Flutterby™! (short)

LA Ten Four: Fishing With Flashing Lights: New Report Shows Pretextual Stops Still Racially Biased

Recent data shows Black and Latino drivers continue to be disproportionately affected by the practice. Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson revealed that he himself has been pulled over four times, and had even missed a meeting that week because of it.

References Catalyst California: Stop the Stops: Ending Racially Biased and Ineffective LAPD Traffic Stops

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show.

The person familiar with the breach said the intrusion was carried out by a foreign hacker who did not appear ​to realize they had penetrated ⁠a law enforcement server. The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said.

Via that genehack guy from that dead bird site ‪@extremely.website‬ who noted:

This remake of The Cuckoo’s Egg kinda sucks.

Hit ⌘-space to bring up Spotlight, mistyped "squicktime", and... I'm not sure whether to be bummed or relieved that it gave me no results.

We've been singing with various local community song circle groups for a while, Marv Zauderer's group down in Marin, Janice Hardy's group here in Petaluma with Janice Hardy (I've been collecting those songs here).

I mentioned that Marv's hosting Riomas was super powerful, and we came home and immediately pre-ordered Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation by Riomas.

We've seen this movement blossom with the media coverage of the singing resistance in Minneapolis, there's gonna be a lot of song at the next No Kings rally, and seems like in a lot of other places.

Anyway, as awesome as it is to have all of this modern music flowing through song leaders, it's useful to keep track of the history: Elaine Kolb's 1981 Let's Get Together has been published, with her agreement, on Archive.org.

Trying to figure out how I feel about this one: Ian Betteridge: Zen fascists will control you..., on how narratives of "the garden"/Eden/unsullied state, and "star people"/being special are mechanisms of control.

And I suspect that a lot of what I'm struggling with in it directly relates to my Waldorf schooling and some of the value and unease I've discovered in "Human Potential Movement" adjacent things.

David Zipper in Bloomberg CityLab: The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong, pointing out that by normalizing to deaths per mile we're missing the sprawl that deaths per capita captures.

Although I think even deaths per mile captures some of our fixation on oversized vehicles.

Thread of Randy Herman ‪@randyhermanlaw.com‬ live-skeeting about , in which DOJ Attorney Used Fabricated Quotes in Court Filing

“Because of the seriousness of these issues,” senior leaders from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina must appear at a show cause hearing next week for why the civil litigator responsible shouldn’t be sanctioned and why the entire office shouldn’t be held jointly responsible, US Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers said in a March 2 order.

‪Randy Herman‬ ‪@randyhermanlaw.com‬

Judge: there are errors in multiple documents. I think the evidence contradicts your statement that this was not done intentionally. Candidly, I need you to give me a full explanation.

Via Chris Geidner and via Tara Calishain.

Market uptake: Asa Dotzler‬ ‪@asadotzler.com‬

Less than 3% of Microsoft Office's business users pay for Copilot.

AI features Microsoft was so certain of that 2 years ago it pressured OEMs to add a Copilot key to PC keyboards, has no meaningful traction. Frickin NFTs outsold Copilot.

Big Tech CEOs exist in a state of constant and acute hubris.

‪Asa Dotzler‬ ‪@asadotzler.com‬

In the 40s, doctors began performing lobotomies with off the shelf ice picks. But those would sometimes break off in the patient's head so the orbitoclast was developed, a surgical grade ice pick.

In the 2020s the oribitoclast has been replaced by a newer, more effective tool called generative AI.

Grammarly introduced "Expert Review", in which they co-opted the good names of prominent people as editorial styles:

Note: References to experts in Expert Review are for informational purposes only and do not indicate any affiliation with Grammarly or endorsement by those individuals or entities.

Leading to many of those experts saying "eeew, gross".

Casey Newton: Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it (Via).

Ingrid Burrington ‪@lifewinning.com‬

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

‪jennifer uncoolidge‬ ‪@histoftech.bsky.social‬

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

Laura Hazard Owen at Nieman Lab: A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” (Via)

Maureen Ryan: An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants (Via Chuck Wendig)

Kevin M. Kruse:

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

The MeFi thread.

Addendum: PRF Law: Class Action Alleges That Grammarly Misappropriated the Names of Journalists and Authors Through its “Expert Review” That Lets Users Get Feedback on Writing From Experts. Go get 'em, Peter Romer-Friedman!

Business Insider: Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation

As mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca observed:

“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.

Via a bunch of places, Senator Chris Murphy (Connecticut) BlueSky thread on an Iran briefing.

Details seep out in case against horny bishop who frequented Tijuana mega-brothel

Emanuel Shaleta from Saint Peter’s Chaldean in East County allegedly stole at least $270,000 from his church, which he claimed he gave away to the needy.

I'mma nominate the hardworking women at the Hong Kong Gentleman’s Club in Tijuana’s Zona Norte red-light district as "the needy". Via

Volpeon @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .

Fuck me, The BEAM Chronicles has me on pins and needles waiting for the next episode... promised Monday.

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social

GenAI: really putting "break things" into "move fast and break things"

Liam Proven @lproven@vivaldi.net

RT @ghidraninja

Simple age check for Linux:

Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.

If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip addr they deserve to be restricted from their computer 😇

Hearing comparisons of using LLMs for coding to the same sort of revolution that word processors brought to skilled typists.

And wow does that say a lot about what those people think software is.