writing a horror movie about a jewish exorcist whose catchphrase is “dybbuk stops here”
Lindsey Barrett
@lambarrett.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law | computer distruster | she/hers https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2556788
the devil’s advocacy bench remains overstaffed
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d agoLike clockwork.
Here's the thing--rather than replace Flock with the company that wants to put taser on drones, why don't we just spend all this money on addressing the root causes of crime and not just creating a massive surveillance theater stalking machine.
Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
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“Leonard Attorney Registration Fee,” which is also what chat gpt mumbles if you ask for its favorite philip roth character
kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 4w agoyour baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals
If you have ever seen Lucy and thought “I want a dog like that,” and if you’re more or less in the Philly area, please please please consider fostering or adopting this sweet boy, Whimsy! new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...
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rigorously maintaining my 'don't overthink phrasing' early draft policy
I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
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Wingnut welfare in academia. $8k to $12k for writing about vaccine injuries. Bonkers.
Thank you as always to Soccer Computer for making the cool thing not happen retroactively
feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process
Paresh Dave@peard33.bsky.social · last mo.OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Mamdani wants to make it easier for consumers to cancel gym memberships and magazine subscriptions…so, just like Trump’s authoritarian overreach.
Mediamorphis@mediamorphis.bsky.social · last mo.Lina Khan and Zohran Mamdani bring click-to-cancel to New York. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/n...
It's hard to see or write a story about chill -- about what *isn't* said -- so it's important to pay attention to the visible signs. The Administration can silence a lot of speech without directly "censoring" anything. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
Exclusive: ‘The View’ throttles back political candidate bookings following FCC inquiry
Since February, the ABC daytime talk show has cut its bookings of candidates for office.
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FTC issued a draft statement declaring that if LLM developers incorporate anti-discrimination objectives--even if required by state law--they may be "deceiving" consumers who expect only "accurate" output. You can comment here: www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2... www.ftc.gov/system/files...
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You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken
some computer princeling will swoop in with 3 zillion dollars to siphon this into his new favorite AI glop through some unholy maneuver the NIH’s lawyers swore was “insanely illegal” but somehow! happened anyway
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · last mo.Absolutely not. N.I.H. Announces World’s Largest Integrated Health Database www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/s...
I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.
I'm glad I'm going on vacation today and can take my mind on this stuff for a week. I didn't expect to be so angry after SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship. A 5-4 split is shameful. And the "academics" who fabricated history to try and justify stripping people of rights are charlatans.
thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last mo.Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreibwsxtosqddkiskx5oxonnai4ha7ygixfcqmnbsxb27z3q43jh4iu)
You go, NIST workers! NIST is my other favorite federal agency! The history of NIST (originally, the National Bureau of Standards) is crucial to know for the history of women in science.
NEH Union - AFGE L3403@nehafge3403.bsky.social · last mo.Welcome to the #AFGE family, NIST-EL! We're stronger together. #unionstrong #NEH #NIST #NSF #IMLS #NIFA #USFS #USGS #AFGE3403
breaking: SCOTUS holds 6-3 that Sauron can remove the Nazgûl at will, thereby restoring democratic accountability to Middle Earth
Textbooks should be updated to reflect the three official branches of the federal government: the nine-man council of wizard elders, the Federal Reserve, and a senile real estate developer with with unfettered rule over everything else.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS TRUMP'S FIRING OF FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION MEMBER
+1 to this. operationalizing dominant yet methodically stupid and morally insidious modes of reasoning is sometimes necessary as a persuasive stopgap. In all other situations, CLARIFY AND EMPHASIZE THAT IT IS NOT LEGITIMATE AND SUCKS
Nicholas Handler@nicholashandler.bsky.social · last mo.I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
The country owes a debt of gratitude towards both Becca and her FTC compatriot @bedoyausa.bsky.social, who fought the good fight. Alvaro had to drop his case, but Becca, with the help of her family, soldiered on. Alvaro is thriving, and Becca will as well.