Joseph Jerome

@duckduckgo.com filed an amicus brief yesterday in Google’s absurd appeal that it isn’t a monopoly. We explain how Google’s actions harmed not just competition but also undermined people’s ability to protect their privacy. spreadprivacy.com/google-appea... #antitrust

Facebook's last update on its vaunted App Developer Investigation was in September 2019. I wrote an amicus brief in November 2020 calling into question Facebook's commitment to the ADI. epic.org/wp-content/u...

Why do people in our society constantly feel qualified to pontificate on things they “know nothing about”?

And the AI industry receives sales tax exemptions, property tax abatements, bonus depreciation & preferential tax treatment for investors. If AI takes jobs, the tax base shrinks further: ~3/4 of fed. tax revenue comes from taxes on labor. Now is the time to tax AI.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

“Untethered to truth: We think those words are precise.”

Alternative headline: House of Mouse buys failed child suicide chatbot company at a discount. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Private companies may be building AI almost entirely on their own, but they shouldn’t be shaping the rules. Props to VPA for focusing on the public interest.

If not the most embarrassing @bostonu.bsky.social commencement speaker, he’s close. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.

This is appalling on so many levels, but what seems worse to me is that it reflects a profound lack of empath. I always thought Justice Alito a bit of a robot.

“With 56 appearances, Donald Trump has now appeared on TIME’s cover more often than any other individual, surpassing President Richard Nixon, who held the record for more than half a century.” www.cnn.com/newsletters/...

Maybe Google will just change it when you look up OpenAI’s office in Maps?

Privacy lawyers explaining federal privacy legislation and tech lobbyists efforts over the last decade:

At the end of the day, lying is bad, reflects @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

Abusing "a/c priv" has become a joke across Big Tech. www.law360.com/articles/252...

“The problem, which tech companies have surely realized, is that this “warn and record” design approach is fundamentally incompatible with the established social norms of shared spaces.”

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

Who possibly would have thought that Google would slow walk even the court's most meager of remedies? #Maliciouscompliance is the ballgame for a monopolist. www.mlex.com/mlex/artific...

None of these terms are more elegant or accurate, but this is what passes for AI policy from the White House now.

With the US strategic defeat by Iran, what are the long held assumptions that must be revised? "All the foundations of the unipolar world have vanished. " @policytensor sums up what we have learned since February. Hard to disagree with any of them.

Our lawmakers do not want to make laws.

For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

By the end of last season, watching #Packers games was a chore. Sad to say it seems that’s continued.

My favorite part of @ryanselvy.com’s takedown of @wmata.com’s design changes is the VR cameo. Good to see a Meta Quest 2 in action! www.instagram.com/reel/DdMs9wI...

The amount of ink spilled over the specifications of this damn surveillance glass light is a convenient distraction from the larger ethics of these things.

It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...

New from me: The NY Times piece criticized Mamdani for using influencers to share his agenda. But negativity bias means that legacy media like the Times does not cover substantive government stories about Mamdani trying to make the government work better. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/publish/post...

The people have spoken. We are working.

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

Absolute cowards: blog.google/products-and...

The backlash to data centers, Flock, Meta glasses, and AI, is loud, animated, bipartisan, and wielding real power. It's the most popular and united political movement in the nation right now, and it's still growing. So of course Silicon Valley is in complete denial.

Nothing stops Meta. www.barrons.com/articles/met...

I watched 8 hours of Roku’s 24/7 AI slop channel (bc I hate myself) to try and figure out: Who on Earth is this for? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Jason Kelce is something. kotaku.com/liquid-death...

It is in our nature to destroy ourselves.

There is no data that Google won’t try to grab.

Tell that to … CNN.

Wanna bet Meta’s excited about about their pervert glasses? They’re breaking through more than previous generations of glasses, and they aren’t even trying with their privacy talking points. archive.ph/2IjmT

Tired: Glasshole Wired: Metahole (but I also like Zuck-eyed or Faceborg)

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

Google restricted key Android features to its own apps. When the European Commission asked us what we thought about about it, we had plenty to say. And they listened. Alphabet must now open up 11 Android features to third-party assistants. Read more 👇

You almost have to feel for Google’s content moderation team, but “Don’t be evil” hasn’t been the rule of the road for awhile.