FOCUS ON TEXAS

»NATURAL HISTORY

The Alamo’s Archaeology Team Discovers Second Battle-Era Cannonball In Three Months

Texas congressman introduces plan to create National Recreation Area along Gulf Coast

»DATACENTER LAND & WATER HASSLES

Abbott orders regulators to protect Texans from data center costs

Texas agriculture commissioner candidate calls for moratorium on data centers

Texas farmers say they’ve been enduring many hardships, particularly over the past five years. Between higher production costs and low commodity prices, many have not been able to break even. With data centers popping up throughout the state, some are worried these projects could exacerbate the problems affecting the already strained industry.

»LIFE’S A BEACH

Personal info of 3 million Texas hunters, anglers possibly exposed in data breach

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that private groups do not have the right to sue over public beach access

* Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in 2021 seeking to stop the closure of Boca Chica Beach during rocket launches.

* Access to public beaches was codified in the Texas Constitution in 2009, but the Texas Supreme Court said that did not allow for a private citizens right of enforcement.

»BATTLE FOR THE BORDER

Customs and Border Protection requests public comment on Big Bend construction

Texas development group sues Trump administration over Big Bend border wall plans

»TEXANS LIVING WITH A.I.

Automated license plate reader debate continues in Texas

Poll: Texans support autonomous vehicles, but want stronger safety standards

For months, Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. Their dream would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run into roadblocks and incurred nationwide political blowback, and they now face the possibility that after the midterms, Congress will flip to hostile Democrats unwilling to work with them.

But their final, most desperate attempt at preemption is coming with new baggage, related to an entirely different fight in Congress that predates the public launch of ChatGPT: child safety.

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SOURCES OF NOTE

Sideritis scardica extracts inhibit aggregation and toxicity of amyloid-β in Caenorhabditis elegans used as a model for Alzheimer’s disease - NIH

Can GLP-1s Cause Emotional ‘Flattening,’ Nicknamed ‘Ozempic Personality’?

‘A signal of where power sits’: Trump and world leaders joined by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google at G7

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REMEMBER THE DEAD [and COVID]

Thousands of Corpses Traded in Medical Industry Scandal

This is how the high-handed treat U.S. people.

They don’t need research laundry access to our government.

Outrage is growing after sick details of the harvesting of human body parts – without the deceased’s consent – emerged out of China.

RFK Jr orders changes for organ donation network as report finds dozens were not dead when harvested

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READ The SAVE Act

Please read H.R. 22 and tell me what Congress should be debating.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text

THIS IS A METAL VOCAL CHALLENGE

(I have no idea if this will ever happen again.)

As I exited a local grocery store to the parking lot, I felt a little crazy and a little angry. I just paid $50 for 2 boxes of mac & cheese, 2 bags of rice and 1 dozen cookies.

Then I heard it. The highly loud, rage tones of a super angry man on the street, presumed homeless, in South Austin.

I turned to my neighbor and said, “That’s the same homeless guy I hear everywhere, all the time. It seems like a different guy, but I could swear that it’s the same guy.” To this he responded with a knowing smile, “Yeah, it seems he gets around quite a bit.”

…I felt something check in at that moment.

The anger, the bone whittling pain and rage, from being powerless, poor and paranoid of harm is with us. The experience of evil is to be stalked by insanity, to be lied to and lying to us all corporately, every five minutes, urging us to deny harm is actively occurring and then chase us individually with a bid to try get us to go hurt ourself or someone else.

The sound of that struggle, is metal, my friend. The purpose of metal music is to give a stable vent for ‘mal tiempos’ or bad times. Yesterday, the City of Austin smoked the local sewers from North to South for similar reasons. Midday everyone smelled foul winds of sulphureous sewer gasses emanating over a beautiful day. The truth is, every now and then, you must to force the snakes to leave the island, because it is just too much for everyone.

A HOMELESS METAL WEDNESAY

Below this sentence is 2 hours and 43 seconds of metal music bed.

Your mission if you choose to accept it, is to go record the highly loud, highly public, super insane ramblings of That Homeless Guy (Again, he sounds nearly identical everywhere, honestly). THEN, lay it over any cut of this relatively royalty free metal (*with certain attribution). Then send a radio-length edit (under 4 minutes) back here.

