Phil
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Wild how you never see this stuff in mainstream/legacy media
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Wild how you never see this stuff in mainstream/legacy media
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Plus, just think how cool the new E. Jean Carroll and Letitia James Memorial USAID Headquarters Building will be. What a symbol it will be for our commitment to helping the world.
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Plus, just think how cool the new E. Jean Carroll and Letitia James Memorial USAID Headquarters Building will be. What a symbol it will be for our commitment to helping the world.
“Honestly, you should just use your phone less anyway, and you’ll be happier”
Fantastic and insightful talk from @micahflee.com
TIL 👀up
Fantastic and insightful talk from @micahflee.com
TIL 👀up
Watch my BSidesPDX keynote where I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for communities to defend themselves micahflee.com/practical-de...
Practical Defenses Against Technofascism
I gave the Saturday morning keynote at BSidesPDX! I spoke honestly and frankly about the terrifying reality that Americans are facing under Trump's fascist regime, alongside practical advise for commu...
micahflee.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Honestly, you should just use your phone less anyway, and you’ll be happier”
Fantastic and insightful talk from @micahflee.com
TIL 👀up
Fantastic and insightful talk from @micahflee.com
TIL 👀up
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Signal is also down due to Amazon AWS outage. So yeah, secure and private communication is also dependent on reliable infrastructure.
October 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Signal is also down due to Amazon AWS outage. So yeah, secure and private communication is also dependent on reliable infrastructure.
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New from me: Who are the attorneys filing AI-tainted briefs in court?
After @404media.co ran an article based on Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases database, I analyzed 114 US cases. They're almost all solo or small firms, usually plaintiff's-side.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitt...
After @404media.co ran an article based on Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases database, I analyzed 114 US cases. They're almost all solo or small firms, usually plaintiff's-side.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitt...
Who’s Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?
It seems like every day brings another news story about a lawyer caught unwittingly submitting a court filing that cites nonexistent cases hallucinated by AI. The problem persists despite courts’ stan...
cyberlaw.stanford.edu
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
New from me: Who are the attorneys filing AI-tainted briefs in court?
After @404media.co ran an article based on Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases database, I analyzed 114 US cases. They're almost all solo or small firms, usually plaintiff's-side.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitt...
After @404media.co ran an article based on Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases database, I analyzed 114 US cases. They're almost all solo or small firms, usually plaintiff's-side.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitt...
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Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
September 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.
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A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.
Watch @naomiaklein.bsky.social open the Long Arc of Fascism teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945.
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Introduction Sketching Fascism’s Long Arc with Naomi Klein
YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice
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September 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.
September 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
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To Donald Trump and his administration:
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
August 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
To Donald Trump and his administration:
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
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This one - from Gov Bob Ferguson to Pam Bondi- equally worthy of praise.
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This one - from Gov Bob Ferguson to Pam Bondi- equally worthy of praise.
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Read Civil Discourse, my newsletter on Substack, and be prepared for the coming week. Knowledge is an important part of our power. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
August 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Read Civil Discourse, my newsletter on Substack, and be prepared for the coming week. Knowledge is an important part of our power. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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Cool thing I was proud to be part of - LTH (who I work for) partnered with the Justice Technology Association to start tracking legal tech companies in the A2J space, both those that create B2C A2J products or offer discounts for non profits/edu. www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/int...
Introducing the LTH / JTA Access to Justice Map
Legaltech Hub and Justice Technology Association have joined forces to collect information on the ever-expanding ecosystem of companies and organizations creating and using technology to improve acces...
www.legaltechnologyhub.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Cool thing I was proud to be part of - LTH (who I work for) partnered with the Justice Technology Association to start tracking legal tech companies in the A2J space, both those that create B2C A2J products or offer discounts for non profits/edu. www.legaltechnologyhub.com/contents/int...
I really need to know what series of events led to this sign.
August 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I really need to know what series of events led to this sign.
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“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
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@electrek.co $TSLA
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August 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...
Finished my morning workout. @garmin.com AI jumps in with a solid burn. #triathlete #running #swimming #cycling #runsky #bikesky #swimsky
July 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Finished my morning workout. @garmin.com AI jumps in with a solid burn. #triathlete #running #swimming #cycling #runsky #bikesky #swimsky
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process.
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
July 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process.
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Who would have guessed that someone for whom all business and legal negotiation is based on bluff and bluster would have had nothing other than bluff and bluster in international affairs.
June 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Who would have guessed that someone for whom all business and legal negotiation is based on bluff and bluster would have had nothing other than bluff and bluster in international affairs.