I don't pretend to be a great lawyer. I'll never have a billboard on the side of the highway and I'll never be a household name.

But I've been representing protesters facing charges since 2018 and in that time I've had one conviction and zero time spent incarcerated. And I'm proud of that, I admit.

Note for Americans:

Your constitution (for awful slavery-related reasons) is intentionally vague about how states conduct elections and places absolutely no constraints on the state’s abilities to select (not necessarily elect) their Representatives, Senators, or Electoral College members. State constitutions may impose such restrictions, but in cases where they do not, there is nothing preventing a state from passing a law that says that, in the event of election interference at a polling station by officers of the Federal government, ballots from that station will not be counted and, instead, all eligible voters will be counted as if they voted against the candidate of the party that holds the executive branch (with some mechanism for dividing the votes if there is more than one such candidate). Or simply to disqualify all candidates standing for that party in such cases and still count remaining votes.

• Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile
• people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
• now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

#TIL about the ctrl-z award!

"Administered by The Center for Scientific Integrity, the parent nonprofit of Retraction Watch, the annual award honors both early-career and senior researchers who exemplify integrity in the face of perceived professional risk. (In fact, researchers who correct their own work rarely face reputation penalties.)

The award’s name, pronounced “control-zee,” is inspired by the universal keyboard shortcut for the “undo” command. By honoring those who have the courage to “hit undo” on flawed research, the award aims to shift the narrative around scientific errors and highlight the importance of transparency."

https://retractionwatch.com/ctrl-z-award/

I'll show myself out.

#cartoons #humour #photography

I was just in a meeting where someone used a thing called Fathom to get an 'AI' summary of the meeting. Aside from some understandable typos arising from not understanding terms of art and replacing them with common English words, one of the key points that it concluded was that A was faster than B. It reached this conclusion because it missed one of the digits in the time for A. This completely inverted the key takeaway from one important section of the meeting.

Do not use plausible-nonsense generators for anything important.

I'm doing some research, and am curious what your company is doing with AI:

(this is to help me know what kinds of issues to address in my training material)