Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Publishers want to control public libraries, or outlaw them.

Here's how they demonstrated pure bad faith in a working group that is trying to accommodate a host of interests -- including readers and researchers.

https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/niso-cdl-statement

h/t @maria

Anyone who calls for Biden to drop out now but did not call for Trump to drop out when he was convicted of 34 felony counts is a quisling, a collaborator, and a traitor to America.

In days, the Supreme (Rulers) Court will issue a decision on whether presidents have immunity from crimes their commit in office. Here's my bet on the outcome:

They want right wing Republicans to have immunity, but not Democrats. So they'll kick it back to the lower courts, and then decide after the election based on their blatantly plain preferences. (Law? What's that?)

Big Journalism unsurprisingly botched the meaning of the Supreme Court's wiping out of the Chevron precedent. Two excellent small outlets -- @thenation and Talking Points Memo -- -- understood the staggering truth:

First, it's an unprecedented power grab by the court, taking authority away from the other two branches.

Second, it's designed to cripple regulation that makes our lives safer.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chevron-deference-supreme-court-power-grab/

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-chevron-overrule-agency

I would be much more comfortable with the Times' obvious anti-Biden stance if the organization would simply come out of the closet and acknowledge what it is doing: transmitting a world view through its journalism.

It is possible -- indeed IMO essential -- for journalists to be activists on some issues.

I wish the Times' activism would be directed toward saving democracy, and by extension freedom of speech.

That's not what the org is doing, which is the most disheartening part of this.

worldbuilding a dystopian future where Earth is divided into six numbered regions, and seeing how long it takes people to realize they’re DVD regions

Seems inescapable now -- in the wake of the New York Times' campaign, on both the editorial and news pages, to discredit Biden in every way -- that the institution has abandoned even the pretense of honest journalism.

Yes, Biden stunk up the joint in Atlanta, and his performance raised some legitimate questions.

But the Times continues to relentlessly normalize Trump's metastasizing evil. This is a choice. The bosses made that choice, and the journalists gladly went along.

Immeasurably sad.

Joe Biden has to hurry up and commit fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection quickly so The New York Times will think he's fit to stay in the race.

Ex-GOP voter tells CNN she'd 'rather vote for the corpse of Biden than Trump's lying face' https://www.rawstory.com/biden-corpse-trump-lying-face/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

CyberDumpster

Make no mistake — The Supreme Court just laid the groundwork to eliminate mifepristone.

Their decision today to kill the Chevron doctrine means judges can now overrule federal agencies as much as they want.

Including the FDA.

Judges now get to decide which drugs are safe.

It's tempting to say that the second most significant outcome of the debate was its confirmation that Big Journalism's political coverage -- with a few honorable individual exceptions -- has learned almost nothing from its horrendous failures of the past.

It's worse than that, though.

When the top story remains Biden's terrible fumbling, with broad indifference to the torrent of sewage that came out of Trump's mouth, let's face it.

Journalism is failing again, but on purpose this time.

“The overall pattern here is clear… the [Conservative] court majority is on a rampage designed to make it harder for the government to protect us.” #SCOTUS #Chevron #EPA #NetNeutrality https://www.theverge.com/24188365/chevron-scotus-net-neutrality-dmca-visa-fcc-ftc-epa

Clarence Thomas the last 20 years:

2005 - Chevron is correct

2005-2024 - receives $4 million in secret gifts from real estate developers and polluters and other right-wingers who’ve made reversing Chevron one of their highest priorities

2024 - Chevron is wrong

Not a coincidence public archives are disappearing at the same time unpolluted training data for LLMs & other content generation systems have become valuable. (even as we are told they have no value, so no one should get paid)

This is very ugly and we need to have a real conversation about preserving human history, expanding and archiving the body of human knowledge, attribution, and royalties.

Our leadership is too craven and not educated enough in these matters to do it.

Donald J. Trump has one skill as an orator.

People say that he "gish gallops", layering on assertions so thick and fast that it's hard to keep track, and while that's true, he has better pacing than a Ben Shapiro, who's just bloody annoying. That's not his whole schtick.

Trump's monologues may be word salad, but they're packed with catch-phrases, and the ones that get a rise at live events will be repeated. Like a jingle.

When Trump speaks, all I hear is hypnotic repetition.
#rhetoric #uspol

@b0rk Only reason it's not `only CLI' for me is that I have a couple of Android devices. On real computers I use the real shell.

Now that SCOTUS is on a kick to parse legislative language the same way a medieval scholastic would parse the bible it could be useful to point out some gaps in our Constitution.

For example, at no place does our Constitution require that members of SCOTUS be alive. Nor is there any requirement that Congress appropriate funds for SCOTUS, indeed Congress and the Prez could lease out the Supreme court building for homeless and low income housing.