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intellectual property law vs. defamation law is a real rock and a hard place type problem

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Jennifer @jagbsn.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

I miss Periscope terribly and TikTok Live is a poor substitute, but I am currently watching guys play cricket in a Texas shopping center parking lot at 1AM local time.

They keep losing the ball, understandably.

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This is absolutely fascinating

“We are on the cusp of giving people a very visible piece of evidence that really upends the neat and tidy ways people think about big moments of cultural change,” Boin said “Cultural changes are never as big as we think they are when living through them, and there’s a lot of gray area in between people’s customs and the broader society and culture. And a lot of those can be left out of the story. So to have this temple potentially be a temple dedicated to Constantice’s divine ancestors as a way to worship the emperor in an increasingly Christian world at the time, it’s so weird and I love that we can bring it to light.”

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You should be making kombucha in a 5 gallon paint bucket as God intended.

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It’s worth noting that say Gorsuch’s project (completely disassemble the State) and Coney-Barrett’s (wield the State like a weapon) are diametrically opposed.

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Sure, but that quote as written puts human remains in the same category as like explosive bolt shards, which I suppose I get in terms of “impurity,” but is still…a lot.

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A long time ago I idly wondered “who were the indigenous population of the British Isles?” and answering that question is so maddening, it made me question the entire concept.

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We must return the land to its true indigenous heir: unfrozen caveman.

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You know, I specifically chose the Hapsburgs, NAFO and North Korea to cover the widest possible political spectrum (you could make an argument for the not-so-distance between the HRE and NATO/the EU, but still)

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That’s hilarious and I didn’t even consider it as an implication. (This trick also works for things that aren’t flags, like suits.)

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🚬🗿 @ekstasis.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

No joke, aside from my tone I guess, the steam from the shower “irons” out the sharp creases in flags that have been folded a long time and that you can often see on flags that people ordered from Amazon etc.

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Holy Roman imperial banner? Steam it. DPRK flag? Steam it. NATO flag with a doge on it? Steam it.

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🚬🗿 @ekstasis.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

ITT, actual unalloyed Idealism

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Andreas Gursky, Chicago, Board of Trade II (1999)

Several photos of pits at the CBOT stitched together.

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Just as an example, this was prompted by today’s mercifully incompetent school shooter posting a (beloved of the Columbine fandom) KMFDM song on TikTok this morning.

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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Business in the front, business in the back.

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Stamps, Arkansas Population: 1,465 Photos from Google Places API Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamps,_Arkan…

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🚬🗿 @ekstasis.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

“True, people help each other in catastrophes. But they don't feel good because they help each other. They help each other because they feel good.”

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I remember very distinctly, after Superstorm Sandy flooded and peeled the siding off the place I was living, laying in the dark listening to a battery radio and being so wound up that it transformed into just getting hard.

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Not to toot my own horn, because nothing I’ve ever written has done numbers, but genuinely I worry that the risk of centralizing a bunch of this otherwise scattered information outweighs any potential benefit.

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Putting this out into the world expressly so I don’t do it, but I’ve long been meaning to write up something about “mass shooter music,” because it’s absolutely fascinating, but almost certainly some kind of infohazard.

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“6 hours” and “+18 hours” are on one hand very similar and on the other hand not at all.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 04/01/2024

The only thing I can add is that 2. It was Felix and 2. The guy’s name was something like “Stonewall,” and he was an LA screenwriter type guy.

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The Biden administration awards $162M in federal grants to Arizona-based Microchip Technology to expand in Oregon and Colorado, the second CHIPS Act award (Ana Swanson/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than a functional welfare state.”

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There’s a great crossover here. volokh.com/2011/02/15/a...

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I don’t know enough about NYC generally or that project particularly, but I wonder if that’s because of something other than inherent difficulty, because (also anecdotally) my small city has been doing a bunch of both office and light-industrial conversions for years now without incident.

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I appreciate a balcony that exists solely to collect standing water and bird nests.

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The original sin of this place is so fucking stupid

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That’s right and, practically, it’s just a way to chastise workers for job-switching, which also doesn’t even make sense on their own terms, but is just a kind of raw power politics.

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Whatever else it is, it’s incredibly evocative.

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So you could pick a bunch of different starting points for a “lurch to the Right,” for my purposes it’s always the Contract for America, but ultimately it’s not a discrete thing, it’s a trend that’s baked into the nature of our politics.

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