Wrote about [@davidenrich.bsky.social]( )'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:
As someone who literally just had to pay this tariff that I was promised China would pay for... I have questions. RE: https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreid2w4dfoca5dwduldnfgd5inhglk5m6sn7pia7hpui62c5m4wsmke
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:
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:
This is a good read RE: View quoted note →
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:
"explitives" RE:
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:
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: View quoted note →
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: