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James Ball

@jamesrbuk
260 posts
2025-04-27
Ed Martin's (so far wildly ineffective) one-man totalitarianism goes on unabated, I see... (He's threatened congressmen, senators, you name it, so far, but he's *awfully* clumsy about it)
2025-04-27 View on X
The Free Press

Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status

Wikipedia Bluesky: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse / @whitehouse.senate.gov : Where is the referral from IRS?  I've been told for years that DOJ does not investigate IRS matters without...

2025-04-26
Ed Martin's (so far wildly ineffective) one-man totalitarianism goes on unabated, I see... (He's threatened congressmen, senators, you name it, so far, but he's *awfully* clumsy about it)
2025-04-26 View on X
The Free Press

Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status

In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law.

2025-04-03
This is: 1. an absolutely nonsensical way to think about trade 2. nothing to do with tariff barriers, it's just...relative trade. It's just something else entirely 3. a CRAZILY back-of-the-envelope way to set global trade policy It is mad that this is real.
2025-04-03 View on X
CNBC

Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Meta drops as much as ~8%, Amazon drops ~7%, Nvidia ~5%, Alphabet ~4%, and Microsoft ~3%

Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …

2025-02-22
The government left Apple facing liability for undermining security globally by complying with the order, or else just leaving UK users more vulnerable to criminal hackers and others. It chose the latter. A stupid and unnecessary self-own, which will likely be left unfixed.
2025-02-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do

Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable.  It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving...

2025-02-11
If anything epitomises 2025-era Google, it's surely this Maps decision. It looks cluttered, it's a messy compromise that will please no-one, and it took them several weeks to do it. And they'll probably change it five more times in the next few weeks. [image]
2025-02-11 View on X
The Verge

Google says it removed Calendar's Pride Month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and more events in 2024 for not being “scalable or sustainable”

Google says it switched to only showing default entries for public holidays and national observances last year.

2025-01-22
The constituency calling for this was a very small and extremely online section of Trump's base. If regular voters actually hear about this, they'll *hate* it: he's a drug kingpin who tried (albeit ineptly) to have rivals killed. Very much Trump unchained stuff.
2025-01-22 View on X
New York Times

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering, drug charges, and more

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

2025-01-10
After one of the most uninspired retellings of the “every atom in your body was forged in the heart of a star” story I've ever told, we're now on a very low-energy discussion as to the existence or nature of God. Safe to say it's not like a usual political interview, I guess.
2025-01-10 View on X
Politico

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more

God!  Martians!  A “communist” Hitler!  It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.

Elon sounds *extremely* bored in his chat with the AfD's Alice Weidel. He's run out of questions for her and is sort of politely batting off the ones she's asking him to fill the silences.
2025-01-10 View on X
Politico

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more

God!  Martians!  A “communist” Hitler!  It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.

Remember when Musk - and quite a few people in the commentariat now supporting him - were howling in outrage at junior Labour staffers door knocking for the Democrats (their sister party), as “foreign interference”?
2025-01-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts

Votes of millions of people don't count.  —  Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination.  ...

Remember when Musk - and quite a few people in the commentariat now supporting him - were howling in outrage at junior Labour staffers door knocking for the Democrats (their sister party), as “foreign interference”?
2025-01-10 View on X
Politico

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more

God!  Martians!  A “communist” Hitler!  It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.

2025-01-08
Among other things, it's now okay to call lgbt users mentally ill on Facebook and Insta now - worldwide! The new rules explicitly say you can do that! But because journalists are self-obsessed pretty much everywhere is leading on the fact checking thing.
2025-01-08 View on X
Platformer

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”

“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past

2024-12-29
It's amazing the amount of stuff that “does not violate” the rules here...except when it happens to Elon when he's cheesed off.
2024-12-29 View on X
Axios

Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas

The fight between Ketamine Boy and the MAGAts is definitely a time to root for injuries … David Ingram / NBC News : Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree w...

The way it escapes looking hypocritical is claiming it has classified material that shows TikTok is way worse than everyone else. But if it wants the world to believe that - if it wants Americans to believe that - show us the receipts.
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Times

How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020 to backing off in 2024, as he became a political star on the platform with more than 14.7M followers

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app.  Now, he is opposing the Biden administration's effort to do just that.

Honestly, I think Trump has presented a good challenge to US securocrats on TikTok here. If TikTok is doing something so different and so dangerous, why not declassify the evidence and get it banned? Instead of keeping it secret and risking the whole thing.
2024-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

- Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat  — TikTok says law infringes rights of 170 million Americans

It's amazing the amount of stuff that “does not violate” the rules here...except when it happens to Elon when he's cheesed off.
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Post

Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue

President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …

The way it escapes looking hypocritical is claiming it has classified material that shows TikTok is way worse than everyone else. But if it wants the world to believe that - if it wants Americans to believe that - show us the receipts.
2024-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

- Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat  — TikTok says law infringes rights of 170 million Americans

The US controls every other major platform, and US intelligence exploits that advantage globally - Snowden's NSA revelations showed that. Is the US unwilling to put up with even one platform it doesn't run, as it asks every other country to put up with controlling none?
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Times

How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020 to backing off in 2024, as he became a political star on the platform with more than 14.7M followers

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app.  Now, he is opposing the Biden administration's effort to do just that.

Honestly, I think Trump has presented a good challenge to US securocrats on TikTok here. If TikTok is doing something so different and so dangerous, why not declassify the evidence and get it banned? Instead of keeping it secret and risking the whole thing.
2024-12-29 View on X
New York Times

How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020 to backing off in 2024, as he became a political star on the platform with more than 14.7M followers

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app.  Now, he is opposing the Biden administration's effort to do just that.

The US controls every other major platform, and US intelligence exploits that advantage globally - Snowden's NSA revelations showed that. Is the US unwilling to put up with even one platform it doesn't run, as it asks every other country to put up with controlling none?
2024-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

- Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat  — TikTok says law infringes rights of 170 million Americans

2024-12-28
The US controls every other major platform, and US intelligence exploits that advantage globally - Snowden's NSA revelations showed that. Is the US unwilling to put up with even one platform it doesn't run, as it asks every other country to put up with controlling none?
2024-12-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute

- Biden administration says Chinese control of app is threat  — TikTok says law infringes rights of 170 million Americans