This is a terrific piece, with really important insights on the state of defense AI contracting. Here's a tl;dr - but you should read the whole thing!

Instead, this expanded review will magnify the already significant risks of the government's ill-conceived approach.

There's no obligation to prove that the people being surveilled are doing anything criminal - also a common dynamic. Per data scientist Cathy O'Neil: “If [these kinds of companies] successfully get people to trust their algorithm, with zero evidence that it works, then it can be weaponized.”

Cherry blossoms, Washington DC.

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Snyder's whole piece is worth reading, but these two paragraphs crystallize the propagandistic aspects of these deportations.

This crystallizes one of my (many) fears about the administration’s reprehensible targeting of Mahmoud Khalil: a major media outlet blames (a large segment of) the Jews. Good they’ve changed the headline - pls do better next time.

This isn’t a dog whistle; it’s a bullhorn. Anti-Semitism all the way down.