Please tell me a First Amendment lawyer is willing to step up here and defend this woman. RE:

@thekoolaidmom.bsky.social

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"...

Mike Masnick 3 months ago

So hit back. Promote the fact that the GOP is so desperate they have to use fake AI-generated quotes. Call it out and make them own it. RE:

Bluesky Social

D Lavoie (@djlavoie.bsky.social)

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Mike Masnick 3 months ago

A thing that I keep finding with AI experiments is that the more context and direction you give a tool, the more benefits it gives in return. So many of the complaints about AI seem focused on just trying to use it cold without additional context. Skills seems like useful context. RE:

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Simon Willison (@simonwillison.net)

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

Mike Masnick 3 months ago

Was up late last night angry writing 5k words about something that pissed me off. I edited it down to 4k words. Then reread it... and kept adding stuff so it's back up to 5k words. And now I want to add more. But also... want to take the weekend to think about it before I publish it.

Mike Masnick 3 months ago

This administration has been, by far, the most censorial administration in my lifetime. They're punishing people for speech about Palestine, about Charlie Kirk, about ICE, about the President. It's been nonstop attacks on speech. RE:

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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took ov...

Mike Masnick 3 months ago

We may need to revise the "everyone's twelve" theory to be the "everyone's seven" theory. RE:

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Adam Weinstein (@adamweinstein.bsky.social)

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply ...

Mike Masnick 3 months ago

Literally promoting "the punches will be pulled" and thinking that is a compelling sell? WTF? RE:

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Ryan Mac 🙃 (@rmac.bsky.social)

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Mike Masnick 3 months ago

New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Rated R For Ridiculous This week, both Meta/Instagram and OpenAI execs used the flawed MPA movie rating system as the basis for explaining how they might age gate content. There's an interesting discussion to be had about this, but... [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...](