⚖️ A Supreme Court in Disarray After an Extraordinary Breach

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A Supreme Court in Disarray After an Extraordinary Breach. Sources have motives, and the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade raises a question as old as the Roman Empire. Cui bono? Who benefits? Not the Supreme Court as an institution. Its reputation was in decline even before… (Adam Liptak / The New York Times)

Jodi Kantor @jodikantor

"The point of the leak, then, may have been to lock in the five-justice conservative majority." By @adamliptak, who doesn't say things lightly

nytimes.comA Supreme Court in Disarray After an Extraordinary BreachThe leak of a draft majority opinion overruling Roe v. Wade raises questions about motives, methods and whether defections are still possible.

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NFT Sales Are Flatlining. The sale of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, fell to a daily average of about 19,000 this week, a 92% decline from a peak of about 225,000 in September, according to the data website NonFungible. (Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal)

Jesse Felder @jessefelder

'The NFT market is collapsing. Sales fell to a daily average of about 19,000 this week, a 92% decline from a peak of about 225,000 in September. Active wallets fell 88% to about 14,000 last week from a high of 119,000 in November.' wsj.com/articles/nft-s…

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Tiny Loans Were Going to Solve Global Poverty. Then Big Money Got Involved. Suicides, debtors' prisons and delinquent borrowers forced to sell their land—the grim social costs linked to microfinance a decade ago were supposed to be a relic of the past. But efforts to clean up the industry lost momentum, and today… (Gavin Finch / Bloomberg)

Bloomberg @business

THREAD: Tiny loans — sometimes as little as a few dollars — were supposed to be the answer to global poverty. Instead, borrowers face abuse, homelessness and, in some cases, turn to suicide

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Meta has built a massive new language AI-and it's giving it away for free. “I applaud the transparency here,” says Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington and a frequent critic of the way language models are developed and deployed. “It's a great move,” says… (Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review)

Mike Schroepfer @schrep

Heard of advances in AI called Large Language models - e.g. GPT-2/3? Up till now only researchers at a handful of large companies could actually see what was behind the curtain. Now Meta AI has released a fully trained model for researchers...

technologyreview.comMeta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for freeFacebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3

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We need app store competition, not Apple's 1960s-style paternalistic monopoly. A pair of bills moving through Congress would force some of the largest tech companies to cede control over how people find and use mobile apps, leading to more competition and lower prices. But… (Karen Gullo / TechCrunch)

EFF @EFF

App store users: don't believe Apple's scaremongering. You can have choice AND security when buying apps.

techcrunch.comWe need app store competition, not Apple’s 1960s-style paternalistic monopoly – TechCrunchBig tech companies want to scare people with dire warnings that proposed federal bills would put their security in jeopardy.

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