Joe Ross

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Lawyer, husband & dad. Geek, especially about the collision of #law & #tech, #IndieWeb. Often waiting for DNS changes to propagate.

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More proof of the corrupt faux Christianity of the right:

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

I was a relatively early adopter and this is the best post on this site so far.

Millennial dads when the kids are letting the air conditioning out.

I’ve seen the way Gen Z dresses… and… glass houses and all…

Some Millennials in my timeline are insecure because Gen Zs are telling them their ankle socks age them. I can't stress enough that you don't need to care about what a bunch of 20-somethings think about your clothes, mainly bc you don't have to care about what ANYONE thinks about your clothes.

Oral Argument for Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive – CourtListener.com This oral argument before the 2nd Circuit about the legality of Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending program is a great listen, regardless of what sid... https://joeross.me/2024/07/05/oral-argument-for.html

Sure, Elon, I’ll go right ahead and disable my privacy related extensions…

Twitter is such a shit show that this is the kind of ad they’re showing someone who has only ever insulted morons like Cruz on the platform, not mention this ad is so brazen in how stupid it assumes its target market is.

Laurens Hof, writing in Episode 73 of his Last Week in Fediverse newsletter: "What makes the situation with rumours of Mastodon leaking private messages so interesting to me is that the original posts that contained the rumours got significa... https://joeross.me/2024/06/21/laurens-hof-writing.html

Louisiana classrooms now required by law to display the Ten Commandments | CNN Politics I haven’t looked into yet, but my first thought is that this middle finger to the Constitution has the stench of Leonard Leo and his ilk all over it.

🦎 What are some good dinosaur apps and games to learn and play with your kids on iOS? I’m happy to pay for good apps, I just want to avoid scams and low-effort nonsense.

🔗 Rich Idiot Tweets Nick Heer has a great post about the vapid coverage of vapid Elon Musk, but this bit from the end of Heer’s post struck me as the perfect Twitter bio for Musk: "words from the fingers of a dipshit"

Now that Spotify’s family plan costs $20/month I don’t have much incentive not to switch to YouTube Music, which comes with the YouTube Premium I’m already paying for. I’m also giving the Tidal 30-day trial a shot, but that would be $22/month for a family plan.

⌨️ A quick MS Word tip: Press control + shift + F9 to remove all hyperlinks in a selection of text. You may need to include the Fn or equivalent key if you're a keyboard nerd using several layers. This is handy for work because while I'm writing brie... https://joeross.me/2024/06/03/a-quick-ms.html

Alito's intellectual honesty: https://joeross.me/2024/06/01/alitos-intellectual-honesty.html

TenBlueLinks.org shows you how to make Google’s old school, AI-free search filter, called, and this is true, Google Web, the default. I’m not a fan of Chrome on iOS, or anywhere really, so I added the &udm=14 suffix to the Google action I use in Drafts and shared it to the Drafts directory.

🪶 This is only my opinion, but it is one I strongly hold: Tom Bombadil is equal parts omnipotence and ADHD.

🔗 Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors Tripp Mickle%2C Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz report at The New York Times that: "The decision came after the executives Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing Op... https://joeross.me/2024/05/12/apple-will-revamp.html

🔗 Does the Statute of Limitations Ever Apply in Legal Malpractice? Hey look, my employer has a blog about the kind of work I do, and I wrote a thing for it.

I wore transitions (™️?) lenses for a year and half in my late thirties and no one close to me loved me enough to punch me in the face and force me to replace them. I’m not saying I don’t take responsibility, or that I’m not loved at all, just maybe not enough.

😠 Google’s connected speakers and hubs are actually useful (unlike Alexa and Siri…), but it’s really hard when you’re super angry about something and have to mumble “Hey Google …” through gritted teeth. Just let us change the wake phra... https://joeross.me/2024/04/29/googles-connected-speakers.html

🔗 Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book | Books | The Guardian I’m not quoting from the review or her memoir because Noem is deplorable, and because, somehow, it’s worse than the headline suggests. When people tell you who they are, believe them.

💙 About to watch the long Bluey episode with the family… will update afterward…

😠 If your iPhone on iOS 17 becomes unresponsive, be warned: You may lose that day’s photos if you decide to force a reboot before getting them off the phone. This happened to me today. I lost three photos of my son being cuter than any other son in the world.

🔗 Some legal malpractice cases are bogus, and many are defensible. But some are, well, not, which is apparently how State Bar Court Judge Yvette D. Roland in California viewed the misconduct proceedings against John Eastman, the now-disbarred architect of the 2020 fake electors nonsense. (PDF)

🔗 Manton Reece - An update on the pricing update www.manton.org/2024/02/27/a... Micro.blog is such a great value. Like omg.lol, Micro.blog is a positive community built by people who didn't see exactly what they wanted on the web, so they decided to make it.

Manton Reece - An update on the pricing updatewww.manton.org

👑 That feeling when you've been reading The Hobbit to your kids and your four-year-old daughter insists, and I mean INSISTS, that the friend she made recently at dance class, whose name she had trouble remembering until just now, is named Thorin

🔗 QuickLink Opener – FlohGro flohgro.com/drafts-actio... I do something similar (even in name), with quicklinks.lol, but Floh Gro’s solution using an action in #Drafts for #iOS is faster, and private.

🔗 Manton Reece - Recommendations and blogrolls on Micro.blog I’ve long meant to get a blogroll up on this site, and it’s another testament to the fact that I’ve chosen the right community that it was recently integrated into Micro.blog, including auto-updating, public OPML and JSON exports.

Bilbo is, ever was, and ever shall be, my people. "“Back now to the Mountain!” cried Thorin. “We have little time to lose.”" "“And little food to use!” cried Bilbo, always practical on such points." – The Hobbit, Chapter 15, The Gathering of the Clouds, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2013: https://joeross.me/2024/03/12/the-hobbit-the.html

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012: https://joeross.me/2024/03/12/the-hobbit-an.html