People over on the invite-only beta of Bluesky (not sure how many users, but still a very small amount) are nice, happy, and excited about how interesting and open it is. Like Mastodon, it's an early decentralized social network (not compatible with the fediverse and like, with only one instance so far).
Unlike Mastodon, it has much better UX, and people are very excited about getting to have good timeline algorithms that they themselves have control over. (I haven't done a scientific poll or anything, but my guess is most people online prefer algorithms to show them stuff they might miss vs. sequential timelines.)
Everyone agrees Twitter is terrible now, but there's definitely a lot of people who haven't made the jump to Mastodon. I think Bluesky might end up attracting a lot of the people who are turned off by Mastodon being way too confusing and unfamiliar.
This is a stupid argument. The law shouldn’t not apply to you because you were President. If anything, prosecutors should investigate powerful people like Presidents and billionaires more frequently, and ordinary people less frequently, simply because powerful people have ample opportunities to abuse their power.
“But at least one thing seems clear: Mr. Bragg may have been the first local prosecutor to do it, but he will probably not be the last. Every local prosecutor in the country will now feel that he or she has free rein to criminally investigate and prosecute presidents after they leave office. Democrats currently cheering the charges against Mr. Trump may feel differently if — or when — a Democrat, perhaps even President Biden, ends up on the receiving end of a similar effort by any of the thousands of prosecutors elected to local office, eager to make a name for themselves by prosecuting a former president of the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/opinion/trump-prosecution-precedent.html
“A statute on the books in Florida makes it a crime to engage in libel. If Mr. Biden leaves office and criticizes Mr. Trump or another prominent Floridian in the state in writing, will he be vulnerable to prosecution?”
Clearly the problem here is not that Presidents can be hit with frivolous charges, it’s that anyone can
Omfg. An FBI agent testifying against Proud Boys in the seditious conspiracy Jan 6 trial accidentally sent a spreadsheet with "thousands of hidden rows" to the Proud Boys' lawyers, containing classified internal FBI messages about the investigation.
"As preparation for her testimony, Miller provided a spreadsheet of messages she’d sent through an internal FBI communications tool called Lync between Jan. 6, 2021, and Nov. 11, 2022 – the day before the trial was initially set to begin. The spreadsheet was sent to defense attorneys in November, but it wasn’t until the last week when attorney Nicholas Smith, representing Washington state Proud Boy leader Ethan Nordean, said he’d discovered thousands of hidden rows in the document. Those rows contained messages from other FBI agents to Miller and, in at least one case, an apparent reference to an agent accessing potentially privileged attorney-client communications involving another defendant, Zachary Rehl."
"By Thursday morning, prosecutors said the issue had become more complicated. During their review of the spreadsheet overnight they determined some or all of the thousands of newly discovered messages might not have gone through a classification review. And at least one, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballantine, appeared to relate to a “classified equity.”"
New dataset dropped: @ddosecrets is releasing 11.7GB from Oakland City Hall to journalists and researchers. The data is from a ransomware attack on the city.
"DDoSecrets reviewed some of the files and has confirmed officer disciplinary records including for supervisors that failed to intervene and report misconduct. We are also able to confirm the files include information on misconduct allegation against high-ranking police officers, and documents about internal affairs investigations."
@wesdym I don’t know of any other source for their video. I actually don’t use Twitter myself anymore since Elon Musk suspended me for doing journalism
Minnesota State Senator John Jasinski arguing against marijuana legalization:
"The police dog discussion and all that. What's it gonna cost the local law enforcement agencies who've done these dogs-- who've spent thousands and thousand of dollars on these dogs to get these dogs drug trained. And now they're gonna have to be retired?"
Investigative journalist, security engineer, and open source dev. Director of information security at The Intercept. Writing a book about researching hacked and leaked datasets. Maintains way too many coding projects. Elon Musk banned me from twitter for doing journalism.