Riana

@riana

Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Anger is an energy. Dum spiro spero. she/her

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Riana@riana· 17d

hard to choose just one Alain Delon movie but let’s go with Plein Soleil

Alain Delon with perfectly tousled hair and a white shirt with the top several buttons undone and a grey summer-weight blazer slung over his shoulder

Riana@riana· 19d

me irl

Mikey from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt standing next to his truck with TILDA airbrushed on it

Riana@riana· 20d

This is the highlight of my week 😭

A half dozen bunnies on a bed of hay. A black and white one is facing the camera with its little pink bunny nose.

Riana@riana· 20d

BUNNIES ARE HAPPENING #trustcon

A pile of bunnies on a bunch of hay in a penned in area on a table

Riana@riana· Jul 5

If I didn’t know there was soccer today I’d be very confused by the one spot that decided to cosplay as a Loyalist household on America’s 250th birthday weekend in an area that’s very proud of its role in the Revolutionary War

Two houses, both alike in dignity, facing each other across the street, one with an American flag and the other the St. George’s flag

Riana@riana· Jul 2

Scene from "St. Denis Medical" where the new male nurse who grew up in Montana says "Luckily, there's someone on staff..."

Scene from "St. Denis Medical" where the new male nurse who grew up in Montana says "...who's an expert in both medicine and the Bible."

Scene from "St. Denis Medical" where the new male nurse who grew up in Montana says "...Also, the sequel to the Bible that my grandpa wrote."

Riana@riana· Jul 2

I am now reading her piece about meeting the Pope and, sneaker micturition aside, I relate to her husband—I, too, would never stfu about it if I met Bob Balaban www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jason is very much the same. He is perhaps the person, alone on earth, who would be unaffected by a papal audience. 'Yeah, he says reflectively, 'if I were there, I would just be like "Hey"! Not that he's immune to celebrity. The actor Bob Balaban once asked him how to use the curl machine at the gym, and he talked about nothing else for the next two years.

Riana@riana· Jul 1

tfw the organization Grant Wood absolutely roasted a century ago has better politics today than the fucking governor of California

"*Jason* figured it out?!" meme from The Good Place but it's "the DAR" instead of "Jason"

Riana@riana· Jun 27

And of course, I brought my sign, with the slogan that came to me in a dream I had years ago (about making a sign and going to the Trans March!) and which continues to crack me up. It’s a little beat up now since I made it in 2023 (pictured)

Photo taken by Liz Henry of a smiling white woman with glasses and short gray hair holding a rectangular sign that’s white with a glittery gold border that reads, SOME FOLKS ARE “THEY,” AND THAT’S OKAY. The words are in gold, white, purple, and black lettering to evoke the nonbinary flag.

Riana@riana· Jun 26

still thinking about her

Scarlet the corpse flower, resplendent in the rear of the photo with a lily pond full of surprisingly enormous lily pads in the foreground, like the size of a two-top at a cafe big, and various other greenery framing the shot

Riana@riana· Jun 26

Hell yeah @gardensofggp.bsky.social

Scarlet the corpse flower next to a lily pond surrounded by her admirers

Riana@riana· Jun 25

so basic. embarrassing really. needed to put some AI on it

It’s a slide from Softbank’s 2020 slide deck where two unicorns are falling into a ditch and a winged one is flying out of the ditch with text “Valley of Coronavirus,” in real MS Paint-looking-ass style

Riana@riana· Jun 21

Happy Father’s Day to this guy

Interior: parking garage. Back of a parked Chevy pickup truck with license plate STLYDAD

Riana@riana· Jun 19

It’s the hallucinations that really do it for me. Apparently I’m Anne Hathaway. intheweights.com

Llama 3.2 1B hallucinates that I am an “American actress and singer known for her roles in films such as The Devil Wears Prada and The Intern”

Qwen SB says I am a former U.S. diplomat and political advisor known for my work in international relations

Riana@riana· Jun 12

My husband’s anniversary gift to me this year is THREE @themerl.bsky.social mugs. He said it was impossible to choose just one.

Three mugs lined up on a wooden sideboard. One has a painting of a very long hog on it. No, the G-rated kind. The next is the rear side of another mug with said hog on it but it also says “moisturized, in my lane, flourishing.” The third is a black and white photo of an absolute unit of a sheep, with the legend “look at this absolute unit.”

Riana@riana· Jun 11

That's a great point! It can even tell you which ones to use:

screenshot from Claude where I ask it if it can generate images and it replies, "No, I can't generate images. I'm a text-based model — I can read and analyze images you share with me, but I can't create or output them.
If you need AI-generated images, tools like DALL-E (via ChatGPT), Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, or Stable Diffusion are designed for that."

Riana@riana· Jun 4

Judge William Kuntz II (EDNY) popping off in the conclusion to an otherwise unremarkable sentencing order in a CSAM case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Properly deployed, artificial intelligence can be a useful tool; improperly deployed, artificial intelligence would render judges into useless, foolish puppets-into hapless astronauts named Dave, governed by artificial computers named Hal. This is not a 2001: A Space Odyssey world in which algorithms dictate sentences. This is the real world of flesh and blood and of laws designed to protect our children. We serve justice, not algorithms.

