Meta/Facebook and Google/Alphabet are very different from Twitter/X. The first two created parent companies under which their large brand names still exist, but are now managed along with their other properties (Instagram, Snapchat, Waymo, Deepmind, etc.) Musk, meanwhile, is trying to completely burn down the Twitter brand for some incomprehensible reason.

Why are you shifting this argument so far? I never claimed the guy had tourette’s, and I never said this guy shouldn’t be insitutionalized. This is a completely irrelevant example.

The point I’m making is that the “fire” is a classic example of speech that isn’t protected in the US, but with this ruling there’s no way to prove intent. So what if I sat down and continued watching the movie afterwards? I just got over the delusion. And someone with tourette’s would probably apologize, try to calm people down, or even avoid a theater altogether. I’m pretty sure that someone with a peanut allergy can’t sue a peanut farm if they go visit and sample the produce; if you know there’s an extra danger for you specifically in performing an activity then you are responsible.

Not to mention tourette’s could never cause targeted, violent, electronic-message based harassment either. This is a focused, intentional action.

Completely insane ruling. Wild that Kagan went across the aisle for this.

the First Amendment requires proofs of mental state

So I guess it’s basically impossible to convict anyone of anything involving speech? If I yell “fire” in a crowded theater, how can you prove I wasn’t having a delusion that there was a fire? Maybe there was an explosion in the movie and I was so immersed I thought it was real!

Dude had previous convictions and spent years doing this harassing, it’s not like this was an isolated mental break. Truly insane.

Their app WAS more user friendly. This whole thing is them buying Alien Blue, deciding it wasn’t monetized enough, and ruining it

you can think of them as different windows into a similar structure. They look different, they’ll assemble the data a bit different, and might even send slightly different forms–but they’re close enough that it’s all legible, all interpretable into their formats.

And kbin and lemmy have very similar formats! But it’s possible for mastodon (the twitter analogue) to interact with kbin and lemmy as well. Even though they present the data in a different way, with different sorting criteria for your feed, and different ideas on how subscribing to a community or a person works, at the end of the day the formats are very similar: a parent post with a bunch of comments.

and silo’d academia has only gotten 100x worse since then. i can’t even imagine how much progress has been lost thanks to greedy academic “journals” keeping anyone from reading their papers, stopping widespread peer review, and destroying scientists’ ability to assemble wide bodies of evidence

Completely insane that a judge could order that an entire family’s phones be so thoroughly monitored at all. Once upon a time it was a big deal to even get a wiretap.

dang whoever wrote this really needs a proofreader