Cynthia Gayton
@squizzi3.bsky.social
Attorney, educator, public historian, documentary filmmaker
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Authors accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of copyright infringement over its downloading of their works to train its generative AI models can obtain more discovery from the tech giant, a judge ordered days after expressing skepticism over the request.
Meta Ordered to Produce More Documents in Authors’ AI Lawsuit
Authors accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of copyright infringement over its downloading of their works to train its generative AI models can obtain more discovery from the tech giant, a judge ordered days after expressing skepticism over the request.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Authors accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of copyright infringement over its downloading of their works to train its generative AI models can obtain more discovery from the tech giant, a judge ordered days after expressing skepticism over the request.
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Etats-Unis : l’aide alimentaire sera réduite en novembre en raison de la paralysie budgétaire
Etats-Unis : l’aide alimentaire sera réduite en novembre en raison de la paralysie budgétaire
Le gouvernement va utiliser 4,65 milliards de dollars d’un fonds d’urgence pour financer les versements liés au programme SNAP, principal programme public d’aide alimentaire du pays, qui bénéficie à 42 millions d’Américains. Cette enveloppe couvrira environ « 50 % des aides des foyers éligibles », selon le ministère de l’agriculture.
www.lemonde.fr
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Etats-Unis : l’aide alimentaire sera réduite en novembre en raison de la paralysie budgétaire
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Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
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Two federal judges admitted that their offices used artificial intelligence to draft factually inaccurate court documents that included fake quotes and fictional litigants, prompting a call for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.
Federal judges using AI filed court orders with false quotes, fake names
The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee blasted the two federal judges for the erroneous filings and called for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Two federal judges admitted that their offices used artificial intelligence to draft factually inaccurate court documents that included fake quotes and fictional litigants, prompting a call for new regulations on AI use in federal courts.
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This morning’s hype anthem
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This morning’s hype anthem
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The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
Trump just won’t release it.
440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.
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This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.
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The normalizing of the word "funnel" in an article about public expenditures is remarkable, as if the Pentagon is working with a fence to come up with cash.
It calls to mind when Rudy Giuliani explained to Sean Hannity how Trump "funneled" money to Stormy Daniels.
www.politico.com/story/2018/0...
It calls to mind when Rudy Giuliani explained to Sean Hannity how Trump "funneled" money to Stormy Daniels.
www.politico.com/story/2018/0...
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The normalizing of the word "funnel" in an article about public expenditures is remarkable, as if the Pentagon is working with a fence to come up with cash.
It calls to mind when Rudy Giuliani explained to Sean Hannity how Trump "funneled" money to Stormy Daniels.
www.politico.com/story/2018/0...
It calls to mind when Rudy Giuliani explained to Sean Hannity how Trump "funneled" money to Stormy Daniels.
www.politico.com/story/2018/0...
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The AWS outage is affecting the automation that posts our articles on social media.
But you can go old school and just visit our homepage for the latest local news: www.arlnow.com
But you can go old school and just visit our homepage for the latest local news: www.arlnow.com
ARLnow | Arlington, Va. local news
ARLnow is the up-to-the-minute source for breaking news, local government news, weather, events and community happenings in Arlington and Falls Church, Virginia.
www.arlnow.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The AWS outage is affecting the automation that posts our articles on social media.
But you can go old school and just visit our homepage for the latest local news: www.arlnow.com
But you can go old school and just visit our homepage for the latest local news: www.arlnow.com
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🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!
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The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
sad day. on campus metro & campus police everywhere. nat'l guard @ metro. gates locked around buildings. where i went to school, where i first felt how i thought i would feel. not occupied. tears in my eyes thinking this will be a generation's memory of their school. robbed-but perhaps resolved.
October 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
sad day. on campus metro & campus police everywhere. nat'l guard @ metro. gates locked around buildings. where i went to school, where i first felt how i thought i would feel. not occupied. tears in my eyes thinking this will be a generation's memory of their school. robbed-but perhaps resolved.
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Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy
www.eff.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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"they don't give a fuck about you either. why are you protecting them?"
October 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"they don't give a fuck about you either. why are you protecting them?"
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ISP and the feds continue to be on one as is the norm. bsky.app/profile/unra...
Another warning from ISP. People are already back by the zone. Protesters are being accused of blocking the road, but traffic is minimal here right now and cops are blocking traffic at the end of Lexington anyway. Hardly anyone in the street at this point, just a handful of folks.
October 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ISP and the feds continue to be on one as is the norm. bsky.app/profile/unra...
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Saturday blocked President Donald Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying Trump’s actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
October 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
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oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy.
as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.
as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy.
as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.
as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.
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A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon.
The marchers held flowers. 💐
The marchers held flowers. 💐
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon.
The marchers held flowers. 💐
The marchers held flowers. 💐