Stav Zeitouni

I can't believe we're doing this again. An endless march of folly.

Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

Most of the footage should never leave the user’s device. But of course the worst company doesn’t do privacy.

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
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Ah, sorry, didn't follow the looping post thread 😅

Isn't his stepbrother a JPost editor living in Jerusalem?

אמיתי לגמרי, אני נכנסת לפיד שלך כל פעם שאני צריכה זריקת עידוד. כפרעל פולי.

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig...

Oh dear.

arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

מזל טוב!

It's this, all the way down. AI frequently feels like it's wasting my time as a user, whether it's on websites or on endless phone trees or chatbots that rarely provide the exact information you asked for. I remember when interactions felt efficient and useful, it wasn't that long ago!

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year.

Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

If all we needed was one schoolhouse rock song, why did YLJ & HLR collectively chop down a forest to explain this smallest of contributions to legal knowledge

Oh my god the replies

More pointedly, I'm not sure what the authors of this piece were trying to say about present genocides (though I agree that it's ridiculous that they were asked to omit the word from a poster discussing post-Shoah literature)

I don't mean this as a gotcha. I just think that comparisons are deployed in order to learn *something* and we should be talking about when comparisons are useful and when they are not, rather than arguing that they are always relevant or never relevant.

The article claims (correctly mo) that "destruction leaves residues that often cannot be transformed into lessons or triumphs."

If we are not in the business of lessons, what use can be made of the comparison? In what way does the past "name" the present?

Nuanced comparisons are useful and there have been times where I've seen them deployed successfully. This piece nevertheless highlights a contradiction in how we talk about these comparisons -

Didn't ACB go on a book tour while serving and hearing arguments?

כל כך הרבה תפניות לא צפויות במשפט אחד!

Kindergarten teachers have the best outfits! Colorful dresses that are also comfortable enough to run after 5 year olds in? Sign me up

Zero interest in joining the Discourse on antisemitism on the left that has popped up on my tl in the last few days. Every time it starts being discussed I am reminded anew just how unsafe most left spaces are, and honestly makes me never want to engage.

The outdoors always proves that common sense isn't particularly common 😅

Maybe! But I feel like there have always been hikers who don't know what they're doing (see: Cheryl Strayed's Wild, my personal pet peeve of a blockbuster book/movie on thruhiking) - I'm not convinced influencers are making it worse. At least now hiking is more accessible/diverse 🤷

But the ecosystem also supports creators like MyLifeOutdoors, who do serious gear stress testing that was not half as accessible pre-backpacker digital influencers.

The CI symposium, Illinois campus with the symposium logo

THE 8TH ANNUAL PRIVACI SYMPOSIUM

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We are pleased to announce the 8th annual PrivaCI Symposium, which will take place on June 24-25, 2026 in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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I don't think there's a settled argument on it in his petition is what I'm trying to say. It's deliberately ambiguous on the question of which human the work could be assigned to (with some preference to machine owner)

That's true, but his claims going all the way back to exchanges with the copyright office leave the door open for users or programmers to be the alternative owners - so, at least on its face, he should be comfortable with the user being assigned ownership of a Midjourney creation.

In applying those factors, it is clear that Dr. Thaler, as the operator, had total control over the AI itself, more so than even required to find control as an employer in Reid. See id. (citing Reid, 490 U.S. at 750–53) (analyzing all factors). Control and ownership are clear on the face of the application and the letters to the Copyright Office stating that Dr. Thaler owned, programmed, and used the AI. See Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1:22-cv-01564-BAH, Document No. 13-7 (D.D.C. Aug. 18, 2023). While the AI performed the traditional elements of authorship, whatever it is the Copyright Office believes those to be, in terms of ownership, and control of the AI itself, Dr. Thaler is the “user” and “programmer” who directed the AI to make the Work, which is in a manner entirely analogous to a work for hire. Pet. App. 44a.

This suggests to me that at least on the work for hire claim, prompting plays some role in constituting ownership (though I agree it's a little vague). The accession claim is fully about being the programmer.

(I forgot he made an alternative accession claim! Lol)

I thought he was arguing for ownership based on being a user? At least partially? Will have to go look again.

This is a good overview of the surveillance tech powering ICE's work. For a deeper dive, would highly recommend @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social American Dragnet report & policy recommendations - originally published in 2022, with a new forward from May 2025.

Actually, this seems to just be books written by Nixon, so still a glitch.

Books are showing up on a scholar search, though, so maybe the intent is to integrate books and scholar together.