SCOTUS: We exist to defend rights for all people in America!!

Students?

SCOTUS: Except them

LGBTQ people?

SCOTUS: Except them

Migrants seeking asylum?

SCOTUS: Except them

Women seeking healthcare?

SCOTUS: Except them

Black people seeking equality?

SCOTUS: Except them

Then who?

Rich white MAGAs rejected from Harvard.

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the way we live now:

Bluesky informs me Twitter is down, and also that Bluesky can’t handle the resulting surge in use, so I come to Mastodon to post about it

Twitter shut itself down on the first day of Q3 and we're supposed to believe that this is about anything other than a free cash flow crunch?

Anyone check whether Google Cloud finally cut Elon off due to nonpayment?

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.