Brian

Brian

@brianharper.us

Midterm enthusiast (he/him)

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Brian reposted

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

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Zuck is citing an explicitly political justification to require large numbers of workers to relocate to a state where abortion and youth gender affirming care are illegal. That’s quite a statement on who belongs on your trust and safety team.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

According to Mark Zuckerberg, people who live in California are biased but people who live in Texas are objective

Tried translating all non-English Bluesky posts from the firehose using multiple local devices and an incredibly naive "translation" method / job scheduler. This is obv activity dependent, but I was surprised that it was half as fast as it needed to be (I expected far slower).

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"Turns out for the “Twitter Files” crew, “creeping authoritarianism” isn’t so creepy when it’s your team doing the creeping."

Brian reposted

Wait. It just occurred to me. The push by a ton of MAGA folks in the Missouri v. Biden case (including the district court ruling) was that effectively NO White House official could talk to any social media company without violating the First Amendment. Yet now Elon Musk will be a WH official.

Brian reposted

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

nytimes.comThe Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of BankruptcyThe satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

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Replying to @mbkplus.bsky.social

Yesterday I saw a quote from Rick Scott talking about taking what he did as a businessman to the Senate. Oh? And what exactly did he do as a businessman? Ah, right: defraud the government.

telegraph.co.ukBusinessman behind one of the biggest medical frauds in history tipped to run SenatePro-Trump Rick Scott, whose private hospital chain had to pay out $1.7bn, has emerged as the MAGA choice for majority leader

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we just had the largest mass deployment of vaccines in history, it was a triumph beyond anyone's wildest expectations in March 2020, and the result was a large net increase in antivax sentiment

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Views of the covid-19 booster. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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