Just recently [@hankgreen.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social)
Long Time Internet Guy
 ) had a good video putting forth a theory as to why a bunch of people are embracing certain drugs as miracle cure-all's. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC9g...]( ) RE:
Bluesky Social
Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
One of the truly weird culture war flashpoints of this era is how an anti-parasitic on the market for 35 years became the right's cure-all snake oi...
 [There's a Pattern Here]( ) View quoted note →
So... who gets to keep the phone numbers and use them "for promotional and marketing messages"? Trump? The RNC? The US government? This all seems very, very sketchy and bad. RE:
Bluesky Social
Kate Klonick (@klonick.bsky.social)
So a DC-based colleague sent me this -- but apparently to get alerts from the White House you have to agree to *promotional and marketing messages ...
Stephen Miller's latest method of attacking free speech is falsely claiming that any criticism of authoritarianism incites violence (which isn't even the full Brandenburg standard anyway, but also... is wrong). https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreievfqyhzwo5j7t5otc43ycw2k3dapsfanr2myc5ycbj3p5qcatdyi
Did you hear the story this week about how Google admitted that Biden made it ban people on social media? It's making the rounds in the MAGAverse. It's also not accurate. The real story is Google caving to pressure from Jim Jordan. RE:
Bluesky Social
Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Jim Jordan Celebrates Google Caving To His Pressure In Letter That Says Caving To Government Pressure Is Wrong Look, if you want to cut to the ch...
Watching [@dwillner.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social)
Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
 ) give a keynote at TSRC framed around why he hates my impossibility theroem because it's right. But also why there is reason for optimism, in part because of new tech that might provide an answer to it [www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/m...](
Techdirt
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information ec...
 ) [Masnick's Impossibility Theore...](
Techdirt
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information ec...
 )
PSA: If you yell at me for reposting someone else's quippy joke comment that I found amusing, asking me "why are you reposting this bad take" you are going to get blocked very, very quickly.
Sorry for yet another Kimmel post, but there's a lot of news on that beat today... RE:
Bluesky Social
Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Donald Trump Immediately Returns To Threatening Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel’s Speech We’ve repeated over and over again that anyone who believes...
I mean, of course he is. Trump basically tweeted out that this had to happen or people would get fired. Doesn't mean they actually have a case. RE:
Bluesky Social
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social)
BREAKING on MSNBC: Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the coming days in the Eastern District of Virginia, where a pros...
Random story but 15ish years ago, Michael Rapino emailed me out of the blue asking to get coffee. As we were unlikely to be in the same place at the same time, he asked me to call him instead, and we proceeded to have an hour long "conversation" in which I'm pretty sure I didn't say anything at all. RE:
Bluesky Social
Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co)
Ticketmaster boss Michael Rapino says concert tickets are 'underpriced' "In sports, I joke it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a K...
"triple sabotage" RE:
Bluesky Social
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
“A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events! First, the escalator going up t...