If this works out, I’ll produce a 12 song album for Soundcloud and then send 100% of the *proceeds, [*less nominal production + license attribution costs to post at Soundcloud] to a roving health clinic service for Austin’s homeless.

These human beings are not wild animals, but they are treated with far less value at the worst moments of their lives. Every major city in America has a homeless problem. Every local government “has a program” to keep them exactly where they are, functionally exploiting the downtrodden to pocket-launder donor money as a political donation. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have vaccine eugenics and corruption of conformity on tour internationally. Intel Statists have an arcane Nazi forbear mission commitment to thin down the American population numbers by over 1/3, with or without God (or they wouldn’t have to keep covering it up and lying and getting sued for mass soft kill missions every administration).

Medic vans who already help people hit by cars in the medians, treat: injury incidents of assault, rape, lacerations, dehydration and exposure to heat and cold. They provide hospital transport helping in a more direct manner than any of the former.

NEWS & SOURCES OF NOTE

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SHOULD FEED YOU FOR A WEEK

Did you wake up this morning to a U.S. time of active war conflict with Iran? I did.

That is precisely why I decided to composite recent supercuts from The Shawn Ryan Show. to add a grounded sense of active defense for the vulnerable today and to add context to this week’s news cycle, current affairs of child online safety (security), data sovereignty, cyber security and

War is hell. The dead pile up. Everything changes in the middle of the night. Then your life gets worse or better. Pray God’s will and for the best possible outcome in a time of war. None of us truly know anything except that war is an uncontrolled chaos.

What Shawn Ryan does for his audience is to places a spotlight on the chaos in range of your immediate control. That is what you need when there is an enormous chaos spike. War happens to be one of the most disruptive and damaging facts of human living.

Shawn Ryan is an Ex-CIA contractor; which we forgive him. He is doing admirable things with his life now that he has left Satan’s dragon clutch.

So in war our lives migrate reduce to few simple important priorities:

* Hide and save the children from harm, (if you have to sacrifice yourself).

* Protect and shield what you have from theft and attack, for a surviving future.

* Survive.

SHAWN RYAN’S ‘PROTECT THE CHILDREN’

Parents give their children life and then the world gives them hell. Get your kids off of Discord and Roblox now.

This is NOT a bid to increase demand for online ID for everything because that is what they actually want. If they wanted to deal with the problem, they would, but for whatever reason they push that back onto you and call it ‘government’.

SEE ALSO: Colorado Lawmakers Seek Device-Level Digital ID

Of course, what’s complicating is Trump is baiting conflict on ‘data sovereignty’. That has real meaning for your property rights online, if you need to own your name, image and likeness with any kind of international enforceable meaning past.. today.

It also said China was "bundling enticing technology infrastructure projects with restrictive data policies that expand its global influence and access to international data for surveillance and strategic leverage." The cable did not provide much more detail, but China has over the past few years tightened regulations over how its companies store and transfer user data.

SHAWN RYAN’S PROTECT YOUR CASTLE Part 1, Part 2

IoT is short script for ‘Internet of Things’ a cutesy little term for wireless devices that conduct Internet short wave signals transmitted from a modem router nearby. I have never really ever been a fan of IoT because of how it can instantly turn everything in your home into a surveillance biased reality show you never consented to/prison driven by AI agents.

AI only has the power you give it. Anthropic has enough will-to-power to say our products are not ready for war and to say to Hegseth’s military, ‘Do not use Claude for war,’. That’s admirable, but we happen to be at war now. It will take operations six weeks to get Anthropic’s AI tools out of the guts of the Pentagon. Let’s hold your nose,\ and hope it doesn’t get messy.

Nik Seetharaman has a rather unique experience to explain why when you actually use AI for war you probably will not like living with the results, even if they are effective.

*Profanity Warning - Rated Mature = Super Sailor Salty, Dutty Potty Mouf

Remember datacenter dustups and civil arrests at City Council meetings over new data centers? They’re still ongoing because these AI datacenters are not your normal data centers.

