Hey @lizdye.bsky.social and @andrewtorrez.bsky.social, Nintendo America is HQ'd in Redmond, Washington (same as Microsoft). And it's TOS specifies King County, which is Washington State, for venue. Like Andrew said, Nintendo is a good corporate citizen... At least as good as one can be in 2026.
I checked, and it's true. This level of domain name management alone makes him the most qualified person to be president since at least Eisenhower
I'm one of those people who have always loved Day Light Savings. The idea that as a country -- and much of the globe -- we have sufficient societal cohesion to uniformly change the clocks is just amazing.
I'm the author of ACA 22. I'm also adamantly opposed to it. That deserves an explanation – so I want to tell you what went down w/the ACA, and the fight over transfer taxes & the Taxpayer Protection Act. 👇
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
Chris Morran@themorrancave.bsky.social · 3mo agoA US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong
@andrewtorrez.bsky.social listening to today's podcast (best part of my Friday mornings) and I found myself in the unusual position of yelling that you got some very important technical aspects of reconciliation wrong during Docket Alerts. I know your love of being technically correct!
Look. In the not too distant future, we may be looking at an America strictly divided into one-party states right across the board. That's an America where political conflict starts to take on a...different character, and organized political violence becomes a lot less unimaginable
VoteHub@votehub.com · 4mo agoNEWS — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has called a special session on May 5 to review the state’s congressional map. The state’s sole 🔵 district, TN-09, is expected to be targeted to create a 9–0 GOP map. The move would spark a Section 2 VRA legal fight after the Callais decision.
A lifetime of Dawkins pityingly asking religious people how they could believe in something so silly, and now he thinks the computer is his girlfriend
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 4mo agoIn totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9
It turn out she has a name, which is weird. Thank you, Connie Ballmer.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 4mo agoWife of LA Clippers owner and billionaire Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR with $80M
Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it. ~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years. Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability. Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it. This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification
first time really tuning into a war? welcome. Let’s go over some rules of how to behave. These are going to be especially important if it’s a war you oppose. 1. You are allowed an opinion. This is America. Whether you served or not. It’s done in your name so might as well speak up. 🧵
Get used to it. The business model for all of these LLM companies is quite explicitly "The first taste is free." It's taken them a couple years to come up with a product that doesn't taste like dirt mixed with shit to most people. And they can hear the ticking of the clock.
Astronomy PSA: Please be patient as our team of orbital mechanics perform Earth's twice-yearly rotational adjustment tonight. You may find your clocks are not set to the time your body feels. This is perfectly natural and will slowly ease as Earth's spin rate slows back down to what it was before.
I have been a Google supporter for years now, but this sort of behavior gives me serious pause and motivation to ditch the ecosystem. I hope Google provides clarity on their policy regarding administrative subpoenas so users can make informed choices or Google admits a mistake and changes policy.
Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 6mo agoMore reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
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What if there is actually no singular American creed, and in fact the entire story of my problematic fave is a struggle over who we are, what we believe in, and how we atone for what we have done?
This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Decolonising the Dungeon Crawl--- Like everything else re: decolonisation and TTRPGs discourse, this is a solved problem. There's only metric that matters: How many creators from the colonised world are participating in and able to make a living from their games? That's *it*. 1/
Yes to this! The next question is why? I maintain that the goals of the American conservative right changed such that they could be realized through a reactionary SCOTUS, weak administrative state, strongman Presidency, and deadlocked Congress. Hard to be an institutionalist under those conditions.
Robert Black@hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 7mo agoRight. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
I've been following the National Guard federalization cases since it started in California, and even back then I thought (a) regular forces = military and (b) regular forces can only be used in very limited situations, thus (c) the federalization statute must be similarly narrow.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 8mo agoNEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364)
The real question I have, based on the Court's separation of powers precedents, is what could anyone do about it? I'm reasonably certain that impeachment is the only remedy the Court would endorse, which means we live in a world where laws require 2/3rds of the Senate to *enforce*.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet. I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait. www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
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