Tampa Democrat Andrew #Warren has been locked in a protracted legal battle with the Republican governor after he was #suspended from his elected position of #stateattorney in 2022.
The Tampa #prosecutor suspended from his job by Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday he would ask voters to return him to his post.
A man serving 55 years has filed a motion to overturn his conviction, arguing that the state prosecuted him for giving a #gun to a drive-by shooter even though another man had already pleaded guilty to giving the same gun to the shooter.
The unnamed informant, described in the Aug. 28 lawsuit as the "designated person," (DP) accuses police officers of acting in #BadFaith by reneging on the co-operation deal and then allegedly #blackmailing him or her
Let the Platforms Burn. The Opposite of Good Fires is… | by Cory Doctorow |
One of the most common complaints about #Mastodon is that it’s hard to know whom to follow there.
But as a technical matter, it’s easy: you should just follow the people you used to follow on Twitter —either because they’re on Mastodon, too, or because there’s a way to use Mastodon to read their Twitter posts.
Indeed, this is already built into Mastodon. With one click, you can export the list of everyone you follow, and everyone who follows you. Then you can switch Mastodon servers, upload that file, and automatically re-establish all those relationships.
That means that if the person who runs your server decides to shut it down, or if the server ends up being run by a maniac who hates you and delights in your torment, you don’t have to #petition a #public#prosecutor or an elected #lawmaker or a regulator to make them behave better.
They know that network effects gave them explosive growth, and they know that tech’s low switching costs will enable implosive contraction.
The thing is, network effects are a double-edged sword. People join a service to be with the people they care about. But when the people they care about start to leave, everyone rushes for the exits.
Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. Suppressing good fire doesn’t mean “no fires,” it means wildfires.
It’s time to declare fire debt bankruptcy. It’s time to admit we can’t make these combustible, tinder-heavy forests safe.
It’s time to start moving people out of the danger zone.