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Apple at 50: Let's remember some computers: raffcast.com

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SCOTUS: The DMCA does not expressly imposes liability for Internet service providers who serve known infringers. “The DMCA merely creates new defenses from liability for such providers.” Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment

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Scenes from the class struggle in Westeros: raffcast.com

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Figure it out: raffcast.com

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@andrewraff.com If Olympic skimo racing is intriguing, USA Skimo is the national organizing body www.usaskimo.org (internationally, ISMF, not FIS)
\nThe Wasatch Powderkeg is the US National Championships in March www.wasatchpowderkeg.com
\nIn the east, the Tuckerman Inferno looks intense: www.skireg.com/tuckerman-infe…

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Ring my Bell: raffcast.com

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NBC Olympics coverage crosses venues across Italy and then is sound mixed 4,000 miles away in Connecticut. www.youtube.com/watch

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@andrewraff.com And further, Congressional Democrats are in a lobbyist/consultant/mainstream media bubble, where reality is filtered through a lens of relative electoral positioning, instead of values grounded in reality. (And with the fundamentally wrong assumption that they are in a good faith equal rivalry)

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@manton I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing this. May her memory be a blessing.

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@andrewraff.com Of course, auto-correct mangled “constituents” into consistent

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‘Fuck You, Make Me’ is the founding principle of this nation.

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L’shana tova. To a new year of peace, love, and understanding.

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@mattmarcotte.bsky.social I’m 50-50 between the 17 Pro and just getting a new battery for my 13 mini and continuing to use the last proper-sized phone until it’s entirely unsupported.

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@volts.wtf …and the Dems are so afraid of getting pulled into these culture war fringe issues that they are only willing to talk about egg prices instead of authoritarian overreach or infringement of rights and freedoms…

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@hitchdied.bsky.social I think 7 right now: apple cider, rice, red wine, white, sherry, balsamic, black

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@andrewraff.com In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

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@andrewraff.com He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

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@andrewraff.com He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

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@andrewraff.com He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

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@andrewraff.com He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
\nHe has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

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@andrewraff.com For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.
\nFor suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

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@andrewraff.com For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies.

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@andrewraff.com For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.

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@andrewraff.com For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.
\nFor imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.
\nFor depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.

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@andrewraff.com For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.

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@andrewraff.com He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
\nFor Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.

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@andrewraff.com He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

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@andrewraff.com He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
\nHe has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

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@andrewraff.com He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

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@andrewraff.com refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

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@andrewraff.com the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners;

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@andrewraff.com He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise;

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@andrewraff.com He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776: raffcast.com

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Roubaix weekend cobbles

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Cat sameach

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Why is this so hard? raffcast.com

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When mediocrity, excuses, and bullshit take root, they take over. A culture of excellence, accountability, and integrity cannot abide the acceptance of any of those things, and will quickly collapse upon itself with the acceptance of all three.

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Daring Fireball: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino

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Finally. daringfireball.net/linked/20…

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Training AI search on Westlaw headnotes is not fair use: raffcast.com

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Yes. “The whole tech world needs more projects that aren’t trying to become billion- (let alone trillion‑) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas” daringfireball.net/2025/01/r…

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Nice, cold day, with flurries at Plattekill

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Low-knead low-rye

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An appropriate beer for today (National Emergency from Montclair Brewery)

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Snow way

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So, 2025. We are going to make it through [this year] (https://youtube.com/watch?v=T_qkVPZ8DJI&si=hSa9hZrlK89GbdAp)

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Subscription Sunday: raffcast.com

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