Incredibly embarrassing. Poster-podcaster government

Also this oldie but goodie:

Protest 3pm today, Boston Park Street Station. This was shared by MA Peace Action, an org I know and trust. There appears to be some pro-Maduro framing here, which I disagree with, but the urgent need to protest the illegal coup outweighs that by far imo.

Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days

We cannot let this president drag us into more endless wars that risk the lives of American service members and civilians abroad. The attack last night on Venezuela was unnecessary and unauthorized. The President’s actions are reckless and illegal.

You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking, unless you're a Trump supporter www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

If you live in Minnesota, Indiana, or North Dakota, you probably have several items on this FDA recall list of major brands: www.fda.gov/media/190382...

It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.

An age-gate-the-Internet law proposed in New Hampshire includes a line, " A commercial entity shall not claim Section 230 immunity [...] as a defense in any civil action arising from a violation of this chapter"... which I'm pretty sure violates the Supremacy Clause?

Anybody else trying to recreate the dishes from Mary Chung's of fond memory? I have been getting incrementally better at Yu Hsiang eggplant, but swans remain beyond me. icosahedron.website/@bstacey/114... icosahedron.website/@bstacey/114...

Never let anyone tell you there are no new ideas. We're 48 hours into 2026 and they've already found a way to make Twitter worse. Anything is possible.

Hey @brewster.kahle.org, does the IA library have room for 100,000 more books?

One two three four I declare a thumb war!

Well that escalated quickly. (Figure from “A survey of the theory of hypercube graphs” by Harary, Hayes, and Wu)

So these journalists are asking *Grok* what happened, not a spokesperson for the company that made it?! I'm just flabbergasted. Do you ask a car for a comment when it has a part recalled??? It's just beyond parody.

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

Blog Post: A Massive Roundup of Section 230 Decisions blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

Is anyone going to watch the livestream of the social-media-addiction multi-district litigation being argued next week in the 9th Circuit? www.ca9.uscourts.gov/calendar/mon...

Does anyone at @eff.org or @fightforthefuture.org have a working MLex subscription?

CC @ericgoldman.bsky.social @jmiers230.bsky.social

@mmasnick.bsky.social Do you or anyone you know have a subscription that access this to see if it contains anything new or useful regarding #section230 "reform"? (My uni account, which might give access through our library, seems kerplutz at the moment.) www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

Terrifying emergency at my house and I quite suddenly have no oven or stove. Does anyone in Albuquerque want a ready to roast turkey that quickly needs stuffed in an oven or will have to be thrown out?

Anyone with actual law experience out there interested in analyzing Alan Dershowitz's petition to have SCOTUS overturn New York Times v. Sullivan? blacksky.community/profile/did:...

@akivamcohen.bsky.social It's not yet docketed on the SCOTUS website, but here is Dershowitz's cert petition. It looks like they're trying to argue around the incorporation of "actual malice" standard in FL law by saying that CNN omitted statements in a way that adds up to actual malice.

BREAKING: Court allows Trump-backed cuts to Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding in 22 states reut.rs/4soSv7m

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos." It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk #NukeSKY 1/n

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

Meanwhile, the Attorney General who is suing Meta for the Instagram feature that the legislature hasn't even made up its mind to make up its mind about has accounts on Instagram, Facebook *and* Twitter.

Another thing I wish I had pointed out in my amicus brief for Commonwealth v. Meta: Massachusetts is suing Meta for, among other things, providing "Intermittent Variable Rewards". But the bill to form a panel to start studying whether IVRs are bad is still sitting in committee!

Judge Robert Pitman, who I think has a pretty good record on these things, has shot down Texas' attempt to age-gate app stores www.courtlistener.com/docket/71664...

Our Latest: 📰 Oklahoma University removes trans TA from teaching duties, siding with far-right student whose parent is a lawyer for J6 rioters 📰

Want to watch 60 Minutes? Thank Section 230.

OU decided in favor of the bigoted student, and the trans teacher has been stripped of her role.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I love that twitter nazis pretended the left was upset about Clinton being in the files and it turns out not even Clinton cares. I like to think someone had a chat with him and it was like "everyone already knows you're a fucking creep. this is your last chance to look good before you die"

Good news, someone ripped my video and put it on the Internet Archive. If you're having trouble downloading from Filemail, here it is: archive.org/details/60mi...

Sigh www.news9.com/ou-essay-rem...

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

NEW from me: CBS News staffers are warning that Bari Weiss is sparking a "revolt" at 60 Minutes and the network after she spiked a story on CECOT. "Holy fucking dumpster fire," one staffer told me. Also, I have more details on today's 'angry" editorial call www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population

He's also way more active on X. Way to set an example @agounardes.bsky.social! You claim "big tech" is bad, yet you use their products all the time, and then pass laws that do real harm to smaller competitors focused on building better systems.

There are plenty of obvious reasons to do this: Nobody under the age of 30 actually uses the site! You're rewarding Elon Musk! But the most important thing is that some politicians and consultants are stewing in bot-driven, expensive Nazi propaganda, and it's giving them really bad, cruel ideas.

I ain't an evolutionary biologist (or a biologist at all), but I listen to biologists and read biologists and pay attention and ... Dawkins is a bigoted turd-fellator who mistakes his own biases for objective science. He is frankly wrong on trans/intersex issues and should shut up forever.

Rather than take the L handed to it by a judge two weeks ago who voided its ban on wind power, the White House has employed the only move it knows: doubling down — in this case through the invention of “national security concerns.”

Dear enemies of the United States: to defeat the most powerful military in the world, just set up some windmills. Apparently Pete Hegseth is totally flummoxed by them.