Dear POTUS, The Justice Department, and the FCC. By eliminating the Paramount Decrees, you have made way for the strikes and shutdown of our industry. That was an antiquated antitrust law that held back studios and streamers from forming monopolies. They are now crushing labor because there is no competition—there is no recourse to their demands. Please reinstate or better your antitrust laws for the entertainment industry.

https://www.culawreview.org/current-events-2/terminations-of-the-paramount-decrees-a-greenlight-for-monopolies

"It is no surprise then that 'Barbie' feels like an especially potent trojan horse, beckoning us with well-earned laughter into a larger conversation on gender and how Barbie—the defining cultural symbol of high femme expression—has shaped that discourse over the past six decades."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/greta-gerwigs-barbie-is-brilliant

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

It's weird to me that Apple is sunsetting Macs made as recently as 2017. If you are buying a new Mac to stay on the latest and greatest software, please don't landfill your current Mac. Donate it to a FreeGeek or similar organization. An "unsupported Mac" can continue as a valued computer running Linux for many more years beyond "the sunset".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Geek

In 1994, Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress passed an assault weapons ban. Mass shooting deaths dropped by as much as 70%.

In 2004, George W. Bush and a Republican Congress let the ban expire. Mass shooting deaths have TRIPLED since then and keep getting worse and worse.

This tweet from a "verified" account is false. It's been viewed 3.4 million times.

Musk gave LeBron a free subscription to Twitter Blue, @[email protected] reports. LeBron was not lying.

Welcome to the new Twitter.

RT @[email protected]

lebron james always lying for no reason😭 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1649121645389332480

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kirawontmiss/status/1649121645389332480

Musk tried to trick people into believing that celebrities like @[email protected] and @[email protected] paid for Twitter Blue.

They did not and Musk got called out on it.

Musk has now copped to it and admitted he has paid for James, King and a handful of others to keep their blue checks

Attacks on diversity programs at public universities in FL, TX, and other states are incredibly harmful, and will have ramifications even beyond their intended "anti-woke" narrow-mindedness.

Almost every time I've served on a committee or other decision-making body that's been explicitly charged with considering diversity, we ended up making better, more thoughtful decisions for it.

Diversity is essential to both learning and to advancing knowledge, the central missions of any university.