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Mike Masnick@mmasnick.bsky.social |
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Techdirt guy. Sometimes I write about protocols. Sometimes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service: bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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UPDATE: Jonathan Mitchell and Kyle Duncan get another go at the First Amendment, as the Fifth Circuit this evening announced — after business hours going into the holiday weekend — that they're taking the Llano County library books litigation en banc. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Randall Munroe
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Bracket Symbols xkcd.com/2954
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rahaeli
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It should not be controversial to say that prison sexual violence and/or coercion is never a good thing or an appropriate thing to joke or threaten about, even when the target is someone terrible. It is a deeply fucked up, traumatic part of our carceral system.
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Daniel A. Horwitz
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Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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This was in Dinosaur National Monument.
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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You sure they were the same ones?
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Riana
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Decided just now to start rereading Hitchhikers Guide for the first time in many years and uh
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Visited some thousands of years-old petroglyphs, and I'm not saying it was aliens... but...
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Mike Masnick
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Mike Masnick
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Lol. Disney is now citing the SCOTUS Netchoice ruling in support of its motion to dismiss Gina Carano's "Disney firing me from the Mandalorian violates the First Amendment" case that Elon is financing.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?
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Faine Greenwood
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I know it is useless to argue with these people, which is why I block them immediately instead.
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Sarah Weinman
@sarahweinman.bsky.social
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The thing about the march to fascism is that aside from the terror and the consequences it’s also so goddamn embarrassing
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Mike Masnick
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That was it
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Julian Sanchez
@normative.bsky.social
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This is your annual advance reminder that you will never look at a photograph or video of fireworks again, nor will it be of any real interest to your social media contacts. Just look with your own gelatinous human eyes.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Not that anyone is asking me, but I have no idea what the Democrats should do right now. All the options seem bad, and there isn’t one that seems less bad than the others. And as a professional opinion-haver, it’s disorienting to have no strong opinion about something so enormously consequential.
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Mike Masnick
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When he was campaigning for NY's Lt. Governor, he had an event in California that I attended, and it was kinda strange. I wrote on Twitter afterwards about how his messaging seemed confused, unclear & uninspired. And he shot back that it wasn't meant to be a rally or something like that.
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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as a politics knower I think the democrats should simply do the thing that makes it easiest to win, but also aligns with both all my prior posts and all my most panicked recent posts. this is very simple and obvious.
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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joe biden must seek out a rare blue flower growing only on the eastern slopes of the mountains in bhutan and carry it to the top of the mountain
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Don Moynihan
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JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. RFK: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. RFK Jr.:
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Tracy Chou
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white guy next to me has a tattoo of the chinese character for white (白) on his arm do we think - he thinks it says something inspirational? - he thinks being white is inspirational? - he got trolled by his tattoo artist?
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Parker Molloy
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That sounds suspiciously like something someone who would eat a human would say. (screenshot via @acyn.bsky.social on Twitter)
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible
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Alex Howard
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I’ve been in shock since Monday AM. The fact the Supreme Court didn’t simply affirm the lower court’s ruling & dismiss Trump’s absurd claims of absolute immunity was appalling, given trial delays — but this is calamitous for democracy writ large. Like Dred Scott, “Trump vs U.S.” will be infamous.
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Mike Masnick
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What the absolute fuck?
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
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Adam Bonin
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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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When you're worried there might be a pride flag at semiquincentennial parade
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a head full of serpents and a mouth full of spiders
@palecur.bsky.social
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"This is important: the nature of the First Amendment is that sometimes it protects the speech of people you dislike or distrust. Because if you don’t protect them, then those same authorities will suppress, stifle, and silence the speech of people you do support and do agree with."
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Mike Masnick
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Had some thoughts on Tim Wu's attack on the First Amendment. www.techdirt.com/2024/07/03/t...
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I really thought I was cynical enough about the utter corruption of the right-wing bloc on SCOTUS, but it turns out I was still giving them too much respect.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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JD Vance is stealing my jokes
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Quinta Jurecic
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along similar lines, has anyone actually explained *why* the seal team six hypo is ruled out by the majority opinion? all I've seen is right-leaning law profs mocking everyone who raises the issue. but nobody has explained why a president wouldn't be immune for assassinating a rival
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Popehat
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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Today's struggle:
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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Sure it is. It's for the cultural benefit of Americans.
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Missing The Point
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Working on the script for an Oceans 11 type heist movie where, in the scene when the mastermind lays out the plan, an integral element requires a team member to go out and get elected as U.S. president.
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Mike Masnick
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This may be the worst thing I've read in a long time. It's embarrassing. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Mike Masnick
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Does it matter? President is immune.
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Mike Masnick
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I see some good ideas being suggested, but here's my entry: he can now *commercially* pirate music, since to really be criminal rather than civil, needs to be commercial. So he could set up the White House's official pirate streaming service. And no one could do anything.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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My contribution
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Gabriel Malor
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He should have the National Park Service impound Justice Thomas' RV. For funsies.
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Mike Masnick
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It's been a few years since I played it, but I remember it being very good.
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Mike Masnick
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Um, which part of sleeping with an adult film actress and then paying her off to be quiet during your presidential election (both of which happened before you were President), and then falsifying the business records is an official presidential act? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/n...
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Mike Masnick
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Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.
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Mike Masnick
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Callback to four months ago...
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Mike Masnick
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Even while on vacation, and in a week where we had planned not to publish a Ctrl-Alt-Speech, I recorded a "minisode" to talk about the NetChoice cases. podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/1534...
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The Onion
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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”
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I take some small solace that one of the Right's stupider law professors, Stephen L. Carter from Yale, is mildly disheartened by this morning's judgment. This guy's big idea is the nonsense that "freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion", if you wonder why I say he's stupid.
#GiftLink
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