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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like to thank this site for informing me that PowerWash Simulator 2 exists.

Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 1d

There is a sequel?!?!?!

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a popular opinion among people who have not worked in banking or financial compliance or law enforcement - and it’s not true. The people I used to deal with at FBI vastly preferred crypto investigations because of how easy it was (in most cases) to track the $$$ relative to offshore banking.

Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 2d

You can’t, generally speaking, prove negative claims about bribes or anything else.

You can’t prove that you are not the hidden beneficial owner of a bank account somewhere in the world. You can’t prove you don’t have the key to a safe deposit box full of gold bars. Etc etc etc.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 4d

This is the kind of filing that lawyers love and everyone else hates - an appellate court staying a stay from one if its own panels, which stopped one (and maybe two but probably not) TROs which themselves prevented government action.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit administratively stays the panel’s 2-1 order staying the initial TRO in Oregon v. Trump through 5p PT Tuesday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The initial Oregon TRO is not stayed.

A resolution on en banc consideration is expected(?) to happen by 5p Tuesday.

Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 8d

There are several interesting things in this paragraph.

Later in the week, I verified that the text exchange had genuinely been with Halligan—or, at least, with Halligan’s phone. I obtained her cell phone number from an independent source and added the number as a contact on my phone. Signal immediately associated the phone number with the “Lindsey Halligan” account with which I had been texting.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 12d

You confidently wrote something legally impossible (voter recall of a NY elected official) would happen. Now you're asserting the Governor will do something you didn't even know existed before I mentioned it.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 12d

And before people start commenting - the governor’s removal provision exists but has not been used in either a very long time or ever, so that’s highly unlikely as well.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 12d

New York state law does not have a provision for recalling elected officials. So, no that’s not going to happen.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 19d

Another instance where I think "well, we can't expect a random person to remember 1973", and then click through to find the author is a Harvard professor of government studies.

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 20d

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · 29d

Part of the Forbes-to-Prison pipeline:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud

www.nytimes.com

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Sep 23

Which part, the CFAA claim?

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Sep 22

It also really united Americans in the 1950s, the 1860s, and (if you will grant me a bit of liberty with the historical record) every damn time it was used other than WW2.

There‘s also the famously successful A-TEAM program for an example of non-military govt service. Look it up.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Sep 22

We all, of course, fondly recall how compulsory service united the country from 1969-73.

Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · Sep 21

We no longer know one another.

The longest consecutive stretch in American history without mandatory service should end.

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https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article312151128.html?taid=68cfd605ccfd1a00015ccb11&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Sep 19

It’s the sort of thing that Dave Winer or Douglas Copeland would have written in 1994.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Sep 16

Mike Tyson punching Mr. Beast is the healing moment this country needed.

Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Sep 14

An interesting newspaper correction:

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Sep 11

He will be missed.

A photo of Maru the cat, wearing a cardboard box as though it was a cape. I’ll miss you, Maru.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Aug 26

It will be fine.*

* Offer not available in all states.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Aug 5

I was briefly looking forward to your scholarship on the law of schoolyard fistfights and am now disappointed. Who do I sue for compensation?

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Jul 30

Interviewer asks where I see myself in 5 years. Answer is a person covered in a pile of sleeping cats.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Jul 22

Or you end up with the current NorCal situation where there’s an abundance of energy but we shut off large portions of the grid on windy days because a lot of the power flows over 75-100 year old above-ground lines that run through forests.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Jul 22

Distribution, not storage, is the issue and it’s a political, not engineering, problem. Deregulation discouraged transmission investment and current solar installs increase that strain.

RN we can continue to increase solar at the expense of a Paradise-scale fire every ~5 years.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Jul 22

Another way to phrase that is “ISO throws away 12% of all solar power because we have not invested in storage and distribution.” It’s a good problem to have but, you know, still an area needing investment.

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Definitely Not Shane @cno.bsky.social · Jul 15

Being born in the 70s is massively underrated. Bonus points if you stumbled into “symbolic systems” or “neural networking” in the early 90s.