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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Iirc it’s even funnier: the relevant case law comes from Naruto v Slater. A case about a monkey taking a selfie and a photographer failing to acquire copyright of it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute).

    The copyright belonged to whoever shot the selfie, but because it was the monkey and animals aren’t juristic entities, they can not hold copyright. Therefore, as it stands and as new case law outlines, AIs are compared to monkeys, in that the copyright would fall onto them but it’s not a juristic entities either, and therefore copyright just vanishes and no one can claim it.

    The wikipedia page suggests current cases on generative AI directly build on this.



  • This is more of a “be aware of your footprint” and less of a “security concern”. This post is pressing hard on the fear of data getting stolen, however none of these things are major ways in which your data gets stolen.

    It’s phishing, social engineering, default configurations, weak passwords, no MFA, compromised online-services and supply-chain-attacks, and then, and only then are we even talking about actual CVEs in your local system and app environment. And usually we are talking old ones; for apps which you haven’t updates in a while, as they are the most common.

    What I’m saying is for your target audience, this is exactly the wrong thing to focus on. Tech savvy users might wanna look into this but they are very likely aware of all these things, and amateurs definitely should focus their brain on basic security practices.



  • https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/remove/

    This tracks. According to this data the percentage of removal enforcements for people without conviction [imo wrongfully deported] climbed from around 35% to 75% between 2021 and 2024.

    To put it plainly: in 2024 ICE deported 75% for nothing. Just vibes. And this is specifically ICE, any other agency has been excluded from these numbers.

    In fact if you look at the numbers by month and year, we get a percentage of 33.3% for Feb 2021 and 74.9% for Feb 2024 for the same category.

    The ethical boundaries changed. ICE is getting direct instructions to grab anyone who looks suspicious just so they can meet their quota. Currently they are composed of a ragtag team of new hires and people pulled from other agencies with a mind-boggling budget and insane pressure to meet numbers that are unreachable. They are being pressure cooked by their command chain and in that environment of course empathetic people will just sign out and people with an agenda or psychopaths will stay. So the direct command is to focus not only on people with criminal history (which even back then meant people with traffic offenses and other minor violations) but also now people with no criminal record at all, which puts the whole purpose of this agency into question and kind of rips this agency away from it’s core structure and goals.

    For a more fulsome picture of the agency, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbtrdfYqBc

    John Harris shines a light on the change in agency culture and structure by using a list of different sources and data to show their current tasks and goals.






  • legally it depends on local laws.

    Yeah nah. Romeo & Juliet laws don’t cover this because 14 and 20 is too far apart. And you can not legally consent if you’re under 18 in almost all developed countries. There is no legal debate for these countries.

    There definitely are some 14-year-olds that are mature enough to consent.

    Hard disagree. Some will say or act like they consent but at 14 your brain is not fully developed. They might find out how bad of a decision that was only 10 years later. Consent does not only mean verbal or physical agreement, but also to be absolutely sure someone has a full understanding of all actions and consequences, and at 14 you can not presume that. There’s a reason the age of consent is 18. Almost everyone has developed a grasp of these things at 18yo and above.

    He is not a Jeffrey Epstein, but holy shit call it what it is.