“Tech Boom vs. Texas Farmland: Why Farmers Are Fighting AI Data Centers”

Meta has a 2 MILLION square foot data center in Mansfield, Georgia. 📈Neighbors are seeing sediment in their drinking water, along with low water pressure. 🚰 💧They say electricity and water bills have climbed — and that constant noise from the facility is affecting their noise is affecting their health. - @KellyMcCarty on X

At least know what micronuclear in datacenter demands are and why no one actually wants to deal with more national security goon squadron leaders baked over your City Council.

SHAWN RYAN HELPS YOU SURVIVE

CAN HELP: Hearing Wrap Up: DoD Must Finish Long-Overdue Background Check IT System to Protect National Security and Taxpayer Funds

Do you edit longform podasts? Do you also need a job? Wanna go to Tennessee? BAM!!

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THE ‘NO CONSENT’ COLLECTION

Meta is trying to bring their Wayfair styled Computing glasses to closed-circuit court appearances and any retailer near you to complete a biometric read on anyone in it’s range of speculative uses. The judge almost cited Zuckerberg this week for contempt in court. Meta’s legal and PR team advised to wait until the public was ‘distracted’ to launch biometric use features. They know involuntary capture is against the law in many cases, if not unpopular with the public.

In July 2019, Facebook settled a Federal Trade Commission investigation for $5 billion. The allegations included that the company’s face recognition settings were confusing and deceptive, and the settlement required the company to obtain consent before running face recognition on users going forward.

Less than two years later, Meta agreed to pay $650 million to settle a class action brought by Illinois residents under that state’s biometric privacy law. Then, in July 2024, it settled with Texas for $1.4 billion over the same defunct system. Nearly $7 billion across three settlements, all tied to face recognition practices the company ultimately abandoned.

- ReclaimTheNet.com

“Amazon’s Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash”

It just doesn’t sit well. The Public have watched tech companies for over 15 years. They know governments are the first biometrics and surveillance customer and publican privacy rights are an afterthought.

White House wants a reprieve in spy-powers fight that is splitting the GOP

- Politico.com

What eyeballs the gander also surveys the goose. The DOJ & FBI have been caught using mass surveillance and targeted surveillance, not for crime, but political profiling.

Here is a sample of what governments otherwise have planned for identity in the near and now, when they’re not violating each other for political reasons, up top.

* Iran marries surveillance infrastructure, national ID to control population: report

* Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App

* Senators Talk Digital Freedom for Iran While Expanding Surveillance at Home

AND SO IT GOES…

Theft and ill-conceived consent to license other people’s stuff seems the way of Big Tech world. There is a lot of behavioral shielding to hidden crypto finance features and carefully embedded AI to filch communications and industry secrets; which are not only a target of foreign governments. Competitors now need to guard their dragon horde more now than ever.

THE TARGETS ARE…

The sick.

The children. The children. & The children.

Systems captive identity to merge as Government Systems Captive Identity.

Land

Water

and Tribute

And here is the meditation of corporate legal advisors often pushed to shed privacy protections, anyway.

When a consumer is not logged into an account, the company needs to honor an opt-out request in connection with the browser, application or device the consumer is using, and also provide notice to the consumer that they may need to log into an account or take other steps to fully effectuate an opt-out.

-Thought for the week: Lessons learned from $2.75M CCPA settlement

»>Here is the working map to the laws of the land on AI regulation.

Please continue to support yourself and your fellow man by placing limits on government collection of your personal data, by proxy or by any other involuntary means.

Say ‘No’ to an Identity Mandate while you can.

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"When the state calls you a taxpayer,

it's equivalent to a rapist

calling his victim his girlfriend."

- Javier Milei

Remember, you can say, ‘No.’

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY?

These public-private technocrats did not show up with roses and candy. They showed up with three more identity mandates trying to screw you. Let’s practice your, ‘No’.

No. (Again)

NO. (Better. Again.)

NO! (Again.)

Hell NO! (Much better. I need way more force. These guys want to take it by force with a lawyer watching.)

GO TO HELL!! (YES! Again. I need more formality, less profanity. From the top!! )

NO. IN THE CITY…

Travis County Tax Assessor refuses ID changes on car registration aimed at illegal immigration

NO. IN THE COUNTRY…

“Would You Carry A Digital ID?” UK citizens said ‘No’, making it optional after Kier Starmer’s Blob rules-based shove for ID to work or move UK funds. The initiative went down in a flaming ball of ‘NO’.

