California Attorney
General Rob Bonta: Don’t Call It Kids’ Safety if Kids Aren’t Safe: Attorney
General Bonta
Joins Bipartisan Coalition in Opposing KIDS Act
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today
joined a
bipartisan coalition of 44 attorneys general in sending a letter to Congress opposing the passage of
the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act (KIDS Act). The KIDS Act
would broadly preempt state laws governing major online safety and technology issues
—
including online obscenity and regulation of artificial intelligence chatbots — while
replacing them with ineffective federal standards. The letter argues that passage of
the KIDS Act would threaten the progress states across the country have made in
addressing the harms social media platforms pose to children, both by suing some of these
platforms for acting illegally and by enacting landmark legislation designed to address
the same harms targeted by the KIDS Act.
(Bonus for cool use of the character!)
Via
Just Fucking Use HTML (dot com)
Newsflash, asshole: the web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks
crawled out of the sewer. You're out here dropping ten grand on some fancy-ass framework
like it's a Gucci purse, just to haul around the same shitty groceries you could've carried
in a plastic bag from 1995. Why the hell are you jumping through all these hoops when
HTML's been sitting there, ready to go, since the dawn of the goddamn internet?
Via.
Riffing on the
observation that "In the 1830s everyone in the USA knew
that canal waterways were the future of
commerce." (until the great recession of 1837, and by the time the economy recovered
railroads were the future of commerce, which lasted until the Panic of 1873 brought on the
Long Depression), John
Carlos Baez
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz goes on a virtual tour of midwestern cities with their
half-finished canals.
Max Leibman
@maxleibman@beige.party
Why don’t they just ask the AI how to make AI profitable?
There are 3 "r"s in "cookie monster":
- Cookie: (0)
- ronster: (3) (one in the middle, two at the end)
But, yes, of course it's getting database code right... And answering questions in a way we can rely on for policy decisions.
I am an unreserved fan of cannabis legalization, but if it's gonna take you 5 minutes of standing and staring at, and blocking access to, the display to decide that you're not going to get any pickles after all, perhaps the rush of Memorial Day is the wrong time to go grocery shopping...
