The article linked doesn’t give a good recount of what transpired in the courtroom.

From the Axios article

But the judge's questioning did reveal a disagreement over whether the agreement on the tax charges was linked to a gun charge against Biden. Prosecutors said it wasn't; Biden's team thought it was - and they repeatedly argued about it in open court.

Definitely a Trump appointed judge, but my understanding is this was more on the attorneys not understanding what the agreement was and the Judge discovering while doing their due diligence on the plea deal. Hunter’s attorneys are likely to blame here.

The only posts bots should be making is mega threads for events. Content posted should be organic from the user to drive discussion and not what some bot wants to repost from Reddit/hn/etc.

I’ve already blocked several bots to improve my experience, since my feed was being overrun by bots posting to various communities.

But that’s the risk taken when you create a protocol (ActivityPub) that anyone can tap into. You can’t create something that is open to everyone and then pitch a fit when entity you don’t like or agree decides to take advantage of it. Regardless of how big Threads get, it can’t supecede the ActivityPub protocol. If they decided to defederate down the road in attempts to extinguish the Fediverse, it won’t work, those users will still remain and Threads will go on it’s merry way. Meta can’t kill a W3C protocol.

I’m all for individual users blocking Threads if they’d like to, but I think it’s a terrible idea for instance admins to make that decision for all of their users.

Personally, I don’t see why this is so controversial. I view it as a way to follow the celebs and organizations that would rather use threads, but from the comfort of Mastodon that is outside of Meta’s ecosystem.

ActivityPub and the Fediverse is designed to for natural selection to take place. So let it. The users that want to be part of the Fediverse are already here and won’t don’t leave based on what Meta does with Threads. Threads utilizing ActivityPub in the future justifies the means of the Fediverse more than anything else IMO. I despise Meta as much as the next person, but this is not the end of the Fediverse as we know it.

Can’t wait to see him be trash on a new team. (Bitter Magic fan here)

Jim also swears he saw Lorne Michaels when he was in NYC with Karen for the Job Interview.

So with Spez having a hard on for Elon and how he runs Twitter, how long until we see this on Reddit? Premium members can view 1000 posts/day and regular members can only view 100 posts/day. Similar rule will apply to comments too.

I already opted out of my refund and tipped a few more bucks. Christian deserves every penny and I look forward to his next project. This was certainly a labor of love and I’m heartbroken for him in a sense.

Very impressed with the showcase and this jumped to the top of my list of games for 2023. Still won’t pre-order it and am expecting a classic buggy Bethesda launch experience.