The ‘hat is indiscriminatmaxxing his socialmogging!

The plain text of the law is a “safe harbor” and not a “safe light-industrial office park”. If Congress intended the protection to apply in non-marine environments it would have done so. #textualism

The bookstore listing for a legal casebook covering tree law in the USA.

Tired: Bird Law
Wired: Tree Law

^ should be the top comment. “Drone hits empty building in abandoned Iraqi base” is much less interesting.

“5th circuit shadow people” is now cannon.

People over 50 will also recognize this as a “Clear and Present Danger”.

Exclusive: New US military-led group aided Mexico's hunt for 'El Mencho' cartel boss A new U.S.-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as 'El Mencho,' ...

We are apparently doing a Sicario, from the movie Sicario, which warned us about the dangers of doing a Sicario. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

I've been receiving scam "Google Security" phone calls for a while but they were always from people. Today I got one from an AI voice chat bot.

AI is truly taking over all of the entry-level service jobs. :-)

Wow, blast from the past. If anyone needs me I’ll be in the basement with some glow sticks.

Why do courts require pleadings to be signed?

I listened to an interview from The Modern Warfare Institute with a J1 in the Rangers - basically the toughest, baddest Human Resources person in the Army. It got me thinking, what other mundane-sounding positions exist in elite military units? Seems like a @lethalityjane.bsky.social question.

Blowback is (classically) when your own side believes the disinformation that you secretly planted to disrupt the other side. More generally, it’s the unforeseen negative consequences of covert actions.

None of this is blowback.

Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

Paging @riana.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

An empty table.

Dang it. I should have expected this. What was just there… a book?

A hardback copy of the book “There is no Antimemetics Division” sitting on a table.

Received my copy of @qntm.org’s “There is no Antimemetics Division”.

I'd like to thank this site for informing me that PowerWash Simulator 2 exists.

There is a sequel?!?!?!

That’s a popular opinion among people who have not worked in banking or financial compliance or law enforcement - and it’s not true. The people I used to deal with at FBI vastly preferred crypto investigations because of how easy it was (in most cases) to track the $$$ relative to offshore banking.

You can’t, generally speaking, prove negative claims about bribes or anything else.

You can’t prove that you are not the hidden beneficial owner of a bank account somewhere in the world. You can’t prove you don’t have the key to a safe deposit box full of gold bars. Etc etc etc.

This is the kind of filing that lawyers love and everyone else hates - an appellate court staying a stay from one if its own panels, which stopped one (and maybe two but probably not) TROs which themselves prevented government action.

Later in the week, I verified that the text exchange had genuinely been with Halligan—or, at least, with Halligan’s phone. I obtained her cell phone number from an independent source and added the number as a contact on my phone. Signal immediately associated the phone number with the “Lindsey Halligan” account with which I had been texting.

There are several interesting things in this paragraph.

You confidently wrote something legally impossible (voter recall of a NY elected official) would happen. Now you're asserting the Governor will do something you didn't even know existed before I mentioned it.

And before people start commenting - the governor’s removal provision exists but has not been used in either a very long time or ever, so that’s highly unlikely as well.

New York state law does not have a provision for recalling elected officials. So, no that’s not going to happen.

Another instance where I think "well, we can't expect a random person to remember 1973", and then click through to find the author is a Harvard professor of government studies.

Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud

Part of the Forbes-to-Prison pipeline:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

Which part, the CFAA claim?

It also really united Americans in the 1950s, the 1860s, and (if you will grant me a bit of liberty with the historical record) every damn time it was used other than WW2.

There‘s also the famously successful A-TEAM program for an example of non-military govt service. Look it up.

We all, of course, fondly recall how compulsory service united the country from 1969-73.

It’s the sort of thing that Dave Winer or Douglas Copeland would have written in 1994.