Tarrah Callahan

Executive Director @CCJRNC. Pragmatic Criminal Justice Reform. Accountability, efficiency, and fairness. Solutions oriented. Retweets are not endorsements.

[Rep. Michael Cloud @RepMichaelCloud]

The House is voting today on a short-term FISA extension.

The American people deserve a Congress that protects their Fourth Amendment rights. A warrant requirement is not a radical ask. It is the Constitution.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[Lapel Intel @LapelIntel]

Data center scaler @EdgeConneX adds lobbyist in North Carolina with Focus Public Affairs amid ratepayer protection, data center tax incentive changes.

MORE: Big Tech consultants @Slalom in Seattle, WA, add @MVA_LAW lobbyists in NC.
https://t.co/rgUgyvKfHZ #NCPOL #NCGA

[Tarrah Callahan @TarrahCallahan]

It’s not that we can’t see how all of these AI vendors have solutions that address real world problems.

It’s that no one is talking about how much more broadly the impact is.

If you’re being told your concerns aren’t valid, it’s not because they aren’t - it’s because the vendor knows your voice doesn’t matter.

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

Your local government really said, “We can’t fix the potholes, but we can absolutely track who drove over them.”

AI Cameras can turn ordinary driving into searchable location history, showing where a vehicle was seen, when it was seen, and how often it appears.

#Surveillance

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

The question is not whether these cameras can sometimes help police.

The question is whether the government should track everyone’s movements just in case they might want to search them later.

That answer should be easy.

#DeFlock #Privacy #Flock
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[CCJR-NC @CCJRNC]

Did you now that by simply texting people to remind them of their court date can cut down on costly missed court appearance in North Carolina by 30-40%?! #ncpol #ncga #pretrialsolutions #smartoncrime

[Right On Crime @RightOnCrime]

A missed court date can be easily avoided 📱

Text notifications are a low cost, common sense way to improve court appearances in North Carolina, and reduce further involvement from the system.

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

Data centers are a growing concern in North Carolina - and it’s one of the rare issues that both sides of the aisle seem to agree on.

I’m on my way to have a discussion with a techie about the growing problem.

Do you have any questions you’d like me to ask? Drop them! 👇🏼

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

South Carolina, I need you to hear this clearly.

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 9th, you have the power to remove @LindseyGrahamSC from the United States Senate. Decades in Washington and what does South Carolina have to show for it?

1. Open borders,
2. Endless foreign wars and,
3. A ruling class that answers to donors before it answers to you.

This is not about party. This is about accountability. Get to your polling place tomorrow and vote @MarkLynchSC for United States Senate.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This guy's chickens kept getting targeted by hawks, so he started feeding local crows. Now he has an army of crows that patrols his property and chases the hawks away.

[Right On Crime @RightOnCrime]

If someone leaves prison without a job, a place to live, or a path forward, the odds are stacked against them.

Arizona State Director @KurtMAltman recently discussed why effective reentry support, especially for women, is one of the smartest investments we can make to reduce recidivism and strengthen public safety. https://t.co/4TyDHVMWWr

[Rep. Mike Schietzelt @mikefor35]

This hearing has exemplified people's frustration with government.

No one accepts responsibility. No one provides transparency. Everyone "acknowledges the tragedy," then circles the wagons to avoid accountability.

It's disgusting.

[Margo @MargoinWNC]

Good news for North Carolinians!

[Tarrah Callahan @TarrahCallahan]

@MargoinWNC @KnowsElijah @MargoinWNC @LapelIntel - does an incredible job of tracking and analyzing what industries are hiring NC lobbyists (and how many) to advance any of these polices.

Good way to know where and why these things are coming to NC!

[Tarrah Callahan @TarrahCallahan]

This is such an important discussion.
The clearance rate in NC remains below 50%.

Our policies must balance the impulse to enhance criminal penalties and create more crimes with solutions that actually help us solve and prevent crime if we’re going to make NC safe again!

[Right On Crime @RightOnCrime]

Clearance rates helps measure how often crimes are solved. In Texas, roughly 2 out of every 3 homicides are cleared. For sexual assaults, it's closer to 1 in 4.

Each statistic represents a victim, family, and community still waiting for justice.

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

🚨HEAD’S UP, NC🚨

Why are power bills going up? I can tell you why in NC.

Duke asked the North Carolina Utilities Commission to approve an increase to customer’s costs by 15% over the next two years.

But why?

Try this on for size: Duke Energy has a net profit of $5B! Yet they expect us to pay for a new fleet, diversified portfolios, coal ash cleanup, solar panels, and a storm reserve.

That’s right. The increase in our cost isn’t for better service. It’s so that they can keep up their profit margins AND expand to rake in even more of our hard earned dollars.

Why are we subsidizing a company’s growth and funding their capital investments?

And is the NCUC going to approve this pay increase?

[Mark Lynch for U.S. Senate @MarkLynchSC]

This is treasonous.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

Imagine your dog trapped in a metal coffin for her entire life. She cannot go outside. She cannot walk. She cannot even turn around to see what's behind her. She is forced to live this way her entire life.

This is the mind-blowing that the pork industry is not just trying to hide, but trying to force YOU to accept through underhanded tactics. It has slipped this provision (the Save Our Bacon Act) into the Farm Bill, legislation that otherwise does things like fund food stamps.

But now that is all being exposed. The NYTimes published an op ed yesterday condemning the corruption and abuse and calling the fight for animals "one of the great but incomplete moral revolutions of our lifetime."

Columnist @NickKristof will be remembered by history for his moral prescience. But this is all being exposed not just because of Kristof. My friend @joshbalk has worked tirelessly to lobby legislators. @Lewis_Bollard has relentlessly pushed this story on social media. @leah_garces has worked for years to successfuly win over allies from within the industry. And, most important, countless Americans like you have raised YOUR voice.

Stories like this NYT piece are in many ways the product of the small efforts of millions. Every person who shares on social media, tells their friends or co-workers about the corruption they've read about, or sheds a quiet tear for these defenseless creatures — you are the ones triggering this moral revolution.

And exposure is just the beginning. Soon, because of you, every animal will be freed from their tormenter's cage.

[Hannah Cox @HannahDCox]

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[Lapel Intel @LapelIntel]

The Coast as Exception: How North Carolina's waterfront counties lobby for special state policy rules. https://t.co/rgUgyvKfHZ | Edition 6 | #NCGA | #NCPOL