I think the thing that I fight for, more than this or that law is unconstitutional, is redemption. Not for me, or not just. The principle. We need it as surely as we need air. Otherwise our punishments become little more than poison that diminish us all.
but there's a difference between that and um...well, what Eastman did
Making allegedly questionable constitutional arguments is like, my whole job
Here is a copy of the brief for anyone interested
guyhamiltonsmith.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
It was the honor of a lifetime to represent these nine families at oral argument at the Eighth Circuit this week. My only hope is that I was enough of a lawyer to give their stories and the issues the consideration they deserve.
www.courthousenews.com/families-sco...
Had an argument that, I’m not sure how it went, and was feeling negative about how I thought I did, when someone reminded me that the fact that I got to do it, by itself, is something to be grateful for.
Indeed. Indeed it is.
As many as I can get.
I’ve kind of struggled with that same question, or a version of it, wondering if this has just been who we really are all along and we were just really good at PR and comms
American century of humiliation
I wonder if, in my lifetime, DOJ will ever recover the integrity that it once held, to whatever extent it held it.
Just . . . outstanding.
I just can't believe this is where we are at and we're supposed to just keep going along. It's madness.
love preparing for an oral argument with the threat of *checks notes* nuclear warfare and genocide just being...right there
Bluesky has a lot of problems, I think, that it doesn't seem particularly poised to or know how to address. But Twitter also has no interest in solving its own problems, because it doesn't see them as problems.
Pre-Elon Twitter was something incredible, and we'll probably never see that again.
I still think it's funny, in a laugh or else you'll cry sense, that he bought twitter at least in part to make everyone look at his dog shit tweets. How can you be the world's richest person and still have this insatiable need for approval
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
news to the enslaved!
hard to believe I've been a lawyer for three years as of today.
Also, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel of my LexisNexis contract.
Two good things.
at least blocking works here
its kind of like, Bluesky is as toxic as twitter, just runs in the other direction is all
The verdict highlights the pitfalls of Meta's (or more generally, society's) reliance on a regressive and exclusionary policy as a primary safety mechanism, as opposed to things like primary prevention, responsive reporting channels, and functional T&S teams.
There's a human rights concern that the policy implicates, and meanwhile, it doesn't appear to actually do much in terms of advancing the mission of child safety.
But worse, it permits policy makers to only appear to take the issue seriously.
The New Mexico Meta verdict is noteworthy, in part, because Meta has had a longstanding policy of permanently banning anyone ever convicted of a sex offense from its platforms.
It highlights that policies like that are essentially window dressing that create a false sense of security.
Dad Suggests Arriving At Airport 14 Hours Early
Dad Suggests Arriving At Airport 14 Hours Early theonion.com/dad-suggests-arriving-at...
im not sure that I want to know what the second one means, or how it works
Link to the segment:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqwJ...
That, in turn, incentivizes coercive and aggressive tactics. The only reason, for example, for police to initially present themselves as of age is because they catch more people that way.
The segment didn't get into the lucrative piece, but last I checked federally funded ICAC task forces are funded, in part, based on how many investigative leads they generate -- not convictions. So they are incentivized to arrest as many people as possible, whether or not those cases are solid.
This is a good segment, and validates, I think, one of my longstanding criticisms of chat room stings: that police deprioritize (and are often hostile to) actual victims of abuse and investigating those cases, because catfishing and ensnaring hypothetical criminals is easier, good PR, and lucrative