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Lawyer interested in the collision of law and tech policy. Shameless hoarder of domains. Restless todo app tester. Daily reader of RSS. Opinions mine alone. #LawFedi […]

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March 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Perplexity ❤️ Ben Shapiro, I 🗑️ Perplexity: https://joeross.me/2025/03/08/perplexity-ben-shapiro-i-perplexity.html
Perplexity ❤️ Ben Shapiro, I 🗑️ Perplexity
Trishla Ostwal, writing for _AdWeek_ about Perplexity’s sponsorship of right-wing jackass Ben Shapiro: > The deal, structured as an annual partnership for 2025, marks Perplexity’s first native ad integration with a media outlet. It’s not just that Perplexity chose to advertise with one of the loudest anti-American voices in the country, it’s that they chose to make this their first native ad integration _with any media outlet_. I wondered, after reading the AdWeek piece, what Perplexity would have to say about Shapiro. It… did not go well for him: > There is evidence suggesting that Ben Shapiro frequently employs rhetorical techniques that can be characterized as deceptive or misleading. […] While Shapiro’s style resonates with his audience and is effective in certain contexts, these patterns suggest a reliance on rhetorical strategies that may prioritize winning debates over substantive engagement with complex issues. While it’s nice that Perplexity is, at least as of this writing, honest about Shapiro’s intellectual chicanery, I deleted my Perplexity accounts and removed the app from my devices. I’m trying to be more proactive about listening to people — and companies — when they tell the world who they are. It will take a while, for example, to excise Google from my digital life, but the process is underway, and I don’t want to start incurring that kind of techno-ethical debt with any new companies with demonstrably flimsy standards if I can help it. _(ViaMediagazer)_
joeross.me
March 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Gin Blossoms can still rock it out, and Follow You Down was one of the first songs I recorded from the radio to make a mix tape.

Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down (Live) https://youtube.com/watch?v=v-ktFqI-tEE
March 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I hope Facebook’s executive team are investing in some quality knee pads… 🔗 bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-16/meta-is-ready-to-bring-trump-into-play-in-fight-against-eu-rules
February 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The oldest 50 or so overdue tasks in my task manager
https://mastodon.social/@JenMsft/113994072801633546
Jen Gentleman (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The TODO statement in your code waiting for you to come back to it
mastodon.social
February 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
ProPublica is keeping track of the Musk lackeys systematically dismantling much of the undeniably flawed but unmistakably necessary federal bureaucracy. (via Heidi Li Feldman) https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
February 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
🔗 Ben Nacar is an incredible pianist who, I recently learned, does an annual video surveying the classical music that left copyright protection that year. The video he did this year features music from 1929, all of which is now in the public domain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5JHR-Qe-Kc
February 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Kagi Search’s new Fair Pricing feature
<p>The purveyor of Kagi, the indie search engine, <a href="https://kagi.com/changelog#6155">on a new pricing feature</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>In months where you don’t utilize any searches on your plan, <strong>we will automatically apply a full credit to your account</strong> for that month. This credit will be applied to your next billing cycle, effectively covering your subsequent month’s subscription at no additional cost.</p> </blockquote> <p>I used the base plan in the past, and after I exhausted my 300-search monthly allowance in about three weeks, I swapped all my default search engines, with some frustration, back to <a href="https://www.startpage.com/">Startpage</a>.</p> <p>I then proceeded to basically forget about it for the next month. I suspect I’m not the only one, and that’s probably what catalyzed this feature.</p> <p>I have vacillated for a while between Kagi, Startpage, DuckDuckGo, and Brave Search – search engine comparison is the new to-do app comparison for my dopamine-starved brain. Kagi feels superior to the others, but even at $5, I’m just not sure the value sufficiently exceeds what I can do with the others, given the right ad blockers and keyboard incantations.</p>
joeross.me
February 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Akshay Kulkarni, Shaurya Kshatri and William Burr reporting at Canada’s CBC News:

"B.C. Premier David Eby has announced immediate countermeasures in response to incoming U.S. tariffs, saying the province will take action to protect B.C. workers and businesses.
[…]
As an initial response, Eby […]
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February 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Rusty Foster at Today in Tabs has some good advice on how to approach what I refer to as the malevolent-jackass express:

"First, deny this regime your compliance whenever and wherever you can, in ways as large or as small as you are able. Defend your […]

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January 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🔗 Mike Masnick is always a must-read, but his recent piece calling bullshit on Zuckerberg’s “move” of Meta’s moderation teams just proves how important his voice is as we all buckle up for a four-year ride on the malevolent-jackass express… […]
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January 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Revealing yourself to be a bigoted billionaire incel MAGA puppet is not the display of masculinity Zuckerberg thinks it is…

James Factora, quoting Zuckerberg at Them:

"“Both of these things are good. You want feminine energy. You want masculine energy. You’re gonna have parts of society that […]
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January 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Ann Telnaes explains why she quit the Washington Post after more than fifteen years as an editorial cartoonist at the now-Bezos-owned newspaper:

"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming […]
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January 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
▶️ I reviewed our digital subscriptions in preparation for the new year and one of the services I let go (at least for now) is YouTube Premium. It’s wild to me how shitty the ads are on YouTube. Google is probably the largest advertising provider in the world and YouTube ads are just pure garbage.
January 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
🎄 I think my kids had a good Christmas, but the disappointment in my three-year-old son’s voice this morning when he walked out to the Christmas tree and said “but there’s no more presents under the tree…” was palpable. And it was even worse when I explained Christmas is only one morning a year.
December 26, 2024 at 10:02 PM
This ominous photo I took tonight of the Disney castle lit by red fireworks is my new header for, possibly, forever because shit is just ominous these days okay?
December 15, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Frozen Ever After. Of course our first attempt to rope drop at Disney World ends with Frozen Ever After having a delayed opening of at least an hour…
December 14, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Orlando International Airport (MCO).
December 9, 2024 at 4:34 PM
🧱 I don’t think the The Verge’s paywall will last, given that it’s very porous, most Verge readers likely block ads anyway, and the comments section is already… lively. They should offer an easy way to support them without degrading the free experience, but I can’t blame them for trying […]
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December 5, 2024 at 6:34 AM
🔔 There are so many bearded dudes in Philly that I think I know from college. It can be very disconcerting.
December 3, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Seeing my Micro.blog profile in a Mastodon app, where my username is @joe, really makes me want to use it as my primary fediverse account. I just find the transfer process daunting, and I recall Mb may not be a full implementation of an ActivityPub account, though maybe that has changed.
November 30, 2024 at 3:37 PM
🦃 Now that the kids are mostly sentient, Thanksgiving means fielding questions from them about why we’re vegetarians and most people aren’t. If anyone has any ideas let me know. I’m not sure they’ll understand I was radicalized by a YouTube rabbithole decades ago, given they’re both younger […]
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November 28, 2024 at 12:08 PM