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Noel French Nov 16, 2023

Can anyone confirm me whether this link is just not a valid RSS feed?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/rss/cases/22-942.xml

Edit: Trying to figure out if I'm right that the feed links are broken or if I'm just doing something wrong when I get to subscribe.

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Noel French Nov 16, 2023

@Colarusso sorry I meant to include an image to give you a sense of what I'm talking about in case you have no idea. Talking about the RSS links like in this example.

Noel French Nov 16, 2023

@Colarusso hope you don't mind me reaching out, but you seem pretty knowledgeable about RSS and I'm wondering if you can help me figure out if the RSS feeds for SCOTUS docket pages are broken or if I'm just doing something wrong when trying to subscribe? Copying the RSS link included on the page and adding that URL to Feedly pushes a link to the docket page, a link to it's XML page, and a link to it's JSON data but I've never gotten an update to a case.

Noel French Oct 25, 2023

Sam Wade Oct 25, 2023

“It didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target.” https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23903125/lurker-online-harassment-stalking-asian-academics

The obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserable

It didn’t matter if she knew you — if you were a professor and Asian American, you were a potential target.

The Verge

Noel French Oct 22, 2023

David D. Levine Oct 21, 2023

Ursula Vernon's Hugo acceptance speech included this delightful anecdote-slash-metaphor-slash-encouragement. https://www.patreon.com/posts/91410900

The Light At The End Of The Frog | Ursula Vernon

Get more from Ursula Vernon on Patreon

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Noel French Oct 16, 2023

I think, as BlueSky takes off and starts to replicate some of the things I disliked about Twitter, I am realizing that my mind is just not built for a firehose of news and a bottomless pit of screencaps of shitty people to be mad about.

Noel French Oct 14, 2023

"[A hypothetical broad spectrum desire suppressant Ozempic-like pharmaceutical] makes the people who take it so much happier and more fulfilled that they don’t want anything else."

Nirvana in a pill!

Noel French Oct 14, 2023

Frank Pasquale Oct 14, 2023

“Drugs like Ozempic will also affect social motivations, and what individuals want in relation to what other people want or have to offer. If personal appetite is eliminated as a use value, consumption will become more a matter of social signification, if that is even possible.”
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/the-cure-for-consumerism

The cure for consumerism

There is some concern among investors that GLP-1 receptor agonists — Ozempic, Wegovy, semalglutide, etc. — will be so popular and so successful at curtailing appetites that it will affect the value of companies that make and sell alcohol and junk food. Walmart’s CEO, for example, claimed

Internal exile

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Noel French Oct 6, 2023

I find it hard to blame anyone who uses a tool to reduce the thing that causes people to experience stigma such that life is often simply worse (and of course it shouldn't be that way, but it is!).

Anyway, the appropriate party to blame here, if anyone, is Novo Nordisk for failing to adequately increase supply, not people using a medication.

An off my chest brought to you by something I read on another site where I can't respond without blowing up relationships. 2/2

Noel French Oct 6, 2023

Understandable that a lot of my fellow diabetics are worried about Ozempic supply, but blaming people who are using it off label or using WeGovy as intended for weight loss is misplaced. Weight loss is a valid medical use; being overweight can contribute or lead to health issues (including diabetes!). Even purely from an aesthetic standpoint, we obviously live in a society that treats overweight people poorly - I say this from experience as someone who has been quite fit and quite fat. 1/2