David Brody

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Filling out the intake form for a new doctor's office, and I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess that their patient portal was at least partially coded by AI... This does not inspire confidence in their HIPAA compliance.

Screenshot of a "preferred language" dropdown menu showing an exhaustive list of languages, many of which are not spoken in modern times, like "Egyptian (ancient)" and "English, old (ca. 450-1100)".

David Brody@dbrody· 25d

This is a lot of rich information about the tech systems, platforms, and contractors working with ICE as of 2024 (the date of the leaked document).

Screenshot of the leaked document published by 404 Media.

David Brody@dbrody· Jul 18

Court packing has real arms race risks compared to jurisdiction stripping. This dismissal of random draw “Super Circuits” is too cursory. A big SCOTUS problem is how 1-2 justices can build to their big bad cases over years of small bad cases. Breaking the ability for 1-2 people to do that has value.

David Brody@dbrody· May 28

DoD can spend billions on all kinds of random crap for myriad remote contingencies, but they can’t be bothered to get Apple/Google to make a private-by-default implementation of their mobile OS’s for military-issued devices? Like, not even a unique OS; just ship with certain trackers disabled.

David Brody@dbrody· May 23

David Brody@dbrody· May 21

At the 0:08 mark, the rapid fire clip shows someone making the white supremacist "ok" hand gesture.

David Brody@dbrody· May 19

The NYT report actually shortchanges the massive scope of this. This is effectively a complete tax pardon for Trump and his family for anything up to today, regardless of whether IRS had opened an investigation or not. (i.e. “could have been asserted by Defendants”).

David Brody@dbrody· May 8

Tech execs' refusal to shift from growth to value is a costly midlife crisis. Meta's stock soared despite stupid business decisions, deceiving Zuck to think his every whim was genius. But he failed to see the opportunity costs: how much higher would the stock be if he hadn't burned these billions?

Thanks to that, we will all get to watch Mr. Zuckerberg drive the company into the ground. From 2021 to 2026, he poured $80 billion into the Metaverse in the firm belief that we would all want to don headsets and hang out in a virtual world populated by legless avatars. Even after shutting that project down, the company still loses billions a quarter on projects like selling $500 “smart” glasses that are not only unpopular but also give major creep-filming-you-without-consent vibes.

While its adventures in avatars were going nowhere, Meta’s revenues still soared as even more ad dollars moved online in the pandemic. Then in 2022, the revolutionary chatbot ChatGPT burst on the scene, and Mr. Zuckerberg jumped into the A.I. race with an open checkbook. Pontificating about the democratization of A.I., he sank about $100 billion into building an A.I. model that anyone could run on their own machine. But last year, when that model turned out to be too slow, too inaccurate and too unwieldy for most people to operate on their own, Mr. Zuckerberg abandoned the effort and plunked down another $14 billion for a new team to play catch-up with the other leading A.I. models. Now Meta has said it will spend another $115 billion (minimum) over the next year into its new effort, which thus far performs worse than the competition.

David Brody@dbrody· May 6

War is over, if you whine it.

David Brody@dbrody· Feb 4

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David Brody@dbrody· Jan 28

This is the classic Schumer bait-and-switch. Publicly call for something that sounds aggressive, but drop it and negotiate marginal concessions. Then he'll blame Trump for not firing Noem and Miller, while excusing Democrats (after the vote) by saying they don't have the power to get rid of them.

Post from Schumer calling for Noem and Miller to be fired.

Reporting on Schumer's demands for DHS reforms.

David Brody@dbrody· Jan 18

So because of the community‘s strong response, ICE has to commit disproportionate resources for each arrest. That’s a lot of resources they can’t deploy elsewhere. That’s harm reduction. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“We have to send more officers and agents just to protect our officers to carry out their mission,” ICE Director Todd Lyons said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “The majority of those are there to protect the men and women who are already there. Now we need 10-15 officers per arrest to protect each other” against protesters.

David Brody@dbrody· Dec 22

NYT headline, of course. Vance dogwhistled at Holocaust deniers, white nationalism, and antisemitism. When the Vice President overtly or covertly allows those views inside mainstream politics, he is taking a side.

NYT headline and subhead:
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry

The vice president’s plea for a big-tent coalition at an annual conservative gathering belied the cracks in his party over antisemitism, racism and conspiracy theories.

David Brody@dbrody· Dec 2

Y'all, tmrw is a BIG DAY for civil rights and tech. @markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @jayapal.house.gov, @pressley.house.gov, & @repsummerlee.bsky.social are introducing the AI Civil Rights Act: the new gold standard AI bill endorsed by 85+ civil society orgs. Pull up a chair. 1/n

Table of contents of AI Civil Rights Act.

David Brody@dbrody· Nov 20

Good example of how an acronym can dehumanize consequences and mask what’s going on. Syntactically, “Diversity slayer,” “equity slayer,” or “inclusion slayer” sounds weird. They aren’t “slaying” these things; they’re promoting and supporting their opposites: segregation, unfairness, and exclusion.

Wall Street Journal headline “Trump’s DEI Slayer is just getting started.”

David Brody@dbrody· Oct 30

Nooooope. Nope nope nope nope nope. The pope of nope.

Screenshot of Wall Street Journal headline “I finally have a physician who’s available and who gets me. Meet Dr. Grok.”

David Brody@dbrody· Jun 14

The boomers were out in force in Bethesda. Don’t underestimate the fury of Montgomery County’s legion of retired civil servants. Probably a few thousand people lining Wisconsin Ave.