Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
Ahead of the initial public offering for SpaceX, we speak with historian Quinn Slobodian, author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. He says Elon Musk is “creating a situation where he becomes deep...
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On the Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian about his "owners not renters" thesis: that the central AI question isn't open vs. closed, but whether we own AI or lease it from a handful of companies with their own incentives. Plus: his experience with Mythos.
“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong they have to be to not be useful.”
Usually treated as a technical question, in my new article in the Modern Law Review, I argue it is also a legal one.
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I'm on @democracynow.org tomorrow talking about this + other reasons the IPO has been called "hallucinogenic":
đź’«key person risk with no deputy or successor
💫claim that xAI—lost $5b last year—has total addressable market of $26 TRILLION based on fairytale tech
đź’«the ways laws could block this all
New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything.
We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...
A piece of good news in the middle of the darkness we live in:
"SpaceX will not gain accelerated access to potentially billions more dollars through passive investment funds that automatically purchase shares of S&P 500 companies."
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A conversation with Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla and author of the newsletter Owners Not Renters.
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue
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New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change
“We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
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Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?
