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cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

Raw Story Jul 3, 2023

'Thin-skinned' John Roberts mocked by columnist for 'dishonest' ruling that ignored a word in the statute

#news #politics #scotus
https://www.rawstory.com/john-roberts-dishonest-thin-skinned/

'Thin-skinned' John Roberts mocked by columnist for 'dishonest' ruling that ignored a word in the statute

Supreme CourtChief Justice John Roberts added his name to the concurring decision to bring down President Joe Biden's student loan repayment program. But among the things that were ignored in their decision was a small word that the justices unilaterally decided wasn't in the law because it could ma...

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cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

evacide Jul 3, 2023

If you're asking "Why don't Americans riot like the French?" but you also complain whenever there's a protest and someone breaks a storefront window, I see you and you make me so goddamn tired.

cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

James Pistole Jul 1, 2023

If the server costs are too much, have they considered #Twitter by mail? One of these bad boys can fit 1440000 / 280 = 5142 tweets! Just mail one out once a week! That’s 734 tweets a day! Problem solved!

cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

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mcc Jun 30, 2023

2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

Susa Jul 2, 2023

Oh my goodness. This blows my mind. I love it. Please read it. Here are some things I just learned from this text:

"Everybody had just taken this man-the-#hunter hypothesis for granted. So no one really decided to evaluate it," says Haas. "It wasn't really a question on a lot of people's minds."

In 79% of societies, women did hunt.

And my favourite:
The best hunters were grandmothers.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749528/men-are-hunters-women-are-gatherers-that-was-the-assumption-a-new-study-upends-i

#science #anthropology #genderBias

cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

Dan Gillmor Jul 2, 2023

Right now -- today -- would be a great day for some socially responsible philanthropy to support the migration from Twitter to the fediverse of all the organizations, such as the weather service, that realize they can no longer remotely rely on it to connect to the public.

cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

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Paul D Jul 2, 2023

@evacide you would think that a bunch of security folks would at least care about the security of their conference attendees. :/

cirdan12 Jul 3, 2023

evacide Jul 2, 2023

This is your regular reminder that if you allow a well-known rapist into your event, you are sending a signal to all survivors that you don't care about their safety.

Lookin' at you, CCC.

cirdan12 Jul 2, 2023

Ramsey Nasser Jun 30, 2023

corporate centralization is killing the web. everything we were told would never happen is happening. every hysterical alarmist has proven to have been understating the risks.

cirdan12 Jul 2, 2023

Jess👾Jun 30, 2023

Hey journalists: want a fun story? Look up all the people who filed amacus briefs against student loan forgiveness and cross reference that with the PPP loan forgiveness database.