Mike Masnick / is on Nostr

Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotpla...

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Last Notes

2024-10-22 20:24:51

Trying to read Taibbi's latest & it's putting me to sleep. It leads with a potentially incendiary claim and then never actually gets around to backing it up. It just wanders aimlessly, throwing out little bits of red meat without context in a manner designed to make people think there's a conspiracy

2024-10-22 20:04:01

So Jim Jordan and Mike Lee are accusing Lina Khan of Hatch Act violations, but noticeably don't seem concerned with the FCC's Brendan Carr literally writing a chapter of Project 2025 and writing WSJ opeds against Kamala Harris? judiciary.house.gov/media/press-...
Chairman Jordan and Ranking Me...

2024-10-02 06:13:35

Someone should give Josh Johnson his own TV show. Every time I see him, it's so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scpr...
Mark Robinson Can’t Stop Comme...

2024-07-17 23:03:42

Pocketcasts, which used to top out at 3x speed, has now enabled up to 4x speed and I am so excited.
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreieiwyyi7vonbdt34y67sdruxa2boqls2zey253powzre5jopxjmie

2024-06-10 23:52:44

Cool, cool, just the wife of a Supreme Court justice appearing to say she's going to sue the media for reporting on her.
Perhaps a Justice might want to explain to her how the First Amendment works?
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiaes445eolkgahf2nfjmnnizabw6cwqnr65cgkdcjeq4epv64xsxu

2024-05-22 00:52:00

*sigh* I just tried bridging my account from here to Mastodon using @ap.brid.gy, and now people over there are going on about how I'm supporting tech oligarchs like Jack Dorsey. I'm trying to not get fed up with the ActivityPub world & kneejerk nonsense, but sometimes they make it tough.

2024-05-21 21:51:27

Somehow I've never gone to XOXO even though I kept wanting to. And this is the last year it'll happen (after a long hiatus) and it looks like timing wise I probably can't go again. But... if you can go, please check it out. Always looked like an amazing event with great people.