Leftist Lawyer

Life really began with #sobriety in 2005. But I like to say I'm a #grateful #alcoholic b/c I had some amazing experiences including #Crabber #Seiner in #Alaska and #WildlandFirefighter in #Montana where I grew up.

Got my B.A. in #ClinicalPsych after sobering up. Then M.S. #BioregionalPlanning. Now, small town rural #Attorney #Litigator with certs. in #WaterLaw #NatRescLaw & #EnvLaw.

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2026-03-13 20:10:43 CET

Anyone else taking perverse pleasure imagining the pain the 8 cylinder "big rig" petro-sexual set must be feeling right now???

2026-03-10 05:02:41 CET

If a terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil, who do you think will be responsible?

2026-02-08 19:50:02 CET

... the FUCK???
#uspol #epstein #trump
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/statement-jeffrey-epstein-death-day-before-b1270109.html

2026-02-06 06:45:44 CET

The printing press was invented in 1440 and freed humanity from intellectual enslavement.
500 years later #TV was invented and we obligingly refastened shackles.
They won’t come off again until we stop consuming the #billionaire priest’s #propaganda.
Here, on #mastodon, in the #fediverse, we begin the #revolution.

2026-01-26 19:23:25 CET

In Colorado, #ICE #brownshirts are leaving these cards in vehicles of people they’ve detained.
During Vietnam, American soldiers would often mark the bodies of Vietnamese they’d killed with the Ace of Spades
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/962/788/039/623/063/original/245f2a059a2e9b96.png

2026-01-26 06:05:54 CET

If #Trump & #StephenMiller attempt a full blown authoritarian takeover, how do you think the average U.S. citizen will respond???
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/25/america-feels-like-a-country-on-the-brink-of-an-authoritarian-takeover
#uspol

2026-01-18 17:59:25 CET

BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth #ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.
In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.
The man calmly asks the most basic, #LegallyProtected question: “Why am I being pulled over?”
They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him.
Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway.
An #agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.”
The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.”
Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it.
At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID.
This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified.
ICE’s own training materials explicitly state:
“Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.”
In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime.
And here’s the key legal issue:
Unless agents have:
• a valid arrest warrant, or
• probable cause that a specific crime has been committed
they cannot:
• use force
• break windows
• issue violent threats
• detain or arrest someone
#ProbableCause
means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions.
Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting:
“First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.”
The driver responds:
“Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?”
The agent replies:
“I don’t know. Hands up.”
Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands.
At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat.
Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?”
The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking.
The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men:
“How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?”
He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle.
This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse.
No probable cause.
No warrant.
No lawful basis for force.
And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents.
This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence.
So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?”
The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?
#uspol #Ripped
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/163/848/817/152/original/ca036f138bfe565c.mp4

2026-01-18 17:52:43 CET

BREAKING: #ICE agents have, once again, trampled the 4th Amendment… illegally breaking down a door and storming into another family home with assault rifles drawn, while children were inside, detaining 6 people, including a 12-year-old boy, without a warrant.
And it gets worse.
On Thursday, ICE raided a home in St. Paul, #Minnesota, telling residents this was part of a narcotics investigation… not #immigration. But neighbors are saying that’s BS.
A neighbor who had his outdoor camera rolling, says someone delivered a package to the house just minutes before the raid. According to the video, federal agents told the residents there were drugs inside, and if no one claimed the package, they’d take everyone in the house. Not suspicious at all…
And the agents also had no warrant…
After smashing the door, ICE claimed they had a search warrant, but never showed it… even after being asked to see it. They searched every room with rifles drawn, handcuffed all residents, including the 12-year-old boy, and paraded them down the street. Every adult had a valid work permit and state ID, but, agents only left a woman and her infant behind.
And here’s the kicker:
Even though ICE said this was about drugs, not immigration, they still took the 12-year-old boy, transporting him to an immigration center in San Antonio, Texas in less than 24 hours.
And, to make this all even more illegal… A warrant was dropped off THE NEXT DAY, claiming to be from a state court, but:
• It doesn’t match official Ramsey County #warrant formats
• Has no case number or file stamp
• No record of filing exists (though filing can sometimes be delayed)
So, the questions become:
Did ICE falsify a warrant after illegally entering the home? Did they plant drugs to justify this raid? And most importantly… what did #DHS do with a 12-year-old boy they weren’t supposed to touch?
This isn’t law enforcement. This is federal #kidnapping, #trafficking, intimidation, and #terror.
A government agency stormed a home, handcuffed children, and transported a minor across state lines… all without a real warrant at the time of the arrest, or any legal justification.
If this can happen to one family in broad daylight, it can happen to anyone.
The #Constitution, your rights, and your #children mean nothing to them.
#RippedFromX #uspol
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/137/521/314/908/original/a5dccea122c352f9.mp4

