I'm experimenting with https://honkasaurus.world which lets me use an identity on my own website without needing to host Mastodon myself. The hope is this way I don't have to move identities if want to switch my Mastodon host. Janky but promising so far!
Know what would destroy the Roberts Court faster than anything? A Judges' Revolt.
If I were a federal judge, I'd decline to honor any of the controversial Roberts Court decisions. I'd openly say, "that decision is not good law because the Court as currently constituted is corrupt and illegitimate, and to follow its decrees would be to violate my oath to the Constitution."
Impeach me. Do it. See if you can get the Senate votes. Otherwise, I'm appointed for life. Now imagine if dozens of federal judges, trial and appellate, did the same thing.
“The President, who exercises a limited power, may err without causing great mischief in the State. Congress may decide amiss without destroying the Union, because the electoral body in which Congress originates may cause it to retract its decision by changing its members. But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.” - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1831
As co-organizers of Local-First Conf 2024 in Berlin, Adam Wiggins (@adamwiggins) and Johannes Schickling (@schickling) reflect on the event and share their learnings.
🇬🇧 🚆🔧 #StopKillingTrains! Not only computer games but entire trains are being arbitrarily disabled by their manufacturers. EU Commissioner Breton now admits that EU law doesn‘t protect us.
I think it's fair that the European Commission is challenging Meta's "pay or okay" plan under the Digital Markets Act. But what I don't find so great is that the Commission is using DMA investigations to shroud lobby meetings with Meta under the mantle of market investigations. This means that, in effect, Big Tech meetings will be hidden under a cloak of secrecy as more and more of their business falls under DMA or DSA investigations. See this FOI refusal I recently got: https://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/metas_subscription_no_ads_plan
The NeXTlevel was NeXT Software's first handheld device, eagerly awaited but canned just two weeks from release when Apple purchased NeXT and chose not to pursue gaming. All 250,000 release devices were pulled from channels and unceremoniously rolled into landfill out northwest of Dubbo.