40{"sid":"pFCE4JXF8LXH_1ZaAkZq"}42["messages","[{\"id\":\"944279234325651557\",\"timestamp\":1645204113323,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Timothy Geigner\",\"content\":\"https://tenor.com/view/i-cant-breathe-in-this-thing-dark-helmet-spaceballs-hard-to-breathe-suffocating-gif-24854407\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"gifv\",\"url\":\"https://tenor.com/view/i-cant-breathe-in-this-thing-dark-helmet-spaceballs-hard-to-breathe-suffocating-gif-24854407\"}]},{\"id\":\"944279252377927680\",\"timestamp\":1645204117627,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Timothy Geigner\",\"content\":\"Finally found my old avatar for Discord 🙂\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944331779609882634\",\"timestamp\":1645216641095,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I remember seeing that one of the driving factors in the last attempt to kneecap the Texas anti-SLAPP law was actually a consequence of Texas court procedure specifically.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944331915866013826\",\"timestamp\":1645216673581,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Namely the fact that there really wasn't a good equivalent of a 12(b)(6) MTD at the state level.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944332096527273984\",\"timestamp\":1645216716654,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"So there was a big log of case law from defense lawyers going to pretty stretchy extremes to try using the anti-SLAPP motion instead.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944332297929379850\",\"timestamp\":1645216764672,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"But I think that oddity for resolved.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944388815634726942\",\"timestamp\":1645230239543,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"> Consent MOTION to File Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Twitter's Motion for De Novo Determination of Dispositive Matter Referred to Magistrate Judge filed by ACLU Foundation of Northern California, Electronic Frontier Foundation.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944388883725025370\",\"timestamp\":1645230255777,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Well hello there.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944389022048997396\",\"timestamp\":1645230288756,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/copyright-not-shortcut-around-constitutions-anonymous-speech-protections-eff-tells\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"article\",\"url\":\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/copyright-not-shortcut-around-constitutions-anonymous-speech-protections-eff-tells\"}]},{\"id\":\"944389115548405790\",\"timestamp\":1645230311048,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I didn't even notice this until I checked the court's RSS feed.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944409665725419581\",\"timestamp\":1645235210592,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"ah nice.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944593159390892102\",\"timestamp\":1645278958891,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"*cocks shotgun*\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944593168312188988\",\"timestamp\":1645278961018,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/41956951/45/ginsberg-v-google-inc/\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/41956951/45/ginsberg-v-google-inc/\"}]},{\"id\":\"944593837953789972\",\"timestamp\":1645279120673,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Almost every single time the court dismisses one of these bogus cases, they leave *some* kind of permission to amend.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"944593948524044288\",\"timestamp\":1645279147035,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"This time, they went out of their way to dedicate an entire page to explaining why they weren't going to do that.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945175419961876480\",\"timestamp\":1645417780629,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"https://twitter.com/AndraRobertson/status/1495525187328135172?t=kT3af9ysqQVUdHwxzTy6ZA&s=19\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/AndraRobertson/status/1495525187328135172?t=kT3af9ysqQVUdHwxzTy6ZA&s=19\"}]},{\"id\":\"945175482184372285\",\"timestamp\":1645417795464,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"That escalated *fast.*\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945338714333278260\",\"timestamp\":1645456713041,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"when's the novelization coming out?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945338731806748732\",\"timestamp\":1645456717207,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"that was quite a ride\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945829146787975179\",\"timestamp\":1645573641250,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Can I be frank?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945829512023773257\",\"timestamp\":1645573728329,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Thanks to the Music Modernization Act (or rather, the _decent_ version that was passed thanks to Ron Wyden), I'm now in the process of distributing music I only had on bandcamp to everywhere else, including Apple Music/iTunes, Spotify, TIDAL, Amazon, Deezer, Pandora, etc.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945829598921379901\",\"timestamp\":1645573749047,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Oh, and according to my backend, Amazon actually pays me the most, not TIDAL.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945829624548589568\",\"timestamp\":1645573755157,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Though TIDAL does pay a lot.