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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 1d

sending you an invite code. no reason. just because.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 1d

at long last, we have created the ring from classic horror movie don't ever look at the ring

Richard Lawler @rjcc.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why Adam Mosseri would push a new feature for Instagram using the theme of a movie with a plot about how watching media someone shares with you will lead to a horrible death
www.theverge.com/news/793410/...

What’s going on with this Instagram promotion?

It keeps making me think of The Ring.

www.theverge.com

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like a game with art from the creator of Afro Samurai sort of deserves better than a janky live-action adaptation made on an apparent budget of about ten dollars

Furi - Official Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by Midnight Embers Productions

www.youtube.com

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 4d

i love free speech too but the influencerization of goverment must be stopped

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 4d

impossible good law idea friday: all elected and appointed officials are barred from hosting podcasts or having active personal social media feeds unless currently running for office within 6 months of an upcoming election

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 4d

Banning cigarette ads, regulating ads for children, and other stuff is one of those "wow, we could never do that now" moments but creating an environment where everything isn't full of aggressive, invasive, sometimes dangerous advertising feels like the only path forward for a functioning internet.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 4d

I've been poking around this myself, but curious if lawsky has better answers than I've found: is there a good study of why/how US advertising regulation was pulled off in the 20th century? Or a history of advertising and US law in general?

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 5d

the latest testimony in the google ad-tech trial has finally gifted me the world's most appropriate use case for this meme www.theverge.com/tech/790711/...

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 5d

is there a blep

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

"What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?"

wake up babe @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

It is of course helpful to remember that in the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. Antifa might not be organized, but the Department of Homeland Security sure is. George Soros might not be paying professional protesters, but right-wing media personalities are bankrolled by Trumpist billionaires. In the case of Ben Shapiro, that’s billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks; for Rumble, thank Peter Thiel. This is to say nothing of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, or Elon Musk’s X, or the Daily Caller itself, which is funded by Charles Koch.

Indeed, the memo’s description of the environment that leads to terroristic violence applies cleanly to the entire right-wing ecosystem. But perhaps the most striking accusation-as-confession is this paragraph from the national security presidential memorandum:

This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society.

What is this but an elegant encapsulation of the past 10 years? It describes everything from the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the air to the Libs of TikTok pattern of incitement to Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist to Fox News’ defamation of Dominion Voting Systems and its employees to the celebrity worship of people like Kyle Rittenhouse.

What is this entire anti-terrorism memorandum if not an admission that terrorism works, and that terrorism has secured the White House?

a verge feature story with the headline / subheadline of "Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America /
Identifying faceless ICE agents. Mutual aid for jailed protesters. Calling JD Vance a fascist. The war on ‘antifa’ is a war on free speech, and it’s just getting started."

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 6d

Incidentally I don't disagree with this, just saying that even using *the government's own framing* they made their announcement in a bizarrely irresponsible way

Derek Sherratt @olddek.bsky.social · 6d

Autism is not a curse. It is simply a trick of nature. Autistic people can live vibrant lives. Some develop useful characteristics like amazing memories for facts or even maths equations or other subjects. Others have amazing skills with their hands. They are just folks like us born without malice.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 6d

Tylenol is afaik the first thing you can give to babies — I had a couple-month window at least where it was recommended and nothing else was. (I have no clue if Trump knows this since his alternative was just "it'll be uncomfortable" and also he seems to think you give it to them in pills.)

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 6d

To be clear, there's zero mention of Tylenol after birth in HHS or White House fact sheets, it's all prenatal studies. As far as I can tell Trump made up an entire risk category as a bit. Which just incidentally encourages parents to leave their kids in pain for no reason at all.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 6d

Trump and RFK's message to parents is that autism is the great medical crisis of our time but it's not important enough to announce without Trump just outright admitting he's making stuff up on stage. Even people who take what they're saying at face value should find this insulting.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 6d

According to Trump and RFK, Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism, but you're *also* not supposed to give kids Tylenol after they're born, and maybe not take it at all. There is zero way for the average person to distinguish what's backed by even sketchy research and what's pure riffing and vibes.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 6d

It's been a week and I'm still sort of not over the fact that the government made a huge announcement claiming a common painkiller directly causes what it considers a fate worse than death, and they announced this in a way that made it impossible to tell what the actual medical guidance was.

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 6d

I've been hearing of a lot of people with bad dreams, seeing bad omens, stuff like that. Haven't you?

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 7d

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7d

the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Post card dated June 19, 2025
(On file in Chambers) TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS ... WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States –- you and me --
have our magnificent Constitution.
Here’s how that works out in a
specific case –-
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

I hope you found this
helpful. Thanks for writing.
It shows you care. You
should.

Sincerely & respectfully,
Bill Young

P.S. The next time you’re in
Boston [the postmark on the card
is from the Philadelphia area]
stop in at the Courthouse and
watch your fellow citizens, sitting
as jurors, reach out for justice.
It is here, and in courthouses
just like this one, both state and
federal, spread throughout our land
that our Constitution is most vibrantly
alive, for it is well said that “Where a
jury sits, there burns the lamp of
liberty.”

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Marina Galperina @mfortki.bsky.social · 12d

Reminds me of this from May
www.theverge.com/policy/66210...

"Trump didn’t invent scams, but his administration’s dismantling of every institution that protects consumers will allow them to flourish."

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 12d

I think you can attribute at least some of the degradation in America's social fabric to the cognitive load of having to assume everyone is constantly trying to swindle you with woefully few guardrails

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 12d

I feel like you could run a viable political campaign at this point on "i will make performing basic tasks using the internet less miserable"

Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.social · 12d

Continuing to discover how right my mom was to hate computers and technology, because all of the websites she had to use for billing etc apparently never heard of UX/UI as a thing and are just atrocious.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 12d

way to bury the lede on sex house, the greatest reality show of all time

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13d

In the last few days, we've assembled independent theatres in LA, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Chicago to air this thing.

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will be in theatres on October 2nd after all, followed by the first theatrical screening of Sex House. It is going to be fun as hell.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 14d

guy who has only played one bennett foddy game, playing his second bennett foddy game: getting a lot of bennett foddy vibes from this

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 14d

One of today's philosophical questions: can a game be a "Bennett-Foddy-style" game if it is actually made by @foddy.net

Baby Steps review roundup: 'Is it possible to love and hate a game at the same time?' (The answer, clearly, is yes)
News
By Andy Chalk published 2 hours ago
The new Bennett Foddy-style flailing simulator is "infuriating," "frustrating," "stupid," and most people seem to love it.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 14d

The Smiths v. Maryland

Eric Boo-erg 👻 @lawliberg.bsky.social · 14d

Ruin a band with law

FOIA Fighters

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 14d

I tried an early version of this and it feels like running a good-natured psyop on your friend group, it rules

sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 14d

on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★, what's a ★★ food? or ★★★★★ weather? do you and your friends even agree on what "★★★★" means? announcing STARFRIENDS, a new social card game that melds these questions into the best kind of loosely competitive experience. physical decks coming soon, follow our KS page today!

Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks

A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.

www.kickstarter.com

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