Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

NYT: Have E-Bikes made New York streets a nightmare?
Not mentioned until end of article: The automobiles that make New York streets a nightmare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/nyregion/street-wars-e-bikes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE0.x-6m.qS78uuD5VSwU&smid=url-share

There is an absolute collapse of the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Representative Jamie Raskin

My comments: Theocratic fascist judges make rulings with no basis in law. #Alito must be removed.

Absolute Collapse of the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

#scotus

@SteveBellovin @mattblaze He's running out of live friends.

Cities across the US have settled more than 130 police misconduct lawsuits from the George Floyd protests and paid nearly $150m to protesters. "The basic function of protest policing remains abusive, politically motivated, and immune from accountability." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/25/police-misconduct-payment-2020-protest

Releasing products that you know are creating fakes is deeply irresponsible. 3 lies from Google’s GenAI: Barack Obama is a muslim. Put glue in your pizza to avoid the cheese from sliding. Eat rocks for your health. Google, OpenAI and Microsoft all warn that their products are ‘hallucinating’, and thus try to avoid responsibility and put it on the user, while knowing that most humans will eat all the lies they cannot detect immediately. GenAI is the epitome of Trump.

https://on.ft.com/3wMGD79

I cannot get over how many times in recent years the Washington Post had to decide *not* to share that they knew the Alito household flew an upside-down flag in the immediate aftermath of Jan 6 before reporting it today. https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

Law Dork - https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington - In a series of paragraphs that are up there as being among the most shocking I have read in my journalistic career, #WashingtonPost acknowledged on Saturday they hid #Alito article for 3 yrs and dropped it in the middle this holiday week, more than a week after NYT report, that they had known about the flag since at least January 20, 2021, and had not revealed knowledge of it until May 25, 2024. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/alito-flag-martha-ann-washington-post/?_pml=1 complicit #insurrection #democracy #MAGA

The thing about #China’s encirclement of #Taiwan is that I cant imagine it’s a good strategy to place your naval forces ringed around an island of anti-ship missiles, with half of those forces sandwiched between Taiwan and potential intervening allied forces.

Don’t threaten me with a good time, ya know?

#natsec

* progressive DAs have been recalled, and NYC has 1000s of more cops than it had before.

* Entire DEI programs have been shut down at major universities.

* The FBI basically rebooted COINTELPRO, labelling and surveilling young black people who participated in the BLM protests as "Black identity extremists."

* There has been no meaningful legislation passed to identify cops like Chauvin before they commit murder, and remove them from service. There's been no meaningful change in accountability

Pushing AI into otherwise stable or abandoned products is the jewel wasp version of brand necrophilia.

It boggles my mind that the Washington Post knew about the insurrectionist flag at the residence of a Supreme Court "Justice" at the time it was flown -- but didn't tell the public what it knew until years later, the NY Times did report it.

Journalistic malpractice is putting it mildly.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

@lauren It was the first time I found myself sharing an opinion on someone with a libertarian tilt!

As San Francisco tech authoritarians line up behind Trump to create a "unified Reich," I talk to @parismarx about an influential tech figure's terrifying vision for the city...

A color-coded police state apartheid system where Blues (Democrats) are banished and persecuted. And they aren't just talking -- they are investing money and effort to make it happen.

👂⬇️
https://techwontsave.us/episode/221_techs_plan_to_ethnically_cleanse_san_francisco_w_gil_duran

Nature explains why it pub'd an article on an #AI tool to predict protein folding, without pub'ing the code. Its own policy requires #OpenData & #OpenCode, with some exceptions. It says this case fell into an exception.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01463-0

The tool was written by Google's DeepMind, and is not #OpenSource.

One part of Nature's explanation: "It’s important that journals engage with the private sector."

Another part: "The majority of global research is privately funded." #CitationNeeded

Nepo baby billionaire Timothy Mellon has given at least $25 million to elect RFK Jr.

He has also given at least $25 million to elect Trump.

The two campaigns are the same campaign — with the same donors and the same ultimate goal of putting Trump back in the White House.

Trump’s ‘unified Reich’ video was a message not a mistake | Margaret Sulivan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/trumps-unified-reich-video-was-a-message-not-a-mistake?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier for Republicans to Get Away With Racial Gerrymandering https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/the-supreme-court-just-made-it-easier-for-republicans-to-get-away-with-racial-gerrymandering/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

For the Women Who Accused the #Trump Campaign of Harassment, It’s Been More Harassment
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Trump is well known for publicly bullying his #political rivals, but the former president’s campaign has also used similar tactics to launch private, relentless attacks against some of its own workers.

#News #Politics #Law #DonaldTrump #Election #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-campaign-harassment-bullying-lawsuits