Patrick Breyer critiques an EU Parliament compromise proposal to extend Chat Control 1.0, arguing it legalizes warrantless mass surveillance of private messages with unreliable AI text scanning and lacks judicial oversight, while being driven by commercial interests rather than genuine child safety concerns.
A critical analysis rejecting vague claims about generative model utility, proposing a scientific framework based on three factors: encoding cost, verification cost, and task process-dependency. The author argues most current generative AI deployment lacks rigorous justification and predicts usefulness decreases with task complexity.
A detailed alternate-history exploration of what an early 8-bit computer (the fictional Columbia II) would have looked like if CBS's field-sequential color television system had been widely adopted instead of NTSC composite color, including technical specifications of the 144Hz system and implications for computer video design.