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@masbackward.bsky.social

Civil rights lawyer in the south. Opinions are product of my genes, environment, and culture.

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Yeah that's fair enough.

08.10.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's a good point, you're right. And there were at least some PA troops there.

08.10.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Without forming an opinion on whether you're right or not I am confident she doesn't think so and you can't be surprised to get blocked for saying it!

08.10.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a great series of Walter Jon Williams stories about this -- in one Nietzsche becomes a gunfighter in the old west.

07.10.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I say all of this as one of Newsom's biggest critics. I've written multiple articles on how horrible he has been in rhetoric and action towards transgender people.

This is not the five alarm fire I'm watching for with him.

07.10.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 473    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Newsom is likely going to let the other bills go into effect quietly, and the education bill is only a couple lines of text where gender is not mentioned.

I'm going to be watching much more closely on what he does with the bills that are explicitly about LGBTQ+ topics.

07.10.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1173    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 11

Literally impossible to know. πŸ˜†

07.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bureaucracy is the one that gets me. Writing this post I first spelled it so wrong that spell check didn't have it as a suggestion.

07.10.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think there's a single person who has no issues with AI as a technology but opposes it only bc of its environmental impact.

07.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bizarre how many people on both sides get mad at this.

07.10.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, the .com bubble is a decent model. Did some harm but it was no 2008.

07.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes! I guess that's right?? Imagine if there are two cases that address that situation and say different things.

07.10.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For sure. Figuring out how to still show that when there isn't an explicit on-point authority is why they pay me the medium bucks.

07.10.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about X is that its usually true but that doesn't mean there's a case explicitly saying it.

07.10.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And "find a way to support the claim that the senior partner said there must be a case for but for which there is no explicit authority."

07.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's one company that's currently 7.3% of the S&P 500. That's a lot, but the S&P 500 dropped by 20 percent earlier this year and it was fine. Stock market is not the economy. Certainly could be a recession. But this flowchart doesn't show that will happen was my original point.

07.10.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't even see the Pelosi statement as about bipartisanship per se. More, "we need the other party to be functional so that when they inevitably eventually gain power shit doesn't completely fall apart." Which seems... true.

07.10.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean he's just hyping up his senate campaign. If this was a serious effort he wouldn't be, you know, announcing his undercover operation by press release lol.

07.10.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

See also "headline accurately describes someone being mad about a bad thing without saying they are correct to be mad" like that NYT one about Oregon yesterday.

07.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Headline accurately describes a bad thing without explicitly saying it's bad" is such a common yet baffling criticism on here.

07.10.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Kendall Roy-ass speech.

07.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She's doing her own thing to an extent, which I think is what any post-Trump leader would need to do to approach Trump-like control of the party. It's q-anon more than tea party I think.

07.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well it isn't going poof--its value could decline a lot sure, but that in and of itself isn't a huge deal. The stock market is not the economy. And my point wasn't that no AI companies will go down, but that the original chart isn't showing what OP says.

07.10.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn't one of CA's arguments that the statute they used for the deployment there did require the governor to agree? Not sure what authority is being used here. But I don't think your point about him being irrelevant is quite right.

07.10.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If Trump's influence has faded (or he's not around) I think there will be a market for a mildly non-trumpy but still MAGA-coded candidate (I don't see a moderate turn coming). Who else is there? DeSantis? He's spent I think. Who else has excited the base?

07.10.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

She has a weird animal cunning about what is popular in her base the same way he does though. And given how things have gone I don't think "too dumb for R primary voters" is a thing anymore. Vance might get it by default but if not...

07.10.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why she's going to be the 2028 nominee. Besides Trump, she's the only low-information voter among the plausible candidates. (Noem too, maybe).

07.10.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You can definitely come up with stories that make it make sense. I just think most authors I read haven't put that work in.

07.10.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The part about working hours going up, I mean.

07.10.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This just isn't true: ourworldindata.org/working-more...

07.10.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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