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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 7h

"Aarons said he hadn’t told his client directly that he was caught using ChatGPT on the case because he’s currently serving life in prison"

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 11h

Case in point: Acknowledging the existence of Jewish Diaspora means you are pro-genocide

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 11h

An issue with the term "Zionism" is its used as a label for everything from the most basic, human-rights-conscious views about remedying Jewish Diaspora to the most extremist ideas about a sole religious/ethnic claim to the region And anti-Semites exploit this to conflate the former with the latter

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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 12h

🧵 Congress is holding its first hearing today on the rogue AI cyberattacks. METR, which surfaced important facts about the Hugging Face hack, is testifying. But OpenAI limited its investigation, meaning that there could be a lot more we don't know. Here are 7 questions lawmakers should ask👇:

brennancenter.org

How Congress Should Investigate Threat from Rogue AI Agents

The government must evaluate systemic failures with an eye toward establishing meaningful regulation.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13h

New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

404media.co

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Same for all the people that wanted take every elite university with pro-Palestinian protester through the shredder for failing to “have a safe college environment”

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men-” “Oh like controls are gonna work? Shut up James Madison”

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 29/09/2026

Facial recognition strikes again.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look, are there serious concerns about privacy, data treatment, information sourcing and accuracy, and a dozen other issues? Sure. But also I was playing around with the app and it let me turn the avatar into this cat and he even does cute little animations while he checks the weather for me

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have banned the sale of sensitive consumer data -- an unconscionable practice that should've been banned long ago -- which helps with stalking, scamming, law enforcement, and other predatory behavior with no public benefit. Shameful choice of data brokers > ppl

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@mbogen.bsky.social made a great pitch that Rings of Power is an AI allegory at staff lunch last week! (my pitch is that Pluribus is also an AI allegory)

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a smart way to to distinguish it because it underscores the challenge that these risks create opposite drives #1 incentivizes keeping AI development moving fast to stay ahead of bad actors #2 incentivizes slowing AI development down to deal with direction and alignment problems

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“going rogue” is like “hallucination”: a descriptor that is both technically inaccurate and obscures culpability

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The NYT 100 Top Shows of the 21st Century list is really fun and great. Tons of great shows, top 10 feels right, and especially fun to see less-watched ones like Battlestar Galactica getting their kudos. Three shows I'd call seriously snubbed from the list: The Knick Mindhunter Penny Dreadful

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some very bad news: DC Circuit upholds Pentagon's blatant arm-twist effort to weaponize supply-chain risk designations against Anthropic The good news: This panel was a very bad draw, and it was still a 2-1 split. I think in an en banc review Anthropic likely prevails 8-3 reason.com/volokh/2026/...

reason.com

Anthropic's First Amendment Claim Against Department of War Rejected

Some excerpts from today's long majority opinion by Judge Gregory Katsas, joined by Judge Neomi Rao, in today's D.C. Circuit…

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*It's gonna get weird when she gets turned down for an interview with Catturd

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This seems right to me and not just for medicine but for all fields and learning generally. Once you‘ve become an expert, LLMs can be extremely useful. But people need to become experts without LLMs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse. (Gift Article)

I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

“Based on location coordinates from Flock’s own database, the map shows more than 170,000 cameras, plus more than 130,000 accompanying gadgets that play a part in the company’s expansive American surveillance network.”

theintercept.com

Flock Wants The Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants it taken down.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is your brain on centi-billionaire

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prediction markets — which are of course totally about using the wisdom of the crowd to forecast events, not gambling — let users do parlays on election outcomes. Which is how we know Dems have a 65% chance to win the Maine Senate seat but a 70% chance to win both the Senate and Governors race.

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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Breaking: CNN, MS Now, Politico have moved for an emergency hearing before Judge Kelly, noting reporters for their orgs were turned away from WH this morning

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wild paragraph to begin a NYT piece with

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Starting now: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Flock, ALPR camera networks, and the dangers of this AI surveillance technology I'll be watching and providing info and reactions on the hearing as it unfolds.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_yM...

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LIVE: Josh Hawley Probes Flock Surveillance Network In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.com

Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025

<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s really a combination of these two

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Straight white males are less than a quarter of the US population; without getting too lost in the weeds, the number of straight white males on this list is pretty close to what you'd expect, if what you expect isn't (as Bret Stephens apparently does) that straight white males be a majority.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Just go to therapy, bro.

DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Operation Warp Speed was an incredible achievement; most of credit goes to the science, but the fed government did a strong job shepherding it along Ironically doesn’t get touted enough because of how broad anti-science and anti-vax fear mongering has become

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Over and over, ICE has shot people and then lied about what happened. We can see the lies with our own eyes. We will demand truth, transparency and accountability.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is especially egregious when the Supreme Court has explicitly ruled for Fourth Amendment warrant exceptions cell phones are qualitatively different than other, non-electronic items a person is carrying

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two ideas from this article resonate 1. The “rogue AI agent” hacking incidents are more failures of test design and oversight than examples of runaway AI. 2. Focus on existential risk helps distract from concrete harms happening now from government misuse to companies using AI against workers.

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Rogue AI Meme Machine @rogueaimememachine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Omg he actually did the planet-destroyed-shareholder-value meme

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEW: Cities are canceling Flock contracts, cameras are being vandalized, and cops keep getting caught using the system to track people they shouldn’t. Now Flock is asking employees to consider quitting amid a growing PR crisis. w/ @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/flock-...

wired.com

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's my deep dive on yesterday's ruling allowing unlimited searches of cell phones at the border. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

reason.com

Second Circuit Rejects Limits on Border Searches of Cell Phones

And why I think they are wrong, and the Supreme Court should step in.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

bloomberg.com

Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School

Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.

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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New story: When we talk about AI doom, what aren't we talking about? Accountability, researchers tell us. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Screenshot of a Bloomberg story with the headline, "How Existential Fears Are Shaping the Debate Over AI"

The dek reads: Some experts worry that heated rhetoric makes it hard to hold companies accountable, and sets back attempts to deal with environmental impact and job loss

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are we now just describing hallucinations as a sign that the tech has achieved society threatening AGI status?

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI CEOs are in awe that their models can, given few constraints, hack autonomously. They're also wracked with a vague fear that their products will soon hack the entire internet. I reported on how it's very curious that they seem utterly disinterested in working with cybersecurity experts on this.

nbcnews.com

Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans

Cybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From the surveillance company that promises it can build a user interface that will stop any risk of the cops improperly tracking you:

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The first case (as far as I'm aware) that takes on question of how 4A protections post-Chatrie apply to automated license plate readers. I think the court's efforts to reconcile ALPRs with Chatrie are very weak. Carpenter required broad, pervasive location tracking to trigger 4A but Chatrie did not

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