Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Twitter: "Hi, we're run by a cryptofascist who reinstates the accounts of literal nazis while suspending those of press. We'll keep randomly taking away features with no notice and limiting your visibility until you pay us a monthly fee, which you can only do in a handful of countries. Vaccines are bad, the election was rigged, and we love Putin!"

Mastodon: "Hi! You need to choose a server and our DM UX is a little iffy."

Users: "NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FACED A CHOICE THIS HARD"

Re: Gonzalez v. Google, there are alot of news articles this morning focused on how the Justices were "confused." Just want to jump in and say judges also use that phrase to say other things, such as: (1) "I'm annoyed at you" or (2) "I don't buy your argument." I have been on the other side of this phrase before.

There were cringeworthy moments yesterday (like screenshot v. thumbnail), but when you listen to the audio, it's not as simple as they don't understand what's going on. #LawFedi

I remain a supporter of CDA 230 and I sincerely hope it is not gutted after tomorrow’s argument.

I understand why the focus is on whether sites like Facebook get “out of jail,” but for my clients who can’t afford a full-blown content liability fight over a specious content claim — student groups for messages on their listservs, community groups on social media platforms, users sharing content from other users — it is often the only law that we can use to put forth an effective defense.

With all of the horrible things happening in the world, it’s nice to find the wins. Especially in the area of our environment. A group called Coral Guardian is restoring coral reefs, and it’s quite magnificent. More wins like this, please.

https://www.coralguardian.org/en/

#Climate #Environment #CoralReef #Restoration

Ah, figures that Elon firing most of the workers got rid of everyone fighting the actual SMS fraud so he got hit by a big bill and now he thinks paywalling sms 2fa will fix it (it won't)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1626999229401948163.html

Note how in the first story the “car” caused a fatal accident, where in the second story it was the “driver.”

Putting a police department logo on the side of a car appears make it sentient.

"Announcing a return to work for three days a week minimum so you can still continue to video call with your coworkers and now experience a fucked up hybrid work thing where nobody's needs are met" is some serious "hey don't consider working here" flags. Love that. 🙄

Gov. DeSantis battling the dastardly American scourge of, uh, a college preparatory education:

"My number one concern as a parent right now is that my kids will be cut off from additional information about the world. Will they be able to learn beyond what our state is going to allow them to know?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/16/desantis-advanced-placement-parents-students-college-board-international-baccalaureate/

getting into my tesla and hitting like on a musk tweet so it'll start

As the New York Times once again defends the underprivileged, marginalized, and oppressed J.K. Rowling, it’s important to remember that a pretty big chunk of hand-wringing about cancel culture is in fact just status anxiety, as people used to having their opinions unchallenged and their prejudices celebrated are now facing criticism, and they hate it.

t seems like the bigger story here is that you can poll 2600 cryptobros and even then nearly 1 in 5 will go "oh, you like crypto...? yikes"