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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 9h

A D+ movie with soundtrack that makes it feel like an A-

Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 17h

Rules for warrantless border searches of electronic devices have become complex and convoluted - you can @cdt.org analysis if you want to see the full legal landscape of what rules apply at each airport across the country:
cdt.org/insights/no-...

Map titled “Judicial Requirements of ‘Forensic Searches’ When Crossing the Border.” Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington are marked in light blue, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Digital Contraband.” Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia are marked in teal, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Ongoing Border-Crimes.” Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island are marked in dark blue, denoting “Reasonable Suspicion of Border-Crimes.” Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota are marked in orange, denoting “No Suspicion Required.” The remaining states are marked in grey, denoting “No Clear Rule.”

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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 18h

Apple has removed at least three ICE-tracking apps from the App Store. WIRED spoke with the developers about where they go from here. from @thiccreese.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Apple Took Down ICE-Tracking Apps. Their Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

www.wired.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18h

Oh the power, brilliance & collaborative spirit of the Vision & Justice Now conference - co-hosted by V&J founder & Harvard professor Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and the @the14thcenter.bsky.social at @howardlawschool.bsky.social in New York this week. (Yes, this was the real line-up. Not A.I.) 🧵

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 22h

This is the courthouse where the TRO hearing on the National Guard deployment will be held later today. This is extremely disturbing.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 20h

Interesting area in this space is Altman calling for chatbots to be given privilege status equivalent to a lawyer/doctor

www.forbes.com/sites/jasons...

OpenAI: ChatGPT Wants Legal Rights. You Need The Right To Be Forgotten.

As ChatGPT seeks legal rights, users face a new reality: AI remembers everything. The right to be forgotten may be the last freedom we truly control.

www.forbes.com

Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 21h

It certainly would not be unimaginable for an AI company to invoke 230 in litigation, but beyond the merits I think it would be a pretty shortsighted move - these companies should want chatbots labeled as company speech subject to 1A protections

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 21h

sorry didn't mean to mansplain, just seemed like a more open-end Q on the issue

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 21h

And for AI companies labeling their chatbots as company speech (as opposed to third party speech that's covered by Section 230) provides a critical shield in other, probably more important, ways. Most notably in combatting government demands that chatbots not exhibit "political bias"

A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump

He’s threatening them with deceptive business practice complaints.

www.theverge.com

Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 21h

Section 230 is a liability shield for hosting third party content online - there's potentially an argument AI chatbots are covered, but I think it would be very tough, common view (even from Altman) is that the company's chatbot is speech from the company

www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

Article text:
The big question for OpenAI is whether it will attempt to use Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a defense — which shields platforms from culpability for what users post on them. That framework, however, has been challenged in the AI age, because it’s those companies’ servers providing messages through their chatbots, rather than external users.

CEO Sam Altman has previously said AI companies shouldn’t be relying on that defense. When asked if that law applies to OpenAI’s product in a Senate hearing in 2023, he responded, “I don’t think Section 230 is even the right framework.”

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 1d

"New lists! New lists!"

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge in Chicago says ICE violated a consent decree with warrantless arrests. blockclubchi.co/4nGUOQ8

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 2d

Only remember this because of the hilarious “my summer abroad as a mailing it in essay for my creative nonfiction class” style op ed about Australia

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 2d

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

arstechnica.com

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 2d

During an exchange with Senator Kennedy on DOJ subpoenas for Senators' phone records Attorney General Bondi claims that such records require probable cause to be seized?

That is incorrect, and a pretty shocking lack of knowledge on the law regarding a very important and basic Fourth Amendment issue

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 3d

Happening amid efforts underway in Congress to abolish its own authority for Senate confirmation of the CIA General Counsel.

Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 3d

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

www.nytimes.com

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Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @clemens.vasters.com · 3d

Techmeme front page:

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Rachel Levinson-Waldman @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social · 3d

Great piece from @dell.bsky.social at @wired.com about ICE's newest foray into social media monitoring: the agency is putting out feelers for contractors who can do on-site, open source intel 24/7 for ICE's Targeting Operations Division (TOD). 1/ www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 3d

Ironic considering Leahy spent his Senate career was one of the greatest champions of privacy in the digital era - I expect he'd be appalled at the idea of ICE pushing forward with pervasive social media monitoring

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 3d

Boston Globe follows up on my reporting last Friday, which placed the formation of a new ICE surveillance unit in Vermont.

The Globe asks and answers the question: "Why the hell Vermont?"

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/06/m...

The department’s outsize presence in Vermont is attributable to one man: former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. For nearly half a century, Leahy steered a tsunami of federal funding to the state, particularly after he became the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and then the Senate Appropriations Committee.
In 1991, according to the Burlington Free Press, Leahy helped bring a branch of what was then known as the US Immigration and Naturalization Service to Vermont. Over the next few years, he brought precursors of the National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center and the Law Enforcement Support Center to the state.
“If it can be anywhere, why not have it in Vermont?” the senator said at the time, according to the Free Press.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 3d

"You cannot protest, specifically because you will be at risk of violence by government agents"

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

New from @eileenguo.bsky.social:

“Trying to blunt these efforts to hold federal officers accountable” has the effect of “chilling speech and activism,” says David Greene, the director of civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 3d

-Be proactive about personal health and personal finance
-Treat your free time as precious and worth using well
-Don't let your friendships fade as folks move/marry/have kids
-Be proactive in keeping up with hobbies, art, passions, and little things personal to you that bring joy
-Stretch daily

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?