Hudson Hongo opens the EFF Awards: “If you’re here, you believe in a better future and recognize the central role of technology as we work to build one. I'm thrilled to help celebrate some remarkable individuals and organizations that have led the way towards that future.”

hard to overstate how openly racist this entire scheme is www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

🚨some personal news🚨 i’m the new editor of the electronic frontier foundation newsletter, first published in 1990(!) www.eff.org/effector/37/6

Mark Zuckerberg says people in California are more inherently biased than people in Texas

Teenager is woken by police in the middle of the night. “As it turns out, a poem she had written years ago triggered the alarms of a software called GoGuardian Beacon, which its maker describes as a way to ‘safeguard students from physical harm.’”

really jealous of the guy who lives in hawaii working at an aquarium and has a side hustle selling stickers about how elon musk is the worst

Minority Report promised us wet little freaks that dream about murder and instead we got the WolfCryer3000, a million-dollar computer that goes AWOOGA whenever it detects brown people

"At the end of the day, we support the Constitution" is really an all-timer of a non-comment

just won the lottery!! I don’t even remember buying a ticket lmao. I can see all the townspeople coming over right now, probably wanna congratulate me. probably jealous lol

put it on the tombstone of this world

chelsea manning did 7 years but the guy who titles the simpsons episodes walks free

'first stop is always instanbul' — just iconic

It Keeps Happening

tic tacs were pretty good whatever happened to tic tacs

A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old www.404media.co/paralyzed-jo...

not a coincidence, i think, that this is the most interesting twitter clone to read and also the one where i most often see a post and think ‘oh, twitter drove you insane’

i love james cameron's movies but no one should be surprised he's team machine. like you know dude would boot up skynet in a second if it promised to turn him into a submarine.

‘delete my data’ probably doesn’t mean what you think it does dogjail.substack.com/p/nowhere-to...

the system ‘working’ looks like police responding to someone’s mental health episode by shooting a random bystander in the head nymag.com/intelligence...

you can determine how bad a political scandal is by looking at its permalink slug

just like a staggering advance in corporate bullying dogjail.substack.com/p/when-your-...

“you keep using that word…”

You Really Do Have Some Expectation of Privacy in Public

new day, new form of dubious surveillance tech showing racial disparities www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

i'm okay with snapchat deepfaking me into ads but only if it's for something cool like little caesars or penis medicine

"In pursuit of a $2.90 fare—in pursuit of everything that fare was supposed to represent— NYPD officers reportedly chased their suspect up a flight of stairs and eventually began firing their guns in a crowded public space. Public order demanded no less." www.indignity.net/cops-shoot-p...

maybe what cops need is another robot, one that reminds them that breaking the law is illegal and bad

génie, tu es libre

stupid blog posts are good i miss blog posts bring back blog posts www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24...

Lawmakers need to clear up their confused case for banning TikTok

“Iron Man (Tetsuo’s Version)”

“This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, the most beautiful is:”

threads is cool because instead of an algorithmic feed full of tweets from annoying strangers and wendy’s it’s just wendy’s

one useful way to think about ai systems is as (quite talented!) bias confirmation machines https://maxread.substack.com/p/i-cannot-believe-the-shit-that-morons