Elon Musk is a Nazi. I'm no longer posting on Xitter. Follow me on Mastodon at https://t.co/fhKL5PpJ1V and on my own Web site at https://t.co/kvZyoVw6Gs
Surveillance as a service (SAAS):
The private companies that are providing ouytsourced turnkey traveler surveillance, profiling, and control systems for government customers worldwide:
https://t.co/rbsplSSAc3
From our magazine: After fleeing persecution in Russia, their journey to the United States became a harrowing one thanks to our byzantine immigration policy, dangerous gangs and more, as they risked their lives along our Southern border ... https://t.co/zFoyHRUHtq
Explainer about new "Electronic Travel Authorization" for visitors to UK from US & others countries (like what US already requires):
What ETA it is, what's wrong with it, how it attacks human rights, & how it sets bad example that EU shouldn't follow:
https://t.co/chM0XQHiQq
Trump reverses a Biden administration criminal justice policy that eliminated Department of Justice contracts with private prisons. https://t.co/6KVI189JJY
“This is the community that’s going to rebuild Los Angeles.” day laborers and low wage workers — many undocumented — are the “second responders” who will be central to the recovery effort, many working dangerous jobs or without access to relief. https://t.co/XB41y4Vj66
A Stanford communications professor and AI expert submitted an expert report in a case challenging Minnesota's deepfake law.
The court was not impressed. The expert report included fake citations hallucinated by AI:
Today the TSA published new regulations for the #REAL-ID Act, leaving it unclear who the TSA will allow to #fly without #ID, and who it will prevent from flying without ID, after May 7, 2025.
Analysis of the new rules and what's likely to happen next:
https://t.co/ATQ6bXersK
Human Rights and “Countering Terrorist Travel”: following up on the report of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrrorism and Human Rights:
https://t.co/EDIZnaEF93
This week's net.wars, "Government identification as a service", sees the first casualty of the Online Safety Act and listens to Edward Hasbrouck claim he's an optimist: https://t.co/tBh7qrkG1d
Cory wrote a short story in 2019 about an online support group for people screwed over by the health system who encourage each other to wage violence against insurance CEOs.
Cory let us publish the the story given the obvious timeliness. It's free to read:
https://t.co/fRQ6YpyZgp