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On a kind of similar, more normative ‘big picture’ ideal overview: you are a citizen. You are not a subject or serf. You are also not a consumer or customer. You are a citizen. That comes with meaningful obligations to you, and meaningful obligations from you.
August 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
On a kind of similar, more normative ‘big picture’ ideal overview: you are a citizen. You are not a subject or serf. You are also not a consumer or customer. You are a citizen. That comes with meaningful obligations to you, and meaningful obligations from you.
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So... can Valve still make its own decisions about what's acceptable to sell? Or just they bend to the values of anyone who can convince payment processors a game or topic is pernicious? @valvesoftware.com , this is a topic that deserves comment to the public & press! arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors
New rule against “certain kinds” of adult content accompanies removal of “incest” games.
arstechnica.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
So... can Valve still make its own decisions about what's acceptable to sell? Or just they bend to the values of anyone who can convince payment processors a game or topic is pernicious? @valvesoftware.com , this is a topic that deserves comment to the public & press! arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
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hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
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the law isnt a magic wand its an egregore and there's only so much 6 guys in robes can authorize before it loses it legitimacy and that fact constrains them. like these constraints still exist in dictatorships!
With regard to these terrible Court decisions:
It is *CRITICAL* to resist the urge to give in to doomerism and declare that things not directly accomplished by the decision - removal of books from classrooms, age verification expanding to medical websites, and so on - are now the law.
It is *CRITICAL* to resist the urge to give in to doomerism and declare that things not directly accomplished by the decision - removal of books from classrooms, age verification expanding to medical websites, and so on - are now the law.
June 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
the law isnt a magic wand its an egregore and there's only so much 6 guys in robes can authorize before it loses it legitimacy and that fact constrains them. like these constraints still exist in dictatorships!
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the way that no act of right-wing violence ever seems to change the media or political elite of this country's world view is just fucking maddening
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
June 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
the way that no act of right-wing violence ever seems to change the media or political elite of this country's world view is just fucking maddening
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Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.
Looks like we’re going to get age verification on our phones. gizmodo.com/supreme-cour...
Supreme Court Says Age Verification Laws for Porn Sites Are Constitutional
Nineteen states have age verification laws.
gizmodo.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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"Americans will live to regret the day we let the government condition access to protected speech on proof of our identity." — @thefireorg.bsky.social.
After today's SCOTUS decision, adults in Texas must upload sensitive information to access speech that the First Amendment fully protects for them. This wrongheaded, invasive result overturns a generation of precedent & sacrifices anonymity and privacy in the process.
www.thefire.org/news/fire-st...
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FIRE statement on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton upholding age verification for adult content
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold Texas's age-verification law for sites featuring adult content, effectively reversing decades of Supreme Court precedent that protects the free speech righ...
www.thefire.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"Americans will live to regret the day we let the government condition access to protected speech on proof of our identity." — @thefireorg.bsky.social.
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National dem leadership should be treating Melissa Hortman like a martyr and they aren’t. It might not matter in this information environment but they should at least try.
June 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
National dem leadership should be treating Melissa Hortman like a martyr and they aren’t. It might not matter in this information environment but they should at least try.
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a great newspaper has never been destroyed from within faster
Planes roared over D.C. on Saturday, tanks rolled along the National Mall, brass bands resounded and thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds, as the Army put on the largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades. wapo.st/4dYFOck
June 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
a great newspaper has never been destroyed from within faster
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the personal is not always the political. wonderful, warm people who care deeply about their communities and geniunely mean well can like the cringiest lamest shit possible. real assholes can have incisive artistic taste. they’re mostly separate domains. it’s fine.
June 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
the personal is not always the political. wonderful, warm people who care deeply about their communities and geniunely mean well can like the cringiest lamest shit possible. real assholes can have incisive artistic taste. they’re mostly separate domains. it’s fine.
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Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.
June 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.
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Her name is Rosie: "A lot of vendors are undocumented and can't be here today. So those of us who can, we gotta show up"
June 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Her name is Rosie: "A lot of vendors are undocumented and can't be here today. So those of us who can, we gotta show up"
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this is always what they do. they hate reporters on the scene because reporters on the ground show everybody else what the fuck they're up to. and they don't want anybody average to know: what the fuck they're up to
Intentional, aimed shot taken at a reporter on camera. Further proof that the cops, feds, and military are there to start something and want to scare off reporters so they aren't caught explicitly starting it on film
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
this is always what they do. they hate reporters on the scene because reporters on the ground show everybody else what the fuck they're up to. and they don't want anybody average to know: what the fuck they're up to
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@apnews.com is live in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles where the National Guard has fired tear gas into the crowd.
LIVE: National Guard troops arrive in Los Angeles
YouTube video by Associated Press
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June 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
@apnews.com is live in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles where the National Guard has fired tear gas into the crowd.
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"Why is Mike Pence not Vice President now?" is a really great question to ask people who are J6-skeptical, btw
one thing about the coverage of J6 and how its settled into our public memory is that is basically exclusively focuses on the mob and the attack on congress, which was a crime in and of itself but honestly pales in comparison to the coordinated attempt to abrogate the constitution that was happening
May 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"Why is Mike Pence not Vice President now?" is a really great question to ask people who are J6-skeptical, btw
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intellectual property is not property. it is not a moral right. it is a conditional monopoly granted by the government to incentivize economic activity, and when that monopoly is expanded it impoverishes the public.
this is also why machine learning models should not have any copyright protections.
this is also why machine learning models should not have any copyright protections.
May 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
intellectual property is not property. it is not a moral right. it is a conditional monopoly granted by the government to incentivize economic activity, and when that monopoly is expanded it impoverishes the public.
this is also why machine learning models should not have any copyright protections.
this is also why machine learning models should not have any copyright protections.
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me when someones willing to perform their duty even at the cost of their life because they believe in something greater than themselves
May 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
me when someones willing to perform their duty even at the cost of their life because they believe in something greater than themselves
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probably my favorite pope post of this pope cycle
May 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
probably my favorite pope post of this pope cycle
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An absolutely excellent "Okay but why do we do it this way?" "Nobody knows just keep doing it" story, 25 years later — just a minute long https://youtube.com/shorts/wxjEY075nl4
April 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
An absolutely excellent "Okay but why do we do it this way?" "Nobody knows just keep doing it" story, 25 years later — just a minute long https://youtube.com/shorts/wxjEY075nl4
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Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy.
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
April 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy.
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...