@duckduckgo.com filed an amicus brief yesterday in Google’s absurd appeal that it isn’t a monopoly. We explain how Google’s actions harmed not just competition but also undermined people’s ability to protect their privacy. spreadprivacy.com/google-appea... #antitrust
Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI
In August, DuckDuckGo filed an amicus brief agreeing that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Colorado Republicans Attack Jewish Gov Candidate With AI ‘Cartoon Devil Horns’ Graphic talkingpointsmemo.com/news/colorad...
Colorado Republicans Attack Jewish Gov Candidate With AI ‘Cartoon Devil Horns’ Graphic
Colorado Republicans are using an image showing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser...
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Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients
Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients
The 26-year-old man was fined £200 by Llandudno magistrates
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In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Politico@politico.com · 21h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
“Consumers are better off when search engines have to compete for users. That competition can mean better privacy and new ways to find information.” Read our statement from Legal Director @bergmayer.net: publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...
Public Knowledge Urges D.C. Circuit To Strengthen Google Search Remedies
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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A frequent topic of conversation in my family group is the decline in commercial jingles. I still hum ones from the 80s and 90s; they are clearly effective marketing. I feel it's a signifiant cultural loss
delicious garum defector.com/abandoned-fi...
Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two ...
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I got Nats.tv which is not even available through the MLB app (in DC MLB mysteriously only shows MASN for the Orioles) and even so I can't watch the Phillies feed.
Wherein John Kruk’s mind is blown by a Strawberry Hot Honey Chicken Cheesesteak
No results on ESPN+ if you search for "Women's Professional Baseball League" or "WPBL" instead of "Women's Pro Baseball League" -- great work
I think this thread is basically what I believed when I began covering the consumer system and while a lot of what Nathan is describing is factually correct as to the mechanisms by which the system itself works, I’ve eventually had to admit that a lot of people also do just love cheap bullshit
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 3d agoI think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference
when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"
Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2d agoI'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
credit to this lady for constructing the perfect Do Your Own Research sentence heated.world/p/the-influe...
The Phillies have acquired the Swinging Friar from the Padres to bolster the Phanatic, the Phanatic's mom, and the Galápagos Gang in their mascot lineup.
In 1965 the Beatles got busted for having girls in their hotel room in Minneapolis; I was amused to learn that the specific charge Paul could have been arrested on is “false hotel registration” — i.e. you are not allowed to have anyone in a hotel room not registered
corrupt cowards www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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re: Project Hail Mary, are two planets full of reddit type humor really worth saving
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d agosaw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...
I had a blast talking with Greg Sargent on the Daily Blast (see what I did there?) about ABC exposing and fighting back against Trump/FCC’s fairly open retaliatory targeting of ABC
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoAmazing: ABC's new challenge to Trump's corrupt use of FCC to censor the network cites TRUMP'S OWN TWEETS AND STATEMENTS as evidence that he fully intended to punish it for its reporting and viewpoints. On the pod, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains all this so well: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
I'd love to have a yacht-sized FTL spaceship and travel about meeting friendly cultures
