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Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasks

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“There’s a guy in there who just shoots the shit with you when you come in to pay,” Jackson says. “He’d heard that I had previously given some pro bono legal help to a family who owned a barbecue restaurant. He said there was family in the area where the dad had been caught up in one of the ICE workplace raids and they’re really freaking out. The parents were undocumented, while one of the kids is DACA and the other is a U.S. citizen.”

The man asked Jackson if he would be willing to “just talk to them and make sure they know their rights and where they can some help. I said absolutely. I’m not an immigration lawyer, but they were scared to reach out to anyone, so I said I’d go there and try to just give them the basics.”

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“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.”

Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges.

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The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside.

“I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.”

Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.”

There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”

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“So there was about a 30-minute period where my Wifi was down, and it happened to be the period where these officers came to my door, which prevented my Ring camera from recording them,” he says. “I guess it could be a coincidence. But that’s a big coincidence.”

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It isn’t that Jackson regrets what he did. But the visit from those two officers made him feel as if he should — as if he’d brought the visit from the police upon himself.

When I reminded him of this, he replied, “Thanks for saying that. It’s something I have to keep reminding myself. Helping people out pro bono is part of my professional obligation as a lawyer. I did nothing wrong.

He then paused for a moment. “But can I just be honest with you? I’m fucking scared to be in Texas right now.”

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Exclusive: EU Transparency Register shows law firms also among lobbyists working for fossil fuel companies

A handful of “small but dirty” public affairs and law firms in Europe are enabling pollution by lobbying extensively for big oil, an analysis has found, with most major companies in the industry working for at least one fossil fuel client.

Several of the top spenders on activities to influence EU policymaking are on the payroll of oil and gas companies, according to an analysis of the EU Transparency Register by the Good Lobby nonprofit, but fossil fuel clients represent just 1% of the industry’s revenue.

The researchers said it showed that public affairs companies could cut ties with the big polluters who pay them to influence policy without hurting their bottom lines – but warned there was little public or regulatory pressure on lobbyists to go green.

Pakistan closes airspace, suspends trade with India

India suspends Indus Waters Treaty, Pakistan calls it act of war

Modi vows to punish Kashmir attackers, diplomatic tensions rise

Pakistan's bonds drop over 4 cents amid escalating tensions

I replied to the old comment about this but I think it has got lost or missed.

Thanks for adding alt text! Now we have the image display with the info panel at the bottom, could you move the alt text there? I think it will be infinitely more readable, and more obvious to find.

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Beijing will ‘strengthen bottom-line thinking’ as reports say it could drop tariffs on some US products

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/xi-announces-plan-chinese-economy-us-trade-war

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