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Salomé Viljoen

@salome.bsky.social

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Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · Mar 31

incredible resource here, please share!!

Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · Mar 31

The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️

Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Screenshot of Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 9h

We certainly don't know if Trump would be trying to investigate & prosecute his political critics & opponents if the Court hadn't granted him immunity from criminal prosecutions.

But granting him immunity from liability for sham investigations etc. probably didn't help!!!

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 9h

From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"

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LarryLegend @bwtrainer.bsky.social · 11h

But on the bright side, these things also gulp water, devour thousands of acres of prime farmland, and employ practically no one while getting billions in tax breaks to churn out wrong answers online

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 2d

"The fire department in Jerome Township, Ohio has grown increasingly annoyed at two Amazon data centers...Since the first site was approved by local officials in 2021, first responders have answered a combined 84 emergencies...on top of regular safety inspections" #AI futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

futurism.com

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New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 16h

This is great! 👏

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wants to use bulk purchasing to drive down the up-front costs for building owners to upgrade to high energy efficiency. Experts ❤️ this:

✅ saves money
✅ creates jobs
✅ cuts pollution

#LocalLaw97 #Winning 🧵

www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...

Mamdani says he’d help landlords foot the bill for Local Law 97 building retrofits

The Democratic nominee wants the city to invest in equipment to distribute, he told the audience at a Crain’s mayoral forum.

www.crainsnewyork.com

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 1d

again, these are predictable outcomes, as in many of us predicted this would happen, and yet here we are...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Alito thinks you can have standing to sue over any law that results in more votes for Democrats

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d

“If we can’t use the citizen-led initiative petition process, we’re done, we’re cooked. We don’t even have the ability to do a petition to get the initiative petition process back,” says the president of the League of Women Voters Missouri.

Under this GOP Measure, All of Missouri’s Recent Popular Initiatives Would Have Failed

Lawmakers just advanced a constitutional amendment to drastically raise the bar for approving citizen ballot measures. Voters get to weigh in on the scheme next year.

boltsmag.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 2d

The idea of a U.S. president, all on his own, levying taxes and appropriating revenue would have been entirely alien to the framers.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 2d

Much to agree with in this post. One bone to pick (not even w/ Matthew): reject the "AI companies couldn't predict the bad effects of AI" narrative. it isn't true and it lets companies off the hook. There is *decades* of research from many people who did, in fact, predict many of these harms.

Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest newsletter is about how the generative AI industry made us fear the wrong things.

AGI won't kill us all, and AI won't take our jobs. But it'll still harm us.

Generative AI a paper tiger, with a real tiger behind it.

whatwelost.substack.com/p/generative...

Generative AI is a Paper Tiger with a Real Tiger Behind It

We Were Afraid Of The Wrong Stuff

whatwelost.substack.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Curious what reporters are asking this? in any case, Trump keeps leaning into it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Are you planning to invoke the Insurrection Act?

TRUMP: Well, it's been invoked before. If you look at Chicago -- Chicago is a great city where's a lot of crime and if the governor can't do the job, we'll do that job.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 2d

tapping the sign*

*the sign that says Stephen Miller believes being mean to him = domestic terrorism

skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 2d

The watchlist is just going to be every person in America www.kenklippenstein.com/p/secretive-...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

There are troubling signs the administration aims to attack critics of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and ICE in much the same way that it is attacking immigrant communities. trib.al/cWzElja

Trump’s War on America Is Expanding

The president is now unleashing state violence at home and abroad, illegally and with impunity.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 2d

"restoring trust in news"

Naught But Burning Hot Cola @stickfigured.bsky.social · 2d

I dont want FACTS, I want an absolutely equal 1:1 Democrat:Republican ratio. Each person states their fact or their opinion, the other has to nod, then they hug & we call it a day. Failing that, let a right winger punch a lefty over & over while we make the lefty say, "Fair point." Either way.