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blakereid

@blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org

Law prof. Tech/telecom/1A/copyright x #a11y/disability law. Ketchup, Crocs, ska, too many guitar pedals. He/him. No legal advice. Bad toots my mom’s fault.

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blakereid, to random
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Strong disagree with @jsnell and Myke on the latest Upgrade about the Apple AI story. OpenAI is getting a largely free pass on ChatGPT’s dysfunctionality because it’s not (yet) being relied on for anything mission critical. Google is just starting to get shredded for the problems with Gemini. And Apple will get absolutely and rightfully obliterated if it releases at scale something as prone to hallucination and inaccuracy as either of those.

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @jsnell the “shitty Siri” narrative the tech press loves wildly overstates the normie experience of it and the countervailing appeal of chatbots

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @jsnell the incremental improvements that would fix the fat part of the use case curve for Siri are nowhere close to the ChatGPT 4o pitch.

danhon, to random
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the exciting prospect of an on-device llm that reads all your notifications for you at the os level and then lets you hide any that are marketing related

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @danhon API for notifications from your sideloaded LLM jailbreaker when the LLM has been updated
LLM to filter sideloaded LLM jailbreaker notifications
API for…

blakereid, to random
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The news deluge today may obscure that the FCC is just about to vote to restore the #NetNeutrality rules! Coming up in just a bit at fcc.gov/live

mediaarchaeologylab, to random
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our new stickers came!

blakereid,
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@mediaarchaeologylab @rose_alibi am I gonna have to walk over there on an injured ankle

blakereid,
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@mediaarchaeologylab they already went (and did some excellent papers)—thank you for hosting!!!

blakereid,
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@mediaarchaeologylab no no I was suggesting that my want for the stickers was sufficiently great that I will suffer to get them! I’ll make it over.

blakereid, to apple
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Good Upgrade from @jsnell and Myke Hurley on the DOJ complaint and the AI Pin not integrating with iPhones. Three reactions:

  1. There are shades of AT&T freezing out Carterfone’s wireless handset.
  2. OTOH, regulating smartphone interop with an external device is radically more complex than foreign attachments on the PSTN.
  3. Integration and camera aside, the pin form factor is objectively worse than the watch in almost every way. Smart glasses pose a much more interesting case.
blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @jsnell yep. From the legal side, I always encourage folks to read the ACCESS Act (part of that failed package of antitrust bills circa 2021). That’s the most full-featured attempt at sketching out actual modern tech platform interop regs that we’ve developed, and it’s wildly complicated. One problem is that any remedy is hugely vulnerable to capture because you need so much cooperation from the platforms to make the details work. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3849/text

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @jsnell obviously the EU is trying the other way around (“jump and we’ll tell you if it was high enough”) but the time scales of that don’t work as well for hardware development as they do for app development.

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @jsnell I think think operating systems are the final boss fight of difficulty for competition policy and regulators make facile comparisons to simpler platforms at their peril. Microsoft was kinda the exception that proves the rule

joebeone, to random
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TIL that it's not "Section 230 of the CDA" but "Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996". 1/

blakereid,
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@RunRichRun @20002ist @SteveBellovin @joebeone @CenDemTech @Morris report immediately to my office, all of you https://blakereid.org/section-230-of-what/

blakereid,
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@RunRichRun @20002ist @SteveBellovin @joebeone @CenDemTech @Morris
TLDR: it’s Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, Section 509 of the Telecommunication Act of 1996, (arguably) Section 9 of the Communications Decency Act, plus all Mark says about the issues with 47 U.S.C. [silcrow] 230. For bonus reading, see https://uscode.house.gov/codification/legislation.shtml

blakereid,
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@RunRichRun @20002ist @SteveBellovin @joebeone @CenDemTech @Morris and even more. Read on from p. 549 here to learn why the U.S. Code is such a shitshow: https://www.aallnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Vol-101-pub_llj_v101n04-2009-30.pdf

mattblaze, to random
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For the record: Yes, I sometime do discretionary travel by air. That's not ideal for the environment, I know that. On the other hand, I also have never owned a car, I walk or take public transit to work, and I have a solar system at home.

Imperfect people like me do what they feel they can.

blakereid,
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@mattblaze YET YOU PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY etc.

davemark, to apple
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"The M3 ‌MacBook Air‌ is more machine than the average consumer likely even needs"

High praise. I like the sweet spot between the Air and the MacBook Pro.

Only reason to buy the Pro is if you've got a specific workflow that demands it.

I still like 16GB of RAM for future proofing, but not against 8GB to keep the price down.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/22/m3-macbook-air-review/

blakereid,
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@davemark another reason for the MBP (silly) is the ability to use Touch ID and two monitors at the same time. Also, higher storage tiers are helpful for a big photo library.

blakereid,
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@davemark that's right. But on the MBA you've gotta shut it, so no Touch ID. I keep my MBPs on a little shelf under the monitors, opened just wide enough to activate Touch ID, with the screen turned off minimized. (I realize Apple Watch could work but I don't love having that on when I work in public places.)

blakereid,
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@davemark AFAIK, you're correct that you have to shut the lid on the base model MBP with the new software updates—same deal as the MBA. Just observing that this is a pain point with lower end models (both MBA and MBP). I don't do work that requires an M3 Pro or Max by a long shot, but two monitors + TouchID is a pretty significant efficiency point.

blakereid,
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@davemark Got it! It's a weird little overlap in the product matrix. Depends how you value the slightly bigger screen versus the better quality; I love the screen on the MBP but don't really depend on it; Another inch of screen size would be cool but also not dispositive. I guess I'd probably lean toward the 15" MBA between the two.

jbigham, to random
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whenever i listen to weezer (which is often) i'm immediately transported back to ~1995 when i discovered my computer had this weird buddy holly video on it. i do care about that.

blakereid,
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@jbigham Encarta!

blakereid, to random
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So cool to finally see Uncommon Carriage in print! My gratitude again to the amazing crew at the @stanfordlaw Review for their help in getting this out the door in advance of the SCOTUS NetChoice fracas. https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/uncommon-carriage/

blakereid, to TikTok
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I have heard/read confident proclamations that the #TikTok ban would regulate not just app stores but also Internet service providers. This would be a big deal for #NetNeutrality among other things. But I don’t see it in the bill. I see “Internet hosting services.” Not the same! What am I missing? https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief I heard this specifically asserted by Nilay Patel on the @verge podcast and that made me wonder if I was misunderstanding the bill’s mechanics.

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @nilay_patel that’s what I wondered too but I’m nearly positive I’m reading the most recent version that was voted by the House and the language not only doesn’t seem to cover ISPs but seems deliberately drafted to avoid even provoking debate over whether ISPs might be covered. @jvagle and I were discussing this on Bsky and came to similar conclusions.

blakereid,
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@luis_in_brief @nilay_patel @jvagle I don’t see one but could be missing it

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