“Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent & stable enforcement of regulations, &if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,” said Steve Cicala… “This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods…”
An associated thing with this is how often I’ll get replies that are just sort of a weird stock phrase like “he must be stopped!” or even worse people being like “FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!” and I’ll be like “me?” and they’ll go “no, Steve Bannon” and I’ll be like but you’re talking to me. I’m a person.
Maddow plugging Bluesky is, on a metric level, good for the platform, but it also means it is clearly filling up with people who have never used this kind of app before. They're used to Meta platforms, which is why they reply angrily to everything they see and add nothing. Human spam essentially.
February 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And this is why everyone saying Bluesky is an alternative to Facebook is Wrong™ 😮💨
Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment
There’s an active fascist takeover going on. Let’s check in with the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to see how they’re resisting it.
Oh… oh I see. They’re trying to blow up Section 230 and open the floodgates for Trump to censor the Internet. Inspiring!
February 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment
You ever get out of evening class 15 minutes late and everyone you love is asleep and then they closed your offramp northbound so you drive 8 miles around and then, oh, closed southbound too, so you don't get home til 11 and you have a 14-hour day tomorrow AND the dog still dead?
January 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
You ever get out of evening class 15 minutes late and everyone you love is asleep and then they closed your offramp northbound so you drive 8 miles around and then, oh, closed southbound too, so you don't get home til 11 and you have a 14-hour day tomorrow AND the dog still dead?