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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, and also very worth being worried about what the government will do with AI

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 4h

This is 100% spot on but I wish Politico and Guardian pieces connected the dots uniting RightsCon, Disinfo, and other affected events: countries are normalising censorship by proxy against civil society spaces and no government is speaking up against this trend

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3h

Overall trend. Touching grass is winning. Combined use of social media, gaming, and streaming is down by more than 1.5 hours a day for this class compared to 2024. Netflix & HBO Max taking big hits.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 13h

Another quintessential Aaron Boone season in the books! 🙃

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 14h

We are glorious jabronis and should never be contained

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 15h

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 15h

I'm old enough to remember hearing hot takes in the years following Citizens United about how campaign spending hadn't increased that much and obviously people had being freaking out and hyperbolic over the impact the ruling would have

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Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social · 20h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this reads like doj is saying the guy did a really great fraud

North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted Music Streaming Fraud

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When an animal communicates it does so for self-determined and self-interested reasons. When an LLM “communicates” with you it’s doing so in a way that’s fundamentally much less like an animal than a kitchen timer buzzing at you

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This was what I couldn't get over with the guy who went viral for saying he let his chatbot choose what to write as a treat Sure, this is dumb for a ton of reasons, but at the top - you think you've got a sentient being & you're treating it as a slave that you occasionally let write it's own poem?!?

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In a very similar vein I constantly reference this quote in life and in policy work, despite the fact that no one ever gets the reference

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hegseth hosts his first Project Meridian meeting with Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. They’re looking at ways to use tech to boost Hegseth’s agenda, most likely using AI for surveillance and weapons.

Bunch of white men in badly fitting suits sit around a table

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Having a subjective experience assumes sentience/consciousness, which an LLM doesn't have any more than your toaster has a subjective experience of cooking a bagel

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's tons of smart writing on why the concept of sentient LLMs is just flat wrong, but I find this to be Anil Seth note to be especially insightful: We don't have this debate about other types of AI that "think" the same way but don't imitate talking like a human www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Darth I remember there was that funny Seinfeld episode where it was the B plot and the main plot was the iconic Pakistani restaurant rebrand and I really don’t think anyone has mentioned it since

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Careful of those honeymoon photos. Agents can search them just because it’s the border. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.

Reminder: The "border exemption" to your rights is real.

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

"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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

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

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 · 30/09/2026

🧵 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 · 30/09/2026

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...

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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 · 29/09/2026

You gotta do parent combo costume with that and get yourself an oversized campaign-style button that says "Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"

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

let the record reflect: bsky.app/profile/jake...

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

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. MONGO IS APPALLED.

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

To be honest though literally the first thing it did was ask to access my email and calendar, and when asked if there was anyone to limit access to content from Meta the answer was basically “lol no” Thanks for the honesty, Gravy Boat!

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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

So we’re left with a really strong incentive to keep pace of frontier AI moving very fast to defend against hacking threats. But we also have AI being developed so fast that effective measures aren’t being built to make AI follow instructions like “don’t illegally hack stuff!” A bad combo 🙃

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

Experts are right to criticize the “Win the AI race with China!” narrative as reductive. I’ve testified to Congress on emphasizing that very point. But we also need to acknowledge that lots of threats (including China) can use AI for offensive cyber and we need to keep pace to defend effectively

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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

Yeah it's a really good list on the whole but those two jumped out as bad choices. House of Cards season 1 was really intriguing but then went off a cliff, Homeland was shlock from start to finish

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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/...

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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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