Ettinger Legal

‘Thurmond and his partner, who would be known as resident officer community keepers, or ROCK cops, would be tasked not with arresting criminals but with treating the underlying conditions that breed crime. Unlike regular beat officers, they would have no fixed schedule or responsibilities. Available 24 hours a day, with their cell phone numbers widely distributed, they would go where the community needed them.’

‘Ecuador is unique in terms of oil and conservation; it’s an oil producing and exporting (OPEC) country, and its shaky economy depends on oil. But it also enshrines the rights of nature in its constitution, and many Ecuadoreans see themselves as the guardians of those rights.’

This is a long read but worth it and there’s too much in it to pull out a pithy headline quote. I suspect that as A.I. develops further and further we’ll probably discover that we’ve failed to think through the legal ramifications of it - both for us and the machines.

Supreme Court Continues to Narrow the Meaning of Obstruction

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‘Commercial versions of the nascent national program are already in operation. Ant Financial, the finance arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is piloting Sesame Credit, which offers a range of perks, such as travel upgrades and deposit-free car rentals, to top scorers. But Sesame’s system, which assigns a rating between 350 and 950, is murky and complicated. The company says even innocuous activities, like late-night web browsing or buying video games, could see one’s rank downgraded for “irresponsible” behavior. One undergraduate saw her score plummet to 350 after being named in an unresolved civil suit: Sesame had automatically listed her as a laolai, a deadbeat, “subject to enforcement for breaking trust.”’

‘...hundreds of vulnerable Victorians each year leave psychiatric treatment facilities straight into homelessness, and the numbers are growing.’

‘In 1584 things were even stricter, with the Inn’s passing an order that members must not wear “great ruffs”, “white colour in doublet or hose”, “velvet facings”, “hat nor long nor curled hair”, and that all gowns must be of “sad colour.”’

Before drones and GoPros there were pigeons with cameras strapped to their chests