I'm re-reading my 10Q questions from Reboot and here was an answer from last year: My colleague, Ron Hill, says "Decide who needs voice, provide that voice, and use it to make a better space." I would like to better figure out how to provide a voice to those who need it.

While we are talking about the shittiness of moderation here... There is no federal Net Neutrality law in the US.

The GOP is operating off of an imaginary feelings constitution, not the actual Constitution as on paper. The social contract is broken.

Can't even pull out my old ICQ handle...

Remembering when folks lost their shit over "Biden was defying SCOTUS" (he was not), and that was just over student loans, let alone the fabric of the republic.

All politics is national.

Q: Where did all the Loyalists go after the Revolutionary War? A: Most of them stayed. (And white supremacy was the general m.o. of the era.)

Corruption. If the Democrats could be the pluralistic "fighting corruption" party, they'd probably win. The people who want any of this moral asymmetry are white supremacists and folks willing to maintain such social order through the corruption of strongmen.

Societal asymmetry, but who's to say...

This is wild.

My general sense of this entire week is: Bluesky is under immense pressure from the USG to come to heel or be shutdown. Everything from recent moderation decisions to Jay’s public statements could be seen as an attempt to stave off this outcome while encouraging rapid decentralization.

V for Vendetta days...

I don't think this threat won't boomerang.

I would like the ability to stack/juxtapose a repost with a repost (see next post instead:)

14% of American Jews have developed a contingency plan to flee the US if necessary due to rising antisemitism. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

This is all because we elected Obama. Twice.

Q: did Donald Trump give a flying fig about state sovereignty? Or did things change since August 2023? 🤔

"The law is people... and people... is politics. And I can handle the people." —Logan Roy

"The law is people... and people... is politics. And I can handle the people." —Logan Roy or Donald Trump?

So basically the Trump judge told the Trump Administration to piss off (which will go up to SCOTUS and then we'll see how fast states' rights apply).

Arresting a sovereign executive, whether it's her or Newsom, will be the Gavrilo Princip moment of the Second Civil War.

Prof in social media profs FB group: I'm running 20 agents and checking in on them all the time and sometimes I think they stop working. What's your experience? My comment: My electricity bill is going up.

Probably because of me, my father felt he needed to be in the peer review game. doi.org/10.1525/abt....

Anyways, "the world *should* be shitty" is the oddest form of doomerism.

I think the fact that we live in a world of different ontologies has completely eroded the civic ability to determine and accept which actions are "good faith" and "bad faith" in a societal context.

Now, I'm writing an answer where I'm trying to grapple with my individual place in spacetime while being dwarfed by both space and time...

I'm re-reading my 10Q questions from Reboot and here was an answer from last year: My colleague, Ron Hill, says "Decide who needs voice, provide that voice, and use it to make a better space." I would like to better figure out how to provide a voice to those who need it.

Add to the impeachment list.

Had a meeting pre-bat mitzvah parent meeting with our senior rabbi earlier. First time in 12 years that I got to discuss with him my I/P politics. And though it was kind of weird he called my take "extreme left, " he amended by adding "relative to the congregation." Still parsing that out though...

Another civil war due to white supremacy because this country failed to reconcile with its original sin for two reconstructions.

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’ Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE. A rogue fascist agency.

Isn't that Oregon judge a Trump-nominated judge? Is the ruling now a psyop? Is Miller having a normal one?

With the exception of liability for sexual assault and a felony fraud conviction with no jail, Trump has never faced meaningful consequence for anything in life.

Here I go again starting to pick up a tikkun to learn the chamishi, revi'i, and shishi aliyot to leyn at my daughter's bat mitzvah parshat (Vayishlach). She is leyning rishon, sheni, shlishi (for weekday minyan) and shevi'i/maftir. Why either of us is doing this to ourselves...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The only way your institution will survive this administration is if you counterpunch it in the clams and tell it to fuck itself. Good on Gov Kotek in Oregon for swinging and winning.

Meaningless in the scheme of human events, but I'm very annoyed that this season I can't find a #GoHabsGo French ☠️ feed that I can cast to my TV.

I feel like we need to talk in general about the 1.25-5x-ification of media consumption and its cultural risk/rewards--especially when it comes to children's media consumption and cognitive development...

We are going to need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission when all of *waves hands* this is over. And that's aside from the one previously proposed by Barbara Lee when she was in Congress.

this is what happens when people who have never been oppressed a second of their lives try to invent oppression

Greta Thunberg is 22 years old. When is she a child and when is she an adult? Because I've seen folks from all stripes weaponizing that answer, as/when is convenient to their argument and I'm super perplexed.

Gameday ads are weird. I have no concept/reference to that culture.

I haven't seen any mainstream investigative journalism pieces to date on Anduril.

Once upon a time, retail got rid of all the cashiers in favor of self-checkout. This AI, too, shall pass.

61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza; 40% now say Israel is committing genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... I wish the 40% number were higher but this can hardly be dismissed as a tiny fringe of the community.

I wouldn't say my wife is overly a consumer of these outlets but she's definitely not an extremely online person. When she talks about something, I know it's broken through.

Roll that beautiful bean footage, Duke...

I think the fact that we live in a world of different ontologies has completely eroded the civic ability to determine and accept which actions are "good faith" and "bad faith" in a societal context.

First time I've ever read a story where private funding stepped in for the abdication of federal funding. Maybe, ever.

I still can't get an answer on what making the Epstein Files public meaningfully does for policy.

truly too many wreckers in the world and not enough builders. tech has favored disruption over sustainability for too long! our community is tired of moving from network to network, we want a safe home to be together and present a unified front against those who want to persecute us.