Notices by Artemesia (artemesia@techhub.social)

@GottaLaff @emptywheel

I don't know what Kinzinger is smoking or whether something got garbled in transcription, but state legislatures have zero role in certifying elections. That is done by the governor, as was made law in 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022#State_procedures

@GottaLaff

Text article for those who hate getting news via video. Also, a reminder to folks that paying off Stormy wasn't and isn't illegal. Mangolini got convicted for the way he attempted to cover up the payment, committing bookkeeping fraud. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-legal-team-tried-keep-stormy-daniels-quiet-yes-rcna175887

@cstross

...but enough about the Tories.

@GossiTheDog

You might want to read the filing. The second last page is the request for relief, which very much requests damages for economic harm, trebled where law permits, plus interest.

@GossiTheDog

Their case isn't frivolous. A lot of states have anti-boycott laws (fuck you very much, AIPAC). Decide on your own not to do business with an asshole, fine. Collude with others to make sure none of you do business with the asshole, not so fine. And they judge-shopped themselves Reed O'Connor, who is a favorite of right wing causes. This suit will not be throwm out.

Oh, and Musk isn't pursueing advertising, he's looking for damages (cash).

@GossiTheDog

More Cyber Jar-Jar

@CloudyMrs

Understood. I have not been there, though I'd like to. If it works out for me, I will lose the "The" nomenclature.

@CloudyMrs

Do the orkneys.

@ATLeagle @LiberalEd @GottaLaff

You have no clue what issues Judge Merchan is balancing, and no desire to know.

Mope off. Muted.

@ATLeagle @LiberalEd @GottaLaff

Um, no, I don't agree with that at all and don't see how that follows from a judge being reluctant (though not completely unwilling as he said) to jail an unconvicted former president and nominee for future president. If you're trying to get your mope on, kindly do it at someone else.

@LiberalEd @GottaLaff

He has been sanctioned, just not for this behavior. But prior BS behavior no doubt contributed to the judge's willingness to sanction. The difficulty is there's no punishment between a 1000 dollar fine and incarceration, and the judge really does not want to jail a former and nominally future president.

@br00t4c

> Calling Biden “high as a kite,” Trump insisted to radio host Hugh Hewitt that a drug test be conducted.

Remember, with these guys every accusation is a confession. Just what do you think mangolini was on in the 2020 debates?

@Twitter_expat @Gargron @potus

...except he is not on the fediverse. He's on threads.net, which is a walled garden you can't interact with, and the content the president's PR flacks will post there is hardly unique. I mean, I could set up a script that reposts the whitehiuse.gov RSS feed to mastodon with a #potus tag. Would that mean the president is "on" mastodon?

@anildash

No, I don't, and I don't regard walled gardens as any kind of open web. Do you?

The president's threads posts being copied to the fediverse is just effectively an RSS feed. You want a real milestone for the fediverse? How about the white house sets up their own mastodon instance, accounts available only to white house staff, like the BBC did.

@anildash

"a milestone for the open web"

You think threads.net is the open web? FFS the president can and does have press releases typed up and posted to a government web server that anyone can read and link to. That's posting to the open web.

@hildabast @PLOS

This might motivate pfizer and moderna to drop the US price of their vaccines from $130 back to $20, where they were still making good money.

For those in the US, free vaccine for those with no or inadequate insurance. Program runs through the end of 2024, and will go longer if Biden is re-elected. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html

@forteller

"Cafe Lock" is a thing for short term stops where you're mostly somewhat keeping an eye on your bike, but I would never use any lock that is vulnerable to a pair of diagonal cutters.

@Schnuckster Any particular thoughts on why it is so dead today? Is it driven mainly by corporate-affiliated accounts who are taking off the christmas-new years week?

@BethanyBlack

> who looked like someone had put a Fred Perry on a Wheetabix

I know whar wheetabix are, but I can't figure out the fred perry reference. Is the idea that someone dressed up a wheetabix in a fred perry outfit?

@dangillmor how does this not violate HIPAA?