herid @herid@qoto.org

I'm new to Mastodon and I have no idea how this works. I just hate Elon Musk and need to try something else.
I like to post my paintings like this one

Sarah Sanders blames 'design error' for form asking job applicants to name something nice about her https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-sanders-job-application-form/

did not need this to be a trilogy thanks

Some interesting tidbits from the warrant affidavit for accused leaker Teixeira:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23777278-teixiera-affidavit (HT @kevincollier )

- He was arrested yesterday, but the warrant was issued this morning, which suggests he was arrested as an emergency measure. Things moved quickly in the last two days.

- At least one of the Discord users ("User 1") is cooperating. I wonder if it's the kid in the WaPo piece or someone else.

- Some "consciousness of guilt" in the access logs thrown in in ¶ 27.

“running a Nazi bar is not […] standing up for free speech. It’s building your own brand as the Nazi bar and abdicating your own free speech rights of association […].”
[…]
"your reputation when you refuse to moderate is not “the grand enabler of free speech.” Because it’s the internet itself that is the grand enabler of free speech. When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.”

From @mmasnick:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

#dogsofmastodon
The chosen one

life comes at you fast

This. In America.

For a misdemeanour.

Gift article, so you can read it.

https://wapo.st/43KoNxg

Slowly but surely journalists are finding their way to the Fediverse. These tech & digital media reporters are already active on Mastodon:

@couts — Wired

@caseynewton — Platformer

@mimsical — WSJ

@pierce — The Verge

@drewharwell — Washington Post

@harrymccracken — Fast Company

@jank0 — Lowpass

@joannastern — WSJ

@jr — Computerworld

@mathewi — Columbia Journalism Review

@stshank — CNET

@taylorlorenz — Washington Post

@willoremus — Washington Post

#FollowFriday #Journalists #Tech

Absolutely monstrous. And still no accountability. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/us/politics/cia-torture-guantanamo-saudi-detainee-nashiri.html

HISTORY OF PHYSICS

The story of Wave Mechanics

In 1919 Marcel Brillouin published three consecutive papers on hydrodynamic model of a vibrating atom. In the first one he studied the periodic motion of a vibrating particle in an elastic medium and showed that with each given position of the particles a finite number of preceding positions can be associated in such a way that the particle at the given position (and time) attains precisely those elastic waves which originated from the particle at the preceding positions.

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There's obviously a lot of curiosity about why the Kremlin chose this particular bogus charge (espionage), but answers require impossible Putin mindreading, and it takes the focus off the fact that Evan is a hostage. The only criminal here is the Putin regime.

Apropos of nothing.

Justice Abe Fortas resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 when it was revealed that he received $20K from a wealthy financier.

#law #lawfedi #SCOTUS #democracy #politics #ethics

https://www.politico.com/story/2008/05/abe-fortas-resigns-from-supreme-court-may-15-1969-010346

Mastodon: the social network for people who remember Windows 95

Missed yesterday's live event about our reporting on #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas' undisclosed trips provided by billionaire GOP mega donor Harlan Crow?

We've got you covered!

Watch the whole thing now (or later; no pressure) on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l650TOL1PbM

A 50% increase in *two* years.
Gun deaths is now the top cause of death for children and teens under 18 in the USA.

A paper was retracted today in the high-profile journal BMC Infectious Diseases. The paper was obviously problematic and claimed more than a quarter-million fatalities as a result of the COVID vaccines. The retraction note states that "there was no attempt to validate reported fatalities"
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-023-08234-8

I can't even.