Notices by Ken White (popehat@mastodon.social)

I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/20/if-you-kill-two-people-in-a-car-crash-you-shouldnt-then-sue-their-relatives-for-emailing-your-university-about-what-you-did/

@mmasnick @mattblaze There it’s mostly tankies yelling and how could anyone get mad at them, they’re adorable

I don't post on here much any more, or monitor it much, so probably better to find me on Bluesky if you need me.

De gustibus etc. No platform is perfect. But I feel more comfortable there, and less like I'm likely to get screamed at for using Latin without a CW or something.

NOT NOW EARTHQUAKE WE ARE HAVING A HURRICANE WAIT YOUR GODDAMN TURN

[Pointing fiercely at wildfires, riots]: AND YOU! FUCK RIGHT OFF

On Serious Trouble, we’ve got Judge Chutkan and restrictions on Trump’s use of discovery, Twitter sanctioned for resisting a subpoena for Trump’s data, SBF jailed, Rudy Giuliani spelling and thinking badly, and rich little shits misbehaving. BUT we’re recording another episode today about Georgia!

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/this-episode-is-not-rico#comments

He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge
He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge
He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times
He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times

German word for mixed feelings when you create a satirical document but a whole bunch of people took it literally but they shouldn’t in part because there are several typos

“Go on," said Twitter. “How's it gonna be. We gonna get a little place."

"We'll have a cow," said Elon. "An' we'll have maybe a pig an' chickens . . . . an' down the flat we'll have a . . . . little piece alfalfa- "

"For the rabbits," Twitter shouted.

"For the rabbits," Elon repeated.

Here is how to distinguish Elon Musk’s new X.com from 1994 computer strategy gaming classic XCOM: one involves a brave struggle against freakish, hideous alien intelligence seeking to undermine world civilization with advanced technology and the other is a computer game

If a little voice ever says to you “what if you stopped being artificially polite and just told people on social media what you think, and mirroring their attitude and tone back to them, for a day?” you should drink until the voice goes away.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay

Good news! I can throw out the meds and ditch the therapy; my problem is bad character and weak self-discipline.

You can always look to a Kennedy for character advice.

Normalize saying “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on”

To all the people who took Elon Musk seriously as a free speech hero: I’m sorry everyone is being mean and saying bad things to you. That’s not kind or fair. I know it hurts. Fortunately I can help. I have this here handful of magic beans, and for a comparatively low and reasonable price, they /1

It is I, Kenny Raincloud, the disemboweler of hope, here to dash your recusal dreams.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/thats-not-how-recusal-works-thats

THIS ENTERTAINER I THOUGHT I LIKED FOR VAPID UNREFLECTIVE CULTURAL REASONS SAID SOMETHING POLITICAL AND BECAUSE I’M DIM AND INATTENTIVE AND NEVER NOTICED ANYTHING THEY SAID BEFORE I AM SHOCKED AND ALSO MAD SO I WILL BOYCOTT AND COMPLAIN

Should Jack Smith prosecute Donald Trump even if he’s likely to lose and even if it could have terrible consequences?

https://popehat.substack.com/p/jack-smith-donald-trump-and-the-kobayashi

Are you supposed to add text explaining irony and sarcasm here is that a effing thing

Do liberals understand that by enforcing the rule of law in the face of overt, confessed-to federal crimes, they are destroying norms we don’t care about and unleashing a retaliatory abuse of the system that we were planning to do if we felt like it anyway?

Jack boosting the lunatic RFK Jr. Is no surprise. Entrepreneurs, and particularly techbrahs, are vulnerable to the great-man-outsider narratives because they see it as resonating with their own stories. They’re suckers for all sorts of Kirkland-brand Ubermensch poseurs.