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"945829734506455073\",\"timestamp\":1645573781373,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"(Just so you know, I absolutely hate Amazon and I'm a TIDAL subscriber)\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"947706264773873705\",\"timestamp\":1646021181053,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"I hope your migration succeeded well,Techdirt.  I began professional life as a sysadmin and doing these kinds of projects was always ... an adventure.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"947708372822667284\",\"timestamp\":1646021683651,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Leigh Beadon\",\"content\":\"thanks! plenty of small launch hiccups, but nothing devastating - well within expectations for such a massive migration, so far 🙂\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"947714828405968957\",\"timestamp\":1646023222782,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/1497588956870832130\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/1497588956870832130\"}]},{\"id\":\"947736032474963968\",\"timestamp\":1646028278226,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"I was able to reset my password and check all my settings just fine for what it's worth\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"947847190292865084\",\"timestamp\":1646054780315,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Quelle Surprise!\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"947847584884600862\",\"timestamp\":1646054874393,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Anyway, I hope you watched yesterday’s Last Week Tonight vis-à-vis Sex Work. The TechDirt angle is that FOSTA is mentioned and Oliver makes the same points <@Mike Masnick> has.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"947852023838175293\",\"timestamp\":1646055932722,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Samuel Abram\",\"content\":\"Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gd8yUptg0Q\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"video\",\"url\":\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gd8yUptg0Q\"}]},{\"id\":\"947892363521589338\",\"timestamp\":1646065550452,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/how-the-games-industry-shake-up-could-play-out/\\n\\nI choose not to make an issue of it at the time, lacking solid evidence of the flip side of the consolidation coin. But with this article bringing it up....\\n\\nWe've seen consolidation before. EA has been nicknamed unicronic arts after the transformer character who consumes planets. Bioware was a major studio with multiple successful IPs.  Visceral Games, Westwood Studios, Pandemic Studios, all companies with highly successful IP, that suddenly lost it when EA was in charge. ABK is itself a mega company made up of 3 of the biggest names in gaming, Activision, Blizzard, and King.\\n\\nWe've seen cycles of consolidation in the game industry. And if you look at the next crop of independent studios after a big consolidation, you find a list of people who left the old smaller companies around the time of the merger.  The big studios are financially locked into a creative dead end, unable to create something new as shareholders demand every game be the biggest sales hit in history, forcing name recognition and trend chasing over substance.  And distribution solutions inherent in computers and video games have meant independent gaming has had a better leg up than the literature and motion picture industries for independents.\\n\\nI hate to see quality game development studios cash out as their IP has everything sucked out until the studio is sucking on the marrow of its former glory.  But I think, given the history, the consolidation we are seeing will result in a corresponding uptick of new quality independent studios, with new, quality IP.\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"article\",\"url\":\"https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/02/how-the-games-industry-shake-up-could-play-out/\"}]},{\"id\":\"947940545127395368\",\"timestamp\":1646077037842,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"Ack.  final note I was going to make, for all the talk of consolidation, the two big acquisitions, of AAA studios?  Both of those studios have lost a lot of their luster with fans.  ABK's merger can be seen as a way to dodge criminal accountability for top executives who will exit with golden parachutes once the merger finishes, and Bungie is far from its Halo days.  Neither of them could be described as companies in ascendency or at their peak.  Which is to say, I don't think the ABK acquision is a good indicator of say, EA or Ubisoft selling out.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948249480950591589\",\"timestamp\":1646150693882,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"Antivax hashtags just aren’t being used for days while Russia limits access to Twitter and redirects bots to cover the war instead\\nhttps://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1498659829522518021\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1498659829522518021\"},{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1498659829522518021\"},{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1498659829522518021\"}]},{\"id\":\"948269038394540032\",\"timestamp\":1646155356740,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"the original tweet was deleted for being misleading bent...\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948269113241911297\",\"timestamp\":1646155374585,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"https://twitter.com/klharlow/status/1498697399153405957\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/klharlow/status/1498697399153405957\"}]},{\"id\":\"948286899590668338\",\"timestamp\":1646159615181,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"TNSe\",\"content\":\"whats this techdirt membership activation thing?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948288253486833716\",\"timestamp\":1646159937975,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"part of our move to the new platform...\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948289593013321728\",\"timestamp\":1646160257343,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"TNSe\",\"content\":\"ahh\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948289631865176095\",\"timestamp\":1646160266606,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"TNSe\",\"content\":\"you never know what's spam or not, thanks 😄\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948292834669264927\",\"timestamp\":1646161030214,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Leigh Beadon\",\"content\":\"Yup, Insiders who made their purchase with a different email from their account may receive a new activation link (at the *purchase* email)\\n\\nFor the moment, you'll need to re-activate to get your subscriptions back. This also *shouldn't* be required though and it wasn't intended that way - we are working on a fix that will restore all those memberships without any action on your part too, just not quite sure yet when that will be deployed\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948292980157087745\",\"timestamp\":1646161064901,\"modified\":1646161255244,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"@Mike, yeah I came back to post this:\\nhttps://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1498682073518944261\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"rich\",\"url\":\"https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1498682073518944261\"}]},{\"id\":\"948293442642010142\",\"timestamp\":1646161175166,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"There's a lot of disinfo flying around, and it's hard to spot when it matches one's priors.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948447794421698601\",\"timestamp\":1646197975498,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"https://youtu.be/3kZXmsfKq30\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"video\",\"url\":\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kZXmsfKq30\"}]},{\"id\":\"948447937896263706\",\"timestamp\":1646198009705,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"So a big streamer tried doing a giveaway, but then decided that the winner didn't have a big enough audience.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948447954870603776\",\"timestamp\":1646198013752,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"All live.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948448003629387796\",\"timestamp\":1646198025377,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"The backlash was legendary.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948448294806360094\",\"timestamp\":1646198094799,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"That streamer with too small of audience blasted through several major milestones the same day.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948448358769496145\",\"timestamp\":1646198110049,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I feel like there's a word for this.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948616460383711274\",\"timestamp\":1646238188597,\"modified\":1646238341603,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"lets resummarize:\\nA corporation specializing in custom PC builds (artisan builds) held a giveaway on a livestream for its brand ambassadors, but when they drew a winner decided to discard that draw based on the size of the streamer. reports suggest this size threshold was not disclosed prior to the contest as necessary under applicable law.\\n\\nSorry, I feel like your summary's word choice undersells how scummy this was by suggesting this was just a random streamer, and not a *company* that has *brand ambassadors* and *sponsors YouTube creators*.  It certainly confused me when I started watching your linked video.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948630965008334898\",\"timestamp\":1646241646769,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Oh it's a type of scummy that's really hard to eloquently summarize.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948631038790336543\",\"timestamp\":1646241664360,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Even that improved description kinda undersells it.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948651324243861504\",\"timestamp\":1646246500789,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"Fair.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948727774057726032\",\"timestamp\":1646264727845,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59714398/twitter-inc-v-paxton/\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59714398/twitter-inc-v-paxton/\"}]},{\"id\":\"948727824435511357\",\"timestamp\":1646264739856,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"9th Circuit has dismissed the appeal for this case.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948727866634436678\",\"timestamp\":1646264749917,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Or rather affirmed the district court's dismissal.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948728168825630791\",\"timestamp\":1646264821965,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"It's the only thing of note from my RSS monitor lately.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948728250467749969\",\"timestamp\":1646264841430,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Everything else is just boring administrative patent proceedings.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948741605815369778\",\"timestamp\":1646268025593,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"and... that's not even that interesting. basically twitter can ignore the subpoena and then if paxton tries to enforce, then they go to court?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948749009244270622\",\"timestamp\":1646269790708,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I have absolutely no doubt at all that Paxton is 100% abusing his power here.