2026-01-16 16:02:36 CET

Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.
Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.
Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.
They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.
Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?
Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.
Good morning 😘

2026-01-02 17:02:34 CET

Hit it right on the head:
#uspol #trump #epstein
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/826/340/694/207/547/original/d540a7243572571b.png

2025-12-07 01:45:07 CET

This was just too good not to migrate it from #lemmy
h/t: https://lemmy.today/u/[email protected]
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2025-11-10 00:58:20 CET

Just emailed the #NYT tip line to let them know #MayorMamdani and I were close during our formative years and that I have dirt on him.
We weren't. And, I don't.
But, I don't envy the diatribe that reporter is going to get if they make the mistake of reaching out to me.
You can do the same. Let's all #RatfuckTheTimes.
Here's the link to the tip line:
https://www.nytimes.com/tips

2025-07-11 04:53:57 CEST

Kill it with fire.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/832/331/577/434/899/original/173d2272e88ae4b7.png

2025-07-05 22:27:36 CEST

For all those searching for moral and ethical clarity in what seems a nation gone mad — I may have good news.
Hang with me for a little 🧵 thread about how, for reasons we may never understand, the #BabyBoomers and the late #SilentGeneration are criminally inclined to an abnormal degree.
First, this article from the Atlantic titled “AMERICA’S INCARCERATION RATE IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF A CLIFF.”
Here’s a non-paywalled link from Archive Today: https://archive.ph/mi5Wn
/1

2025-07-05 20:48:29 CEST

You ever open up a map app and scroll around rural China?
You’ll find some interesting things.
Like this, pictured below.
Any experts want to take a stab at what on earth this could possibly be?
Look at the scale compared to surrounding buildings. Interesting ...
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/802/108/801/095/547/original/ef338c862ea0f1fc.png

2025-07-04 06:24:31 CEST

People don't trust the people who run AI.
But they trust AI.
What in the ever loving fuck is wrong with "people."

2025-07-02 16:57:01 CEST

#USA_irl
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/784/211/605/692/889/original/dbf2a4f1cb11e64e.png

2025-06-27 05:10:25 CEST

Nailed it.
#Mamdani #DNC #VoteBlueNoMatterFuckYou
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/753/123/980/635/571/original/ec1e90519a0da644.png

2025-06-11 15:46:56 CEST

This needs to be read far and wide:
https://www.americasundoing.com/p/how-do-you-measure-corporate-power

2025-05-05 01:08:19 CEST

Every #AI image generated makes the world an objectively shittier place.
Assholes.

2025-03-27 01:35:03 CET

“Surveys confirm that for many workers, #AI tools like #ChatGPT reduce their productivity by increasing the volume of content and steps needed to complete a given task, and by frequently introducing errors that have to be checked and corrected.”
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/

2025-03-16 03:32:29 CET

“It was libertarian thought taken to its most extreme conclusion: a society governed not by political equality, but by property rights alone.”
**Read, a society ruled by billionaires alone.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america

2025-03-15 14:48:50 CET

I #identify as #poor
My #pronouns are:
hepoor
&
himpoor
#ClassWar #ClassWarfareUSA

2025-03-15 04:41:01 CET

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Yup. I agree with that. He’s a little short on predicting the synthesis though.
But it’s obvious.
Their new thesis is a world governed by neonaziliberalist technocratic elite.
The new antithesis is an economics of sustainability that embraces degrowth.
The synthesis is the human evolution of a 4th land ethic as predicted by Aldo Leopold.
#uspol

2025-03-13 17:31:29 CET

Umm ... really cool!
#feditips #fediverse #fedi #mastodon #Kagi
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/156/067/807/663/082/original/fae82219275f7723.png

2025-03-10 23:13:04 CET

What's the vibe in your hood these days @npub147e…wlu0 ???
I started this group a couple years back now. If you're a #leftist in a red U.S. state, come join the fun. All you have to do is follow and you'll be notified when someone posts using the @ above.
I think we all have plenty in common to talk about.
And remember, it's your guppe, not mine.
#RedStateInsurgents #uspol

2025-03-10 15:58:32 CET

This is you.
This is you rejecting #CorporateRule.
Keep it up.
Destroy them.
#uspol #ClassWarUSA #NoWarButClassWar
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/138/711/799/525/110/original/c07f07781383d173.png

2025-03-10 03:31:37 CET

@npub12vy…wnly on the egg mess.
TLDR?
Takeaway — the avian flu is not responsible for increased prices.
Once again, the culprit is corporate #monopoly.
The avian flu is just an excuse.
When industry gets monopolized, the monopolizers will seize upon any excuse to jack prices through the roof.
From the article:
** Cal-Maine Foods — the largest egg producer and the only one that publishes its financial data as a publicly traded company — has been making more money than ever. It’s annual gross profits in the past three years have floated between 3 and 6 times what it used to earn before the avian flu epidemic started — breaking $1 billion for the first time in the company’s history. All of this extra profit is coming from higher selling prices, which have been earning Cal-Maine unprecedented 50-170 percent margins over farm production costs per dozen. Taking Cal-Maine as the “bellwether” for the industry’s largest firms — as people in the egg business do — we can be pretty confident that the other large egg producers are also raking in profits off the relatively small dip in egg production.**
Post covid inflation??? Yeah, it’s 99% price gouging.

2025-03-09 02:04:49 CET

It occurs to me that, right now, is probably the best time to find #fedi instances that aren’t located in the #4thReich.

2025-03-08 19:21:36 CET

Must read:
“Drones are killing more civilians than shells are killing soldiers. This is industrial-scale murder.”
https://onlys.ky/the-future-of-murder-2/

2025-03-08 01:21:41 CET

Just love how everyone has a personal use case for #AI that absolves them of any personal responsibility for the aggregate damage done by AI.
#Assholes

2025-03-07 14:57:01 CET

So, I’ve pretty much started calling all #AI users eco-terrorists.
I’m not wrong.
When you see AI, say something about AI.

2025-03-01 16:23:46 CET

To those wondering when the #Democrat pushback will come, it won't.
Their strategy is "we told you so."
The sad thing is it will likely work.
I predict Trump will lose his #House and #Senate majorities after the #midterms ... then they'll successfully impeach him.
Then we'll go back to "fascist lite" business as usual #WallStreet boot licking.
The way to prevent business as usual is to PRIMARY the incumbent democrats.
That is what made the #TeaParty so wildly effective in shifting this country to the so hard to the right.
Primary the business as usual democrats. Take. Them. Out.
#uspol

2025-02-28 15:31:26 CET

24 hour economic blackout everyone.
This is practice for the real events to come.
Keep your wallet in your pants today.
#uspol

2025-02-28 14:37:01 CET

Personally, my family is tightening the belt.
Reigning it in.
No nonessential spending.
Zero.
Gonna not party like it's 1929.

2025-02-19 15:08:06 CET

Witness:
Exhibit 1: The genocidal territorial expansion and settlement of the American west.
Exhibit 2: Zionism
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/030/938/851/240/351/original/0995adab285c6365.png

2025-02-14 04:25:53 CET

#MemeAtMe #uspol
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/000/097/004/138/042/original/0c7733860bfd5c45.png

2025-02-06 17:04:54 CET

#Liberals thinking they’re #leftists and #nazis thinking they’re #conservative.
This is #uspol

2025-01-22 05:48:00 CET

So, groups over on #Lemmy are now taking to actively banning #Xitter content because it offends #nazi and/or #fascist content rules. Screenshot below.
What say you @npub1f3w…hvaq team?
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/870/177/879/762/211/original/da8934ab0c117631.png

2025-01-21 16:39:04 CET

#Capitalism would not exist without blind adherence to, at least, three fictions:
1. Legal Fiction: Ownership. Do we *really* own things? Or, are we just tenants as we pass through?
2. Political Fiction: Perfect competition. Capitalism can only perform as expected when monopoly is nonexistent. We ALL know this is never, ever, the case.
3. Scientific Fiction: Infinite Growth. Physics demands finite systems have finite thresholds. We act as if the earth is a perpetual cornucopia machine for the sole purpose of generating #YachtMoney.
We all know these points are axiomatic. And yet we continue to live the fictions.
It’s time we began living in reality.
#uspol #Economics

2025-01-17 17:46:28 CET

Cool.
Spike the punch.
#AI
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

2024-12-24 18:25:13 CET

This is a must read from @npub149r…7zya
Elon will hurt you more than Putin. His drive to kill medicare might actually kill you. Will Putin and Xi do that?
Who is your real enemy?
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-game-theory-of-giving-up-private-justice-or-ending-the-state-monopoly-on-violence/

2024-12-06 15:34:27 CET

“Delay, Deny, Defend” by Jay Feinman
Open source .pdf
This is obligatory reading.
#DenyDefendDepose
https://pdfupload.io/docs/0d380e9b

2024-11-24 05:48:10 CET

Any one planning on hitting the #CrackFriday sales?
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/536/105/645/916/827/original/c253a358c6a722d7.jpg

2024-09-14 07:06:19 CEST

What is the only living thing, scientifically verifiable, that humans can’t kill no matter how hard we try?
#Earth
I suggest you make that your #God.
And pray hard for forgiveness.

2024-09-14 05:30:22 CEST

Fuuuuuuck …
I don’t want to believe this, but I know deep in my bones it’s correct.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer (murdered in prison by nazi’s)
So, how do we combat it? I suggest a firm understanding of Plato’s cave allegory. I was blown back by this article: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/platos-cave-and-the-stubborn-persistence-of-ignorance/
H/T to @npub1u7r…q0sq for the Bonhoeffer quote. I’ll link to that below in the comments.

2024-09-13 06:16:41 CEST

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https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/

2024-09-11 20:49:29 CEST

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Oh shit I def prioritize experience.

2024-09-11 02:02:40 CEST

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I already admitted I agreed with you upthread vex. Not defending it. Just sorting through the reality.
But, I can readily turn the tables and ask: where are you going with this? Identifying problems and posing solutions are two different things. I’ve never seen an anarchist argument that confronts it. It just breaks it down into smaller parts.
Did native American’s (the closest thing I’ve ever seen to anarchism systems in reality) use coercive control to maintain order? Can you name one society that hasn’t employed measures of coercive control?

2024-09-10 23:38:18 CEST

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Not disagreeing. But, I will say law is a massive field. I'd say the argument applies strongly to, let's say, prosecutors. But, weakly to issues such as family law.
Perhaps, the argument's best utility is to serve as a knife to cut law apart and see in what amount coercive power applies along a legal spectrum.

2024-09-10 22:02:43 CEST

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I think it would be cool if everyone weighed in with their favorite environmental protest songs.
Thanks for the #JohnPrine suggestion @npub1ue2…9hv4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEy6EuZp9IY

2024-09-10 21:58:20 CEST

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Oh yes. Saw it live. John is right up there with Neil in my list of legends.

2024-09-10 21:50:18 CEST

“Look at #MotherNature on the run in the #1970’s. We’ve got Mother Nature on the run in the 1970’s.”
This song has always haunted me. He foretold this Gen X’ers fate before I was old enough to understand it. It’s brought me to tears more than once.
I’ve been chasing Mother Nature as she recedes further into the distance my entire life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuI-ZV92sU4

2024-09-10 19:59:52 CEST

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But, in theory anyway, a "law" is the product of a democratic process in which the public assents to the use of violence to maintain order.

2024-09-10 16:27:02 CEST

The existence of #conservative #lawyers will always baffle me.
Why, you ask?
Please allow me a bit to explain.
As foundation, there’s a lot of research out there demonstrating that conservatives, on average, are less cognitively complex than #liberals (now do studies on libs v. #Leftists).
It’s a #tribal thing that we’re all naturally born with. We are hardwired, through heuristic mental adaptations, to see the world in black and white terms.
Education and certain experiences teach us that the world really doesn’t work that way. It’s complex. It’s ambiguous. It’s a million shades of gray.
You don’t necessarily get that though through a STEM education. There, most of the time, there really are right and wrong answers to problems — black vs. white.
The liberal arts, to which the study of law belongs, are a different story. Ambiguity thrives and there are no right or wrong answers … only probabilities based on factual context.
Many law students struggle mightily with this concept. You learn quickly in law that there are no right or wrong answers. The talent lies in being able to cogently analyze the strengths and weaknesses in fact patterns and generate probable outcomes.
So, I wrap all the way back around. Lawyers are trained and judged on their ability to resist black and white thinking and generate nuanced probable outcomes.
I practice with a conservative lawyer. And, it’s amazing to see him do his thing in the court room, and then take his tie off and immediately revert back to his default black and white political thinking.
I guess some people just become inured to cognitive dissonance.

2024-09-09 17:00:34 CEST

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We want Microsoft Recall 🤣
Oh, I'm fucking dying over here 🤢

2024-09-08 17:17:02 CEST

If we created a #ScientificRationalist party in the United States — what percentage of the electorate do you think would get on board?

2024-09-08 15:23:40 CEST

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Would you please explain why it’s shit to a toddler in terms the toddler can understand?
Or, are you speculating that it’s horse shit?

2024-09-08 04:02:41 CEST

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But, use one as a weapon and you get to the same place.
And, I’d love to read that link if you d it.

2024-09-08 03:52:54 CEST

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As mentioned up thread, we are a whisper away from something exactly like you describe set off a #KesslerEffect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

2024-09-08 01:24:55 CEST

This could be big.
Paging Dr. #SabineHossenfelder for a lay translation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927650524001130

2024-09-07 21:36:03 CEST

His goal?
#Blackmail
Every one of them has a kill switch only he has the keys to.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-satellites-starlink-spacex-b2606262.html

2024-09-07 21:23:25 CEST

Anyone know of #research into the correlation between hours spent watching #TV, and superfluous personal #spending.
My brief search revealed nothing.
But, there’s a PhD waiting for someone if they do it.

2024-09-07 20:34:15 CEST

Anyone happen to notice that the #Trump plan to #MAGA, is basically an inverse laundry list of things our constitutional founders thought would make #America great.
Things such as:
1. Separation of #Church and #State
2. #Freedom of Assembly
3. Pluralism — you know *E Pluribus Unum* (out of the many one) used to be our national motto until the #christofascists that Trump appeals to started chipping away and changed it to “In God We Trust” (if it’s a christian god).
4. Quartering of Soldiers on domestic land
5. Attempts to undermine due process, and
6. Arguably the 22nd amendment’s 2 term limitation as president.
Did I forget some?
MAGA … Make American Great for Authoritarians.

2024-09-05 05:51:13 CEST

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We’re watching in real time how every elite family is established.
Theft.

2024-09-04 21:50:18 CEST

#OpenAI is being sued on multiple fronts for #copyright infringement.
I don't know about you, but #lawyers around my neck of the woods call this an *admission.*
When you publicly *admit* the acts that form the basis of the cause of action (here copyright infringement) ... you typically lose.
Hey Sam ... you just lost. #Loser
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament

2024-09-03 20:23:26 CEST

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Of course it's poor. That's why I posted it. The WaPo is owned by the TechBro in chief ... Bezos. The entire article is posed so as to make the regulators look to like the boogie men ... rather than the real bad actors ... the TechBros.

2024-09-03 17:29:05 CEST

The corporations are the threat.
The internet is only a "threat" because the corporations enshittified it.
Yeah, looking at you ....Bezos. There's a story you'll never see in WaPo.
**“The pendulum has swung from public discourse being all about ‘internet as a tool for freedom’ to ‘internet as a threat,’” said Daphne Keller, director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center and a former Google lawyer.**
Revenge of the regulator my ass. Do your fucking jobs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/31/musk-durov-social-media-crackdown/