JenL

@jelasher
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Lawyer and mother by day, defender of free speech and democracy by night.
pretty amazing how jared kushner and clarence thomas' real corruption is so much worse than anything republicans can even make up about hunter biden

Mastodon is a life raft scaling up to be a fleet.

Twitter is Cambridge Analytica, twitter is a manipulated platform that dumps far right tweets onto your timeline when it wants, and hides tweets silently. Like tweets about manipulation.

Twitter is using familiarity like facebook did to funnel people to the far right. Or depress readers into inaction.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis got publically punked by Mickey Mouse.
"How Disney’s lawyers brutally mauled DeSantis over control of Disney World" - LA Times
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-30/disneys-lawyers-outmaneuvered-desantis-control-disney-world
#desantis #florida #Disney
Hiltzik: Disney World lawyers brutally outmaneuvered DeSantis

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) tried to hurt Disney for criticizing his 'Don't Say Gay' law, but he just demonstrated his stupidity.

Los Angeles Times
Yes, this is satisfying, but do we really want to live in a country where wealthy real estate barons can't falsify records to cover up campaign finance violations involving paying hush money to porn stars?
Every day is like "starting tomorrow only people who post ‘Elon is cool' will be eligible to have their tweets appear in English" and the entire press corps and all of my friends continue to post there like nothing has changed

Another anecdote on what “founder friendly” at SVB means—skirting basic KYC protocol at their own risk

SVB’s collapse will look inevitable in hindsight. There’s a reason no one is buying it even in a fire sale

A slice of pie is $2.50 in Jamaica.
It's $2.85 in Barbados.
And in the Bahamas, it's $3.25.

These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.

#HappyPiDay #PiDay

The more we're learning about Silicon Valley Bank, its management, and the industry that made it a linchpin of the startup ecosystem, the worse it sounds. This is an epic combination of arrogance, big money, incompetence, and backstabbing. And that assumes no major corruption...

Let's be crystal clear: this was a bank run directed by one group of venture capitalists, which left another group of venture capitalists holding the bag. The latter is vocally demanding that taxpayers "make them whole" which translates into: rewarding them for assuming unmitigated risk.

The FDIC will ensure that bills are paid, loans are serviced, and payrolls are funded. The VCs that go out of business played the game and lost. That's capitalism. They can't have it both ways.

#SVB

Big Journalism bans racist cartoonist from its own media but continues to support an extremist who defends him. Media hypocrisy has no upper boundary when it comes to confronting -- that is, not confronting -- what it means to stay on Twitter.