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lawyer doing the “data and tech stuff” … human interests include photography, cooking, travel, and sleep

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he mocks the dissent because of course they can always make up a rule to avoid some absurd or universally undesired outcome (framing the dissent as overwrought, despite the merits), but this ruling bolsters their power not to in order to achieve a desired end result. another power play

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but otoh, if you’re acting officially, but thru an agency…

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Kagan’s dissent in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimando is *scalding*

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Will Oremus's avatar Will Oremus @oremus.bsky.social
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Then, this morning, the markup itself imploded at the last minute, with committee staffers announcing its cancellation so abruptly that many lawmakers only found out while walking to the hearing room.

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

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Reminder: whatever you think of teenagers' use of social media (and the reality is a lot different than most people believe), it is impossible for a site to treat teenagers differently than adults without deanonymizing and identifying every single visitor to the site, including adults

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listen that email was sent at 2:36am for a reason

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also fun to compare social to the absolutely insane news environment of late 19th / early 20th century. countless random hyper-local newspapers printing wild stuff, on par with the snake oil advertised alongside

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Cathy Gellis's avatar Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social
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This sort of analysis seemed inevitable. It also still seems wrong. Like, the whole framework for finding when privacy has been violated seems wrong. It was a weak framework that of course would lead to results like this.

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