Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Want to see rogue judges in action? Ohio Supreme Court, in a ruling a member of the minority aptly called "jabberwocky", ruled that a restaurant can claim to serve "boneless" chicken wings even though they have shards of bones in them. A patron was badly injured when one tore open his esophagus.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/diners-should-beware-of-bones-in-boneless-chicken-supreme-court-majority-rules/B7DQVT2VBJEO5NSITW7BBQ7ALQ/

Our corporate courts won't lift a finger to protect us.

But because the guy used encrypted messaging, Wray complains "some places we may never be able to see, no matter how good our legal process is.”

For eons, people talked and no one could know what was said. Ephemerality is the norm, not the exception.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/if-government-had-its-way-everything-could-be-wiretapped

@carlmalamud @karlauerbach Plus, of course, the actual terms of service are copyrighted and confidential.

@SteveBellovin @karlauerbach so, there is a real simple answer to this bone situation from the chicken wing lobby. The answer is a shrink wrap terms of use license. By tearing off the tape that holds this bag of chickens wings, I do hereby cede all my rights in any bone-related claims at law and agree to mandatory arbitration. Problem solved.

@carlmalamud @karlauerbach Please—it would have to be bonefree boneless wings. The redundancy of repetition is important. In fact, you may even have to say bonefree boneless wings without any bones.

Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money

Three companies control the market for school lunch payments.

They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system
-- to the tune of $100m/year.

They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.

In its latest report, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau describes this scam in eye-watering, blood-boiling detail:
https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_costs-of-electronic-payment-in-k-12-schools-issue-spotlight_2024-07.pdf
-- @pluralistic

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace says Trump's rap sheet makes him unhirable — even at 'local mall' https://www.rawstory.com/nicolle-wallace-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Pete Buttigieg: Trump Decision to Drop Out of Debate is "Extraordinary Show of Weakness" https://hillreporter.com/pete-buttigieg-trump-decision-to-drop-out-of-debate-is-extraordinary-show-of-weakness?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Apparently

Fun Fact: You can create a word in German to say pretty much anything, but you'd better declare a really long buffer before you try.

Fines for child labor violations would increase under new Democratic bill https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/26/child-labor-lets-protect-workers-act?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@inthehands So much Disney revolves around the theme that family is the most important thing - you all have to look out after each other, and heck that even defines who you are. The hero's a hero because they're a princess or a child of a great explorer or important lion or whatever and maybe their stepfamily is awful but their biological family is good so they're inherently good.

I think this message is harmful! Real people are _not_ automatically good (or bad) because their parents were good (or bad), and people outside your family are important too!

If your market is families, then constantly saying "family is the most important" is just savvy business I guess.