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andrew

@andrew@esq.social

[he/him]

Tax/Technology Attorney
Admin @ https://esq.social open to all #legal and #law adjacent folks

Columnist @ Bloomberg Tax
Contributor @ TechCrunch, Baseball Prospectus,
Law360 etc.

Adjunct Prof @ Drexel Kline School of Law

Bestie to @gina

https://lawstodon.org

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andrew, to random
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Alito saw the Thomas scandals and absolutely sprinted to all of his flagpoles.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Going to see Switchfoot at a free concert and some pickpocket swiping my wallet because i had on baggy shorts. But surprise surprise, there was no money in it and he popped back up like you dropped this. ( money was in my front pocket)

andrew,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

Hoping to get a reward I guess? You should have bit him.

andrew, to random
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Wait I thought if ruled in favor of Trump in Colorado this wouldn't happen. https://press.coop/@nytimes/112487583050531179

andrew, to random
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Looks like a little league umpire that got caught stealing water bottles. https://sfba.social/@skykiss/112472956620704217

andrew, to github
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Reduced my thoughts on Copilot+ PC, as announced, to a piece for Forbes.

TLDR: Also we should think about compliance with things like subpoenas and how completely can anything ever be deleted with such a system.

The more I think about it, the less this seems like a well thought-out product for pros. Dreamed up by coders that already have had their life’s work sucked up by GPT through .

@law

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2024/05/22/copilot-pcs-could-be-a-privacy-nightmare-for-professionals/
https://esq.social/@andrew/112484905475208847

andrew, to random
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Legal News for Weds 5/22 - Rudy Promises to Stop Defaming, Biden Gets 200th Judge Confirmed, ABA Faces Discrimination Complaints and Section 230 Hearing https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-for-weds-522-rudy-promises?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

andrew, to Florida
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Declaring a "Freedom Summer" in the same breath as laying out what colors are and are not acceptable for illuminating bridges is so stupidly Orwellian it would be cringey in Orwell fan fiction.

Is the pretext we're supposed to assume that had previously been living under the non-freedom yoke of rainbows?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/21/florida-bridges-rainbow-lights-pride/

andrew, to legal
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Boosting for and friends. Important and underreported issue.

Black taxpayers were between 2.9 and 4.7 times more likely to be audited by a data-driven audit algorithm. The IRS' response is that they're making tweaks.

This is insufficient.

Answers. Accountability. What happened? How did an algorithm exhibit decidedly human biases?

@law https://esq.social/@andrew/112478649419844060

andrew,
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@CarlG

Not basic at all!

  1. Yep. IRS just said they'll make the necessary adjustments -- nothing more.

  2. The study I based my piece on is here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kA7CG3cLq6eWmwBVgTDOIMhxuGZwRJ5O/view). They do both, to a degree, finding the disparity across income and EITC claim status. Always possible there is some other intervening factor, which would be resolved if we got a look at the algorithm for audits. See attached grabs.

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andrew, to law
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I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of , , etc.

Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?

@law

andrew,
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@uhrmann

Yep, I agree. It is sort of like a cook that poisons some of the food at a restaurant. I'm not going to take their word for it that they have only put arsenic in the gazpacho.

I'm not interested in a nice warm bowl of the chef's finest "Totally Absolutely Poison-Free Broth" either.

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@ron_miller

Like an NPU? Are the Copilot+ PCs actually shipping with significantly different hardware other than it being ARM? I assumed the NPU stuff was mostly marketing speak.

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@gulovsen @law

I'm going to ease back in. My last daily driver linux distro was something like Mandrake 7.0 and I hope they've sorted out networking and sound now.

(I'm mostly joking, I know they have)

andrew,
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@_L1vY_

It just seems wildly misguided -- I mean I said "professionals" to be kind of a wide net catchall term, but even think of "creatives" (I'm using quotes because I'm not sure these are discrete categories of profession.)

Do you want your creative work being continually recorded and offloaded to some remote server to be chewed up? I know the functional reality is that is already going on for most, but this would eliminate the last (even purely theoretical) shadow to hide in.

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@Abdelkader

You're right, I should have put that differently. What I mean to say is can any professional (I'm a lawyer so my perception of that word is biased in that direction) in good conscience make use of it.

Ship sailed and all that, individuals and firms will gobble it up, no question.

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@troed

Absolutely, it just seems entirely deemphasized in the products coming to market. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I wouldn't want the theoretical possibility of on-device processing to be a fig leaf to cover the reality of essentially GPT-everywhere.

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@alysondecker

It is hard for me to imagine an argument that it is non-violative save for "at this point, it is impossible to get this particular horse back in that particular barn."

andrew,
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@alysondecker

Guh. Feel like there are a lot of gross factors at play there and a focus on privacy may not be chief among them. Sorry to hear.

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@alastair

Yeah it would have to be a fully opt-in feature that, frankly, should require something on the level of a format and reinstall.

You should have to leap over so many hurdles before your data is dumped into a prompt somewhere, it’s functionally impossible to do so unawares.

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andrew, to law
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A House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on sunsetting Section 230 is being held today.

One of those bad ideas masquerading as a good one by wearing a cloak made of legitimate complaints. Baby and bath water and all that.

@law

https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/bipartisan-energy-and-commerce-leaders-announce-legislative-hearing-on-sunsetting-section-230

tansy, to random
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'The chopped steak eaters: The people who profit from climate destruction have names and faces.'

Great article from Heated: https://heated.world/p/the-chopped-steak-eaters?r=1cje4

andrew,
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@tansy

Call it what you want, that’s a wet mess to me.

andrew, to random
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I mean … great. Yes. Do.

But this also feels like Dad buying you a swingset while the house is on fire.

I’m working on how to feel both of those things at once. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112484160031594121

andrew, to random
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I have no idea what a standard bog looks like and it does me absolutely no good when you continually compare things to one.

andrew,
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@peterbutler

Yep, same here from the consumer side. I started hearing/reading it maybe late 2023 to early this year.

Btw: just sent your de-enshittified (mostly) Google search how-to to a friend of mine that was lamenting the AI addition. Thanks!

jnv, to Japan
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Turning out to be one of those days I don’t feel like working but want to know everything about this kei truck craze!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck

andrew,
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@jnv @vwdasher

Those kinds of impulses are the driving force behind my fondest internet memories, going back to the mid 90s.

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