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David Enrich (@davidenrich.bsky.social)
Investigations @nytimes.com New book: MURDER THE TRUTH: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful https://www.harpe...
 )'s fascinating piece about how United Healthcare's response to their CEO being murdered seems to be... to claim that any criticism is a form of violence and therefore they send threat letters from aggressive lawyers to shut people up. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
UnitedHealth’s Response To People Cheering Their CEO’s Murder: Silence The Critics When your CEO gets murdered and half the internet celebrat...
As someone who literally just had to pay this tariff that I was promised China would pay for... I have questions. RE:
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FinTwitter (@fintwitter.bsky.social)
TRUMP: INDONESIA WILL PAY 19 PCT TARIFF AND WE WILL PAY NOTHING
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Wrote about how fucked up the Supreme Court is with its explanationless shadow docket decisions with massive consequences. And yes SCOTUS has been a problem for a while but this escalation is even worse. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Has Become A Lawless, Explanation-Free Rubber Stamp For Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda When Joe Biden wanted ...
Lol. So after years of "release the Epstein files" the new spin is "releasing the Epstein files is bad because it's publishing CSAM" How do they not have whiplash? RE:
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Desarrayed (@desarrayed.bsky.social)
The backtracking spin right now is wild
This is a good read RE:
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Henry Farrell (@himself.bsky.social)
1. @abenewman.bsky.social and I have a new piece in @wired.com on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Un...
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Every few months someone reads a terms of service and spots the *basically necessary* copyright license that any site that handles 3rd party content HAS TO HAVE to avoid getting sued out of existence by awful copyright lawyers and freaks out. Mike here explains why. RE:
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The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social)
OK, gather 'round, kiddies - let's do a "why are lawyers like this" thread. Specifically, let's do a "why does the simplest software come with ma...
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Grace (@gracekind.net)
They’ve prompted it to be codependent (really) [contains quote post or other embedded content]
If you know the (somewhat misleading) story of "cargo cults"... this is a cargo cult video. Someone checked off the boxes of what they thought it took to make a compelling Mamdani video, without understanding what actually goes into making a Mamdani video. RE:
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Corey Atad (@coreyatad.com)
Cuomo announces his general election run by proving the Mamdani sauce ain't so easy to cook up on the spot with half the ingredients
Lots of people pointing out how crazy this is, but I'll just point out that it was only a few weeks ago that Donald Trump talked about cutting off all gov't contracts with Elon Musk companies... RE:
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Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com)
Elon Musk's anti-woke MechaHitler proudly announces a new contract with the Department of Defense
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For the past two years on Techdirt we've referred to X as ExTwitter, which got across the point of what it was. But I'm now calling it X. Because Twitter is well and fully dead. X is purely a personal propaganda platform of Elon Musk that has nothing to do with what Twitter once was. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Twitter Is Dead, X Is Elon’s Personal Propaganda Platform, Where Grok Checks His Feed Before Answering Last week, Elon Musk's Grok AI started s...