Here's hoping he gets a chance to elaborate these views during his trial for perjury, destruction of evidence, and failure to register under F.A.R.A., for starters.

This is the key issue. I want to stress that I wish Bluesky all the success this fallen world can give. But they're selling what is in all important respects an exact copy of Twitter, without two+ decades of first-mover advantage. Bluesky's only advantage is Musk's blunder in renaming Twitter.

The value to these networks is in the expropriated labor/personal information of the users. And it's just not easy to get people to commit to the network with enough energy and in sufficient numbers, especially when your network is a dupe of the already successful network. Again, I wish them luck.

I believe the U.S.A. leads or once led the international community for liberality of bankruptcy terms. (That is, you make the creditors as right as possible and wait seven years and then you get a fresh start.) Am I wrong about that?

What is Jack up to these days? I haven't seen him around in a dog's age.