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Yeah, I sorta expected the punchline to be "this 17,000 lines of code became 2,000" but it is still about the same quantity. Kinda interesting. Also interesting that the last chang…

This is such a nice piece, this is how people should write about AI. Specific, grounded to how the tools are actually being used, and quantitative. There is so much bad AI commenta…

It doesn't matter. Providing a PIN that will cause an officer to inadvertently delete data clearly is covered by the statute: "Whoever, before, during, or after any search for or s…

"At what point do you have to maintain property so the government can use it to testify against yourself?" For the duration of the border search. This guy is at risk because he cau…

The language in the statute of what constitutes "destruction" is very broad and clearly covers IMO giving a self-destruct password to someone who you know will try to enter it. "Wh…

Hmm. It looks like the government asserts that they can seize a device if the owner does not provide a password. This is a good point and answers my search v. seizure objection abo…

Here is the indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28513012-samuel-tuni... Here is the statute Tunick is indicted under: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/223…

Yes, the First Amendment applies to all people within the territory of the United States equally. US law does not limit the political speech of non-citizens present on visas.

Fair enough, but it is also valid to be angry at your local law enforcement if they are acting against the community's preferences. Especially when local law enforcement is breakin…

To your question - A state judge cannot be required to hold someone on behalf of federal agents. That's federalism 101 and settled law. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sanctua…

"You can beat the rap but not the ride" is phrased like the judge actually did anything wrong. That seems very doubtful. This administration has shown they are not entitled to the …

Source?

Given the circumstances, the government absolutely does have an obligation to present its evidence up front. You cannot use federal agents to arrest officers of a state government …

This doesn't really have any fifth amendment implications. The prohibition against self incrimination reads "no person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness a…

No, a "publicity stunt" is not the best way to describe this latest escalation in the Trump administration's campaign to destroy the rule of law in America. It may be deliberately …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit Owners: Advance Publications (30%), Tencent (11%), Sam Altman (9%)

Definitely, and a lot of that haircut actually happened in between when the deal was signed and when it closed, too. That was right when interest rates went up and Musk tried to wr…

Oh yeah I totally agree with that framing. I find this fascinating intellectually because of the deal dynamics and worthy of critique but agree that the tone of some of the comment…

And also Sam Altman doesn't own either OpenAI or Reddit, lol.

What do you mean, what's going on? The judge rejected Musk's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Meaning that the suit against him is going forward. Which is the correct outcome, becaus…

It's all private capital. The only people who are exposed to this deal are the banks who make loans to Musk and Twitter, and the investors who put capital in to take Twitter privat…

The commenter also included past presidents, which is silly. Once a president is a past president, he no longer controls that military apparatus.

Fair enough, edited to just revenue. But those are just datacenters bought with VC money - my intent was to say that xAI's resources are basically just the investment they've recei…

As best I can tell the deal includes paying off $12 billion of Twitter debt. So that's real money, though that seems like it's basically all of the cash that xAI has raised, so if …

What's the source / evidence for that? If the xAI shareholders really are all fine with it there's no ethical issue. But they have to be basically unanimously ok with the deal. Eve…