I went door to door to get out the vote for the Democratic Party this afternoon. I did 15 out of 47 houses in the neighborhood. I would have done more but I got into conversations with the neighbors. We have many Harris/Walz signs in front yards.
Antitrust is having a moment.
People understand that corporate looters – not “the economy” or “the forces of history” – are the reason that the businesses where they worked and shopped were destroyed by private equity goons who amassed intergenerational, dynastic fortunes by strip-mining the real economy and leaving behind rubble.
— Lina Khan’s future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops. “Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home – but that’s a dangerous risk.”
No matter what, teaching people they can add their IDs to their phones means some people will inevitably leave the house without physical ID, and that means creating the opportunity for cops to demand phones — which you should never, ever do. Technical details of your digital ID aside, handing your phone to a police officer grants law enforcement a lot of power over some of your most intimate personal data.
Jamie Zawinski: Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released 30 years ago today:
According to my notes, it went live shortly after midnight on Oct 13, 1994. We sat in the conference room in the dark and listened to different sound effects fired for each different platform that was downloaded. At some point late that night I wandered off and wrote the first version of the page that loaded when you pressed the “What’s Cool” button in the toolbar. (A couple days later, Jim Clark would go ballistic in a company-wide email because I had included a link to Bianca’s Smut Shack.)
What’s the best news portal? Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, MSN Start, something else?
Rereading replies on Bluesky I now see that I was wrong to compare Florida’s extremist religious government to the Taliban, because it implies that what Florida is doing is un-American, rather than an official action by the third most populous state in the nation.
I’m being called a fuckhead on BlueSky for comparing Florida’s forced-birth extremists to the Taliban.
Apparently, this is offensive to the Taliban.
I’m OK with that.
Harris faces new urgency to explain how her potential presidency would be different from Biden’s.
Bullshit. “Urgency” from whom?
This is an issue for the journalists in the Washington press corps who have been locked in a room smelling each other’s farts for 25 years.
For the rest of us, the choice is clear: One choice is someone who we can hope will be a transformative President — a Roosevelt or Lincoln — someone who can lead the rebirth of a declining nation.
Probably not.
She’ll probably govern as a conventional politician and avoid burning down the house for another four to eight years, at which time we get to do it again.
The other choice is a violent psychopath who smears poop in his hair, along with his couch-fucking sidekick.
So yeah nobody gives a shit if Harris is different from Biden.
Florida’s Taliban government is threatening to criminally prosecute TV stations that air an ad advocating repeal of the state’s fanatical abortion ban. Republican claims to support free speech and Constitutional originalism are cynical lies and always have been.