Consumers: you're on your own. The billionaires don't care about you at all. RE:
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David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social)
🚨Still confirming, but just heard that the Department of Justice is dissolving its Consumer Protection Branch, compounding the impact of the Con...
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New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Red Pills & Blue Checks! This week, we talk about the collapse of 4chan, the Oversight Board's slightly passive aggressive response to Zuck's change of heart on moderation, followed by... [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...](
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Red Pills & Blue Checks - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:4chan is dead. It's Tox...
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Red Pills & Blue Checks - Ctrl-Alt-Speech
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:4chan is dead. It's Tox...
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Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly says that Trump doesn't get to rewrite how elections work all by himself. [storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...](📄.pdf ) https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreibosocccaor337fhgokx3cf3vpyllj2be5fvdwu55ud3po7aisrxm
And... if somehow they don't, what kind of politician are you that you can't teach people what it means?!? RE:
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jamelle (@jamellebouie.net)
uh, people definitely know what oligarchy means? the hell? [contains quote post or other embedded content]
I mean. We've gone from the joke of "light treason" to now the reality of "misdemeanor terrorism." RE:
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Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social)
A somewhat disorienting announcement just now from US Attorney for D.C. Trump-ally Ed Martin announces Tesla vandalism case (a priority of Pres....
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I wrote about how Elon Musk is pretending he's leaving a job he supposedly doesn't have to return to the job he supposedly never left, and how basically everything about him is made up nonsense. [www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/e...](
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Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left
There are a few ways to think about Elon Musk’s announcement this week that he’s stepping back from DOGE. The first is that he’s ...
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Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left
There are a few ways to think about Elon Musk’s announcement this week that he’s stepping back from DOGE. The first is that he’s ...
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Every time I see Stephen Miller speaking, he's yelling in that same exact tone, saying the dumbest shit imaginable. But, yeah, the idea that the judges ruling against him are "left wing" let alone "communist" is crazy. RE:
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Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
Yeah, just try calling J. Harvie Wilkinson a “Communist, left-wing judge” to his face, Stephen. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
*sigh* The Minnesota law is really bad and pretty obviously unconstitutional (for a variety of reasons). Hate to root for X on anything, but he's right on this one. RE:
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Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein.bsky.social)
JUST IN: Elon Musk's X is suing Minnesota over anti deepfake law. Doc: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.224575/gov.uscourts...
Admission time: there are times I write an article almost entirely based on "shit, I came up with a really good headline to go with an article, so I guess I need to write the article."
[My thought is I'm glad Hank is posting this rather than me, because the angry rants and screaming I got last time I posted something like this...] RE:
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Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social)
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water. I understand people not using...