Elizabeth Picciuto

Aren’t you guys always telling us that we’re driving people to fascism and if we ever want to persuade anyone, we need to stop screaming at and insulting people?

No probably not, and all his quotes are a very weird sort of clever

I once tried to explain Yogi Berra to a non-American. I came up with: “baseball player and coach who is known as not being the brightest bulb and saying stuff that sounds like it should be contradictory but you know what it it means.” And it occurred to me that was an odd thing to be famous for.

He’s slowly turning into Yogi Berra

That too

Every time I see Kyle Chandler in things, my initial thought is how great it is that Coach Taylor is having success as an actor.

NOTICE AND TAKEDOWN Every day, thousands of removal requests flow into the Lumen Database — the public archive where the internet's most powerful actors are forced to show their work. Most requests are routine. Some are weapons. When copyright attorney Marcus Vega files a takedown notice targeting Clearwire, a scrappy digital rights nonprofit, he expects the usual: compliance, a form letter, maybe a sternly worded reply. What he gets instead is Eli Marsh - Clearwire's counternotice specialist, former EFF researcher, and the most infuriating person Marcus has ever had the professional misfortune of opposing. Eli knows the law. He also knows Marcus - knows his firm's clients, his win rate, the pattern of industries he protects. What Eli can't account for is what happens when the two of them end up at the same internet governance conference in Geneva, arguing in bad faith over cocktails until they're not arguing at all.

The notices keep coming. So do the counternotices. So do the emails that start as legal correspondence and become something neither of them can quite name. Marcus has spent his career making inconvenient things disappear. Eli has spent his making sure they can't. Between them sits every question the internet has failed to answer about who gets to control what's public, what's private, and who decides. Some things, it turns out, can't be taken down. For readers of Heated Rivalry, Better Than People, and anyone who has ever found themselves deeply, inconveniently attracted to someone who sends documents with tracked changes turned on.

I asked Claude to generate a book jacket blurb for a novel inspired by Heated Rivalry and the Lumen database, and, umm…

I agree

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This is hilarious!

Chosin Reservoir, November 1950. Watched my best buddy get canceled right beside me. He begged them to spare him, told them he didn’t see color, apologized if anyone was offended. But the pile-on was merciless. By morning his account was locked. Just…disappeared into the discourse.

Same guy:

Top notch replies on here, I feel proud to be a Blueskyer today 🫡

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

It all started with Jason Kessler.

I'm so glad she wrote this. The portrayal of her in this series is, to me, indefensible. She deserves an apology from the filmmakers and FX.

And if you hear yourself saying you portrayed a real person (who's alive!) in a particular way to manipulate your audience, please go improve.

I have a crackpot theory that white Christians who sometimes are mistaken for Jews or POC are more attracted to white supremacy.

lol I must admit I would assume that!

Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.

they’re just begging for a car chase

Rico! ❤️

Let’s give it up for one of the best groups of animals: fat little mammals who eat with two dexterous hands

Omg that’s amazing!

the gauls, 58 BC:

Ok you weren’t actually talking about my argument. I am asking here why one of the two dems is not doing the extremely obvious thing that all pols do in similar situations. People think naming a fallacy is a rejoinder, but they use it wrong.

Let’s give it up for one of the best groups of animals: fat little mammals who eat with two dexterous hands

What am I no true Scotsman-ing? I didn’t discuss whether he’s a progressive.

What is the no true Scotsman part?

I remember when Roe fell, and a couple of men started to say they should be quiet and center women’s voices (as was the custom at the time) and I remember thinking THIS MISTAKE NEEDS TO STOP HERE and tried to encourage men to be loud.

I will never make that mistake again!

Beautiful yellow and white calla lilies that look like the model’s dress

It’s like calla lilies!