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View More NewsJustice Kavanaugh has used the phrase “interim docket” to refer to the Supreme Court’s emergency rulings, as they often set the interim rule while the issue percolates in the lower courts. Sometimes that “interim” can last years. Such is the case with Griffin v. HM Florida-ORL. A Florida law prohibited restaurants from showing “adult live performances.” A federal district court judge issued a universal injunction against the law that applied to the plaintiff, Hamburger Mary’s, as well as non-parties. Back in October 2023, Florida asked the Supreme Court to limit the injunction to Hamburger Mary’s. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch…
In brief Mocha CEO Nicholas Charriere hid a microphone in his toddler’s room, fed the recording to Claude, and built a family webpage of clips with titles like “I Did Fart.” The top reply—”I’d hate my parents if I found out they did this”—outscored his original post. He’s unrepentant, calling the audio “a treasure” and noting the family has played it on repeat. Nicholas Charriere thought he had a heartwarming story. His daughter was spending her first night ever sharing a room with someone else, her toddler cousin. The two of them talked for over an hour in what he…
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Editor’s note: the following essay discusses Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves in detail and contains spoilers throughout. Tolling for the deaf and blind, tolling for the mute,For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute.~Bob Dylan I.It has been thirty years since the release of Breaking the Waves, Danish director Lars von Trier’s film about the self-annihilation of a deeply religious but mentally damaged Scottish girl who loves not wisely but too well. Although hardly popcorn fare, and vehemently criticised by some feminists for creating a heroine defined by passivity and suffering, the film was an arthouse hit, grossing…
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In brief A firmware bug meant Coldcard wallets generated seeds from a software pseudo-random generator instead of the hardware chip built to do the…
from the attacks-on-a-free-press dept For much of Techdirt’s nearly three decades in existence we’ve covered attacks on the media by the rich and powerful.…
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The price of bitcoin BTC$76,856.32 has been closely tracking the 2026 realized price, currently around $76,200, according to Checkonchain, since the beginning of April.The…
Bitcoin is sliding into a high-risk environment due to continued institutional selling, primarily from US spot exchange-traded funds, according to crypto analytics platform Swissblock.Swissblock…
A Colorado jury awarded former New Jersey investment manager Robert Dial $24 million after finding that a police detective wrongfully arrested him in connection…
Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman has died, the company said in a post on X on Tuesday, without disclosing the cause.”It is with profound…
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Scammers have been using Google to deploy malicious phishing advertisements impersonating the crypto protocol Uniswap, which has reportedly netted the attackers at least $400,000. The…