Minnesota’s public-nuisance #law has a useful wrinkle—one that other #states worried about prospective #ICE deployments would do well to imitate. It allows #attorneys for the state to obtain injunctions against a “criminal gang.” A gang, in #Minnesota law, is simply “any” group of people who repeatedly violate certain #criminal laws. It doesn’t matter whether they work for the Latin Kings or #StephenMiller. What matters is that they create an ongoing risk of #violent #harm to the #public.

Minnesota’s public-nuisance #law has a useful wrinkle—one that other #states worried about prospective #ICE deployments would do well to imitate. It allows #attorneys for the state to obtain injunctions against a “criminal gang.” A gang, in #Minnesota law, is simply “any” group of people who repeatedly violate certain #criminal laws. It doesn’t matter whether they work for the Latin Kings or #StephenMiller. What matters is that they create an ongoing risk of #violent #harm to the #public.

As Peter Cooke said, we have learned from our mistakes & can repeat them exactly.

#exploitaion #marketing #harm #FollowTheMoney

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/today-in-history-january-11-smoking-cancer-link-/106185276?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

As Peter Cooke said, we have learned from our mistakes & can repeat them exactly.

#exploitaion #marketing #harm #FollowTheMoney

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/today-in-history-january-11-smoking-cancer-link-/106185276?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf]

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/03/pi_2025.04.03_us-public-and-ai-experts_topline.pdf

#HackerNews #AI #Harm #Perception #AI #Future #Americans #Opinion #Research #PewResearch

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-buried-causal-evidence-social-media-harm-us-court-filings-allege-2025-11-23/

#HackerNews #Meta #Causal #Evidence #SocialMedia #Harm #CourtFilings #News

We must stop destroying what we have

https://theconversation.com/in-2024-the-climate-crisis-worsened-in-all-ways-but-we-can-still-limit-warming-with-bold-action-268579
#biosphere #pollution #FossilFuels #climate #ExtremeHeat #Biodiversity #deforestation #harm #EPBCAct #exemptions

We must stop destroying what we have

https://theconversation.com/in-2024-the-climate-crisis-worsened-in-all-ways-but-we-can-still-limit-warming-with-bold-action-268579
#biosphere #pollution #FossilFuels #climate #ExtremeHeat #Biodiversity #deforestation #harm #EPBCAct #exemptions

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/09/chatgpt-lawyer-fine-ai-regulation/

The attorney must pay a $10,000 fine.

"The court of appeals said 21 of 23 quotes in an opening brief were fake"

“We therefore publish this opinion as a warning,” it continued. “Simply stated, no brief, pleading, motion, or any other paper filed in any court should contain any citations— whether provided by generative AI or any other source—that the attorney responsible for submitting the pleading has not personally read and verified.”

#ai #slop #harm #law

So…MIT has an AI incident tracker. It tracks and classifies the damage AI has done and harm it has caused. The classification is defined by seven key categories:

Discrimination/toxicity
Privacy/security
Misinformation
Malicious actors
HCI
Socioeconomic/environmental
System safety/failures/limitations

https://airisk.mit.edu/ai-incident-tracker

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Harm #Data

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/09/chatgpt-lawyer-fine-ai-regulation/

The attorney must pay a $10,000 fine.

"The court of appeals said 21 of 23 quotes in an opening brief were fake"

“We therefore publish this opinion as a warning,” it continued. “Simply stated, no brief, pleading, motion, or any other paper filed in any court should contain any citations— whether provided by generative AI or any other source—that the attorney responsible for submitting the pleading has not personally read and verified.”

#ai #slop #harm #law

So…MIT has an AI incident tracker. It tracks and classifies the damage AI has done and harm it has caused. The classification is defined by seven key categories:

Discrimination/toxicity
Privacy/security
Misinformation
Malicious actors
HCI
Socioeconomic/environmental
System safety/failures/limitations

https://airisk.mit.edu/ai-incident-tracker

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Harm #Data

Apparently, this didn't go out, earlier...

Payment Processor: Thinking about how we might create an independent payment processor
https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/07/27/payment-processor.html
Roughing out a federated payment processor that can resist censorship, but lacks a huge piece.
#harm #letsfix #project

Since I need to do this manually, if anybody knows of a "third-party confirms a financial transaction" system, this might be doable.