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK

Overindulged greedy space-nazi b******s are constantly hustling contracts for more global data integration. They typically yell over the top of your head saying, ‘You want this!!’, when no one asked you. They think it’s romance.

“Bill Gates supports linking biometric ID systems with financial accounts to integrate health data and agricultural tracking.”

- Brandon Straka

As long as they can make a dollar on someone else’s data, they will. Especially, when governments will pay them for it. They may promise immunity and make excuses to gather information illegally against their own citizens.

They don’t enforce adequate terms on the ‘problem’ as they overburden you with proof of ID.

“Illegal aliens and noncitizens are enrolled to vote and they are voting in elections!!”

… So, why don’t you clean up the motor voter rolls? "Let’s mandate all citizen voters in all of the land prove they are citizens to vote at the polls by demanding the U.S. Senate pass the SAVE Act.”

NO. I’ll tell you exactly why.

National Secretaries of State in every U.S. State already have access to a DHS database that crosschecks citizenship of every person in voter rolls, now, today, with consular and State Department documents. We appropriated money for a DHS tool to check for citizenship. People at the elections divisions refuse to use to remove noncitizen voters from the motor voter rolls and the elections rolls.

If they purged the voter rolls before elections, I would not need to demonstrate ID at the poll, except registration card; which is issued to me by the State for the sole purpose of voting. My drivers license is to operate a motor vehicle. DON’T MAKE IT MY PROBLEM, WHEN YOU CAN FIX THAT WITH LAW AND DOJ ENFORCEMENT.

NO. No REAL ID. No more redundant, irrelevant useless voter ID mandates.

NO.

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THE RUSH TO HUSTLE

Below is a headlight beam examples of global governments, some with information sharing agreements with both China and the U.S. (Britain), incentivizing a run to collect identity data and train AI clandestinely on real identity processing, in online companies browsers, payment systems and “for child safety”.

Some of it will look like an amplification or incentive rush to get people enrolled in travel Visas before a crushing restriction or being priced out.

UK Expands Hong Kong Visa Scheme After Jimmy Lai Sentencing

Others are bids to ‘modernize’ systems that have failed repeatedly to protect enrolled identities like, India’s biometric identity systems.

India makes Aadhaar more ubiquitous, but critics say security and privacy concerns remain

Yet others, simply deprecate government conventions to protect information security so transit vulnerabilities seem unenforceable and the unfair appears fair, when it’s clearlt still an unfair process where consumer interests are disregarded.

OMB Rescinds Biden-Era Software Security Requirements, Directs Agency-Led and Risk-Based Approach

Yet most of the rush to identify-us-all is driven by a misplaced threat appropriation for child safety per application or per Internet company. As I have advocated in the past, make the parent mobile telecomm provider account process age gatekeeping at the point of sale for devices and register them to the parent with a child registered account. T-Mobile, Verizon etc. can age-lock any device so that iOS or Android are prohibited from installing apps that are for adults. App providers won’t be able to market push or install Pr0nhub, image capture manipulation software or VR software, like the Roblox Metaverse, or any app where children and their data are not safe.

Safer Internet Day: Assuring age while ensuring privacy

When you place the per-app approach, irresponsible app manufacturers who do not care about securitized environments, or who has access to your kids, will also be collecting your kids most sensitive information in “child-safety gatekeeping”. They won’t: keep it safe, classify child data securely or be cautious with it. We know because these are the same app developers who are hacked at least two times a year. WOOPSIE!! Oh well… you’re kids data was in there? Sorry about that!!

Discord to Demand Face Scan or ID to Access All Features

The most invalidating of all these schemes are bids taking taxpayer funds to increase the pot to develop identity and “propriety” schemes for any grant maker, including foreign policy and intelligence agencies, who launder their approach to manufacture an ID requirement or a sanctions capability for a routine payment system.

