Jason Kint

If you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock. 7 days until Meta is 3wks from claiming right to scrape your site to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is use of Meta's services. Yes, they delayed but you shouldn’t.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Simply imagine a Lockheed, Boeing or other prime defense contractor - out of nowhere, no communication - implementing some terms of service or term in a contract they think they have without reaching out first to say we think you are violating this. As a result we will nerf your crucial technology.

Seems fairly obvious this is a must do when you read the sentence aloud, “Lawmakers in the U.S. from both parties have called for a formal probe into Musk and SpaceX over alleged unilateral changes the company made to its services in Ukraine.”

Very glad to hear that Elon Musk is a stickler for details on contractor – government relationships. Could come in handy later.

If you're an investor, Meta shed $115B today. But if you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock. 8 days until Meta claims right to scrape your site to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is use of Meta's services or sharing your site.

ICYMI — Artists, authors, business owners on META Apps 🚨 Remember when we used to share the “copy and paste” of “I don’t consent to FB using my info and photos…” and people said it was a hoax? Welp… 🎥 @kint.bsky.social

Unfortunately, New Mexico and Florida were the only two states that did not sign the Harm to Teens settlement, which had buried inside a release from any future Cambridge Analytica claims.

Today, a judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading users on data privacy and a range of other statements that a jury deemed deceptive (and willfully so). Last month I broke down the jury's determinations on each of the questions posed to it:

Congratulations, New Mexico. Everyone else, I believe Meta has succeeded in deflecting one of the great cover-ups of all time. That includes the actual knowledge timeline, the breadth by delaying sealed audit reports Zuck promised Senate until everyone moved on, Sandberg’s SEC depo still sealed…

Thanks for flagging this. There are a ton of journalists who unfortunately have been spun by Meta PR on the various cases over the many years while Meta has fought to keep facts buried (Sandberg/Zuckerberg SEC depos, knowledge timeline including board). Zuckerberg named in DC AG case.

Saw Musk documentary tonight… 1) it was great 2) ironic it reportedly can’t run ads on X despite Musk’s farcical free speech claims 3) there is an eery, timely Starlink-Ukraine scene considering WSJ’s massive report this evening.

Impressed that at least the UK is actually moving on this outrageous move by Meta. Baroness Fleet gets it. 10 days. Tick tick tick tick. UK CMA (Competition and Markets Authority): “We wrote them a letter on it… we’re talking tomorrow.”

Two federal judges found Google to be an illegal monopolist, but neither broke up the company. I spoke with Barry Lynn of the Open Markets Institute and Princeton CITP’s Mihir Kshirsagar about what the remedies mean for competition in the AI era, and what's necessary to hold tech firms accountable.

10 days until Meta claims the right to scrape your website to develop its AI. Your consent? Apparently unnecessary. All it takes is someone sharing a link on Facebook or Instagram - or you using Meta's services. If you're a business or artist with intellectual property, watch the clock.

I think after today my "dumbest legal stories that actually matter" list has been updated as follows: 1. Grand conspiracy case 2. Comey seashells Instagram post case 3. East Potomac Golf Links case hbu?

Bumping this paragraph up to the top.

“Germany, frankly, has been fine on Poland.” — Churchill “Iraq, frankly, has been fine on Kuwait.” — Bush 41 bsky.app/profile/theb...

This isn’t one of those “oh maybe we’re taking him out of context when he talked about bombing LA” quotes. It’s a five-alarm fire quote — and it ought to be placed high on every serious news site’s homepage tonight and tomorrow morning.

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

J: i rec'd aa number of texts on the break from my mother and my brother because CNN is reporting i'm getting a lot of death threats. this is where we are. a federal judge getting death threats over a golf course. i really dont think this is what the founders envisioned. adjourned. /210

I thank her for rejecting the hush money and speaking out. If I were in her shoes, I can’t say I would have been able to turn away that kind of money. I will not forgive her for her previous actions though. And, to be fair to her, I don’t think she is seeking forgiveness. So there is that.

He’s right, @hanaatameez.bsky.social

Same dynamic as TikTok taking down ads for Musk documentary. A web of silence bought by money and/or power. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/m...

The language was tuned to maximum inbound “signal.” That’s what they do. It comes from the top. They’re a data harvester. A 21st century data broker. Their revisions and press statement close to midnight last night don’t resolve things.

At a loss for what to do as many markets ask for IG links and advertise on IG, as do shops for wholesale, and a sales event I join twice a yr is based there. I WANT to delete Fb/IG but my job makes leaving difficult. But also like hell do I wanna be trapped into giving Meta my portfolio for free! 🤬

Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians on Friday while they were picking olives in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, seriously injuring several people. Heidi Levine, a veteran Washington Post photographer, was also injured in the attack. nyti.ms/4i54B10

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This is absolutely shameless, I'm honestly gobsmacked.

I’ve tried multiple times to ditch FB/Insta and the result is not making rent. As a self employed artist I have to have my work visible where ppl are or I don’t eat. The tattoo industry has consolidated itself around Instagram & if you’re not there you’re invisible. I hate it.