I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows. RE:
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Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such opt...
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. [resonantcomputing.org](
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-sca...
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-sca...
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Discord is doing a "wrapped" kinda thing now. Apparently I'm in the top 10% of Discord message senders? But it has a page talking about the person I share the most time with and suggested a message for me to send them, which would be... extremely inappropriate as it's someone who works for me. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreih4j66g7qf6oizjr5y6namqrv3in4bwpecbglzapn6v574ujuesna
To be fair, the justices are not technically wrong that the standard here, which the district court reviewed, was that if the gerrymandering was for partisan reasons, it's legal. It's only illegal if it was for race. But that allows the justices to just out & out say "THIS IS FOR PARTISAN REASONS!" RE:
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we...
Suddenly remembering that time I mocked Elon for claiming he was "exactly aligned" with the DSA back in early 2022. [www.techdirt.com/2022/05/10/w...](
Techdirt
What Free Speech? Elon Musk Endorses EU’s Highly Censorial Approach To Content Moderation; Which Twitter Has Spent Years Fighting
It’s becoming quite clear that Elon Musk’s approach to dealing with complex issues is not to actually understand the complex realities ...
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
This is going to set of a chain reaction of stupid. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
 [What Free Speech? Elon Musk En...](
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What Free Speech? Elon Musk Endorses EU’s Highly Censorial Approach To Content Moderation; Which Twitter Has Spent Years Fighting
It’s becoming quite clear that Elon Musk’s approach to dealing with complex issues is not to actually understand the complex realities ...
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This is going to set of a chain reaction of stupid. RE:
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Kate Klonick (@klonick.bsky.social)
🚨 I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check &...
The guy who makes people do stupid crazy stuff on video for money is opening a financial services firm? And people will give him money? The same guy who put his name on a hamburger joint and then whined when they made shitty burgers? Who would trust this guy? [www.theverge.com/2023/8/7/238...](
The Verge
MrBeast’s burger company is suing him for $100 million
The lawsuit alleges that MrBeast breached his contract.
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onion person (@junlper.beer)
oh that’s good. not enough of every aspect of our lives were financialized quite yet
 [MrBeast’s burger company is su...](
The Verge
MrBeast’s burger company is suing him for $100 million
The lawsuit alleges that MrBeast breached his contract.
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When you attack our nation's Capitol you say? How interesting. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you ...
Finally had a chance to write up the CJEU's Russmedia ruling which appears to make it literally *impossible* to run a website in the EU that allows any user content. I just don't see how compliance is possible. At all. Hat tip to @npub17e96...6wav for calling it to my attention. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally The Court of Justice of the EU—likely witho...
I wrote about a piece Grim edited that had massive, major factual errors in it (and which kicked off the idiocy about there being a "censorship industrial complex") and his response was to mock me and insist the only fact check that was needed was for my article exposing the problems of his. RE:
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Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social)
Grim called me “insane” for saying Democrats shouldn’t recruit candidates with Nazi tattoos and now that I see who he takes seriously, that t...