NIST Awards Over $3 Million to Small Businesses Advancing AI, Biotechnology, Semiconductors, Quantum and More

Operational technology artificial intelligence — NIST Compliance Tool (OTAI-NCT): The OTAI-NCT tool evaluates the cybersecurity practices of hardware and software manufacturers to produce a cyber-hygiene score that consumers can use to make informed purchasing decisions. The tool, which uses authoritative data sources such as the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and other publicly available datasets, will empower users while helping to safeguard national security and public safety.

It can really cut either way. The offices at CISA were used to monitor thought crime too, during the pandemic. They now bear the burden to prove this won’t be used to sanction businesses who step out of line politically by abusing a consumer scoring system. If we are being honest, the censor-surveillance-to-sanction vehicle never really went away from a foreign policy posture.

House Judiciary Committee Reveals EU Censorship of Americans

The only thing that would be better, for them, is if you would perform the mass surveillance minding on behalf of the government, as a non-paid volunteer. Google’s Ring camera system can be weaponized by anyone: a sewing circle of mommies, foreign governments, a super-vigilante ring of criminals run by a narcissistic cult leader, a drug cartel… anyone. Anyone can make basic privacy meaningless, as long as Google is supplying the tech.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Now that we are at the end of today’s feel-bad tour of covertly manipulative technologies, we come back to you. You bear the burden of explaining repeatedly and how ever often it necessitates, when your hackles are reached that they have gone over a line. That line can be a foreign policy line: you aren’t their citizen. That line can be a photo capture line for you or your family, ‘You didn’t ask permission for that photo. We own all the Name Image and Likeness. Take us out of your data query’.

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CONTACT THE PRIVACY OFFICE

Identity is being over-solicited from anyone, everywhere right now. This is now the fastest evolving information security nightmare.

“Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations” - 404 Media

SMALL BUSINESS EVENTIDentity Under Attack: Why Every Business Must Respond Now

Amid a glut of foreign cyber attacks and criminal run ups to system errors, LLM (Generative AI) is training on ALL browser information stored and/or transited using Google Chrome and less private browsers. To avoid this, switch or migrate to a private and more secure browser that does not collect deep personal information, like DuckDuckGo.

“A $68 million deal marks Google’s effort to quiet years of unease over smart devices that listened when they shouldn’t have.”

WHEN IT COMES FOR YOU, PERSONALLY…

If you’re logging into platforms and solicited for government ID or Face ID, without an administrative account notification or as a response to a lockout, all of a sudden, that’s likely a scam. The platform isn’t secure. Give less information and treat it like the site is down or there’s a performance outage. Try to submit a help ticket using the account information you have and ask for any new language in the Terms of Use.

AI’s, which include algorithmic FRT-finders, are also being dispatched to assess for ‘thought crime’ abroad by EU and UK policing American speech online. They automatically route a strong ‘take down’ message from government profilers. These cases are sometimes pretty sensitive. So, if you suspect you’re being targeted unfairly for platform censorship, please contact a US civil rights attorney-at-law, with platform history. You may need to contact your U.S. Senators for casework assistance with the US State Department to procure help needed to manage platform redlining by foreign governments.

DEMOCRATIZED FRT

The FTC is currently assessing the panoply of privacy enhancing tech, including deployments of age-verification tools that can be co-administered to adults.

Foreign governments, terrorist cells, media nightcrawlers, character assassins and other baddies online are using iStore and Android app facial recognition tech. LexusNexis, Palantir and loads of other-public private online data brokers all have facial recognition business products that they can source to these apps. Unfortunately, adversary foreign governments and domestic terror networks also now have access to US citizens FRT images, if they pay to source stock their own commercial app license.

SEE ALSO: ‘Misrepresent reality’: AI-altered shooting image surfaces in US Senate

If you ever shared your image with FACE ID to unlock/lock your phone, produced hundreds of selfies to Instagram or adopted a FRT image map to try on apparel or accessories online, they probably sold that information to an FRT vendor, when you cared less.

SEE ALSO: Senate passes [DEFIANCE Act] allowing victims of deepfake porn to sue

If you care more now, the best way to remove your images from unwanted use, for now, in these data exchanges is to pull our commercial or platform information used for ad revenues. Then make your case known to these app developers who collected matrixed photo information at Insta etc. they no longer have permission to use your image license for AI training and FRT data brokerage. I also suggest deleting the app, because the likelihood is high you are being damaged by behavioral aspects of these apps anyway.