Riana@riana· Jun 4

man, even Lexis Headnotes are getting enshittified in the AI era, this is incredibly basic shit

Lexis headnote saying "The Supreme Court has held..."

The body text supporting the headnote in question, which is discussing a Second Circuit case, NOT a SCOTUS case

Riana@riana· Jun 4

if there's a trivia question where the answer requires remembering these words istg

Amarin Pharma, Inc. developed Vascepa, a drug containing the active ingredient icosapent ethyl. In 2012, the FDA approved Vascepa
for the treatment of severe hypertriglyceridemia (the “SH indication”).

Riana@riana· Jun 3

*slaps Haotian AI* This bad boy can fit so many CFAA prosecutions in it www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Section 4 of the June 2 White House executive order on AI security which reads, "Sec. 4. Protection Against Criminal Actors. The Attorney General shall prioritize the enforcement of 18 U.S.C. 1028, 18 U.S.C. 1030, 18 U.S.C. 1343, and all other applicable Federal criminal laws against anyone who utilizes AI to illegally access or damage a computer without authorization, or who utilizes AI while engaged in such illegal access to further any other crime. This includes breaching any public or private information technology system, or employing AI agents to unlawfully access data or information that is subsequently used for a criminal or unlawful purpose."

Riana@riana· May 21

This is from 3 years ago but here's my sister's friends' teeny-tiny ancient nearly-blind chi, Lil' Bit (RIP).

a tiny, whitish, ancient chihuahua, with big ears and rheumy eyes and a blep poking out the right side of its mouth, sits curled up on a green pouf pillow.

Riana@riana· May 20

So what'd be interesting for future work is to drill down into the "Dismissed by judge" figure and determine what % of those dismissals were for something AI can help with (e.g. noncompliance w/local filing rules or FRCP 8) & what % are "I demand $200 Billion from Skeletor for Emotional Distress."

From the Pro Se Litigants paper, Figure 9. Share of classified pro se terminations by outcome category within 180-day filing cohorts.
Shares are normalized to sum to 100% within each quarter. The observation-window estimator
restricts to cases with at least 180 days of observation, so the rightmost quarters mechanically lose
cases that have not yet had time to resolve. Source FJC IDB.

Riana@riana· May 6

Philip K Dick with speech bubble pointing to the quoted skeet

Riana@riana· May 4

Not the worst thing Giuliani ever did but there was the time when as US Attorney he threatened to switch sides & help the targets of an investigation if the SEC proceeded with charges against the 1980s’ most notorious inside trader when Giuliani didn’t want to yet booknotes.c-span.org/Watch/22933-1

“There was a fight between Giuliani and Gary Lynch, head of enforcement at the SEC, over the filing of the Milken case. When the SEC, for its own reasons … wanted to go forward with the case, Giuliani was so angry that he said if they did that he would throw his lot in with Milken and Drexel and move to dismiss the action. … That simply is inappropriate. The SEC did give in to Giuliani's threat, and they waited.”

Riana@riana· May 1

Ralph Wiggum saying "Oh, boy, podcasting - that's where I'm a Viking."

Riana@riana· Apr 30

backronyms have gone too far

From a bill Sen. Cruz just announced but that doesn't seem to have a bill number yet:
"SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Children’s Health, Advancement, Trust, Boundaries, and Oversight in Technology Act’’ or the ‘‘CHATBOT Act’’."

From H.R. 7985: "SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Curbing Harmful AI Tools By Offering Transparency Act” or the “CHATBOT Act”."

Riana@riana· Apr 27

I waited *decades* for my parents to downsize so I could finally claim this for myself. (Not that I faced any sibling competition.) I triumphantly took possession of it at last just a few months ago. However, in the interest of marital harmony it lives at my office, not in our home.

A taxidermied mongoose and cobra locked snarling in eternal battle, enclosed in a plexiglass case we had to get custom made at non-negligible expense, my husband is a very patient man

Riana@riana· Apr 24

@404media.co itym “scaring the cohoes”

404 Media weekly wrap-up headline “Our partying is freaking out the fish” headline over illustration of a salmon (and some robot soldiers, that part of picture unrelated)

Riana@riana· Apr 24

this has not aged well

But the company has defended its open-source approach as important for users’ creative freedom. Stability AI’s chief executive, Emad Mostaque, told the Verge last year that “ultimately, it’s people’s responsibility as to whether they are ethical, moral and legal in how they operate this technology,” adding that “the bad stuff that people create … will be a very, very small percentage of the total use.”

Riana@riana· Apr 18

I'm reading the 8th Circuit's February decision upholding the denial of preliminary injunction against Minnesota's election deepfakes law, and "shitpost-loving GOP politician votes for deepfake law, waits 16 months, then sues the state saying the law she voted for violates her 1st Am rights" is Art