lately #amethyst refuses to load the profile for some npubs. it stubbornly persists between refreshes, yet sometimes eventually resolves for an npub after days... anyone else? maybe something weird with stale caches..?

I actually count this as a subtle "win" for Taibbi. Aside from looking kind of like a doofus for bringing this case, it has the side-effect of "proving in court" that there is no evidence that he actually got paid to do any of this "right wing stuff". If the defamation case stood, it would follow that he did in fact do all the things the book hints at. But since the case was dismissed, the conclusion is that the book is blowing a lot of smoke and mirrors but with no substantive evidence.

Reason.com

Court Dismisses Matt Taibbi's Defamation Lawsuit Over "Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left"

From Taibbi v. Higgins, decided yesterday by Judge George Daniels (S.D.N.Y.): This action centers around Owned: How Tech Billionaires Bought...

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Free-Man's Perspective

Moving Back To The Internet - Free-Man's Perspective

Yes, I know that it seems the Internet has swallowed the world, but that isn’t quite true. What actually happened was the opposite: The world cap...

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