So wait. Part of the Trump admin's efforts to distract from the Epstein situation is to argue we should change laws to treat children as adults? RE:
Skylight's getting even better... RE:
Today we have a guest post from [@riana.bsky.social]( ) about just how ridiculous parts of the STOP CSAM Act are, including that it requires platforms to report if images were "created in whole or in part through the use of software" which is... um... basically all of them? Which will be very unhelpful. RE:
Been almost 20 years since I wrote an angry [@techdirt.com]( ) post after people complained that Craig wasn't "capitalist enough" because he didn't want to "maximize revenue" in the short term. [www.techdirt.com/2006/12/18/t...]( ) RE: [The Time Function Of Profits; ...]( )
Routing all your emails directly to trash... to save water. RE:
Everyday for the last few weeks (sometimes multiple times a day) there is an automated call to our office voicemail, where it doesn't recognize that voicemail has picked up and we get a recording of just the very very end of the message: "9255 to opt out." That's the entire message. Every day.
I listened to Ben Horowitz being interviewed on a podcast and again I am wondering what reality he lives in. He claims that (1) the Biden administration was fascist (2) that Elizabeth Warren really ran things and deliberately sought to debank political rivals to punish them and...
Not wheelies! No wonder we need to bring in the National Guard! RE:
Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. [popular.info/p/the-secret...]( ) RE: [The secret to Baltimore's extr...]( )
Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreigaxaeufvzcbuoqbe25m4oofupelunszk5ovtchdf7wwq44lxayj4