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I'm a bit behind in the thread - missed the first dozen or so pages, so apologies if this has been posted already - Greg Doucette has a twitter thread collating police brutality videos (and some related things) over the past week. The thread has gotten so long that it's broken the twitter threading,...

Dorsey might not be a genius, but as far as I know he's never bankrupted his own casino.

Yeah, if Trump's EO had been an anodyne statement that the CDA should not be viewed as covering editorial content, that would have been neutral enough to make his point while giving Twitter room to back off from moderating his tweets. The over-the-top EO, which went after a specific Twitter employee...

Oh, the position being staked out on 230 is absolutely and completely inconsistent with their position on net neutrality.

I respectfully dissent.

Legally, it's toothless. Politically, provision after provision are timed to provide additional talking points through the election runup. The intent is both to stir the base and to ensure that the social media companies don't push back on outrageous claims.

Legally, I think it's mostly meaningless, but getting to that conclusion may be expensive for the socials - especially if Barr decides to try to bring some deceptive practices actions.

As a further shattering of the norms of governance, it's pretty dramatic. Even by Trumpian standards.

Does Tucker Carlson remind anyone else of a constipated groundhog?

Panch Villlain wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:06 am

-the rules here are arbitrary & unevenly enforced

It's been like that from the beginning. There are members and members.

Haven't you only been a member of this forum since like September?

Well said, I couldn't agree more. There's an XKCD strip - the free speech one - that seems kind of apropos. Nobody has stopped you from joining. If you didn't get the kind of reception you wanted, well, maybe when everyone is tuning you out, it's a problem with all of us. Or maybe the common elemen...

-the rules here are arbitrary & unevenly enforced It's been like that from the beginning. There are members and members . Well said, I couldn't agree more. There's an XKCD strip - the free speech one - that seems kind of apropos. Nobody has stopped you from joining. If you didn't get the kind of re...

Just think of all the problems we could solve if only there was a way to productively channel the ignorance, pettiness, and mindless vindictiveness driving this litigation.

Luckily for potential clients everywhere the courts are pretty much closed. The courts need not be open for him to separate a client from his or her money. He still has a license to practice. Is he back on Twitter? If he's back on Twitter, he'll be going back to the lockup in short order - I saw th...

Sorry, all - I forgot what time zone I live in.

Where the FUCK is Joe Biden? He should be banging on about Obamacare not being re-opened. About the Trump Administration still trying to kill Obamacare. About the lack of a federal response. About Jared Kushner's idiocy. There is so much. Where the hell is he? I think Joe is doing one of the hardes...

https://twitter.com/scottjshapiro/status/1245443250414071810 The first thing that popped into my head when I saw that DeSantis had said that was "privileges and immunities clause, anyone?" No, I tell a lie. The first thing that popped into my mind was "fuck you, DeSantis, you asshole." The second t...

I'm pretty thoroughly exhausted. Still trying to put my routines back together after getting my ass out of the UK on March 16th, which was, by my rough approximation, 3 years ago. Took a 3-day weekend from the PhD work, which means that I worked on 3 fewer days than normal. (Normal = 5 full days, pl...

Volkonski wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 28, 2020 3:31 pm

Tony earned a full scholarship to Regis High School, a Jesuit school in Manhattan.

I might be a few minutes late, but I should be able to make that time.

I would say: Mandatory Read The Atlantic : How the Pandemic Will End The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out. I know Ed Yong a little bit from my blogging days. He's a superb writer - absolutely superb - and knows the scie...

I'm sure that this is a dumb question and you guys will tell my why. Why not use the self-inflating bags that they carry on ambulances to use on people that paramedics they intubate when they run out of respirators? It would take a lot of manpower, but they could make a lot of them very fast and yo...

Good source for information about chloroquine. https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/trump-hyped-chloroquine-cure-covid-19-man-arizona-took-died/ BTW, I, for myself, got my usual medications for 3 months about 3 weeks ago. No chloroquine for me. I don't visit jails. Still want to know what other medi...

Nor here. Sorry, not sorry. We hammered the idea hard; I fail to see where we personally insulted the guy who posted it. The idea of stocking up on medication you may or may not need, when there are people to whom it is now medically necessary and who would suffer from a shortage of it, needs to be...

Volkonski wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:45 pm

commute. Guessing Birx and Fauci never spent much time in the NYC area.

Fauci is from NYC.

Oh, and the whole "shitting on each other" thing - the idea I responded to is advocating for shitting on a lot of people, including many who can't stand up for themselves. And not shitting on them with words online - shitting on them for real by causing them real and unnecessary medical harm through...

I do my best to keep calm and reasonable, even in the face of unreasonableness. Always have, and when I haven't I try to own it and apologize. I hope I've established a track record on that. When someone advocates something this utterly and toxically and harmfully selfish, those limits are exceeded....