Sam Jackson

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

who is going to be holding the bag & how are their creditors / lessors not absolutely shitting themselves

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I’m curious about this because it seems like the first step towards implementing federation in practice on this network. And federation at scale (like Mastodon) comes with pluses and minuses, of course!

I’m really curious to follow Blacksky’s development, as the first big alternative to Bluesky that taps into the same library (see upstream in @rude1.blacksky.team’s thread).

One of the FP’s signature deceptions is presenting politically motivated op-eds as fearless reporting. A legitimate news outlet would have assigned an actual reporter to look into the claims of the “whistleblower,” which would’ve turned up conflicting info pre-publication.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Fascistic and absolutely unacceptable rhetoric from the unmoored little man who is basically running the federal government right now.

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

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Also, I mention a historian whose name I forgot to commented that she can connect any topic to extremism on YouTube in 6 jumps or less. That was @ceaubin.bsky.social!

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I went on State Senator Pat Fahy's podcast this week to talk political violence, hate, social media, etc.
On the off chance anyone is interested in my contribution to the "doing politics the right way" discourse, watch til the end.

(Sorry for the FB link)

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A lot of tech bros who were upset about pronouns want to confer them on their computers now that they’re dating

Ah. Now I understand Anil Dash's comments better too. Thanks.

I am impressively in the dark about this latest Bsky moderation-related uproar. Anyone have a TLDR?

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

“Distress detection” has the energy of “suspicious behavior reporting,” a bankrupt post Sept. 11th effort that needlessly put law-abiding people under government scrutiny.

The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.

tweet from washington post communications account: @PostOpinions editor Adam O'Neal announces new opinion journalists, reporting to @jameshohmann : - @dominicjpino joins from @NRO - @KateAndrs joins from @TheSpectator - @carinemhajjar joins from @GlobeOpinion All three will start next month and regularly appear on our growing video podcast network, as well as contribute unsigned editorials, bylined pieces and social video.

i will give the people running the post credit: by being extremely and almost defiantly obvious about what they're doing and why, they are saving the rest of us from the grueling work of interpretation.

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Difficulty level: Impossible

As with social media algorithms, identity characteristics (race, religion, gender, etc) are deeply and inextricably embedded in how we interact with social or parasocial or faux social technologies.

I will never read a study that uses a “silicon sample.”
I will always talk shit about “researchers” who think using artificial data to supposedly mimic real data can provide any actual insight.

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

Fantastic article diagnosing the problems with reactionary centrism and why it's not a solution to our current woes. UK-centered but should be required reading here as well. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

A fundraising text NEW MESSAGE FROM: Chuck Schumer Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

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Opening page of Judge William Young's opinion in AAUP v Rubio, featuring a copy of a handwritten postcard sent to chambers that reads, "Trump has pardons and tanks... what do you have?" followed by this typewritten response: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –-" UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

Last page of the opinion: WILLIAM G. YOUNG JUDGE of the UNITED STATES I hope you found this helpful. Thanks for writing. It shows you care. You should. Sincerely & respectfully, Bill Young P.S. The next time you’re in Boston [the postmark on the card is from the Philadelphia area] stop in at the Courthouse and watch your fellow citizens, sitting as jurors, reach out for justice. It is here, and in courthouses just like this one, both state and federal, spread throughout our land that our Constitution is most vibrantly alive, for it is well said that “Where a jury sits, there burns the lamp of liberty.”

I've never seen anything quite like the first and last pages of this opinion by Judge William G. Young (a Reagan appointee) in AAUP v. Rubio. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...