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jvagle

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Law professor | Privacy, cybersecurity, technology ethics, national security | Veteran | There is music yet to play

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jvagle, to random
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https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112476098476271275

video/mp4

jvagle, to random
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Making it acceptable to kill someone with different politics is not anything like the rule of law. If you follow this policy to its logical conclusion, it doesn't go anywhere good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/texas-abbott-pardon-daniel-perry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jvagle, to random
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There's a lesson on human nature in this story.

https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

SteveBellovin, (edited ) to random
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I gave a retirement/farewell talk today. Video at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/farewell.mp4; slides at https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/talks/farewell.pdf.

jvagle,
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@SteveBellovin Congratulations, Steve!

jvagle,
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@SteveBellovin Steve, I'm reading your slides, and I'm thinking you need to write a memoir!

jvagle,
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@SteveBellovin Your slides are a near-exact image of my interests and what brought me to switch from math grad studies to a JD. Only you were inventing the technologies I was interested in!

jvagle, to random
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I'm curious: Is the "excellent, necessary and trustworthy test" administered as a multiple-choice scantron exam, or are there essays and physical challenges included, as well?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on-superchargers-new-vehicles/

jvagle, to random
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"Ending free speech on college campuses is the leading edge of a bigger war against dissent that could already be lost by Nov. 5, and any contest of the election result that follows."

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/campus-free-speech-crackdown-riot-police-20240428.html

jvagle, to random
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“Relying on luck is not a sustainable cybersecurity strategy, especially when we consider just how much of our world depends on secure and reliable software.”

https://www.justsecurity.org/94918/software-backdoor-is-a-wakeup-call-for-cybersecurity/

jvagle, to random
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We can't continue to rely on luck to ensure cybersecurity.

https://www.justsecurity.org/94918/software-backdoor-is-a-wakeup-call-for-cybersecurity/

jvagle, to random
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I recommend this piece describing an evening with Marc Andreeson, during which the vaunted venture capitalist said of folks living in small, impoverished communities:

"I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet."

https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andreessen/

jvagle, to random
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Why the revolution-cum-civil war is not entertaining, but a frightening prospect:

"The US is awash in deadly weapons. And those weapons are not evenly distributed across ideological lines. The people who buy guns tend to wear MAGA hats."

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/civil-war-the-movie-is-a-blunt-object?r=eeyg&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

jvagle, to random
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Noncompete bans no longer just a California thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements/

jvagle, to random
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University presidents have nothing to gain and everything to lose from engaging with Virginia Foxx, Elise Stefanik, and the other bad-faith Republicans on the Committee on the Education and the Workforce.

https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2024/04/nothing-good-happens-after-2-am-or-when-you-testify-before-a-house-committee.html

jvagle, to random
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Once again, Michael Flynn is at the center of this far-right movement where folks with guns seek to destabilize our democracy.

To think Flynn was once a LtGen and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/

jvagle, to random
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THE PARTY OF FREE MARKETS IS BACK BABY

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/05/jim-jordan-demands-major-ad-companies-explain-why-they-wont-advertise-on-truth-social/

jvagle, to random
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AI* won't kill us by creating Skynet.

It will only have to post dangerous BS on platforms seeking "engagement" (read: $), and we'll destroy one another because we believed a stochastic gradient descent algorithm over actual journalists (who've been laid off).

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-ai-chatbot-grok-fake-news-trending-explore

jvagle,
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@SteveBellovin The overt stupidity gets laundered through X's bluecheck network.

mattblaze, to random
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A friend wrote a thing on randomness: https://www.tetragrammaton.com/content/making-heads-or-tails

jvagle,
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@mattblaze An excellent point about a not-widely-understood concept that's central to computing generally.

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Someone just told me I should stick to photography and keep my stupid opinions to myself.

Sorry, if I kept my stupid opinions to myself I'd die of stupid poisoning.

jvagle,
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@mattblaze this is one of the lesser known functions of the kidneys, I believe.

hotdogsladies, to random
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"And that, to me, is one of the differences between trying to spend more time with these [LLM] systems -- like, when you come into them initially, you're like, OK, here's a problem, give me an answer.

Whereas when you spend time with them, you realize actually what you're trying to do with the A.I. is get it to elicit a better answer from you."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ethan-mollick.html

jvagle,
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@hotdogsladies we may be at the stage where most folks may not know just how many kinds of pasta there are.

jvagle, to random
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Wired, June 1997

jvagle, to random
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Has anyone shown Eric Adams Eliza? Be the first through the door on that one and you might be able to walk out of City Hall with a big, fat check.

jvagle,
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@SteveBellovin Folks were touting him as presidential.

jvagle, to random
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Great review of Kara Swisher's Burn Book.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso

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