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It looks like the bluesky folks are too busy kicking the servers back to life so I'll do a bit of work for them

Paywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

It was a travesty that the M$DNC shitlib Lula beat the progressive Bolsonaro, who I do not support, whose father tried to jail me, who I also do not support. by Glenn Greenwald

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

The big lesson is to treat marketing and mass communications like marketing and mass communications, with its own rules, and logic. Instead of pretending it is a philosophy or debate club.

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

This is an incredibly important point

So does the Bolsonaro son legally have to go to the hospital now or how does this work

"are trans people fully human?" is a trivial question if you can't answer it correctly then you are absolutely a moral void, a stimulus-response amoeba who must be excluded from power at all costs and no, i am not at all troubled by the calculus of just how many people are moral voids here

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

I’m glad that Lula won for a lot of reasons but selfishly it kinda confirms that “swagless son of a fascist freak” will probably be a losing ticket when Trump dies and if the boys make a go for it.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

Conditions in France are not so different than in the U.S. and many other places.

RSW is a mean pick in the best way: it's one long chain of squarings, so spinning up more agents or GPUs buys nothing. Rivest sized his LCS35 puzzle in 1999 to take about 35 years, and a programmer solved it in 2019 after 3 years and 3 months of computing

Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security wanted CISA, an agency that protects election systems, to acquire and hack a voting machine, which shocked staffers. “This goes against everything CISA represents,” a former official said.

This is where "it's just trans sports bans" leads you, Democrats supporting overtly genocidal policies that would kill tens of thousands of trans people. But at least we'll be marched into the camps by someone in blue, right?

The longer Republicans wait to vote the more likely Trump does another dumb thing that depresses turnout again, at least

The military’s quiet rebellion against Trump’s anti-trans orders www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

"The short-termism of universities burning through their social licence neatly parallels the roll out of the resource-hungry, carbon intensive data centres on which AI depends"

to me the existential threat posed by AI slop games is less "AI slop games will steal our sales" and more "the onslaught of AI slop and the exhaustion over having to second guess every new game will make people mentally check out from supporting new games at all and retreat to their backlogs"

Seoul is giving a 50-year-old Han River bridge to pedestrians. By August 2027 it will have 22 viewing areas and two glass decks over the shipping lanes, and the city’s traffic modelling suggests that drivers detouring to the next bridge will barely slow down. buff.ly/ws3TdHO #ShareGoodNewsToo

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Ax ex-cop shot this dad and left him to die at the scene.

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

Culturally, we're talking about an institution where until 2015, academics were still drinking from a cup made from a skull that was rumoured to belong to an enslaved Caribbean woman.

Alvin Sharp is running to be the first Black DA in his corner of northeast Louisiana. While serving as a judge, he vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who spent decades on death row.

is being conservative the new “punk rock”? of course not you fuckin dip shit

Democratic candidates doing anti-trans signaling is so baffling because even your voters who aren't naturally pro-trans are going to notice that all the people who are vocally *anti*-trans are also anti-Everything Someone Normal Who Votes Democrat Could Possibly Care About

AOC & Mamdani is also a cursed AO3 tag in the making.

I certainly hope nobody makes the mistake of conducting business with this company in the future, or involving them in any processes.