Wrote about yesterday's SCOTUS nonsense. RE:
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SCOTUS Says ICE Can Use The Family Guy Skin Color Chart For Arrests (But Won’t Explain Why) You know that Family Guy meme where they have the s...
Which public health folks? Because I remember many warning about the risks and suggesting masking and caution... RE:
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Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social)
But -- and this is where I think Silver has a point -- Covid broke a lot of people temporarily. The public health folks saying the George Floyd pro...
Since the Trump admin began, I've been waiting to see if any of the faux "free speech" defenders who falsely claimed Biden suppressed speech would say anything about Trump. So it's impressive that one of the lawyers involved seems to be doing that. That said... RE:
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Will Oremus (@willoremus.com)
Of the prominent people who cried "censorship" under Biden, most now don't have anything critical to say about the Trump administration's own crack...
Why am I getting a bunch of random responses to a post from days ago... That's weird... Oh... https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreibcii25lrf5j4aabm5azj6un3yzhehecfksb2uwak7vn4h4akcjqq
Oh cool. It works. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreieh5egmhjiiwbxbug7dkadvaavqw3exbt7h72tezzmc6gspf7jjs4
Judge Alsup doing Judge Alsup-like things, rejecting the Anthropic settlement in its current form. [news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...](
Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (2)
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Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (2)
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Again, I know this will upset some AI haters, but I worry that in our efforts to stop all AI, we're going to end up shutting down the open internet in ways we won't easily get back. RE:
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We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else A longtime open internet activist recently asked me...
Lol at using a [@jcsalterego.bsky.social](
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Jerry Chen (@jcsalterego.bsky.social)
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Seem to recall Bessent threatening to punch Elon Musk as well at some point. [www.politico.com/news/magazin...](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/08/scott-bessent-bill-pulte-blowup-00549956?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard ) [‘I’m Gonna Punch You in Your F...](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/08/scott-bessent-bill-pulte-blowup-00549956?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard )
And... with that I need to rewrite my article about the DC Circuit ruling that I had just finished and now no longer matters. RE:
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Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay allowing President Trump to remove the last Democratic member of Federal Trade Commis...
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