Event: What Place Does Law Have in the International Order? w/ Prof. Philippa Webb KC - 8 April, 6pm
Webb is an expert in public international law, international dispute settlement, human rights, international organisations, humanitarian law, and international criminal law. Register: bit.ly/3OXxe5n
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
People in my neighborhood were out, kids were playing, and dogs were greeting each other--thanks to the extra hour of sunlight we had this evening. Let's make Daylight Savings Time permanent.
This line of attack against Trump Admin decisions will be devastating in a variety of cases, including findings underlying replacement tariffs: “it is clear that the outcome was fatally predetermined by the Department’s retaliatory animus. Prejudgment [fails] requirements of the Due Process Clause.”
Like they said they would, Anthropic has filed suit against the US Government:
“These actions are unprecedented and unlawful. The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech.”
Read the complaint
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Looking for someone to write an index for an edited volume on digital trade. Please DM me with any recommendations.
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
From FT comments
Prediction markets are betting on death
The dystopian betting sites let anyone profit off war and disaster, and insiders are cashing in
www.youtube.com/shorts/-UMYl...
The Dutch DPA is conducting an investigation into Reddit, Inc. (Reddit). The DPA has raised questions regarding the legality of Reddit's licensing of Public Content from its users to LLM Partners. See uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=E...
Not sure it it's exactly the same as social media, but interesting thread on the moral panic about kids becoming addicted to books a century ago
On the face of it, it seems to mean that e.g. any website, whether regulated under the OSA or not, could be required (by secondary legislation) to institute an age-gate, or even a usage limit or a curfew.
Quoted alongside the great @daphnek.bsky.social, @klonick.bsky.social, and @hutko.bsky.social in this Financial Times piece on 'The transatlantic battle over free speech' - www.ft.com/content/37d4... via @financialtimes.com
Has Congress at least demanded the bill thus far, and expected, for the coming 4-5 weeks? Do fiscally conservative Members no longer care how much we explode the deficit?
I think this is the official strategy. Bomb until total submission. With hardly a peep (and even support) from countries that claim to support international law.
Mark Warner: "I saw no intelligence that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States. None."
"courts are regularly degrading Section 230’s protections...[this post recaps] 30 times Section 230 did not apply (many in the 9th Circuit) from case law and in the statute itself" 📉
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Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war.
Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East.
No war with Iran.
There are currently two ongoing cases related to Cambridge Analytica: The Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear the Facebook and OPC case on March 19, while the Superior Court of the District of Columbia will hear the Facebook and District of Columbia case on April 7.
THIS.
The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.
While we were focused on the DoW's AI kill plans, humans were planning plenty of killing.
Here’s a conundrum for you: fit the two red lines Anthropic didn’t want to forgo into the EU AI Act’s red lines under Article 5.
🦗 🦗 🦗
First thing: military use, out of scope.
But even as dual use technology: 🦗 🦗 🦗
Should egregious red lines not be spelled out? Or is it an oversight?
The bombing will continue until morale improves...
Timeline of events: Today at 9:04pm. No response yet to my calls or messages to @DarioAmodei. Today at 825pm, @AnthropicAI writes “we have not received direct communication from the Department of War.” Today: 5:14pm SecWar tweets supply chain risk designation. Today: I call Dario’s business partner at 5:02pm asking to speak to Dario because he hasn’t gotten back to me. She is typing while we speak and likely has lawyers in the room with no notification to me (that’s a guess! CA is a two party consent law so am hoping no laws were broken!). Says she “will try to locate him.” Today: I call Dario at 5:01. No Answer. I message Dario asking to talk as well. Today: Dario sends an email with redlines 3:51pm Today: @POTUS sends Truth at 3:47pm Yesterday: I email Dario comments at 10:54pm. Does this sound like GOOD FAITH
Takes an innovative mind to muddle something as basic and intuitive as a timeline
"President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters that such efforts could interfere with artificial intelligence-related services."
