Texas…y’all already know

When was the last time a CR was released with enough time for members to actually review it? Like, a week or more?

Walked past the site where Sen. Cruz planned his 2013 shutdown for the first time in ages…RIP Tortilla Coast

One bad commutation produces ten thousand times the outrage of thousands of unnecessary incarcerations. If you are chiming in only now, ask yourself why you are demanding perfection here, but not on those we lock up in our sadistic prisons? Why does mercy anger you but cruelty does not?

The metro pop up’s sweater has lights AND sound (the metro door ding!). Matt just had to pick it up!

Planning for a bike lane in Seattle has taken nearly 3x as long as building the 31 mile Channel tunnel. We need to desperately change how we plan and build things at every level of government.

Well, my employer decided to plug my #FOIA work in the latest edition of our quarterly magazine, so for those who might not be familiar with my backstory, this provides a cogent summary: www.cato.org/free-society...

So I wrote this, and it's the best thing I've ever written. "We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole." That right there. That tells everyone how Trust & Safety is going to act, and it gives T&S profound latitude. They're not there to rules-lawyer or first-amendment.

Inspired to get this doormat I saw at our last Christmas party

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Preview of the top DC issues Congress will focus on next year - crime and RTO - and Mayor Bowser’s approach to each: cautious optimism and clear support, respectively

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906. 🧪 👩‍🔬 As far as I am aware, she is the only person who has both a supercomputer and a US Navy destroyer named after her. (1/n) Image: Computer History Museum

Prattville, Alabama authorities removed a Pride float from the town parade when float sponsors cited possible threats and asked for more security. Federal judge R. Austin Huffaker, Jr.: no, that'd be a heckler's veto and the float stays.

I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime. CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election

“Encryption is your friend, whether it’s on text messaging or if you have the capacity to use encrypted voice communication. Even if the adversary is able to intercept the data, if it is encrypted, it will make it impossible,” - CISA www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

Washington DC wildlife: Merlin with house sparrow prey this afternoon by Constitution Gardens on the Mall. 🪶

Samus in orange ball mode

Seasonal depression onset, a nasty cold that won't go away, and finals prep all aligning on the same week🙃🙃🙃

I worked on criminal justice reform for years so my broader criticism of the Biden pardon is not partisan: the pardon process is broken and it functions to the benefit of those close to the President.

Neat, a post I did on Instagram went viral on Threads. However if I had included a link on Threads (which isn't even possible on Instagram) then Meta would have throttled it. My job is links, that's why I wont use Threads

When I worked at the movie theater customers were at their meanest on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. Annual reminder: if you decided to go to the movies because you can’t stand talking to Aunt Carol and a dark room is the only solution, don’t take it out on the poor usher.

I’m rooting for Vito the pug in Best of Show!

Happy Thanksgiving! Thankful for family and the friends who invited us to help the JCC in its effort to provide food to those in need in DC earlier this week!

You: Christmas is too corporate Dallas: Hold my frankincense

Washington DC wildlife: Golden-crowned kinglet this morning on Rodman Street. 🪶

before even clicking I swear to god my first thought was “this person works at the Manhattan institute” and lo / behold

Twitter’s legal argument and flexing of their TOS aren’t baseless. But you gotta pick your battles when it comes to asserting ownership - preferably tied to protecting users and communities. Does this accomplish that?

When I got back home from LA for my Reddit offsite Matt was rewatching Community. Great episode!

In short, Republicans work with their base to *organize* supporters - long-term cultivation of socio-political spaces that offer community, services, & a place to cultivate understanding of issues & action. Democrats mobilize. Mobilization is not enough.

This is the most exciting time for social media in decades. Different models for users to enjoy! Incumbents adapting to new challenges! But I wish we’d all agree on which platform we’re using already 😭

No tariffs? Okay, cool, let’s 👑 this guy then

sorry to be The Bluesky Defender but: 1. this is a team of 20 people 2. the site suddenly has 20+ million people 3. the team is extremely trans positive with multiple trans people on the team 4. the team is not "taking orders from transphobes" jfc 5. the banned people were engaging with CSAM

Do I really want to spent a couple hours writing up how badly our incoming FCC Commissioner is misrepresenting the law?

I've pledged. This is an excellent media source - and as a Mille Bornes fan, the game sounds fun too!

Schlossberg proves my theory that people (especially the gays) will go gaga over any tall, decent looking, white guy* no matter how aggressively weird and off-putting they are *the Kennedy thing helps

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

Very annoying that Presidents always push talented black folks to lead HUD even when they have clear expertise elsewhere. Rep. Marcia Fudge openly campaigned to lead the Department of Ag. Nope - straight to HUD. Ben Carson? HUD

Only thing I’ll say about Matt Gaetz: I hope the eventual AG is as dedicated to surveillance reform as he is.

My quest continues! Reddit swag obtained in: LA, SF, NYC, Sydney, and London Still need to go to Chicago, Dublin, Spain and Germany

Matt sent me this after this weekend and he kinda clocked me youtu.be/syVkXzpjF4I?...

No thoughts just Edo period depiction of hammerhead sharks

So excited to see my Reddit coworkers in LA tonight 🥰

Favorite airplane chat of the year: Talked to a Mormon kid who was just finishing his mission and hadn’t seen a movie in a year (!) and was struggling to pick what airline movie was gonna be his entry point back into the world He went with King Fu Panda 2. Good pick!

LAX sucks

From Oliver Darcy's newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social The speaker is The Verge's Editor-In-Chief, Nilay Patel. Both are writers who know where to look in understanding what's likely to happen in the media industry. www.status.news/p/nilay-pate... (likely to be paywalled)

I know one of you is Elon Musk, and I will figure it out

July 4th with friends!

Exceeded my rate limit what’s everyone up to

Gonna start using the doom scroll machine that doesn't try to rate limit my ability to see bad news

Montana's new TikTok ban could face huge hurdles in implementation and enforcement, assuming it even survives the courts, according to technologists and legal experts. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/tech/montana-tiktok-ban-legal-enforcement-challenges/index.html