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• Feb 06, 2025 @ 10:38am
  on But Her Emails Redux: Team Trump Makes CIA Send List Of All Recently Hired Employees Over Unclassified Email

  Don't worry. AI will translate it all and provide all the hallucinated context required.

• Oct 17, 2024 @ 10:10am

  Such a flop that Twitter backtracked almost immediately

  on ExTwitter Makes It Official: Blocks Are No Longer Blocks

  So it's guaranteed to be a permanent fixture on ExTwitter

• Jan 30, 2024 @ 04:22pm
  on DOJ Decides To Try Backpage’s Michael Lacey For The Third Time After Failing To Get Convictions The First Two Times

  Maybe change the conjunction. ‘Comply with our reasonable requests AND we will crucify you’.

• Oct 26, 2023 @ 11:29am
  on EU Pitched Client-Side Scanning By Targeting Certain EU Residents With Misleading Ads

  I read Techdirt and Cory Doctorow's blog Pluralistic. I get so fucking angry at the continuous parade of corrupt governments and corporations that fill this world to overflowing with shit. I'm sure it will never stop. Our species (and probably every other species on the planet) is doomed by our greed and corruption. I don't know how you (Mike and Cory) remain so optimistic.

• Oct 17, 2023 @ 10:25am
  on Trust & Safety Tycoon: Try Your Hand At Managing A Social Media Trust & Safety Team

  I'm pretty sure a certain billionaire (at least for now) finally realized he's in way over his head and reached out to you to give him a hand to figure this shit out - in a way that doesn't expose him as needing anyone's help.

• Sep 10, 2021 @ 02:33pm

  Re: Re: CYA

  on Facebook Says It Violates The Terms Of Service Of Their New Snoopervision Glasses If You Cover The 'I'm Recording You' LED

  Or like holding Facebook or Twitter responsible for users' posts - how crazy would that be!

• Jun 07, 2021 @ 07:10pm

  Re: Why is this in Techdirt?

  on Alabama Deputy Sued After Cuffing An Arrestee So Tightly His Hand Had To Be Amputated

  This is exactly in Techdirt's wheelhouse. This is about the government abusing its power over the citizens it governs. It's tragic that there are so many assholes like Deputy Godber who are doing the governing.

• Mar 22, 2018 @ 02:19pm

  Keep smiling

  on House Staples Extraterritorial Search Permissions Onto 2,232-Page Budget Bill; Passes It

  Mike, I have no idea how you manage to stay so optimistic. With things like this and SESTA, and the whole USA government, I am feeling overwhelmed.