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andrew

@andrew@esq.social

[he/him]

Tax/Technology Attorney
Admin @ https://esq.social open to all #legal and #law adjacent folks

Columnist @ Bloomberg Tax
Contributor @ Forbes
Bylines @ TechCrunch, Baseball Prospectus etc.
Adjunct Prof @ Drexel Kline School of Law

Bestie to @gina

https://lawstodon.org

#tax #tawlaw #tech #legaltech #law #lawfedi #baseball #economics #finance #fintech #history #politics #newjersey #pennsylvania #cabins #motorcycles #ebikes #podcasting #mastoadmin

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andrew, to random
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Members of the House writing to express support for keeping AM radio in motor vehicles doesn't do a lot to undercut the argument that we're a gerontocracy.

#radio #congress #lawfedi

andrew,
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@Jennifer_Pinkley Well that just means you've never been in an emergency!

(I'm kidding of course.)

andrew,
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@chadmbriggs If you can make an argument its part of emergency infrastructure maybe we can get them put back in. What can a Foghat cassette plausibly do for us in an emergency? Be used to break a window when we're sinking upside down in a bog maybe?

andrew,
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@jspath55 I'd listen to baseball on it if it was reliable anywhere that isn't pancake flat.

AustinB, to random
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It never ceases to amaze me how academic articles written before the 1980s seem to really be just unsupported pronouncements of a white man with a comfortable seat, tenure, and the time to just say whatever they consider. No need to worry us, the readers, with where they got their facts.

andrew,
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@AustinB From a visual perspective they also always seem to have been typed on the first typewriter ever made and then scanned by the first scanner put in to production. An ethnography from 1939 and a law journal article from 1979 do not have 40 years of difference apparent in their PDF.

andrew, to random
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This isn't really on-brand with my usual toots, but I find Rod Stewart as a cultural artifact endlessly fascinating.

He's a household name, but you've never really met a massive fan of his. Almost any hit song of his you can think of is a cover. I don't think he plays an instrument. He covers a lot of like Motown songs. He seemed to make the move to covers immediately after his first hit solo album.

He's 78, but he seems like he should be about 108 by now.

Anywho, this will be my TED talk.

andrew,
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Oh and he's worth like a quarter of a billion dollars and has sold almost half a billion records. To who?

No offense to him, I just have never seen his album in someone's collection. Never perused a shelf of LPs and come across "An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down."

He's also, at least to me, quintessentially of the 90s even though he was like 50.

andrew,
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@vwdasher I thought his lurch was in the 90s. “Forever Young” is what comes to mind.

andrew,
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@moliver how much demand is there for an impersonator?!

andrew,
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@misanthropesq I noticed that in his bio or something too! It made me think maybe there is more to this feller than I thought? But if he's cheap I'm knocking him back down a peg.

Edit: Also loses points and raises an eyebrow with the cavalcade of spouses.

andrew, to law
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Billions?! Billions! With a B!

I thought STIR/SHAKEN was going to solve all this.

"XCast Labs, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider, has been sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for allegedly facilitating billions of illegal robocalls. The FTC is seeking a court order to compel the company to cease the practice.”

#lawfedi @law

https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/515-debt-ceiling-robocall-lawsuits

sarangshah, to random

Holy shit the allegations against “America’s Mayor” (blaghhh) are insanely awful. It’s easy to just toss this into the general soup of Trump-related wrongdoings by him and his crew of disgustingly corrupt old men, but as someone who was politically aware and deeply troubled by the post-9/11 era, I feel like I can’t let this one slide by

andrew,
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@sarangshah missed it. What he do?

Edit: Nevermind, spelled his name right on the second search and I see. Gross.

SapphicLawyer, to random
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One of the ways you can tell the journalist mantra of always equally reporting 'both sides' is BS is they basically never adhere to this rule when reporting on crime.

andrew,
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@SapphicLawyer Well said. I can't remember having ever read an article even suggesting why a given offender may have been driven to commit the crime they're accused of.

andrew, to law
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5/15 - Debt Ceiling, Robocall Lawsuits, Google Deceives in Ads, Gilead Win Implications and Apparent Agency Medical Malpractice

We have #debtceiling talk, #robocall lawsuits, #Google pays for deceptive ads, implications of the #Gilead win for HIV prophylaxis and apparent agency in a medical malpractice case in #Illinois.

Today in history: Standard Oil is dissolved by #SCOTUS, creating 34 independent companies (for at time).

#lawfedi @law

bradpatrick, to random
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Hello, @esq world!

andrew,
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@bradpatrick Howdy howdy! Welcome aboard!

charliejane, to random
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Once upon a time, there was a young person named Beb, who wore kaleidoscope pants that scattered rainbows and sparkles everywhere. The townspeople would greet Beb and tell them they were looking good and their pants were bringing much-needed color to the town.

Every day on their way to work or school, Beb had to walk through a garden full of bullies who mocked and threatened them. Sometimes the bullies would mention they knew were Beb lived.

andrew,
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@SapphicLawyer @charliejane

🙏

andrew,
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@SapphicLawyer @charliejane

Sorry, I fired off my little "thanks" emoji response expecting the thread to be longer and I'd need time to read/process/respond.

I completely agree with the hiding versus banning distinction. I also don't think any kind of moderation that leaves them with access to their victims feeds, even read-only. They just seethe and collect information and wait.

As for spam/scams, I'm more okay with just making it so their nonsense can't be seen by us.

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andrew,
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@soflaadmin @krisnelson @AnnemarieBridy @law Tis a good option.

andrew,
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@krisnelson @AnnemarieBridy @law

My understanding is it would be entirely effective. I don't know if people referring to "defederating" are speaking only of suspending, or if they were including limiting.

I was personally referring to limiting.

andrew,
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@louis @law

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not impugning anyone's efforts, I think the problem is structural and inherent to a general purpose instance with ~200k users. I couldn't moderate an instance of such size and if I tried I'd do much worse than they are.

But to say people dealing with spam from that instance is silly because the problem was actually much bigger kind of misses the point.

andrew,
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@renchap

Thanks for all the above and below. I hope you came across the post I made clarifying my initial statement to make clear I am not impugning anyone's efforts.

My tacit question remains, though, do you think moderation to where those kinds of spam attacks don't happen to begin with is possible with an instance of m .social's size?

andrew,
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@renchap Love this idea. Thanks for all of your hard work, I can't speak for other instance admins but personally it isn't going unnoticed or unappreciated.

andrew,
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@tbw @renchap @glennf @law

Seconded. At the scale @renchap is handling things its just a different job entirely (as against a smaller instance admin). People like me are in a weekend beer league and he's in The Show.

andrew,
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@zeruch @renchap

Well it can be solved from an origination standpoint at a small size. Imagine an instance of 1 with closed signups. Scale that up slowly only insofar as you can continue to closely monitor and approve each new signup. Voila.

If you then treated federation as a default opt-out situation, you could mimic the same process there. Each new instance you federate with would be considered and only on the strength of their moderation.

andrew, to fediverse
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I've been kicking around pitching an idea for a course, tentatively titled “Introduction to Legal Writing for Public Consumption."

I'd like to marshal the fedihive mind and borrow the brains of folks much smarter and more experience than I -- does that sound like a law school course, or a journalism school course?

My experience of law school was that sort of writing wasn't even considered. Does that make this idea a feature or a bug?

#lawfedi #lawprofs #fediverse @law

andrew,
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@Brandon @colinsullivan

Many thanks for the insight. I'm going to give pitching it a shot. I think the response suggests the idea is solid, the only question is whether I should be the one teaching it!

Welp, people above my pay grade will have to make that determination.

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