Huh. Brendan Eich (Famous Geek) And Brian Brown (Business Developer (?) at Brave) wrote a WSJ piece about Brave that inspired me to dig a little more. Looks interesting.

https://hackernoon.com/why-im-bullish-on-bat-and-the-brave-browser-in-2018-8e2cbc0ce420

WaPo (my favorite newspaper) accepts brave: https://m.nasdaq.com/article/washington-post-adds-support-for-brave-browser-basic-attention-token-cm934988

Good-looking DZone article: https://dzone.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-brave-web-br

(Here’s the WSJ piece that started me on this, but it’s probably paywalled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-internets-original-sin-endangers-more-than-privacy-1524868508?ns=prod/accounts-wsj

BTW, I do subscribe to the Journal, at the we-have-to-keep-him-from-cancelling rate.)

Fun read. 🙂

Source: https://wonkette.com/633052/i-a-flaming-homosexual-dont-give-a-flying-fuck-whether-joy-reid-wrote-that-shit-10-years-ago

«If you have been sleeping under a rock or just are smart enough not to spend your whole life on Twitter, you might have missed the cause du jour for some people of the left, the types who have nothing better to do than go after female journalists of color who fail to pass their purity tests, which is getting MSNBC’s Joy Reid to SAY SORRY and GO AWAY LIKE A COMMON HILLARY, because she allegedly LIED about homophobic posts that allegedly appeared on her blog over a decade ago.

….

However, exactly zero percent of the posts rise to the level of what anti-gay preachers and hate group leaders spew each and every day, about gays burning in hell for a fiery eternity. Let’s pick our battles, and SPOILER, “Allegedly Joy Reid Wasn’t Great On Gay Issues 10 Years Ago” is a really stupid battle, to be engaged in only by complete fucking idiots.»

(#Meta) This made me cranky. “Big if true” is the perfect demonstration of how a lie goes halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. If it’s easy to research, then…?

https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/989901335960043520

So… don’t be a hypocrite. If you are, be ready to be unmasked. 🙂

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/04/how-cosbys-pound-cake-speech-helped-lead-to-his-downfall/559049/

«In federal court and the public consciousness, his moralizing accelerated the cultural backlash against him and provided evidence that would be used against him at trial.»

«In July 2015, a judge ruling on a request filed by the Associated Press decided to unseal 2005 depositions of Cosby from a lawsuit filed by Constand in which he acknowledged obtaining sedatives to use on women he wanted to “have sex” with. The judge, Eduardo C. Robreno, wrote that Cosby’s decision to present himself as a moral paragon had affected his decision about whether the documents were of public interest.»

Not generally a McArdle fan, but this is a good (opinion) piece.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/04/26/a-farewell-to-free-journalism/

«…the old open Internet was a marvelous gift to readers, a vast cornucopia of great writing upon which we’ve been gorging for the past two decades. But there’s a limit to how long one can keep handing out gifts without some reciprocity. At the end of the day, however much information wants to be free, writers still want to get paid.»

Progress!

Source: http://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-house-debate-national-popular-vote-20180425-story.html

This is what happens when Republicans take elections more seriously than Democrats.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-27/mcconnell-cements-a-legacy-for-trump-with-reshaped-u-s-courts

«The court realignment is the product of the Senate Republican leader playing a long game by holding up then-President Barack Obama’s court nominees and then closely collaborating with Trump’s White House Counsel Don McGahn. Both men have made it a priority to advance judges ensconced in originalist legal thinking favored by the Federalist Society»

https://www.thedailybeast.com/claims-by-joy-reids-cybersecurity-expert-fall-apart

«It’s possible that in the end Reid will discover her adversary isn’t a determined hacker, but a far more dogged foe: The Joy-Ann Reid of years past, writing in a voice she can no longer recognize as her own.»

Ah. This is how the British courts can deny a flight to Italy.

«A parent who wants to pursue a treatment that is ineffective and potentially prolongs suffering is treated similarly in law to a parent who refuses life-saving treatment that is very likely to work.»

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43893709

More than 50. Wow.

«When Ms. Constand testified, she took the stand as something of a proxy for the other women, more than 50, who have accused Mr. Cosby of abuses, often with details remarkably similar to Ms. Constand’s account. A few of those women attended the trial.»