Just dropping this here, for no particular reason: 26 USC §7213 (Internal Revenue Code):

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

JD Vance claimed on X that “Slava Ukraini” protesters followed him & shouted at his daughter.

Guess he didn’t realize it was caught on camera. No one yelled at his kid, and they didn’t follow them.

Vance & Musk need to quit using children as shields. The public isn’t backing down—we want answers.

This brilliant video, by Alex of Technology Connections, encapsulates a lot of what I've been feeling and thinking of late. I can't recommend it enough, and I hope it resonates.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

What OMB is doing violates the constitution itself. The ICA fills in the details of how congress and the executive interact over the spending power, but finding the ICA unconstitutional and ratifying OMB’s action here would mean overthrowing the most fundamental constitutional design.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

I'm not a liberal in the sense that she's meaning it (well, maybe I am, given that she's clearly unhinged), but boy howdy, I just couldn't resist this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DozO...

If this is gonna be the case, YouTube is going to lose Premium subscribers in droves. Including me. I do not understand why so many companies deliberately enshittify their offerings these days.

"'Following One Million' follows you."

_block_

I don't know about _banned_, but Singal has in my experience been a very consistent asshat who constantly interacts in bad faith, and I certainly recommend blocking him, and support marginalizing him pretty hard.

"Dr Glaucomflecken" says it very well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGgQ...

I was delighted to find out that the remarkable Adrian Bott (famous for inventing the “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party” meme in 2015 that the amazing Franchesca Ramsey subsequently set to music) has moved to BlueSky.

Give 'em both a follow if you haven't run into them before.

Hank Green effectively called out @fl0wergarden.bsky.social as a LLM-driven argument bot. Well spotted.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpOk...

Well, I didn't want to, but I did actually fully deactivate my Xitter account today. Recent changes to the Terms of Service with no way to opt out forced my hand.

At some point, someone is going to have to file class-action lawsuits that force companies that suck up their customers' content without consent to train their "AI" systems to compensate each of those customers. Like, at 25¢/word. You want work for hire? Pay us.

I'm still kind of struggling with what to do with BlueSky.

It doesn't have the critical mass that Xitter continues to maintain, so that conversational feel of tweets happens more rarely and feels somewhat anemic even when it does happen.

1/n

“Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

I realize it’s gotta be pretty dark that deep in Jeff Bezos's pocket.

Well, now that Xitter is planning on crippling the block function, I'm likely to be spending a lot more time here, I suppose.

Maybe I'm too much of an untrusting curmudgeon these days, but I got a notification that I'd been followed by an account called ifolloweveryone—and blocked it without any significant hesitation. I just don't like accounts that seem like they're nothing more than data-scrapers.