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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • More likely he was trying to protect himself here; he’s been willing to talk about all those other lawyers Trump had and their crazy plans that he totally didn’t agree with or push*. His story has been that he was just innocently helping prepare a contingency plan in case Trump won in the courts and was totally not planning a coup; now there are tweets where he’s saying, [Trump doesn’t need the courts; he can just do a coup].

    *It was amusing the way things went down in Georgia: He filed for separation to try to get away from the crazies and present himself as a responsible lawyer doing responsible lawyer things while the crazies were off doing crimes and he got it! Yay! But, hilariously, then the monkey’s paw curled and Sidney “the Krazy Kraken” Powell also got separation and their cases got joined.










  • So… “federation” without control? What’s the point?

    They stress that a difference between their federation and ActivityPub is that on ActivityPub “your “instance”, or server, determines your community, so your experience depends on which server you join” while for them “On Bluesky, your experience is based on what feeds and accounts you follow, and you can always participate in the global conversation (e.g. breaking news, viral posts, and algorithmic feeds).” and “Moderation on Bluesky is not tied to your server, like it is on Mastodon. Defederation, a way of addressing moderation issues in Mastodon by disconnecting servers, is not as relevant on Bluesky because there are other layers to the system.”

    The big difference is that I can’t choose an instance that blocks/does not interact with the servers loaded with Nazis, terrorists, and/or child abusers? Why the hell is it of such paramount importance to Jack Dorsey that the rest of us are forced to interact with Nazis?


  • Yeah; reading the article it would seem “arguably legal” is probably a lot more accurate than “perfectly legal”

    Now, there is a caveat in the EDA law. All weapons must be given away “as is, where is.” In other words, the U.S. government legally can’t pay for shipping.

    But another caveat is that any weapons in Germany are excluded from this rule. Biden could ship those DPICMs to Germany aboard a few sealift ships and then declare them as excess to need before having the U.S. Army drop them off somewhere the Ukrainian armed forces would have no trouble retrieving them.

    I mean, you can call this legal but when you’re paying to ship equipment you’ve clearly decided is excess before declaring it “excess” in an attempt to get around the clear intent of the law…

    Basically this comes down to: [The Executive Branch could use an arguably legal method to send to Ukraine 4 million 25 to 50 year old cluster shells that have been determined to be unreliable and unsafe]