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948749076298625054\",\"timestamp\":1646269806695,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"But he has been careful to leave any obvious damage.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"948792711635423232\",\"timestamp\":1646280210170,\"modified\":1646280355381,\"handle\":\"BentFranklin\",\"content\":\"WaPo:  How to avoid being duped by false Ukraine information — and other news literacy lessons\\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/02/ukraine-disinformation-news-literacy-lessons/\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949124437163266058\",\"timestamp\":1646359299699,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Oh look, the article about the anti-vax doctor from Rogan is getting a *lot* of activity in the comments section.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949124479798366218\",\"timestamp\":1646359309864,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I'm sure it's all very well mannered and organized.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949125007425024061\",\"timestamp\":1646359435660,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"> Say what you will, but we will continue to take the side of the living.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949125023350784041\",\"timestamp\":1646359439457,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Bravo, Tim.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949128364940222545\",\"timestamp\":1646360236154,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"> Well Mikes misfits are cowards. That’s one of the reasons Mike isn’t take seriously he let his misfits turn his site into an echochamber.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949169083734175785\",\"timestamp\":1646369944271,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"yup, no one takes me seriously at all.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949169207797485618\",\"timestamp\":1646369973850,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"i mean, honestly, if people took me a little less seriously i might have a bit more free time in my schedule, rather than having to take so many meetings\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949366164314812477\",\"timestamp\":1646416931943,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"He took you seriously enough to write 2000 words across that comment thread, so one wonders what he means.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949435150331158598\",\"timestamp\":1646433379491,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Anyone else get the feeling that this guy sounds familiar?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949435216957685762\",\"timestamp\":1646433395376,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Is this the return of a regular troll?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949442177921069076\",\"timestamp\":1646435054999,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"that was my original assumption, but i don't think so\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949442368447336468\",\"timestamp\":1646435100424,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"stylistically he reminds me of one of our earliest trolls, but, well, that troll worked to cover his tracks. this one... doesn't.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949445010863030282\",\"timestamp\":1646435730425,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I haven't seen a rant about NATURAL LAW yet.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949445109248835614\",\"timestamp\":1646435753882,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"But he does fit the MO pretty well otherwise.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949447697226661928\",\"timestamp\":1646436370904,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"heh, the natural law troll was definitely different. i was thinking of an earlier troll who went by many different personalities over the years\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"949790733529940028\",\"timestamp\":1646518157132,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"oh God natural law.  Every so often in debate some kid will discover that like it's the answer to everything.   Pro tip:  it is not.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950403036382130227\",\"timestamp\":1646664141508,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Oh no\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950403213163651072\",\"timestamp\":1646664183656,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"It's not too surprising that Facebook's appeal from that terrible Supreme Court of Texas decision was denied cert...\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950403272701788212\",\"timestamp\":1646664197851,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"But Thomas used it to start JAQing-Off again.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950433216848867348\",\"timestamp\":1646671337092,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"It's similar to our team rule that you cannot run arguments based on Nietzsche if you cannot spell his name.  That saves us a lot of grief.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950884568787984394\",\"timestamp\":1646778947780,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/40597-5th-circuit-judges-seem-skeptical-of-gov-abbott-s-censorship-of-ffrf\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/40597-5th-circuit-judges-seem-skeptical-of-gov-abbott-s-censorship-of-ffrf\"}]},{\"id\":\"950884655241003058\",\"timestamp\":1646778968392,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"I'm not the last bit surprised that Abbott appealed this.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950884949161029674\",\"timestamp\":1646779038468,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"But the arguments now are focused on whether or not the state's declaration of certain public forums being \\\"government speech\\\" nullify any 1A violation claims for arbitrary censorship.