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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025) – 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 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Burner Phone 101 Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone...

Missed my Burner Phone 101 workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library?

Here’s the companion write-up, with discussion highlights and updated slides: rebeccawilliams.info/burner-phone...

20.08.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2
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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 nation’s finest male cheerleaders. In the past 50 years, more Republican presidents have been male cheerleaders than seen combat."

21.08.2025 20:08 πŸ‘ 1845 πŸ” 441 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 25
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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 πŸ‘ 24688 πŸ” 7747 πŸ’¬ 594 πŸ“Œ 602
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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 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer We retracted a story in May. Here’s 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 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely appalling.

22.08.2025 15:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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 wouldn’t prosecute abortion offenses.

20.08.2025 05:45 πŸ‘ 441 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2
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Best AI Tools for Legal Writing and Drafting Curious about AI legal writing? Explore how lawyers can use AI to write faster, work smarter, and stay compliantβ€”without compromising security or accuracy.

Best AI Tools for Legal Writing and Drafting. #LegalAi www.clio.com/blog/ai-lega...

20.08.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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 πŸ‘ 1000 πŸ” 363 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 18
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More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C. Governors of three states β€”Β Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia β€”Β are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC β€” where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to β€œcombat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

17.08.2025 12:30 πŸ‘ 7964 πŸ” 3422 πŸ’¬ 260 πŸ“Œ 232

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 πŸ‘ 843 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 2

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 πŸ‘ 11396 πŸ” 3329 πŸ’¬ 506 πŸ“Œ 162
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Building ActivityPub Ghost is federating over ActivityPub to become part of the world’s 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 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Don't Trust AI Generated Lawyers
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 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, two out of three is a solid start πŸ˜…

09.08.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#Openvibe apparently let's you cross-post to #mastodon, #bluesky, and #threads (also #nostr). So that's pretty cool.

09.08.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects As the Trump administration's β€œbig, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.

As the Trump administration’s β€œbig, beautiful bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the United States, China continues huge investments in wind and solar power. See images of the scale of China’s solar-power projects:

11.07.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 16

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 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0