Joel Coon

Father, Husband, Son, Brother. Freeborn, Liberal. If you are explaining then you are losing. Willie, Waylon, Johnny, Merle and Kris.

[Joel Coon @JCPolitics]

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. - Willie Stark (Robert Penn Warren)

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

.@RSI's @MarrrkDalton driving home the point I made earlier - if we want to ban Fable by citizenship, it would take not age verification - but CITIZENSHIP verification as a precursor to access the AI. And even that's not enough

"User nationality is not a registration question, geolocation is easily spoofed with a commercial Virtual Private Network (VPN), and nothing in the Fable directive prevents a U.S. person from querying the model and forwarding outputs to a foreign national.

The deemed export provision, which treats use by any foreign national on U.S. soil as an instance of exporting the product, made compliance by Anthropic completely impossible. You cannot geofence a foreign-born engineer sitting in your San Francisco office. As a result, Anthropic was forced to revoke access to everyone."

[Joel Coon @JCPolitics]

@DrCalumMiller And that is 100% the parents job.
This is about doxxing everyone on the Internet, so they can censor their speech and punish them for political speech. But you know that and are just being dishonest because you believe that your enemies will be censored and not you.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The feds are right to tell the UK that forcing people to show ID online "chills free speech."

Shame they won't say the same about American states, where similar laws are being introduced.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

You’re not taking on tech billionaires with these policies, you’re fueling their massive data harvesting industry and allowing them to collect even MORE data on children, among other harmful things abt this policy

[Jonathon Kitson @KitsonJ1]

Under these proposals at 17 you’ll be able to vote, join the army and drive a car but not allowed to watch premier league highlights on YouTube on a Saturday night. What an absurd idea.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

UK Regulator Targets World Cup Social Media Speech

https://t.co/VUtS5bGork

[Bruges Group 🇬🇧 @BrugesGroup]

The government has now adopted two fundamentally contradictory positions:

First, that 16 and 17-year olds are mature enough to vote.

Second, that 16 and 17-year olds are not mature enough to manage their own social media use.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Censors always think they are on the “right side of history.“

Always.

But history has more directions than two.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

1) Apple device face scans STAY ON DEVICE. These do not. I also refuse to use my own biometrics for my devices.

2) The backup method is government IDs. This will be necessary in many millions of instances bc facial age estimation is notoriously often wrong. In some cases it needs to figure out get years or days of life - an impossible task.

3) These systems have breached over and over again. And this creates thousands or millions of victims of identity theft. Au10tix, Tea App, Discord's vendor, and more recently one used for weed clubs in Spain

Playing this down as trivial is a wild take.

[Joel Coon @JCPolitics]

@jessicaelgot This is completely insane. You are either a fool or a facist.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history.

Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets.

The watchdog became the lapdog.

[Joel Coon @JCPolitics]

@GMFWashington More a Bluesky thing but plenty of that here too.

[George MF Washington @GMFWashington]

My favorite new Twitter genre is “I’m a loser who has failed at life but you should totally listen to my ideas about how to upend and fundamentally transform our entire capitalist economic system”

[Joel Coon @JCPolitics]

I’m part of the 29% of Dems and the others are wrong.

[Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki]

NBC News poll: How proud are you to be an American?

Overall
Extremely/very 56%
Not very/none 21%

Extremely/very by party:
GOP 90%
Dem 29%

By age:
65+ 75%
18-34 36%

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

On regulating AI, @friedberg is right to point out that we already have laws against creating bio weapons and many cyber crimes (hacking, espionage, etc.).

And @chamath is right that if some of what is being contemplated now for AI was applied to the internet, America's digital ecosystem would be much less free and much more akin to China's.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Reminder that Doctors Without Borders spent two years at Nasser Hospital before admitting Hamas was using it as a terror base.

During that stretch, the group refused to treat 20 Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid workers wounded by Hamas, leaving them to die in the courtyard

[Simone Kanter @SimoneKanter]

This remains one of the most unhinged things ever admitted on the record by a candidate for public office. To the NYT no less.

“I admit that I am trafficking in a deeply problematic lie. I know I am doing it, it makes me really uncomfortable, but I must do it to win. And so I will.” — Brad Lander

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Censorship rarely wears a name tag.

It shows up in disguises like government jawboning, a social media tax, and conference security removing researchers for sharing the organizer’s own editorial

The costumes change. The principle does not.

https://t.co/gCM4SiDZNT

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

This is another example of how so many organizations are hijacked by partisan political activism. Regardless of your stance on Israel-Palestine, the notion that someone is expelled from an organization for not adopting highly-ideologically charged positions is troubling.

[Alyssa 🌻 @alyssaleann]

Brits experiencing biscuits and gravy for the first time is one of the more amusing ones to me — I knowwww y’all have pork sausage, flour, black pepper, and milk, and our biscuits are similar to your scones

This is very doable for you!!!