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950885101309399060\",\"timestamp\":1646779074743,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"The Fifth Circuit has somehow been handling this nonsense surprisingly well so far.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950901951284011038\",\"timestamp\":1646783092090,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"\\\"Left Field Holdings, LLC.\\\"\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950902051729182770\",\"timestamp\":1646783116038,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Good god, even Captain Planet villains were less subtle in their company names.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950925003459797002\",\"timestamp\":1646788588157,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"mildconcern\",\"content\":\"Is that part of the FFRF suit or something else?\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"950930499910647808\",\"timestamp\":1646789898613,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"No, that's the name of the plaintiff in a patent suit that was just filed in ND Cal.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951350305746997258\",\"timestamp\":1646889988124,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"https://www.pcgamer.com/artesian-builds-shuts-down/\",\"embeds\":[{\"type\":\"article\",\"url\":\"https://www.pcgamer.com/artesian-builds-shuts-down/\"}]},{\"id\":\"951351315286593576\",\"timestamp\":1646890228817,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"That pc building company imploded off the backlash.  The Company wasn’t paying taxes, the affiliate giveaways relied on an intel sponsorship, which immediately collapsed, the statements made in stream are a prima facie case for the giveaway actually being an illegal lottery, and the level of financial and legal trouble this incident caused have forced the company to close.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951353573411782706\",\"timestamp\":1646890767196,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"Mike Masnick\",\"content\":\"wow\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951362847449952287\",\"timestamp\":1646892978299,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"And the streamer who got snubbed for being \\\"too small\\\" for hired as the official promoter for one of the biggest PC cooling suppliers in the industry\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951371771330830336\",\"timestamp\":1646895105918,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"to be fair, looking around more, it sounds like artisan builds was already going to implode, that the changes to the lottery in mid stream may have been an effort to increase visibility prior to a pitch to vc, and the backlash at best kicked off the collapse early.  but even that is impressive.  This company supported 50 employees and this was all it took for the house of cards to collapse.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951495169646153799\",\"timestamp\":1646924526369,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"MSR4\",\"content\":\"Agreed, we dont know the financials of the company before the giveaway incicident. They could be deeply in debt with a lack of prospects for future capital and on the verge of closing before this incident and this was the last straw.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951500307752427521\",\"timestamp\":1646925751389,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"Whatever the case, Gamer's Nexus got involved.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951500370797023372\",\"timestamp\":1646925766420,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"John Roddy\",\"content\":\"If they weren't already dead, that would've been the end for sure.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951505104610140250\",\"timestamp\":1646926895049,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"Its not entirely true to say we don't know the financials of the company.  The company has via various public statements as well as internal memos indicated they are not a going concern (I am using the accounting term for the situation they describe, meaning they do not have sufficient capital or income to assume they can meet ongoing financial obligations, an auditor using that term is often the kiss of death for recovery).  That the reason they shut down was to determine how to fairly pay out creditors, employees, and customers. That debt to creditors would be pre-existing.  The real question is if the financial collapse comes due to losing the Intel sponsorship, extensive refunds from when they burned their goodwill, a pretext to dodge a raft of state and federal criminal charges and or fines, or if the collapse was already imminent.  Reports indicate their bank accounts were frozen, probably as a result of the tax evasion scheme that got the SF business license suspended - itself not a sign of previous financial stability.  The bank freeze probably would have shut down the company, but its again hard to say if this situation kicked some bureaucrat's ass into gear, or if the bank freeze was already happening.\\n\\nTL;DR - a lot of what we have learned in the last week and the public statements of the company indicate a rocky financial state prior to the giveaway, but how the illegal lottery scheme and its implosion impacted their financial collapse is unknown.  Likely we will never know if the debts would have been surmountable under other circumstances, but I definitely think the press coverage linking finances to the backlash is overstating causation.\",\"embeds\":[]},{\"id\":\"951505425533140992\",\"timestamp\":1646926971563,\"modified\":0,\"handle\":\"deadspatula\",\"content\":\"The more I learn about the company, the more I think the lottery imploded because of the financial situation, rather than the other way around.\",\"embeds\":[]}]"]