Ari Cohn

First Amendment & defamation lawyer.
Free Speech Counsel @TechFreedom (x2)
Prev: @theFIREorg (x3), BigLaw

Illini/music junkie/oofnik.

Tweets are my own.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

This tweet struck a chord with me, and while I don't often get personal on the Tweeters, given the point made here, I feel it's important. So here we go. Happy #pridemonth. https://t.co/LzkAieFT2h

Confession: When I was younger, I never really bought into the idea of "pride."

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

The one thing it requires that some people don't have us a computer that's always on (I have a linux minipc acting as a media server so I had that already).

Some good beginner's info in this reddit thread: https://t.co/A1EydB0rnQ

Using a free cloudfare tunnel for remote access is what I chose, happy to give you some direction on that if you pursue it.

If you have questions feel free to ask, I may even be persuadable to put together a step by step guide of you let me know the equipment/OS you'll be using should you need)

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

Moving everything off audible and combining it with my non-audible content on a self-hosted audiobookshelf server turned out to be such a clutch move with exactly zero of the headache I expected

Highly recommend.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@smilerz91 Yea, I'm just bracing for the day they rename it and then ✨poof✨ the lifetime pass disappears. I hope it never happens because for remote sharing with non-technical friends/family it is the best option, but you know how it goes...

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@smilerz91 Someone clued me in to the Absorb app for ABS and it's terrific. Will take a look at prologue too, rhough

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

My lifetime Plex pass from when it was cheap has me motivated to keep it for video/music through a few more levels of enshittification, but I can't bring myself to get *more* reliant on it especially after they just axed the whole player dev team.

Plex gives me one or two remote access hiccups from time to time, but ABS has never faltered.

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

It’s almost if the restrictive laws are the point of “tobacco control”, not the public health outcomes and certainly not the distraction of unintended consequences, which are the main consequences.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

I'm sure some muppet will be along shortly to explain how this is "cancel culture"

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

(Zeteo) Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over Ad: "People Don’t Want Him There"

Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy’s bus tour with other GOP candidates. "It’s that damn ad," a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo.

https://t.co/0IDlltbWsT

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@sl2111 If you eat that, I'll bet it's fudge that's around the corner

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

If your taste buds have been permanently destroyed in some freak accident, this is certainly an option you could choose

[Alva Myers @tizintest]

You can buy ground beef already cooked and drained at Walmart for 10 cents more per pound than the raw ground beef which you have to then cook yourself. $6.74 vs $6.84. Sounds like a no-brainer.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

At best Lindsey Graham was a sniveling coward with no moral compass aside from power.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

Not buying the hand-wringing about the Lindsey Graham thing because "he isn't here to defend himself"

People who seek positions of enormous power and influence are not entitled to the sanitized legacy they'd give you.

They should be remembered for who they really were.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

"Don't speak ill of the dead" is not a shield for the powerful who make decisions that negatively impact the lives of millions.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

"Microwaves fish at the office and watches golf on TV"

[Ben Rothenberg @BenRothenberg]

Vivek Ramaswamy is a terrible candidate for many good reasons, including his recent decisions but it is very funny that “loves tennis” is so foregrounded as an insult in this attack ad against him.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

"I don't want to he in the hospitality business I just want to make quick easy cash *pretending* to be in the hospitality business" is not the sympathetic argument airbnb hosts seem to think it is.

[Matt Williams @Technovangelist]

its just bonkers the new policy @airbnb is trying to put in place. Putting the dishes in the dishwasher, taking out the trash, pulling the sheets off the bed....they are just standard things any normal person would do when staying at a house. Why wouldn't a host be allowed to say that?

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

People hate talking on the phone to *real* people, why would they want to emulate that experience with fake ones?

[jack @jack]

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.

https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@VITO_G_Wagon Hopefully community notes gets you so you can't monetize this idiotic bullshit

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

This-Should-Be-Obvious-To-A-Third-Grader-Tip:

You're allowed to destroy your own property.

[Minister of Electricity @VITO_G_Wagon]

At some point he needs to be arrested for malicious damage to property.

He is destroying the image of these brands, but the brand owners are not realizing this yet.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

This is old news, hardly "just in," but anyway check out https://t.co/vGP6gIVLi7

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK police arrest 15 y/o boy, seize his devices, & collect his DNA after he posted photo of a local politician edited to look like a rabbit.

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

@emzanotti The soggy napkin of politicians

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

And yet you refuse to remove cameras when cities cancel their contracts so you can continue surveiling communities against their express wishes.

If you learned anything, it certainly isn't what you ought to have learned.

You and @flocksafety are malignant to the core.

[Garrett Langley @glangley]

I've learned a lot in nine years of building @Flock_Safety. Some of it from our customers, and some of it from the communities they serve.

Today we’re announcing the changes that came from listening. A new standard for privacy, security, and accountability in public safety technology.

We're also asking state legislators to go further. Mandate real auditing on every law enforcement data system. Raise the penalties for misuse. And if your state wants help building it, we'll do it for free.
https://t.co/KEQuBPE1oY