Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

The War on (Some) Drugs is re-escalating, and in the abusive ways it's always punished the wrong people.

Here, hospitals are using crap tests on pregnant women, making bogus findings, and doing nothing as law enforcement takes kids from their parents.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/09/09/drug-test-pregnancy-pennsylvania-california

Great reporting from the @marshallproject --

🧵 I forgot to tell you guys!! I discovered something *amazing* during the legal research last month. There's an #OSHA law called HAZWOPER that required Apple to inform us about our NPL #Superfund office, formally train us, monitor exposure, & develop health/safety plans!! ⬇️

I'm appalled that after so many conversations with state & US #EPA & OSHA, they all claimed no law like this exists. It exists!!!!! All the things I told Apple to do were actually expressly required by law. Eat that, Apple.

At Least Two #Saudi Officials May Have Deliberately Assisted 9/11 Hijackers, New Evidence Suggests
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Newly revealed information also raises questions about whether the #FBI and #CIA mishandled or downplayed evidence of the kingdom’s possible ties to the plotters.

#News #September11 #SaudiArabia #Government #NYC #Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/saudi-officials-may-have-assisted-911-hijackers-new-evidence-suggests

Today is the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, widely believed to have been supported/orchestrated by the Trump family's dear friends the Saudis.

@danhon any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence

No, immigrants aren't killing your pets and taking your stuff, you're thinking of cops

I call on ABC to inspect Trump's shoes for prohibited lifts before the debate. We deserve the truth.

Proposal: Any organizations that are found to have colluded to form cartels automatically have their patents or other intellectual property related to that collusion placed in the public domain.

Back in the 2000s, this guy used to leave long, unhinged, occasionally racist comments on my blog. Eventually had to ban him. Good to know the state of Tennessee has been paying him to litigate away trans rights. www.wired.com/story/lawfai...

He Worked for a Law Firm Consu...

My problem with Patch Tuesday rn is...who the frack cares if the meatballs are overdone when the house is on fire?

IETF: "Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack... The IETF Will Work to Mitigate Pervasive Monitoring". Also IETF: ~"It's perfectly fine that we had an NSA employee co-chairing IRTF's Crypto Forum Research Group, and that we now have an NSA employee as IETF Security Area Director."

***** The AI nightmare is already here, thanks to our own governments. *****

It's important to understand the specifics of the AI nightmare that yes, has now arrived. We know that these AI systems being pushed by #Google and other firms are not actually intelligent, and that they frequently misunderstand input data and spew forth answers or other output that often appear reasonable even when frequently completely wrong or riddled with errors.

Government agencies rushing to use these systems to cut their workloads -- processing unemployment applications, creating transcripts of police encounters based on body camera audio -- and so on, are creating a perfect storm for these AI systems, being hyped to the hilt by desperate Big Tech firms -- to horribly impact people's lives in major ways. THIS is the real danger of AI today -- much more so than (bad enough!) inaccurate and nonsensical Google Search AI Overview answers.

Political consultant points out 'Nate Silver is paid by Peter Thiel' after 538 projects Trump victory https://www.alternet.org/nate-silver-stuart-stevens-polymarket/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The last time the world engaged in a major trade war (tariffs), it got the Great Depression, Hitler and World War II.

#trump

Lawrence O’Donnell Rips NYT and Other Media for ‘Sane-Washing’ Trump’s ‘Crazy’ Statements https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lawrence-odonnell-rips-nyt-and-other-media-for-sane-washing-trumps-crazy-statements/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Check out the FBI's files on the mathematician Paul Erdős! You may know him as the author of 1500 math papers, endlessly traveling and collaborating. But to the FBI he seemed suspicious, because he came from behind the Iron Curtain, got caught poking around a secret radio tower in 1941, worked with a mathematician from China, and refused to take a loyalty oath.

In 1954 he was barred from re-entering US after going to Amsterdam to address the International Congress of Mathematics. But 5 years later he was granted a visa after Hubert Humphrey intervened on his behalf.

The FBI eventually decided he was ”purely a mathematician with typical atmospheric mind as related to factual things.... a genius type who lives within his own mental scope".

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jul/21/nothing-indicate-nothing-indicate-subject-had-any-/

It is shocking that after moving from Google workspace to Proton as the back office for our professional email adresses etc, all the major Dutch institutions are blocking us as spam. All our contacts have to whitelist us individually. So I think we are forced to go back to Google, where we had this problem occasionally but not as massively as now. It seems the reason is that Microsoft, used by almost all institutions in NL, simply blocks all Proton mail .😈 ( DNS=OK configured)

The Media Is Carrying Trump's Racism Water https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/the-media-is-carrying-trumps-racism?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Some people say revenge is a dish best served cold. Other say revenge is sweet. This can only mean one thing. Revenge is ice cream.

@gleick Trump and newspapers like the NYT itself together brought the era of condemning mendacity to an end. The Times never figured out how to report the phenomenon of a serial liar as candidate-then-President-then-candidate. A paper that once styled itself as the premier journal ended up sanitizing the serial liar. What a sad demise. @nytimes