How do we decide what a "true threat" is when we have no cultural consensus on what a "reasonable person" is?

https://popehat.substack.com/p/true-threats-and-american-cultural

Politicians complain about taxpayer spending on food stamps but have little to say about tax deductions for business meals.

Need help feeding your family? You’re called a freeloader.

Execs scheming wage cuts over filet mignon? The taxpayer has got your back.

Enshittification is like entropy, you can’t escape it, even when you buy hardware. A John Deere Tractor, an ink cartridge, or a fitness tracker. Without the right to repair, you don’t even own things you bought, you merely possess a useless brick of e-waste, protected by copyright. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/amazon-will-brick-all-halo-health-trackers-on-august-1/

@pluralistic is probably already aware of this, but since I am reading Chokepoint Capitalism at the moment, it seems à propos.

guys I'm starting to suspect it was a mistake to base our entire truth and information apparatus on ad-engagement clickbait machines run by a rotating crop of incompetent trust fund brunchlords who have absolutely no idea how anything works

https://deadline.com/2023/04/vice-news-tonight-canceled-layoffs-1235339323/

“With #dungeonsAndDragons you can inhabit a body, a backstory, a history, a story, a struggle, a desire, a pain, a lust, and a character that is not you and also is you simultaneously.”

@BrynnTannehill74 on why with with its collaborative #storytelling as its core, D&D has become more #accessible imaginative, and #inclusive making it the game we need now.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/04/27/dungeons-dragons-is-the-game-we-need-now/

Imagine a system of government where the final arbiters of everything are a tiny group of judges with lifetime tenure, and these judges are allowed to take money from people on whose cases they rule.

Crazy, right? https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they
live.
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94
#library #gop #censorship

I took a deep dive into files that ransomware hackers leaked from the Minneapolis School District. It's so much worse than just SSNs and home addresses. It's psych evals, writeups of physical and sexual abuse. Always with the child's name, testimony.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/students-psychological-reports-abuse-allegations-leaked-ransomware-hac-rcna79414