ALL OF THIS:  For thirty years we’ve argued that software deserves First Amendment protection because software is speech. But the Constitution gives us another reason: software is a press. The Free Press Clause protects not merely expressive outputs but the individual’s freedom to possess and use technologies for producing and disseminating expression. The founding-era printing press is the paradigmatic example. That is the original understanding of the clause. Software and open-weight generative models are modern instances of the same constitutional category. Regulation directed at their capacity to produce or disseminate expression and an Americans’ right to own and control them directly implicates the Press Clause even when government characterizes the regulated object as a machine rather than speech.

DEAR BOB. THERE SHOULD BE NO BALLOT FRAUD, PERIOD, AND EVERY SANE PERSON SHOULD OPPOSE IT:  Kavanaugh throws Trump ‘a lifeline’ on mail ballot rules despite Supreme Court rejecting restrictions.

BLINK, BLINK, BLINK:  What Will Be the Ultimate Relationship Between AI and Humans?

AI is NOT a new lifeform. Let me rephrase that title: What will be the Ultimate Relationship Between Giant Calculators and Humans? None. AI is a tool. Get your head out of science fiction and keep on trucking. I write the stuff, and I know when it’s fantasy.

INFRINGEMENT OF BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS:  Oppression By Bureaucracy.

WHO DIED AND MADE WOMEN G-D?  The Mommy Standard.

THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS IS THE UNOFFICIAL SIGN AND COUNTERSIGN OF MY BLOG:  Have You Ever Kippled?

SO, WHEN DO PEOPLE GO TO JAIL?  Explosive Judiciary Committee Report Accuses ActBlue of Major Fraudulent Donation Cover-Up.

DEMS ARE OWNED BY CHARTS… MIGHT ALMOST BE A ZEN (SIC) DIAGRAM:  Gavin Newsom Tries Blaming President Trump for Home Prices, but Data Shows Who’s Really to Blame.

THE MEAN GIRLS ARE UP ON THE WARPATH:  Here’s What Triggered the Left’s Recent Meltdown Over Sydney Sweeney.

Every ugly girl is a leftist. And they have no appreciation for beauty. Now, at 64 I have no beauty, but maybe it is because I remember being beautiful (or close enough) that I don’t feel the slightest resentment or annoyance at beautiful women. Or maybe because I have an aesthetic appreciation of the beautiful, even beautiful that does nothing for me? I don’t know. What I know is leftists be cray cray.

POWERLINE HAS BEEN ON THE CASE FOR YEARS:  Why Ilhan Omar can’t be kicked out of the US for marrying brother: Immigration officials.

OH. WONDERFUL:  This is a big announcement. Leftists have had their own free legal representation for decades. Conservatives haven’t. This is because traditionally, conservatives have thought of politics as winning the debate. It’s comfortable. It’s institutional. They don’t have to be “mean” to anyone.

NOT HARD TO BELIEVE BUT HORRIFYING:  Veterans of the GWOT “saw things with our own eyes that are hard for others to believe”.

THE WEST NEEDS LEADERS THAT DON’T HATE THEIR OWN PEOPLE:  The new front in the British “flag war” – Welsh castles.

THE DOOMERISM IS FAKE; THE HANKERING FOR REGULATORY ADVANTAGE IS REAL:  AI and the security/regulation shell game. Regulation is not security and vice versa.

SOME OF US DO QUITE WELL WITH OUR IMAGINARY FRIENDS ON THE SCREEN, THANK YOU:  There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy. OR: hey buddy, your teeth are falling out.

Okay, I need to “see” people I don’t live with, in the flesh. Quite literally, see them. A walk outside, or a trip to the grocery store allays that need. Now I do realize I’m an introvert. introverts exist. The author of this article didn’t seem to realize that.

TEACH THE CHILDREN WELL:  Kelley Paul Read Her New Book to a Room Full of Kids and Saw Something Iowa Bureaucrats Are Trying to Bury.

COMMUNISM UNITES HUMANITY. IN THE MASS GRAVE:  Internationale Idiots.

WE HAD TO DESTROY RAIL SERVICES TO MAKE HIGH SPEED ONES AVAILABLE… SOMETIME… A High-Speed Rail Punchline (and some more evidence about the details).

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A BOOK PROMO FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

KATYH GYNGELL SUMS UP:  My Week in Review: Twenty Five Suicidal Years For The West.

(Oh, honey, the West was suicidal long before that.)

NO WONDER DEMS WERE SO AVID TO KEEP THAT LOCKDOWN GOING:  California Man Sentenced for Laundering $46 Million in COVID-19 Fraud.

NO WONDER ALASKA DEMS TRIED TO RUN AN ‘INDEPENDENT’ RINGER FOR SULLIVAN:  Dan Sullivan Just Handed Mary Peltola a Debate Beatdown.

IT’S A TWOFER: ALEXANDRIA GIVES CHARLIE THE FINGER AND THE TAXPAYERS GET FLEECED:  This Virginia City Seems OK Blowing Taxpayer Dollars on a Gross Anti-Charlie Kirk Display.

FROM LIFEBOAT FOUNDATION:  If Nobody Builds It, Everybody Dies: Why Pausing AI is the Real Existential Threat.

ALSO CORRECT:  The Deconstruction of Scotty as an Indictment of Our Times. Competence is invisible on screen. What fills the gap reveals what the culture has lost.