Oh, look at this. The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud.
However, Donald Trump was not charged. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-organization-verdict-taxes-1.6676368
We aren't imagining it. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-down-notifications-breaking-elon-musk-layoffs-1849856992
so, planning on spinning up an instance for small businesses in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It'll be paid, like Cloud Island, and use the Cloud Island tech stack, and use a subscribed blocklist.
I'll be admin and moderator of this instance.
Are you/your company interested in being on this instance? DM me if you are, or email me at aurynn@eiara.nz.
Boosting this would be helpful.
The vote to shockingly add age verification to Bill C-11:
In Favour: Housakos, Clement, Cormier, Manning, Miville-Duchêne, Plett, Quinn
Against: Dawson, Gold, Simons, Wallin, Woo
Abstention: Klyne, Omidvar
https://twitter.com/mgeist/status/1600219002181062657
RT @mgeist@twitter.com
From Bad to Worse: Senate Committee Adds Age Verification Requirement for Online Undertakings to Bill C-11
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/12/from-bad-to-worse-senate-committee-adds-age-verification-requirement-for-online-undertakings-to-bill-c-11/
The chairman of the Jan. 6th Committee just announced that the Committee *will* make criminal referrals to the DOJ containing evidence that specific people, “possibly including former President Donald Trump,” committed federal crimes in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-06/jan-6-house-committee-has-decided-to-recommend-doj-prosecutions
Entering the US public domain in 2023: Fritz Lang's silent film science-fiction classic *Metropolis*.
More info behind window 6 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/ #PDin2023 #film #metropolis
Twitter is NOT the public square.
It literally exists on a server farm owned by Elon.
If he wants, he can literally pull the plug on Twitter.
No one should base their online life on that thing. Or anything owned by Meta, for that matter.
I've said this previously in a reply, but it deserves its own thread 🧵
In just two days, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that has the potential to upend American democracy by giving unprecedented power to state legislatures.
If you care about democracy, you need to pay attention to Moore v. Harper.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/moore-v-harper-a-dangerous-theory-has-its-day-in-court/
@gme Yes. It would. Those of us who spend our time working on these issues DON'T HAVE THE TIME OR RESOURCES to fight this in court, but will need to anyway, leaving other shit to fall through the cracks.
And the idea that there will be a prelim injunction is... not definite.
🚨NEW: Texas Secretary of State John Scott (R) announces that he is resigning at the end of the year. Involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Scott would have faced confirmation by the Texas Senate next year to continue in the post.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/texas-secretary-of-state-announces-resignation/
So it appears that Congress may have decided to include the incredibly dangerous JCPA in the must pass NDAA today. The JCPA is effectively a "link tax" that will force internet companies to pay cash to private equity firms who are buying up newspapers and firing most of the staff.
It's a horrible bill for so many reasons. Even the Copyright Office says it's not useful or needed.
@michaelcoyote calling senators/reps and telling them this is a bad idea...
I remain terrified of long covid & don't understand why it's not talked about more. Virtually every American has gotten covid by now, which means 1 in 5 Americans will deal with LC. That's a lot of long-term disabled & semi-disabled people!
Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
Akkoma: @ML2