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I'm an NYC based labor lawyer and twitter refugee, on here to talk politics, economics, society, technology, urbanism, SciFi, history and whatever else catches my interest.

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Quite Linkly 3/1/25 – 3/7/25

Government Chaos Media Reddit censors all posts containing Elon Musk’s leaked email address: NYC Union Germany

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Come for the links to stories about the rolling coup / collapse of the federal government, stay for links to stories about the media going the same way

https://quitelikelyblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/quite-linkly-2-22-25-2-28-25/

Quite Linkly 2/22/25 – 2/28/25

Government Crisis Sign up to support purged federal workers: Media NYC Tech Find lists of people to follow on bluesky here:

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America is really in the shit now and we're making it everyone's problem. But the pushback is growing.

https://quitelikelyblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/quite-linkly-2-15-25-2-21-25/

Quite Linkly 2/15/25 – 2/21/25

I hope you enjoy my nonsensical link categories. They all kind of flow together – when a deranged maniac is using the American government to oppress people abroad does that go in “gover…

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This week in America: the madness of RFK, the ongoing constitutional crisis in DC, and NYC's Crime Mayor gets a piece of the action

https://quitelikelyblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/quite-linkly-2-8-25-2-14-25/

Quite Linkly 2/8/25 – 2/14/25

This week in America: the madness of RFK, the ongoing constitutional crisis in DC, and NYC’s Crime Mayor gets a piece of the action

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If you want to catch up on the constitutional crisis here's a ton of stories about it

https://quitelikelyblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/quite-linkly-2-1-25-2-7-25/

Quite Linkly 2/1/25 – 2/7/25

Lots and lots of links about the ongoing constitutional crisis, plus some other stuff

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Quite Linkly Returns! Links 1/24/25 – 1/31/25

Right Wing Madness Journalism For most of my time following politics Paul Krugman had the best takes that were allowed in the New York Times. Now they’re no longer allowed there, sad days. Bu…

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Mozilla: "In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. It would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move will overturn decades of established content moderation norms and provide a playbook for authoritarian governments"

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/
#france #browser #cybersecurity #mozilla #security #surveillance

France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet – Open Policy & Advocacy

Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites on a government provided list encoded into the browser.

Open Policy & Advocacy
If one crazy RFK Jr conspiracy theory turned out to be true, which would be least surprising?
In many ways the reddit exec team has the upper hand in their conflict with their userbase, but on the other hand it's only the reddit execs who could potentially get fired over all this

@mmasnick: “What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction?”

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/12/what-would-aaron-swartz-think-of-reddits-ridiculous-new-api-fees/

What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction?

Aaron Swartz was, perhaps by technicality, a co-founder of Reddit. The more complete story is that he was working on a different project, infogami, that got merged into Reddit, which was created by…

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