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cherold

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Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.

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cyberlyra, to random
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The age of Google is over. The next great search engine must needs filter out LLM-generated sludge and actually privilege information instead of content.

cherold,
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@cyberlyra I have yet to find a search engine that doesn't serve up LLM pages. And instead of improving their algorithms, it seems the plan is to use AI to just give us bad information directly instead of providing us a link to bad information. So I'm not optimistic, but here's hoping.

cherold, to random
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I think everyone should read this @tkanefield piece on what's going on in the Trump trial, simply because if he's not convicted then instead of freaking out and raging you'll say, "oh yeah, that was a distinct possibility. Kinda sucks, but I get why."

She's not saying he won't be convicted (she says the odds are that he probably will) but she explains why it's not the slam dunk some people think it is.

Also, law is kinda interesting if it's explained well.

https://terikanefield.com/wheres-the-beef-trumps-manhattan-criminal-case-and-some-mind-bending-legal-puzzles/

cherold,
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@tokensane @tkanefield I don't think breaking a contract is usually a crime. You sue people for breaking contracts, you don't generally have them arrested. And it's a verbal contract, which I suspect is very hard to prove in court. But I'm not a lawyer, I'm just guessing.

jon, to Vivaldi
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This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.

Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.

Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.

If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!

If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!

@Vivaldi

cherold,
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@jon @Vivaldi Recently I decided to look for a good alternative to Chrome that would let me keep using my extensions, of which I have many. My research indicated the two most promising choices were Vivaldi and Brave. Vivaldi sounded like the more interesting of the two. So I installed them both and imported my Chrome data into both. And as part of that import, Brave installed all my extensions. So the choice became, easy route or hard route. But I'll still test Vivaldi one of these days.

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

cherold,
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@RickiTarr Years ago I dated a girl who lied constantly, but didn't think that. She had a therapist have her keep a journal in which she wrote down every single time she told an untruth for any reason whatsoever, and she discovered that she did, in fact, lie constantly. But she had to keep a record to realize it.

cherold,
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@RickiTarr Yeah. She did understand that she lied, and believed lies were okay if they spared someone's feelings or got her out of trouble, but she didn't realize that she told several lies an hour. It caused some self examination.

cherold,
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@RickiTarr The people I've known who lie a lot tend to do it to 1) ease a situation 2) make themselves sound good, or 3) make the story more interesting. The third group can be interesting - because they're like telling stories, they tell them until they believe they're true.

I have one friend in the 3rd category who you would think was just lying because her stories are insane, but so much of what she says turns out to be true that her craziest stories are only slight exaggerations!

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Roger Parloff:

jurors' news sources. (More watch BBC than Fox. Not one reads NY Daily News--ouch.) From
nytimes:
https://bit.ly/3xKEg4L

cherold,
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@GottaLaff wow, I guess pretty much everyone here reads the Times. I didn't realize.

GottaLaff, to random
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'Night all. Having no Internet all day, fighting with all the Big Corps. involved with fixing (they didn't), and resetting stuff, I'm so over today.

But at least it's back, and ready for Monday's big doin's.

News will break. I will post.

cherold,
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@GottaLaff Impressed you kept feeding us the scoop with all the goings on. Thanks!

By the way, you always say when you're posting news, "if you comment, say NFL." Have you considered making people (who are bad at following instructions and forget things they mean to do, including me) instead have to specifically say they want to speak to you with a signifier like "YFL?" Then you could just ignore the rest.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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GOP Fascist Party

Via Bruce Bartlett (Bio: "Once a conservative, now progressive")::

Republican lickspittles appointed to the federal courts by Trump and Bush have succeeded in destroying 235 years of trust in the American judicial system.

cherold,
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@GottaLaff This is not the thing you want to be tied with Italy for.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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1/... Klasfeld:

News

In 's NY criminal case, prosecutors file so-called "Sandoval" notice—disclosing unchged prior bad acts they intend to use at trial to impeach his credibility.

The list rattles off NYAG civil fraud case, case, & more.
"If the defendant chooses to testify, the People intend to inquire regarding the following"

Full list of litigation prosecutors intend to confront Trump w, if given the green light by judge: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24554324-peoples-sandoval-notice-filed

cherold,
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@GottaLaff Yeah, he knows he'd have to lie like a dog and would just wind up with a couple dozen perjury charges to deal with. Not much upside.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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1/… I'll ask a favor of you.

This trial hasn't even started yet, not one witness. Yet...

I'm getting Doomers galore in my feed.

A Trumpy helped convict him in an earlier trial.

The prosecutors are vetting the jurors carefully.

I am not Dooming. Not yet.

Can we wait for the trial to be in full swing before predicting the worst possible outcome? Or do people thrive on constant pessimism? I just don't.

Thanks so much for listening. Let's try to be hopeful.

More…

cherold,
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@GottaLaff
Every step of the way, the doomers just pivot their doom. "He'll never be indicted." He's indicted. "He'll never go on trail." He goes on trial. "He'll never be convicted."

If he's convicted it will be "He'll never go to prison." If he goes to prison it will be "He'll be paroled in a week." If he spends a year locked up they'll say, "it was only a slap on the wrist."

Doomers gonna doom.

cherold,
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@geonz @GottaLaff But doomers never say, "okay, if Trump is not convicted here are other things we can do in that eventuality." They're wailing "TRUMP WILL NEVER PAY DEMOCRACY IS DOOMED!" Which isn't helpful at all. That's not preparation, that's blind despair and rage to make you crawl into a ball and cry yourself to sleep.

cherold,
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@chrisg @GottaLaff Has it occurred to you that rather than ending in "farce," the impeachments and investigations ended in Biden beating Trump in 2020?

