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My take on news, pop culture, sports, and whatever else interests me.

Facebook and Twitter seem less relevant by the day. They may be replaced by new “federated” platforms.

Defamation Is Having A Moment; But Beware The Influx Of Bad Cases by Mike Masnick

Defamation cases are having quite a moment. The threat of a likely loss in a big defamation suit resulted in Fox News settling for $787 million just as trial was set to begin in the Dominion case, And then, this week, we saw E. Jean Carroll win her defamation (and sexual abuse) lawsuit against Donald […]

It was once a political party, now it’s a nihilistic, corrupt, fake populist scam.

Trump calls his supporters to their worst selves.

Stiff competition.

In an unhinged town hall, Donald Trump repeated familiar lies and tested new talking points.

When CNN treated its event as a means of making news, it had already lost the battle.

#AudioEye Is Suing Me by Adrian Roselli

On Wednesday March 8, 2023, a man who turned out to be a process server came to my house and delivered a stack of papers — a 30 page lawsuit from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP along with Buffalo-area firm Phillips Lytle LLP, both representing AudioEye, Inc. The…

The network’s president made an indefensible decision in airing an episode of Trump’s ongoing reality show.

Twitter Launches Not-Actually-Encrypted Encrypted DMs by Mike Masnick

For many months now, Elon has been promising encrypted DMs. And, indeed, we’ve pointed out that he’s absolutely correct that this is an important feature, and one that social media services should offer. The fact that he’s brought it up a bunch and it seemed to be a priority was definitely a good thing, and […]

Kaitlan Collins and the network’s journalists tried their best. But the execs, from Chris Licht on down, brought total shame on themselves, journalism, and America.

Prevent focused elements from being obscured by sticky headers by James Edwards

Focused elements disappearing under sticky headers is a long-standing accessibility problem. Here's a solution.

Adaptive algorithms have been linked to terrorist attacks and beneficial social movements. Governing them requires new science on collective human–algorithm behaviour.

What CNN’s disastrous town hall showed us.

It’s not about delay. It’s about obstruction and destruction. by Teri Kanefield

Please excuse me while I have a mini-rant. Occasionally mainstream and social media commentators settle on a theory that projects their own reasoning onto Trump and his supporters. For example, at one time, the going theory was that Lindsay Graham was kissing Trump’s ring because Trump was blackmailing him. It was common for people to ask, …

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The Muslim Women Using Feminine Pronouns for Allah by Brett Krutzsch

The pronoun switch is helping women forge deeper religious connections

I’ve long used automation to auto-publish from my WordPress sites to Twitter. I used to work with Automattic as a sponsor for ages, and I’d talk up Jetpack, a WordPress plugin, that handled this social media automation nicely. The Jetpack Blog, 10 days ago: The End of Twitter Auto-Sharing We have attempted to work with Twitter […]