Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To avoid another debate.

When life hands you rabbit holes, make hasenpfeffer
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#Curmudgeonry

AI is \*not\* just a tool. It is a pea and thimble game in which a few, very rich people steal our entire cultural and intellectual history, and use it in a way that forever depletes it. It is a way of enclosing the commons. And it's taking us all, the demos, too long to get our collective heads around it because, like the climate, it is so strange to think of it being steal-able that the idea doesn't stick, it doesn't have language to describe and discuss it. 1/3 #AI

Trump has mobilized his violent cult to muzzle people who once would have challenged his contempt for law and basic decency.

Big Journalism, for whatever reason, doesn't think this is much of a story.

That's why we need outlets like Talking Points Memo.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/public-menace-how-trump-mobilizes-the-violent-extremists-in-his-midst-for-political-ends/sharetoken/a170ef86-130b-49f1-a8f6-abb08e23bb37

Watched Trump's "press conference" in which he did nothing but lie, lie, lie.

The supplicant press just sat there and let him do it.

Sad, sad, sad...

How the 'politicization of the courts' is used to 'erode democracy': analysis https://www.alternet.org/autocracy-courts-applebaum/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DONALD TRUMP IS THIS: A person who never admits a mistake or apologizes and blames everyone else with the most childish insults does not have the character or temperament to hold elective office. Oh, he's also a crook and a liar.

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.