1. R-U-S-S-I-A 2. The Lawyers Are The Problem.® Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

State of Oregon et al v. Trump et al: www.plainsite.org/dockets/5sox...

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

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ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies. This is dangerous and could cause serious injury. The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke. They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”. Stay strong Portland.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

This Trump administration policy of generating an artificial civil war on the basis of big lies is of course meant to be frightening but it is also anti-American, unlawful, stupid and pursued by wildly unpopular people.

1/2 Torturers also say this. 2/2 Different point. By this logic Vance himself should stop complaining all the time. Everything has been handed to him, and yet he’s a grievance machine.

live your life in a manner so that jane goodall would not have wanted to ship you off planet as soon as possible

When President AOC federalizes the National Guard in 2029 to protect abortion clinics, Ilan is going to magically discover an English treatise written in 1610 that proves Matthew Kacsmaryk can issue a nationwide injunction against her.

For a while I figured Bluesky had filled the need for a social network not run by crazy people. But what I did not realize is that it might be run by incompetent people. So I guess I'll dust off that social networking code I was working on.

Plot twist. Elon Musk’s lawyers did me a huge favor. They may come to regret it.

Ressa… told Stewart people the world over were electing “illiberal leaders democratically because of insidious manipulation … [which] starts with the manipulation and corruption of our public information ecosystem” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

jesus christ

When I started researching Tesla in 2018, I admit, this is not where I thought we would end up.

If we can embrace the Israeli destruction of Gaza City, surely we can take the next step and accept the armed occupation of our own cities. by Bari Weiss

It's so telling that the CEO of this service never uses it to communicate anything of meaning.

Ethics in AI? The negative environmental impact of AI use alone is enough to never use it. I'm pretty sure it's unethical to use something that is actively destroying the planet and our natural resources so people can outsource their brains to machines.

Russian State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi openly called for infiltrating US institutions, buying American politicians, interfering in elections, and intensifying propaganda operations in Europe and America.

In terms of all things carbon, I guess a diamond is forever, but a toner cartridge is not.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

In the Matter of the Licenses and Licensing Rights of TESLA INSURANCE SERVICES, Inc.: www.plainsite.org/dockets/5t9g...

In the Matter of the Licenses and Licensing Rights of TESLA INSURANCE COMPANY: www.plainsite.org/dockets/5t9g...

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Last time I went back over a Bari Weiss story, it was full of holes. (See below.) I expect that whatever she produces at CBS will also be journalistic Swiss cheese because there will be no one above her vested in checking her work. www.elizabethspiers.com/noticeably-w...

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times subprime, this analyst argues www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Well, as soon as it was clear that they were serious about using DNS to refer to human beings it was also clear that the people running this are not serious people.

The maths say yes. The reality is xAI has no credible business model but needs $10s of billions in burn per year just to keep up with Altman on a LLM while $GOOG will be giving (a superior one) away for free. $TSLA raising $50B-$100B while merging with xAI is the end game here. Or similar. IMO.

lol correct

Do you think Elon Musk is bad? Do you wish you could do something totally legal to help fight him? Are you willing to spend $0.00 to get it done? Well, do I have the 2-minute task for you. 1. Sign up here with your real name and a throwaway password: eportal.alameda.courts.ca.gov?q=user/regis...

Fun fact: you can't compare Tesla deliveries from quarter to quarter because no one knows how they're defined at any given moment. But we do know that the definition had changed at least 10 times by late 2021.

Musk is now up to nine posts/reposts about SPLC in the past two hours or so. Unlike what SPLC does in publishing reports about present-day Klansmen and Nazis, wrongly accusing them of causing someone’s murder to an audience of brainwashed idiots very much is incitement to violence.

All that time we spent studying the Fourth Amendment and the Roberts Court just turns it off in the shadow docket

In which Google's "AI" libels me because I filed a libel lawsuit. Idiots.

For some reason, this is what the tech bro billionaires want for America.

Me on 11/5/2024 at 11:00 PM: Fire is going to rain from the heavens and it’s not safe to be here 1/20/2025: Planes begin crashing, fire rains from heavens Me now: I mean sure the flames are hot and it’s getting worse, but have the Gates of Hell even opened to swallow the country whole yet?

Seems like, as Yom Kippur starts, the USG is coordinating antisemitic messaging? Which federal agency is going to proclaim that—since Israel no longer grants folks like us the “right to return” (or entry into the country)—Jewish folks who support Palestine no longer count as Jewish?

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Today, the Clerk of Court of the Superior Court of California for SF told me there are no written guidelines on how to approve or reject e-filed documents. Once an anti-SLAPP motion is docketed, discovery is frozen. QED, the legislature made anti-SLAPP discovery stays conditional on random chance.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

nothing perfect under un-regulated capitalism but you can still hold people accountable or mock their weak sauce and hypocrisy

Today, Alex Spiro's client was sentenced to 7 years in prison even with his other client widely regarded as Co-President of the United States. The rule of law is not *entirely* dead. Just mostly dead.

Burn it all down

this might seem controversial, but I think we should send everyone who identifies as a "tech youtuber" to a nice quiet farm somewhere littered with fake cameras, where they can run around like labrador retrievers without hurting other people with their performative stupidity

Strongly agree. Garbage engineering and idiot support staff.

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This, from @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, is an excellent look at how we can (and should!) hold Russian propagandists accountable for their roles in Russia's destabilization efforts. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

So exhausting..

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...