GottaLaff, to random
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lol

cherold,
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@GottaLaff @lolgop I don't think so. One of Trump's strengths as a candidate is the (false) idea that he is more vibrant and active than Biden. The last thing he wants is for people to start talking about how he's an elderly man who can't stay awake for an hour in court. Guaranteed he'll take a lot more Adderall tomorrow.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Thanks for telling me.

I put the wrong link!!!

I will delete and start over.

(This is what happens when I spend too many hours writing and don't save enough energy to post something correctly!)

cherold,
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@Teri_Kanefield @roo_44 @shoq

How about you just post a list of motions and beside each you write routine, routine, routine, routine? And every once in a long while, WTF?

GottaLaff, to random
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About to leave Sacramento for home, the longest and most utterly boring part of our trips. (I5– Grapevine) Harris Ranch does have great bathrooms though. 🤭

Our realtor timed it out so we’d be driving home during an Open House today instead of kicking us/Hammy out for 3 hours tomorrow. Pays off to have our neighbor/friend in that role.

As always, posting & replying may be spotty.

cherold,
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@GottaLaff I grew up in Sacramento. It was the most boring part of my life and felt like the longest.

GottaLaff, to random
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🎯 Via -Harris HQ:

A feeble and confused posts a typo-riddled all-caps rant misspelling “Biden,” “disinforms,” “misinforms,” and other basic words

A Truth Social post from Trump:

I'm not running to terminate the ACA, AS CROOKED JOE BUDEN
DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES ALL THE TIME, I'm running to CLOSE
12:12 PM · Mar 26, 2024

cherold,
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@GottaLaff In the past I've heard that Trump dictates his tweets because he can't use a phone with his tiny hands. So probably can't blame him for accidental misspellings.

OTOH, I'm not convinced any of this is accidental - Trump gets a lot more attention from the left for acting the fool while it doesn't hurt him at all on the right, so instead of "Trump is losing it" I'm inclined to think "Trump is getting the attention he wants."

cherold, to random
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Wild how many stories about judges have some version of, "While these years of bribes from people who received favorable treatment from the judge aren't technically violations, they look bad."

Maybe we should have more actual rules for judges?

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I have my weekend blog post ready.

You don’t have an affirmative Constitutional right to vote. (Did you know that?)

The right to vote was not (affirmatively) included in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, or any other Amendments.

Here's why (and what I mean):

https://terikanefield.com/the-right-to-vote/

Once again, I ran out of time and didn't deal with the problem of that 500 error message. There are some plug ins I'm supposed to try.

If you get the message wait a few minutes and try again.

cherold,
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@Teri_Kanefield Fascinating. So if every state decided who could vote, did the states decide in lockstep? Were there individual states that at least considered wider suffrage or no?

cherold, to HashtagGames
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Spot in the Name of Love


GottaLaff, to random
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Watch. Be amazed.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/03/cdk-company-dance-video/

cherold,
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@GottaLaff That is insanely good.

cherold, to random
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The SNL open started with a terrible Biden (after all these years they still haven't figured out a good approach!) but Johansson as Britt is hilarious. And the folks at Crooks and Liars kindly gave us the clip without the Biden part.

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/snl-cold-open-nailed-sen-katie-britt

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Giving credit where credit is due.

I've mentioned my friend @StephanieJones a few times. (She may even come to Mastodon at some point.)

Early on she tried to tell Larry Tribe that he was misleading people about Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

I quoted her in this piece: https://terikanefield.com/section-3-and-the-spirit-of-liberty/

Here she is trying to talk sense into Larry Tribe.

If people are struggling with this, show them the piece I wrote in January.

I get credit for having smart friends like Stephanie.

The 14th Amendment doesn't mention elections or ballots. It simply says no one who engaged in insurrection shall "hold any office." So, what happens if, despite being removed from several state ballots, Trump is still elected? Will he be stopped from taking office? If your answer is yes, who will do it and how? The Supreme Court? On what grounds? And through what process? The states? Which ones and how will they do it? And what about the states that didn't disqualify him - will they have any say in this? If some states deem Trump an insurrectionist and remove him from their ballots and other states don't, how exactly should the 14th Amendment's "No person shall ... hold any office" provision be enforced? I'll await your answers.

cherold,
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@Teri_Kanefield @StephanieJones I hate the idea that a law against insurrectionists become president is unenforceable, but I have to admit I don't see any practical way to enforce it. And I suspect the attempt would lead to mass violence - 1/6 times 100.

heidilifeldman, to random
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I see folks saying they are confident that ultimately this Supreme Court will reject Trump’s claim that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts. I’m not. I meant it every time I have said that Trump appointed Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett are almost certainly in the tank for him. Were they not, they’d be recusing themselves from all his appeals, as their participation certainly has, at the least, the appearance of impropriety. 1/

cherold,
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@barney @fmhilton @heidilifeldman I think 'near-certainty is just overstating in the other direction. Trump has a decent chance of winning, but also a decent chance of losing. For him to win he needs to do much better in 2020, which requires that a whole bunch of people who thought Biden was better then have to decide that in spite of all the indictments and Trump's steady stream of nonsense that he is now better than Biden. That could happen, but it's not certain at all.

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