Jeffrey Vagle

Law professor | Privacy, cybersecurity, technology ethics | Veteran

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2024-04-08 21:25:39

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@npub1md8…lhh6 Deep cut. I'd settle for Zaphod's scratched pair rn.

2024-04-06 00:27:39

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@npub1sdt…96z3 The overt stupidity gets laundered through X's bluecheck network.

2024-04-06 00:19:08

AI* won't kill us by creating Skynet.
It will only have to post dangerous BS on platforms seeking "engagement" (read: $), and we'll destroy one another because we believed a stochastic gradient descent algorithm over actual journalists (who've been laid off).
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-ai-chatbot-grok-fake-news-trending-explore

2024-04-05 21:22:40

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@npub178r…qekt this is one of the lesser known functions of the kidneys, I believe.

2024-04-01 01:42:44

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@npub1sdt…96z3 Folks were touting him as presidential.

2024-04-01 00:51:43

Has anyone shown Eric Adams Eliza? Be the first through the door on that one and you might be able to walk out of City Hall with a big, fat check.

2024-03-26 18:18:40

Be prepared to see this reposted by every academic you know, for very good reasons.
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/what-do-professors-do

2024-03-25 15:47:43

When considering legislation, we should always ask of it, "What could someone operating in bad faith do with this law?"
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/03/25/under-new-immigration-law-dps-plans-to-arrest-only-migrants-seen-crossing-rio-grande/

2024-03-23 05:46:05

“The F.T.C.’s report examining U.S. grocery supply chains finds that dominant firms used this moment to come out ahead at the expense of their competitors and the communities they serve.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/grocery-prices-pandemic-ftc.html

2024-03-20 02:56:15

“Universities are conservative institutions, steeped in tradition. When they elevate computing to the status of a college, with departments and a budget, they are declaring it a higher-order domain of knowledge and practice, akin to law or engineering.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/computing-college-cs-majors/677792/?utm_source=msn

2024-03-18 23:33:01

Like so many Supreme Court cases these days, Murthy v. Missouri is built atop a heap of fake facts, a problem that has often been ignored by certain justices, when it suits them.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/supreme-court-conservatives-5th-circuit-dumb-case.html

2024-03-18 13:51:44

Private equity is cannibalizing the music industry like it already has so many others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/opinion/private-equity-music-spotify.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk0.lr9d.F5jyquyjV5x1&smid=url-share

2024-03-15 16:08:07

I'm with @npub1nzk…k33d
This article is a form of my favorite genre of legal scholarship: “you all are making an important mistake about how the technology works.”
https://cyber.jotwell.com/debunking-ais-supposed-fairness-accuracy-tradeoff/

2024-02-28 00:44:50

If a law or regulation can be interpreted in a bad faith way that props up conservative minority rule, there is a judge within CA5 who will do so at the earliest opportunity.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-texas-rules-congressional-passage-2022-spending-bill-unconstitutional-2024-02-27/

2024-02-20 03:16:17

“People who identify as rural but are not rural residents…also pose an issue in accounting for the urban–rural divide: if many non-rural people hold rural identities, then how rural is this identity really?”
https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/article-details/63120eabbc257b6406d8bea1

2024-02-10 04:42:11

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@npub1sdt…96z3 The latest example that made not sense to me described the “soldiers” who died aboard the USS Cole.

2024-02-10 04:41:17

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@npub1sdt…96z3 USMC -> Marines; Navy -> Sailors; AF -> Airmen; Army -> Soldiers

2024-02-10 04:32:31

Perhaps I’m being overly pedantic, but I’m still not a fan of journalists generically referring to Marine, Navy, and Air Force personnel as “soldiers.”

2024-02-08 18:13:53

Justice Alito expresses deep concern for a potential national "cascading effect" of a decision by the Court.
(pause for laughter)

2023-09-18 21:18:25

Nothing says "freedom" like a good old-fashioned book burning.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article279475914.html
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2023-09-13 20:30:29

"We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There's been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. It’s a dynamic that has to change. We've got to kill that attitude and that has to come through hurting the economy."
https://x.com/FinancialReview/status/1701440109948887057?s=20

2023-09-12 14:31:56

"As Nate Silver has drifted more openly into the world of punditry over the past few years, he’s tried to cling to his I’m just the data guy! routine while abandoning data in favor of vibes and what he wants to be true. In doing so, he’s given himself quite a few very obvious blind spots."
https://www.readtpa.com/p/theres-a-lot-of-is-biden-too-old

2023-09-11 18:54:52

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@npub102d…s0l2 @npub1ec7…933z It's getting harder for me to properly calibrate this level.

2023-09-10 23:19:22

We're living in a world where unstable oligarchs are explaining to the world that the animals they killed for business purposes were all going to die anyway.
How many dystopian stories start with some version of this?

2023-09-10 17:38:21

"[W]hen kids across America suit up this fall to square off on the gridiron, every hit will matter, every 'ding' and every bell rung will count toward an unspecified number past which the brain might be permanently impaired."
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/cte-impact-young-football-players-1234804580/

2023-08-27 16:58:24

NLRB's new FAFO Rule: "[i]f an employer who seeks an election commits any unfair labor practice that would require setting aside the election, the petition will be dismissed, and the NLRB will order the employer to recognize and bargain with the union."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3xej/companies-that-union-bust-must-now-automatically-recognize-union-nlrb-rules

2023-08-20 03:34:07

Goodnight from Finn. #DogsOfMastodon
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2023-08-19 00:16:12

FBI to Trumpist lackeys threatening Fulton County officials and grand jurors: See y'all real soon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/08/18/fbi-joins-investigation-threats-grand-jurors-trump-georgia-case/

2023-08-05 15:15:46

Someone's been reading @npub1cpk…tfh0
https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-136/the-imperial-supreme-court/
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