Подтвердите e-mail

Для публикаций, комментариев, реакций и сообщений подтвердите адрес.

Профиль

Mike Masnick

Профиль Vively

Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform

👀

000

California Bay Area. The dog is estimated to be somewhere between 1 and 2 years old...

010

Amazing!

000

Definitely a part of the vetting process.

0170

Ha! No. He's a sweet pup but we foster a ton of dogs and we'll help find him a wonderful permanent home.

140

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Order – #62 in Trump v. Internal Revenue Service (S.D. Fla., 1:26-cv-20609) – CourtListener.comORDER CLOSING CASE. See attached document for full details. Signed by Judge Kathleen M. Williams on 5/18/2026. (ymd) (Entered: 05/18/2026)storage.courtlistener.com
200

The case wasn't withdrawn. It was "settled." We're talking about the terms of the settlement, which a court has already rejected as being based on fraudulent motivations.

100

C'mon. This is fun!

010

I actually don't think it is. It is so narrowly targeted and directly relevant to my work. And there was some background info that suggests it's not spam.

000

So I'm curious people think I should do. If I had received this message via email I would happily respond to it. But I'm slightly weirded out by the fact that they tracked down my relatively unknown personal cell number.

37320

Of course, it's entirely possible that person or someone associated with them is reading this as well. But since I never try to give out that number, this all feels oddly violative. My email address is easy to find. It is not hard to contact me through other means.

2230

But it does seem legit (the person does seem to exist and would have a reason to want to talk to me). I could (and perhaps should) respond asking how they got the number. But also part of me thinks I shouldn't acknowledge that they texted my actual phone number.

1170

This morning I received a text from someone I don't know that actually does seem relevant to me (asking to talk to me about something I have expertise in). The text (oddly) says "I wanted to follow up via email" despite it being a text & there was no other contact.

1190

... for things that refused to accept the VoIP number. A few months ago, the real number started receiving spam texts, all in 3 categories: tree trimming, offers of instant loans, and some polling firm. I immediately block and report all such messages as spam. Though they keep coming on new numbers.

1250
Показать ещё