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This story is amazing
Maine's Black LawyerFor Rahaeli and @elsieyork.bsky.social, who both asked: My professor was working as an assistant county attorney very early in his career when he got assigned a nuisance abatement case. The owner of property in an unincorporated part of the county was keeping exotic animals without a permit.
I fucking hate Elon Musk and it fucking galls me to say that X's argument is legally correct, but X's argument is legally correct and this law cannot pass even intermediate scrutiny, much less the strict scrutiny that is the correct standard of review
Taylor Lorenz33k people are cancelling me on Threads and I’ve been trending for 2 days straight bc I said that Minnesota’s AI nudification law is bad and has serious first amendment concerns, meaning xAI is actually right to try to get it overturned: www.bedrockprinciple.com/p/minnesotas...
I'm so fucking tired
John PerrinoA key Senate committee vote next week won't include AI, but there's a stupid "porn" age verification bill. Why the SCREEN Act is worth your attention: 👉 Age verification required for ANY "interactive computer service" that makes adult content available 👉 IP address verification 👉 VPN restrictions
This is hilarious. The report exaggerates exceptionally tiny changes in the number of under-16s using age-restricted social media, downplays the number of under-16s moving to unmonitored private chats and sketchy sites, stomps its feet a lot about sites failing to accomplish the impossible,
Pete EtchellsThe data report from the first three months of the Australian social media ban has now been released: www.esafety.gov.au/research/soc... Some thoughts: