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New Essay: The Fact of the Matter: After Bernard Williams –
Truthfulness, Facts, and the Myth of Immediacy
📝https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18133958
#essay #philosophy #truth #law #epistemology #facts #zenodo #bernardwilliams #truth #science #communication #language #perception #metaphysics #mediation #objectivity #evidence #jurisprudence #AntiEnlightenment
In a separate reply to a user on #X on Thursday, #Grok “said” most cases could be prevented through advanced filters & monitoring although it said "no system is 100% foolproof," adding that #xAI was prioritising improvements & reviewing details shared by users.
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies".
[wtaf?]
#ArtificialIntelligence #law #regulations #policy #tech #CSAM #Musk
From @Techcrunch: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill this week that will require social media platforms to show warning labels to younger users before they’re exposed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling. Will more states follow?
Retributive Justice is a casino. The house has the advantage.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/23/footnotes-from-the-house-justice-as-a-casino-game/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
Read part 2 of a 3-part series.
#blog #philosophy #justice #casino #retribution #ontology #evaluation #critique #law #power #language #semantics #agency #freewill #reason #metaphor #essay #podcast #history
Just heard from someone who works at Wowburger that the company takes any gratuity you leave on the payment machines.
So, if this is true, it’s illegal in Ireland. Not to mention, a dick move regardless.
Anyone in Ireland know the Wowburger folks and/or where I can lodge a complaint about this?
"Misused"?!?!?!?! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-lawsuit-suicide-openai-response-1235473571/
Chicago Sun Times: ‘Unusual and possibly unprecedented’: Judge calls out Chicago feds as Midway Blitz cases fall apart
Prosecutors have dropped charges against all five people charged in connection with Sept. 27 protests at the immigration holding facility in west suburban Broadview.
“The court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. attorney’s office in this district to charge so hastily that it either could not obtain the indictment in the grand jury or was forced to dismiss upon a conclusion that the case is not provable, in repeated cases of a similar nature,” Fuentes wrote....:
The Intercept: The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
"...Daniel “Des” Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained “Antifa materials” after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.
But the boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim “Antifa” uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas — one was titled “Insurrectionary Anarchy” — but they’re fully constitutionally protected free speech...."
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/
WPRI: RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains Superior Court intern
"Multiple sources told Target 12 that Rhode Island sheriffs earlier noticed someone taking photos of the intern inside the courthouse and in Superior Court Judge McBurney’s courtroom. When approached, the individual identified himself as an ICE agent and was told to abide by standard courthouse rules, and to stop taking pictures.
The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.
Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked.
“This egregious incident underscores both the community’s and the Judiciary’s concerns about how ICE is conducting its operations in Rhode Island,” R.I. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell said. "
Microsoft, TCP/IP, Open Source, and Licensing via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/ahfvit #law #windows
https://web.archive.org/web/20051114154320/http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory%3Bsid%3D2001%2F6%2F19%2F05641%2F7357
In the end, #Trump did not want to lose.
Trump denounced calls for the release of the #EpsteinFiles as a Democratic hoax. He dispatched aides to warn #Republicans that backing it would be seen as a “hostile act.” He placed personal calls to those who dared to do so, & even dispatched his AG & FBI dir to meet with one in the White House #SituationRoom in efforts to get her to flip.
None of it worked.
#House #DOJ #law #criminal #Epstein #rape #SexTrafficking #CoverUp
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/trump-epstein-republicans-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
So on Sunday night, #Trump did something he has rarely been forced to do: He caved in the face of pressure from his party & called on #House #Republicans to go ahead & back a bill that would order his #DOJ to release all of its investigative files on the convicted #SexOffender #JeffreyEpstein.
By Monday, he was saying, “Sure,” he would sign the legislation he has spent months trying to kill.
#Congress #law #criminal #Epstein #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
It’s not clear that doing so would have any concrete impact; #Trump could have ordered the release of the files without an act of #Congress, & has not. And it remains to be seen whether his #DOJ will ultimately release the files.
#House #law #criminal #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Worries about Open Source in the age of LLMs https://lobste.rs/s/2242sf #law #vibecoding
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/11/17/llm-oss/
Open Source Power via @federicoschonborn https://lobste.rs/s/hnswfb #culture #law
https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/
Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City
#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution
Um, buried in the emails between #Epstein & Michael Wolff is an account of how the #Kremlin disguised a $100 million payment to #Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal. Involved in the deal were both Jeffrey Epstein & Trump’s #FHFA director #BillPulte who has been referring BS mortgage fraud claims about Trump’s perceived enemies to the #DOJ.
Here’s Chris Hayes & lawyer / law professor / fmr US attorney / fmr asst #DAG Harry Litman discussing the pretty obvious #CoverUp by DAG #ToddBlanche of #Trump’s involvement with #Epstein during his “questioning” of #GhislaineMaxwell.
#law #Trump #EpsteinFiles #corruption #DOJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRXU-WbKAo
"So he would go in there knowing that this would come out; he would have this in his mind," Goodman said. "And then to not press back on her tosay, 'What do you mean you never saw him at the house?' You have an email exchange referring to him spending hours at the house with one of the victims. That, to me, smacks of a bit of a cover-up on the part of the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."
#law #Trump #Epstein #CoverUp #EpsteinFiles #corruption #DOJ #ToddBlanche #GhislaineMaxwell
The emails show #Trump had knowledge of #Epstein's activities, & directly contradicted Maxwell's claim that she never saw Trump at Epstein's house.
Goodman discussed the documents on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
He argued that #ToddBlanche had to know about the emails & was working to cover them up when he interviewed #GhislaineMaxwell. Goodman noted that Blanche never pushed back on Maxwell's assertion that she never saw Trump at Epstein's house.
#Epstein dump exposed #DOJ's massive #CoverUp for #Trump
Law professor & co-editor-in-chief of Just Security Ryan Goodman said the latest documents from #JeffreyEpstein is explosive & seems to implicate Trump's deputy attorney general [#DAG] in a massive cover-up.
The emails released directly contradict statements Epstein's associate, #GhislaineMaxwell, made to DAG #ToddBlanche in a taped interview designed to exonerate Trump.
#law #EpsteinFiles #corruption #DOJ
https://www.rawstory.com/todd-blanche-2674290392/
Are the #EpsteinFiles suddenly real? Or are some of them real (& vindicating) & some of them fake (& incriminating)? All we know is that #Trump wants us to stop talking about the subject. That’s usually what you want when the subject includes evidence that you have behaved in a manner beyond reproach.
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Epstein #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Asked today if #Trump is going to #pardon #GhislaineMaxwell Leavitt replied, “It’s not something he’s talking about or even thinking about at this moment in time.”
“At this moment in time” doesn’t exactly slam the door on that possibility.
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
The White House’s responses fit a pattern of suspicious behavior from the president on this matter. #Trump has said of #Epstein’s accomplice, #GhislaineMaxwell, “I wish her well”—a strange thing to say about a #convicted #felon who systematically abused young girls. His admin has granted her a cushy upgrade for her stint in prison, including a transfer to a minimum-security camp & puppy visits. This has the appearance of a #QuidProQuo.
#Epstein’s emails also imply that #Trump was aware of his #SexTrafficking scheme. “Of course he knew about the girls,” Epstein wrote in an email. If I met a teenager who I knew to be a likely victim of a sex-trafficking ring, I’d like to think that I’d try to help them contact #law enforcement or get away. Also, if I discovered that a close friend was running a sex-trafficking ring, maybe I’d reconsider our friendship, rather than engaging in long, pleasant chats w/ his victims.
The White House’s response raises several questions. First, the conversation Giuffre recalled having with #Trump took place at Mar-a-Lago. The email in question described an encounter at #Epstein’s home, where the interaction may have included more than babysitting tips. Further, contextualizing this email by noting which girl it involved is a strange way to respond to a “fake” document.
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
The encounter was *perfectly innocent*—just *several hours* of #Trump brainstorming ideas for babysitting clients, a familiar act of generosity from a man known for his passion for mentoring young people. (Giuffre cannot be subpoenaed, because she died by suicide in April.)
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Rapid Response 47, an official White House X account, fired off a message noting that in her new posthumous memoir about surviving #Epstein’s abuse, Giuffre says that #Trump was friendly & that he offered to help her find babysitting work. The account later added, “Democrats redacted the victim’s name because the victim said Trump ‘couldn’t have been friendlier,’ was a ‘gentleman,’ & that she didn’t witness any wrongdoing.”
#law #criminal #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Wait, Are the #EpsteinFiles Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser & curiouser
…the revelations are a bit too damning to be dismissed as a news-cycle gambit, so the WH took a different tack a few hours later. It released a statement noting that the unnamed victim in the #Epstein email who “spent hours” with #Trump at Epstein’s house was #VirginiaGiuffre, who “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.”
#law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-epstein-email/684909/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX56Ij8bIjTjicNUwOfcTHk
The #legislation does include some caveats. The #DOJ would not be required to alert a senator that their records were sought if the lawmaker was the target of the investigation, allowing a federal judge to delay any such notification requirements.
The legislation comes as #Trump has also sought compensation from the DOJ related to his own legal troubles, asking for a $230 million settlement related to the investigation conducted by Robert Mueller & from Smith’s classified documents probe.
“If we believe that citizens should receive notice when the #government subpoenas their phone bill, great! Perhaps this revolutionary new policy—which #CivilLiberties groups would probably support—should be the law. But then the law should protect the civil liberties of all 320 million Americans, as the #EqualProtectionClause of the #Constitution demands, not just the 100 Americans in the #Senate,” #JamieRaskin added.
#law #Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #shutdown
“The Senators may not like being treated like the rest of America, but these phone-record subpoenas & non-disclosure orders are routine in grand jury investigations at the state & federal level. No one has an absolute right to be notified that their call records have been subpoenaed, much less the right to a million bucks if it happens. This provision would not give any Americans other than US Senators these rights,” #JamieRaskin said.
“There was no ‘phone tap’ or eavesdropping on the content of their conversations. The call records subpoenaed were the kind of information you see on a phone bill—a list of calls made & received,” #JamieRaskin said, adding that the 8 senators were “pathetically casting themselves as victims.”
Jack Smith sought the phone records of 8 senators as well as 1 member of the House during his investigation into #Jan6, including those known to have spoken to #Trump during the #insurrection.
Rep #JamieRaskin (D-MD) called the provision “one of the most blatantly #corrupt provisions for political self-dealing & the plunder of public resources ever proposed in #Congress.”
The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, only applies to members of the #Senate & would allow them to sue for $500,000 if data was sought without their being notified, as well as once it was obtained.
“That’s a cool one million per Senator,” Raskin said in a stmnt.
#law #Trump #Jan6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5601358-senate-phone-record-legal-challenge-raskin/
#House passes bill to reopen government after longest #shutdown ever
The legislation now goes to #Trump to sign into #law.
The bill INCLUDES the provision allowing Senators who were investigated by the #DOJ for their alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to overturn the #2020election to sue the #US #government for $500,000.
It DOES NOT INCLUDE the #healthcare subsidies for the #ACA, nor a reversal of the GOP #Medicaid cuts Democrats wanted.
#SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-reopen-update-house-returns-5771f2befb15f4ab45e327369f2e98d9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-12-Breaking+News
Here’s the photo Lisa was referencing
Epstein birthday book photo of him holding a novelty check bearing Trump’s signature, along with a note suggesting Epstein “sold” him a woman for $22,500
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Dec 8, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Epstein replied to Landon Thomas Jr:
[picture] my 20 year old girlfriend in 93,, that after two years i gave to donald
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Here’s Lisa Rubin on this series of emails:
Her reaction to how grotesque these men are is exactly mine.
[Thomas cont]
In response to a msg left seeking the Trump campaign's comment on this article, on Thurs Trump's general counsel Alan Garten emailed threatening legal action against BuzzFeed News. "Mr. Trump's only connection with Mr. Epstein was that Mr. Epstein was one of thousands of people who has visited Mar-a-Lago. That's it. Mr. Trump has NEVER been accused of having any involvement or even having any knowledge of any of Mr. Epstein's conduct by anyone," Garten wrote…
Dec 8, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Epstein wrote: [pic] hawain tropic girl lauren petrella
Dec 8, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon wrote: I am serious man – for the good of the nation why not try to get some of this out there. I would not do it myself, but would pass on to a political reporter.
[Landon Thomas Jr links a Buzzfeed article http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexcampbell/court-papers-trump-ate-at-jeffrey-epsteins-house#.ltoekLMRz6]
Plus: look at these lies!
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Dec 8, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Thomas Jr., Landon wrote: Because of this. "I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy," Trump booms from a speakerphone. "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, & many of them are on the younger side.…"
Dec 8, 2015, at 4:43 PM Epstein wrote: would you like photos of donald & girls in bikinis in my kitchen.
Dec 8, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Landon Thomas Jr. wrote:
Yes!!!
Fmr NYT financial reporter #LandonThomas Jr’s emails with #Epstein about #Trump seem far more damning & disgusting than the 3 that the #House #Democrats released.
#Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #EpsteinFiles #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
On Friday, the US attorney’s office in Southern Florida issued 30 #subpoenas to individuals such former #CIA director #JohnBrennan, & other fmr intelligence officials. Shortly before Executive Assistant United States Attorney Manolo Reboso signed off on the subpoenas, 2 career US attorneys resigned because they “felt like there was something they could not take part in because it would violate their ethical responsibilities,” acc/to MSNBC.
Judge #AileenCannon Is Back—& Poised to Do More Damage for #Trump
Donald Trump is sending all of his #revenge cases to his favorite judge.
The #DOJ is teeing up a sprawling “conspiracy” investigation into Trump’s perceived political enemies, which will be sent to the same judge who got him his #ClassifiedDocuments get-out-jail free card.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://newrepublic.com/post/203075/judge-aileen-cannon-donald-trump-lawsuits
Confirmation: the so-called discharge petition that would force a vote on the #EpsteinFiles has the backing of 218 members, their signatures are frozen & cannot be removed.
#House #Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
I mean 🤬🤬🤬
Though #AdelitaGrijalva provided the final signature necessary to advance a vote on the #EpsteinFiles, the vote will likely not place before December. Under the rules that govern this procedural maneuver, the #House cannot act on the measure until after it “ripens” for 7 legislative days — days when #Congress is in session.
How slowly the bureaucracy moves!
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
#Epstein emails suggest a cozy friendship w/ #LarrySummers.
A series of exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein & Lawrence Summers, fmr #Treasury Secy & #Harvard president, suggest a far cozier & intimate relationship than previously known.
Emails between the 2 show the men bantering, sometimes multiple times a day.
The discussions, which occurred 2017–2019, largely focused on #Trump. But many of the emails focused on Summers’ conversations with a woman & how to handle relations with her.