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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · 2d

There are not enough or sufficient diminutives in the English language to express the degree of my surprise to this news.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”

By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · 4d

1. Anti-semitism at Harvard? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
2. Telling a Board of Directors that they're not in charge of the thing that they're funding and overseeing (and are legally responsible for) rarely ends well.
3. Maybe Bari Weiss is hiring.

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Soylent Queen, Hippie Taxpayer ☢️💣☣️🍄☁️ @ciaromano.bsky.social · 6d

So much this #justbekind

Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 7d

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · 6d

Me, too.

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d

me

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone who’s shocked by the fate of the East Wing must be unfamiliar with the fate of New York’s Bonwit Teller building and how Trump Tower got built. Destroying historical buildings and ignoring the preservation law is literally the oldest play in this guy’s book.

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · 12d

Indeed, Radio Userland created a whole new generation and type of journalist and journalism.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12d

Cards Against Humanity gets settlement from SpaceX, plans pack of Elon Musk cards

CAH: Trespassing lawsuit forced SpaceX to “pack up the space garbage” and leave.

arstechnica.com

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 15d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · 19d

and yet, health insurance companies are reluctant to cover them -- and Medicare won't cover anti-obesity drugs at all.

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · 24d

Did they at least have “Wall of Death?” “Vincent Black Lightning?”

What kind of karaoke bars are you hanging out in, anyway?

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The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 24

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Sep 20

So I have things in common with mosquitos, after all.

Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 20

Beer drinkers were 44% more attractive to mosquitoes than people who had abstained for at least 12 hours, cannabis users were 35% more attractive, and those who had slept with someone else the night before were 46% more attractive, new research finds. https://scim.ag/3Vk5rMw

Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes?

Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees

scim.ag

Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Sep 15

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Holmdel, NJ; it's a former Bell Labs facility, where there were major advances in solid-state transistor technology, and where Arno Penzias and team more or less confirmed the existence of the Big Bang.

Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Sep 11

“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · Sep 6

So I invented a new word: “plagiarism”. It means “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.”

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · Aug 30

OK this wins the Internet for the year

Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · Aug 30

I can

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Or, in other words, “editorial services.”

Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is also true of writing for a more general readership

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Jul 26

The key to good legal writing is clarity. Exceptional clarity persuades. Unclarity sows doubt.

Not key? Originality. Humor. Cleverness. A distinctive voice. Torrents of peripheral legal authority. Demonstrations of opposing counsel’s stupidity and bad faith.

Edit for clarity.

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Jul 24

You misspelled “Mallomar.”

Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m sure the administration will appeal, while calling the judges all sorts of names.

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Jul 18

There's something I don't understand: what's the RNC's legal standing here?

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Jul 18

A neat sentence in the WSJ review of the new Smurfs movie. Byline Kyle Smith:

"When I first encountered them on Saturday-morning television as a kid, the Smurfs cartoons struck me as inane, inert and innocuous, and the passage of 40-plus years has not made them seem any more ane, ert, or nocuous."

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Jul 18

For anyone surprised by CBS cancelling Colbert, I have two words:

Smothers Brothers

The bravery of the news division has never been shared by the entertainment programmers.

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Dan Rosenbaum @brooklyndan.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is odd. I thought he wrote it in a Starbucks.

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · Jul 15

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

City of Boston Streets Cabinet @streets.boston.gov · Jul 14

What'd you do over the weekend? Public Works began resurfacing the street in front of the Chipotle where Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense

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NotreDale @notredale.bsky.social · Jul 11

Roses are red,
Countries have borders…

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