Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire: SCOTUS Justice Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
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Island-hopping on a superyacht.

Private jet rides around the world.

The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court.

“It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #Ethics #Travel #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#WisconsinSupremeCourt https://captimes.com/news/government/janet-protasiewicz-wins-seat-on-wisconsin-supreme-court/article_dd370a12-a1ed-5866-8ba9-2b8afcc2034a.html

Now this is SEO.

Few journalists, even most of the great ones, are awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Even fewer can boast their award-winning reporting was the catalyst for bringing down a dictator. Lewis M. Simons is in that ultra-special category. https://newsguy.substack.com/p/to-tell-the-truth #journalism

I think everyone is sticking around mainly due to inertia, but I get so agitated by people whose stock in trade is still dunking on Elon on Twitter all day. At the end the day it only serves to prop Twitter up. The joke is absolutely and literally on you

Wander the streets of Mexico City, and you might stumble upon Xomatok's bold interventions. #trees

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/02/xomatok-manifestos-mexico-city/

The BBC doc wasn’t a one-off. Twitter will censor anything Modi doesn’t want India to see.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/twitter-blocked-pakistan-india-modi-musk-khalistan-gandhi.html

John Oliver tonight poked Disney with a stick... and announced even though Mickey Mouse isn't public domain until January 1, 2024, he's using Mickey Mouse now (and secretly has been already all season...)...

All it will take for #Mastodon to overtake #Twitter is for organizations like the White House, news organizations, and others, to spin up their own Mastodon instances for their own official communications and continue posting as usual. And the dedicated instance addresses will be a better method of validation than a blue check.

#tech #opinion

I really don’t know why you’d store your data in a cloud operated by Western Digital. But if you did, you’re in trouble. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/western-digital-discloses-network-breach-my-cloud-service-down/

@alaric

#Twitter

This is going really well for Elon..LOLLLLL

"Brilliant Genius" Rocket Man..

First he yells at them to print out their code for "review". Then yells at them to add the Elon Parameters. Then yells to open-source the code. Then yells to remove the embarrassing Elon Parameters. If only we as a civilization could harness this endless flow of Pure Loser Energy

The most fun part in all of this: explaining to the 9-year-old who porn stars are. Thank you, Family Values Party.

The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?

Elon Musk has given us someone to blame for the fact Twitter seems so terrible nowadays, but it’s far from being the only internet platform that seems terrible. Facebook is a mess. Young people tell me that Instagram has ruined itself in the quest to be like TikTok and that TikTok is a shadow of its former self.

I wouldn’t

https://timharford.com/2023/03/the-enshittification-of-apps-is-real-but-is-it-bad/

#UndercoverEconomist

ahhhhhhhhh I may have found the holy grail of collaborative google docs-like #rstats R Markdown / #QuartoPub editing with CoCalc (https://cocalc.com)!

Look! Two different users working on the same shared qmd file!

They have a paid hosted version + a self-hosted open source Docker image

My colleagues at #CBO in WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/29/more-federal-internships/

AI in a nutshell https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html

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