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It’s Just Math: Recent Legislative Trend Reignites Debate About the Bounds of Biometric Data
https://fpf.org/blog/its-just-math-recent-legislative-trend-reignites-debate-about-the-bounds-of-biometric-data/

A Republican-controlled House committee passed legislation earlier this week that would
prevent the US Labor Department from enacting federal standards to protect workers from extreme heat
-- a move that came amid sweltering heat across the country.
The Heat Workforce Standards Act,
led by Rep. Mark Messmer (R-Ind.),
passed the House Education and Workforce Committee on Tuesday in a 18-15 vote along party lines.
If enacted, the legislation would bar the Oc…

Amid deadly temperatures, GOP advances bill to ban federal heat protections for workers
“Congress should not respond to an escalating occupational hazard by permanently removing the Department of Labor’s authority to address it.”

New FPF Report Analyzes the Rise in Chatbot Legislation & What’s Ahead
https://fpf.org/press-releases/new-fpf-report-analyzes-the-rise-in-chatbot-legislation-whats-ahead/
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US lawmakers introduce legislation for a 20% base tax credit on film and TV labor costs for projects with budgets of $1M where 75% of filming occurs in the US (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pol

Federal Film and TV Tax Credit Hits Congress: Bipartisan Group Introduces Hollywood Bill
The federal incentive would be eligible to be stacked on top of individual state tax incentives, much like the current system in Canada and Australia.

In a significant move, Delia Ramirez,
a Democratic US representative from Illinois,
has proposed legislation aimed at terminating the controversial surveillance tower program along the US southern border.
This announcement follows a revealing investigation by MIT Technology Review,
which highlighted a troubling statistic:
over 1,050 individuals have died within the operational range of these surveillance towers.
The proposed bill, known as the "Rei…

A Congressional Representative Just Proposed Ending America’s Border Tower Program
Delia Ramirez's proposal to terminate the border surveillance tower program raises critical questions about its effectiveness. This legislative move…

Has anyone explicitly compared the deliberate restucturing of the legislative and built environment that supported #motornormativity and the present day efforts to enforce the use of LLMs? I suspect those pushing LLMs are well aware of opium and tobacco as business models (state sponsored dependency) but the enforced transformation of work and public spaces (and the erasure of competing soluti…

Prime Minister Carney is trying to rush ahead with legislation that would gut environmental protections and undermine labour laws so that mega-corporations can profit while our communities and the planet suffer. Tell your MP to vote against the bulldoze nature bill!
https://share.nwmd.social/s/8YOeDRKV…

Tell your MP: Reject Bill C-39

Congress isn’t working. Literally.

There have been few times in history when Congress has been more hated.
And your legislators are doing little to address that
— including working in Washington
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Analysis | Congress isn’t working. Literally.
There have been few times in history when Congress has been more hated. And your legislators are doing little to address that — including working in Washington.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) have introduced new legislation that would ban anyone from developing artificial superintelligence
— a technology the bill describes as capable of the “destruction or disempowerment of humanity,”
including by overthrowing the government.
Under the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,
AI leaders would face up to 20 years in prison for violating the law.
The bill doesn’t just take aim at the more powerful sup…

Bernie Sanders proposes banning ‘superintelligence’ and putting violators in prison
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar have introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, a bill that would prevent companies from developing technology capable of the “destruction or disempowerment of humanity.”

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained a California state employee working as a field representative for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, on Thursday as he traveled through Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
The field representative, Ho Yin Mo, was a young member of Stefani’s team who previously worked as a TV reporter in the Bay Area before entering politics.
Stefani called on the federal government to release Mo in a statement, c…

ICE detains Bay Area legislative staffer in Las Vegas airport
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained a California state employee working as a field representative for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, on Thursday as he traveled through Vegas airport.