Incognito is the affordable way to get out from myriad data brokerages, using and reusing your data in ways you likely do not want.

The other way is to unsubscribe to services you get talked into and ask for help from their privacy office to delete or stop license uses of your name, image, likeness etc. in “due course of business”.

NEWS & SOURCES OF NOTE

→WHEN IT AFFECTED TEXAS

* Waymo Under Investigation After Crashing Into Child Outside Elementary School

* Texas governor calls for investigation into student-led protests against ICEA. Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pax­ton Issues Opin­ion Con­firm­ing the Comp­trol­ler Office’s Full Author­i­ty to Stop Tax­pay­er Funds from Going to Schools Ille­gal­ly Tied to Ter­ror­ists or For­eign Adversaries

* Austin council to discuss surveillance regulation, ask city manager to add it to city code

* Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Major Win by Stop­ping Sam­sung from Using its Smart TVs to Ille­gal­ly Spy on Texans

* US report reveals at least 81 Chinese Communist Party-linked organizations in Mexico led by businessmen with titles from Beijing that function as platforms for expansion into the United States.

* Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Announces Sweep­ing Inves­ti­ga­tion Into H‑1B Visa Abuse, Start­ing With Three North Texas Businesses

INFOSEC & IDENTITY PROTECTORATE SOURCES

https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltd4dd5b2d705252bc/blt386189207a33dc5d/ai_governance_vendor_report_2026.pdf

https://reclaimthenet.org/landmark-la-trial-targets-social-media-addiction-claims

https://www.kaltura.com/p/684682/embedPlaykitJs/uiconf_id/55674542?iframeembed=true&entry_id=1_6vypcdi3

https://www.404media.co/massive-ai-chat-app-leaked-millions-of-users-private-conversations/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

https://reclaimthenet.org/wyoming-introduces-first-ever-foreign-censorship-shield-bill-granite-act

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THE LIGHT QUEUE IS ON.

THE GET OFF THE STAGE, COMMIES.

WE’RE TAKING THE MIC FOR OTHER CAUSES.

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This week’s opener to The [Un]Sanction Citizen is a super cut from The Bureau’s Podcast coverage of Trump’s tackle of Greenland geopolitics at Davos’ global table.

WHAT IS WEF UP TO?

The technical identity environment is falling apart. Bill Gates and OpenAI still want to walk out on a corroding bridge to transit your med records and DNA; while BRICS FINCen is being repudiated as global authority by Western interests. Musk just wants his VC money back.

They are still up to their old anti-privacy, consent shunt grifts.

In the meantime… Nobody cares if Google ‘wins’ the AI competition, if Americans can’t manage the intellectual rights to the things they make. That’s why Comic Con lead a cultural counter point to GenAI images. A lawsuit adavanced against NVIDIA this week against AI training material sourced from pirate site, Anna’s Archive.

This week in AI Governance, Waymo still can’t stop for school kids, “The State of New York Adopts Two Bills Regulating Commercial Use of AI-Generated Content” and data centers go to Washington.

LIBERTY PIVOT TO CIVIL PROTECTIONISM

NEWS & SOURCES OF NOTE

GREAT WHITE NORTH [ATLANTIC]

China Mega Embassy Approved Despite Opposition

Starmer Greenlights China’s “Mega-Embassy” as U.S. Government and Hong Kong Activists Warn of Hi-Tech Espionage Hub

“It is rewarding China for spying on Parliament, interfering in the UK’s elections, and fueling Russia’s war in Ukraine,” said Rep. Moolenaar, chairman of the U.S. House CCP Committee.

Former Senior Mountie: Carney’s RCMP–Chinese Police Cooperation Deal Is a Counterintelligence Danger That Risks Sovereignty

BENZ PILLS

NED Built a Censorship Machine That Targeted Americans. Congress Just Voted to Fund It.

* Former NED Officer Admitted ‘Counter Disinfo’ Efforts Were Response to Trump

Biden Disinformation Czar [Nina Jankowicz] Backs Foreign Penalties Against American Platforms, Registers as UK Foreign Agent

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