electronwill
Digital nomad from the US, in Costa Rica.
- This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online
- A high school freshman takes transphobic Maine politicians to task for bullying the trans girl who beat her in a race. Kudos to you, Anelise Feldman.
- The man tapped to run DOJ's new "Weaponization Working Group," Edward Martin, disclosed this week that he is himself being investigated by the bar, apparently over allegations that he misused his role as U.S. Attorney to intimidate his political foes. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Just watched an opposing counsel, who lost the SLAPP motion I filed, appear on his client’s instagram video, with her whining about the ruling and what a victim she is, and him making stupid comments about the ruling. Freakishly unprofessional. And perhaps . . . useful.
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- If you’re a hack for whom intellectual honesty and consistency are alien concepts, life is just full of these little puzzles.
- Oh, sweet merciful fire, two notes: (1) Even Latham & Watkins, ya'll. (2) The lawyer defending an AI company for using stolen IP to train their AI/LLM used the company's AI/LLM to cite check her brief, which hallucinated results. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
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- Attorney General Pam Bondi sold $1 million to $5 million worth of shares in President Trump’s media company last month on the same day that he announced expansive tariffs that led to a stock market rout, according to disclosure filings.
- Speaker Johnson, it's Police Week. Why won't you hang this plaque honoring Capitol Police?
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- Coinbase announces it's joining the S&P 500 and then announces a serious data breach two days later. oof.
- Update: Grok has been patched and no longer responds to inquiries with non-sequiturs about white genocide, instead returning customary and apt responses that are on topic and elaborate on how children are ungrateful and the penis-enlargement industry has been corrupted by Jews
- Tomorrow on Substack: Matthew Yglesias explains that the word “Groceries” is weird to normal moderates, actually, and that’s why Democrats aren’t winning
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- Universities seem unable to absorb the reality that if they did nothing about these graduation speeches, the story would disappear like a fart in a windstorm and instead they make it a headline for a couple of weeks and turn the student’s name into a hashtag.
- The acting head of ICE couldn't believe that I would question his agency's use of masked, unidentified agents to sweep up student immigrants during *police week*. Have I no sense of patriotism???? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Here's the original article, by the way, gift linked. wapo.st/3Feat8F
- Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry
- A literal miracle - saving this beautiful baby's life with a miraculous procedure built on decades of federal investments in scientific research. Think of how many more we could save. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
- Randomly wandered into a bookstore in Hamilton and purchased a used copy of China Miéville's "The City & The City"... at the cash the shopkeeper says, "great choice, we liked this book so much we named our store after it!" Sure enough, the shop is The City & The City Books. A glitch in the matrix?
- This. Even though Trump's illegal EO is prospective only, if the constitutional principle is compromised what keeps them from applying it to everyone? Were your grandparents undocumented? Ok, your parents aren't citizens, so they must be undocumented too. Surprise, you're stateless, here's ICE!
- apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
- JFC - the people sending the pizzas are not just telling judges they know where they live. They are using the name of a a family member of a Judge who was murdered.
- Can we get one fucking normal thing like a teeny tiny normal fucking thing www.cbsnews.com/news/pizza-d...
- Highly recommended thread. Just wanna say something about originalism right quick. There is no plausible originalist argument for anything that the SG said today. None whatsoever.
- Another case of AI being more of a nefarious management excuse for evil people than useful personal technology: Get used to "Oh that drone strike? The AI told me to. But me? I had nothing to do with that."
- Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
- I am unimpressed by NYU’s performative yawp. The student’s statement was brief and restrained. There is a long history of such statements in graduation speeches. The matter spoken of is historic and catastrophic. The crowd’s response was largely positive. /1
- /2 The proposition that American government and institutions should unite to use official power to punish and suppress criticism of Israel is unacceptable. It should be fought by law, by defiance, and eventually if necessary by force. Free people cannot be prevented from speaking about wrong.
- /3 The student in question was clearly terrified. But he did it anyway. “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...
- the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person
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View full threadthat kid has more backbone in one of his vertebrae than the entire slithering, cringing serpentine chain of administration from every single nyc university combined
- if i were a kid about to pick a university right now i might just save my fucking money instead of going into lifelong debt for a bunch of sniveling shits who couldn't even be trusted to have my back and might in fact be the ones calling the jackboots to drag me away. doesn't seem worth it, man
- groveling collaborative fucks at nyu behaving exactly as expected
- It’s genuinely embarrassing that people keep falling for these “AI explains the hidden secrets of its programming” posts. Grok is not sentient, it cannot explain what it’s doing and why.
- “A lot more money for me,” said a dentist friend of mine.
- U.S. health regulators announced an effort Tuesday to phase out ingestible fluoride supplements sometimes used to strengthen children’s teeth, opening a new front in Health Secretary Kennedy Jr.’s effort against a mainstay of dental care. apnews.com/article/fluo...
- they’re withholding this student’s diploma for acknowledging genocide. wild how every higher ed institution I’ve ever engaged with is policing thought crimes among its students
- This white genocide debacle highlights another reason to be extremely cautious of AI that I don't see people talking about much--if you're getting your information from AI, your knowledge will be selectively curated by the people who control the AI
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- The TX legislature is coming after books. HB 1375 lets anyone sue bookshops for damages if their minor accessed content they deemed “harmful.” It's a bad bill & will have a chilling effect on your 1st Amendment rights. Tell your rep to vote NO on HB 1375. Find your rep: wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home
- KOSA is being reintroduced today. It's always been a dangerous censorship bill. But in this environment, with Trump weaponizing every aspect of the Federal government to suppress speech he doesn't like, KOSA is a catastrophic attack on human rights. We have to stop it. StopKOSA.com
- Just important to note: if Trump pardons Chauvin, he will be picked up from Federal prison by Minnesota law enforcement who will escort him to a Minnesota prison to serve the rest of his 22-1/2 yr state conviction that Trump cannot touch. That’s not, tho, to say that a pardon here is irrelevant.
- Trump’s message, over and over, is that the police should face absolutely no accountability for acts of brutal violence. State convictions keep pardons at bay, but they cannot block the political costs of such brutal, inhumane, monstrous rhetoric
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- The significance of this, of course, is that the administration claims it is deporting people to fight anti-Semitism but they are letting this bigoted turd in.
- Tootsie rolls are also frequently offered to minors who do not want them and should not have them
- a just-filed lawsuit against Diddy compares his genitalia to, ahem... 'the length and girth of a large Tootsie Roll' www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
- To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Live such that your dick will never be described in court."
- i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
- This is the darndest story about Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, which is integrated into his X / Twitter social media platform. It strongly suggests that Musk has tampered with the chatbot so as to promote a political theme he's known to care about personally. (He's from South Africa.) /1
- i remember white south africans being stupid and evil but maybe that’s just the mandela effect
