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Lowkey kinda of crazy how many more FOIA's have been sent in recent years. Nearly triple in FY25 compared to FY08!
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"Federal tax incentives for cybersecurity software investment offer a faster solution than creating new government programs." In @CyberScoopNews, @JoshuaTLevine and @LarsESchonander call on the executive branch to clarify how the tax code applies to cybersecurity expenses.
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Oh! Oh no. That’s not good
After my last pangram analysis someone asked me if I could do an analysis of how much AI is being used in churches and sermons and I did a smoke test and it is kind of depressing.
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Cost a little under $50 dollars but finally with @pangram did analyzed the FOIA requests from FDA for the month of August! Of the 1,082 requests, 137, or 12.7% of them, are AI generated.
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Given how formulaic a FOIA request is I am curious what were the specific tells of these FOIA's. I did find a few specific orgs where the majority of the FOIA's they sent were AI generated
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I'd ideally like to analyze more FOIA requests but I need to figure out how to budget it given how pricy it is
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I disagree with Rao’s approach but I do admire that he is very honest and foward about it vs trying to hide the AI usage
Replying to @TheZvi
He wrote a very interesting post about this, ctrl+f "AI Use Philosophy" on this page: contraptions.venkateshrao.co…
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And if it works people will still read him and if not, ho hum!
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Lars Schönander retweeted
My first big piece in a major magazine!
Panic about data centers “is leading communities to forgo massive amounts of tax revenue—largely because of threats that are inflated, confused, and sometimes nonexistent,” @AndyMasley argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Wired up Pangram to process a FOIA log, confirmed at least for FDA there are AI written FOIA requests!
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FOIA requests are already rather programmatic so now I am curious what tells make something even more formulaic then that
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Need more tokens for a 2nd pass but interesting stuff so far of the 2025 FDA data! 560 records processed so far 485 Human 74 AI 1 Mixed About 13% of the FOIA's are AI! Impressed that some are captured again given the templated nature of things
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??? How !??
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Lars Schönander retweeted
Excluding data centers from bonus depreciation is equivalent to applying a special surtax on datacenters.
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