Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker.

We could fix this in the United States with just one Supreme Court holding that would be incredibly logical and reasonable. Currently, the entire logic of the financial surveillance state is that a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information that they voluntarily turn over to a third party such as a bank. Thus the government is entitled to that information without implicating the Fourth Amendment. Fair enough. But if I voluntarily turn over information to a third party pursuant to an enforceable agreement that the third party will use that information only as necessary for their internal business purposes and will otherwise endeavor to take all reasonable means to keep it confidential, then I absolutely do have a reasonable expectation that the third party will comply with the agreement and keep the information private. That's it. That's all it would take to demolish the modern financial surveillance state in the United States. It's reasonable, logical, not foreclosed by any precedent I know of, and (IMO) a contrary holding is not possible to reconcile with Fourth Amendment precedent. If you're interested in understanding how the Supreme Court looks at such cases, take a look at US v. Miller (no, not the 2A one), 425 U.S. 435 (1976).

The Bitcoin network is under attack, and block production has slowed significantly. The community is preparing mitigations to resolve the situation. In the meantime, attackers are spreading misinformation and advising users to downgrade or switch to insecure node software.

Hey, @Samsung, how many home service attempts is reasonable before you replace a high-end television that failed under warranty? I'm at 13 right now (including two over seven hours) and it still doesn't work.

🖥️ What values should govern frontier Artificial Intelligence systems, how should those values be selected and prioritized, how should AI systems be trained to adhere to those values, and who should enforce these protocols? 📜 The Working Group on AI Constitutionalism is an urgent initiative to steer deliberation and recommendations on these crucial questions. 🤩 I am pleased to have joined the Working Group, under the leadership of @KevinTFrazier and @JoalStein, alongside @Abi0lvera @landemore @aneeshpappu @nickacaputo @petersalib @AndrewSorota, Janel Thamkul, Brian Fuller, Alex Pascal, and Clinton Staley. 📝 Learn about our work here and read about the exciting and needed research agenda for AI Constitutionalism: