Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025) β Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pretty fucking classic...
"Then there's their abortion policies, which hold that personhood begins at conception, but ends at birth, and can only be re-established by forming an LLC."
Great article by Cory Doctorow about Wilhoit's Law...
pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/s...
27.08.2025 09:11
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Male Cheerleaders Are the Right's Latest Absurd Distraction
Don't fall for it.
"The Republican Party has a long and proud history of producing the nationβs finest male cheerleaders. In the past 50 years, more Republican presidents have been male cheerleaders than seen combat."
21.08.2025 20:08
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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
21.08.2025 21:42
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Want to talk about stupidity?
How about blaming solar and wind for fossil fuel price hikes when green energy is categorically cheaper.
Trump should stop lying to the American people and start holding Big Oil accountable for high energy prices.
22.08.2025 13:54
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How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer
We retracted a story in May. Hereβs what happened.
Props to @wired.com for writing this. Also, third-party AI-detection tools are worthless www.wired.com/story/how-wi...
22.08.2025 13:55
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This is an unprecedented attempt by the administration to obtain the medical information of patients.
At the end of last year, our Don Bell wrote about the consequences of surveillance on vulnerable people seeking medical care:
21.08.2025 20:17
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Absolutely appalling.
22.08.2025 15:16
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One of the biggest conservative complaint against reform prosecutors has been that they choose to not prosecute certain felonies β DeSantis literally removed an elected prosecutor from office for saying he wouldnβt prosecute abortion offenses.
20.08.2025 05:45
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Mourning Chief Justice Roberts' Twenty-Year Anniversary: The Ten Worst Constitutional Law Cases of the Roberts Court
We are close to the twentieth anniversary of John Roberts taking office as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (September 2...
As we approach the 20th Anniversary of the Roberts Court, here is my list of the Top Ten Worst Con Law Cases of his Court. Boy was that a hard list to whittle down and no doubt people will disagree with some omissions but the harm to America is truly awful. www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/mour...
18.08.2025 11:53
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This is straight up how online games die. I am not kidding. They tweaked something they built the future of the game around, committed to it fully and expected the players to go along with it. Now they're desperately tweaking the new system, agitating the players more every time. Not good!
16.08.2025 04:44
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The DOJ sandwich thrower as it turns out is a much decorated active duty staff Sergeant in the Marines. He identified himself immediately and offered to self surrender to the felony charge, but they sent 20 officers to arrest him. What a debacle it would be if the grand jury declines to indict.
16.08.2025 16:20
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Building ActivityPub
Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to become part of the worldβs largest publishing network
The news @ghost.org dropped this week are very cool. Even cooler is their announcement site for it: It is fun to read and makes me optimistic about the future of the web: activitypub.ghost.org 3/
10.08.2025 17:51
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Don't Trust AI Generated Lawyers
YouTube video by Pleasant Green
The most hilarious part of this scam is that the scammer purports to be from Skadden, lols for #lawsky:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvuL...
22.07.2025 16:07
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Well, two out of three is a solid start π
09.08.2025 13:52
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#Openvibe apparently let's you cross-post to #mastodon, #bluesky, and #threads (also #nostr). So that's pretty cool.
09.08.2025 13:48
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This is interesting because the driver admitted he was also at fault and the jury found Tesla only 33% responsible, yet they still hit it for $200M in punitives
Here is the verdict form
01.08.2025 20:16
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I help build publishing systems for lawyers, law firms, and legal organizations who want ownership over their identity, audience, and platform.
aspe:keyoxide.org:OMMFCDKM3FRXILRPW7F2AWJEHU
08.07.2025 23:26
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