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Kris Nuttycombe@nutty.land |
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#haskell, #climbing, #blacksmithing, #go (*not* golang) I work on the core #zcash team at <a href='https://electriccoin.co'>electriccoin.co and build software for worker-owned cooperatives at aftok.com by night. I do not identify.
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Kris Nuttycombe
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Given that the NYT chose to publish this on July 4, I am announcing that it is now morally defensible to punch both nazis *and* (at risk of repeating myself) members of the New York Times Editorial Board.
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Joanne Freeman
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As @emptywheel.bsky.social said, they published this “voting doesn’t matter” editorial on July Fourth.
Shame on them.
American independence was declared—and won—by people who gave a damn. And worked for what they won.
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Shiv Ramdas
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Joe Biden must travel to the Kiln of the First Flame after defeating four champions and using their souls to unlock the door so as to Link the First Flame once again and prevent the Age of Darkness
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Bart Bonikowski
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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.
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Matthew Cortland (they)
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I was one of many folks pushing the Biden transition project on SCOTUS reform That push resulted in Biden's "Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States" The 34 commission members submitted their 288 pg report to POTUS on 12/7/21 Then the White House did nothing with it...
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Jonathan M. Katz
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And then they brought on some other jar of mayonnaise to say the SCOTUS ruling legalizing Watergate wasn’t the end of the world because future presidents will realize on their own that they shouldn’t throw their enemies into gulags.
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Ian Boudreau
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There have been so many of these but they still find ways to shock me
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Kris Nuttycombe
@nutty.land
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Highlander.
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Kris Nuttycombe
@nutty.land
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Lay by your pleading, Law lies a-bleeding Burn all your studies down And throw away your reading Small power the word has And can afford us Not half so much Privilege as the sword does - Loyal Garland, 1686
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Kris Nuttycombe
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Plot twist: all the t-shirts and dildos have prices listed in cryptocurrency.
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rahaeli
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Bluesky's apocablock makes being quote posted much less risky -- if you get QPed by an asshole and block them, their followers can't see your post, or even who posted it. So it's a lot more common here to QP positively -- because the QP dunk just gets you blocked -- and folks are more cool with it.
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Paul Crider
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And expand the House! We can do this if we keep the Senate and the House. We will just have to expel the House insurrectionists.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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Signal for comms. Tor for browsing (doesn’t have to be all the time, but occasionally. Brave Browser has it built in these days.) Zcash for purchases, when possible. Encourage your local abortion support fund to adopt it for donations; financial surveillance can be incredibly dangerous.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Now is a great time to download and learn how to use Signal.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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Oops “cyberbeast” ruins it though.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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I respect orange. This and lavender are the only valid colors for a Cybertruck; everything else is gross posturing.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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EFF has said time and again that age verification mandates are surveillance systems which undermine anonymity and privacy of all, don’t work as intended, and chill access to speech online. (1/4)
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Paul Crider
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Yes! This is an excellent demonstration of the politicization of the administrative state and overbroad authority that Roberts' ruling has made possible that *also* is basically just. Decent policy. Biden should do this. No doubt.
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Jonathan Ladd
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A very common historical scenario is that the former center-right supports authoritarians to take over government when they decide they prefer that to rule by the major parties of the left, and see the authoritarians as the only way to block that. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserv...
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Malaclypse the Middle
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If someone handed me full immunity, I would only use that power for good things.
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@jenniferholton7.bsky.social
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I worked with a woman who migrated to the US from Yugoslavia during the 90s. She said some days there would be factional fighting in the area she walked to work, sometimes it would be normal. Everyone just walked thru the fighting... They still had to get to work.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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The job search function was the one really useful bit that he turned off.
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evacide
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Working on projects that help to protect human rights even when the law does not is my personal equivalent of touching grass right now.
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Peter Sagal
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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.
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Faine Greenwood
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good opsec is not in fact futile, and anyone who tries to tell you that there's no point is suspicious
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Andrew Kinsey
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I'm reading the opinion and it says he enjoys absolute immunity regarding threats to fire the attorney general if they don't do what he wants. So, he could easily just say "investigate or prosecute my friends and you're fired" and he's 100% immune, right?
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Julia Azari
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i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate
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Paul Crider
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Hot take. We're not fucked. The Court is fucked. They've overstepped and will be put in their place. Call your Senators and tell them to support ending the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court by six justices.
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Kris Nuttycombe
@nutty.land
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I’m relatively sympathetic to the idea that our current state is dominated by regulatory capture and that we should consider using communication networks to build competing models of interaction and commerce. But beyond that, yeah.
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Tom Scocca
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Hey let's look away from the centrists panicking and declaring it's time to suddenly shake things up and see what's going on in the rest of the world
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Pwnallthethings
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And yes, Biden's nominees and staff have done some genuinely good things. But also ... we should not be here. We should not be here as a country. It is outrageous. People should be outraged. Everyone involved in us being here should be banished to the top of a tall mountain to repent for it
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Kris Nuttycombe
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Probably one of the late crazybob’s projects?
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Charlotte Ariel Finn
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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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The problem with BC is that it’s less private than a credit card! At least with a cc it’s just your bank that knows, with bc it’s the whole world.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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“Youse” works fine too, I use it frequently.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
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it's fucked up that in the united states there are so many jobs that require tips to make a living wage. like baristas and supreme court justices
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Kris Nuttycombe
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I really wish more sw’s would accept zcash. I don’t want to use a traceable payment mechanism for that sort of thing.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Sometimes it feels like nothing is changing: as if we’re climbing the tallest mountain in the world, and the summit is no closer than when we started. But if we stop for a minute and turn around and look back, we can see how far we’ve actually come. Progress is happening, step by step.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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It’s the voting system. Duverger’s Law, look it up, then go to equal.vote and learn a better way.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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I’m talking about a cumulative effect over decades. The culpability of congress has been minimized for basically my entire voting life.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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To be clear, I don’t think Biden should drop out. But he should seriously consider switching running mates, and the new running mate should act like they’re campaigning to be President.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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The very presence of the spoiler effect in the voting system means that you don’t get good candidates. Instead, you get hopeless vanity campaigns.
Also RCV is the second-worst option behind FPTP; I recommend checking out STAR voting (equal.vote) instead.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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I really wish that the ire about that sort of thing were directed at Congress, for their abject failure to do their jobs. But due to the media’s focus on the executive, the president takes the blame, not the legislators who are actually responsible for the shitshow.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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The other issue of course is “if they can come after Biden for his age, they can come after any of us!”
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Kris Nuttycombe
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This election is really going to be just a referendum on Trump. If enough people are unconcerned by or supportive of his bigotry and willingness to dismantle democracy for personal gain, that’s what we’re getting. I don’t think that the D candidate matters much.
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Kris Nuttycombe
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In a plurality-winner election, which means essentially nothing. FPTP only really returns a valid result when there are no more than two candidates. In my opinion, the primaries are entirely illegitimate due to the choice of voting system.
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