Frederick Ding

⚖️ NY/NJ/MA lawyer (I deal with patents & technology), 🇨🇦

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lutnick: Data centers don't use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down.

Lutnick last year: These AI things suck water. They need water.

[Gary Hershorn @GaryHershorn]

A thunderstorm passes over lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York, seen from the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building, Friday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork @empirestatebldg #thunderstorm

[Frederick Ding @FrederickDing]

@_ZachGriff @DFWAirport The chiclet display at LGA is pretty bad too

[Frederick Ding @FrederickDing]

@patchesmandrade As a semi-weekly listener of This American Life, I find him a decent storyteller, so what… did you find problematic about his voice?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Christie: I think anyone that follows politics can tell there are no principles left in my party. Even for people who agree with some of the stuff the president is doing, if you are honest with yourself, you know it is not based on principle. He wakes up every morning and tries to figure out, what is the best thing for him to do in his self interest that day.

But the real lack of principle is on display every day in the House and Senate. These people have become lemmings.

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

oh my. if Sotomayor is right about this, this is the sort of thing that can really cost the SG's office long term with the Court.

it's the sort of thing that can make even Justices friendly to the SG use great caution about relying on his claims and citations

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

[Kaleigh Rogers @KaleighRogers]

I'm a Canadian who has lived and worked in the U.S. for the last 12 years. The differences between our two cultures are often imperceptibly subtle, and then, suddenly, they're there.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

YESTERDAY: Trump: “When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election."

Media just now: “The president finds the idea of canceling elections funny?”

Karoline Leavitt: “Only someone like you would take that so seriously.”

The appropriate answer is “The president should never have said that, and even joking about canceling elections, undermines our democracy.”

[Jordan Crucchiola @JorCru]

I hope journalism schools are now instructing that federal .gov sites can no longer be trusted as primary sources.

[Frederick Ding @FrederickDing]

. @AirCanada your website’s self-reaccommodation tool is still broken. There’s three buttons - one to accept the auto rebooking, one to search for alternate flights, and one to cancel (“Check refund eligibility”). But the cancel booking button leads to a server error page

[Frederick Ding @FrederickDing]

@orenkraus @kutti_no_1 @AirCanada Are you getting the internal server error screen?

[🇨🇦 That SkyCards Spotter at CYYC @JesseLiOH]

@AirCanada You are about to have a even bigger thunderstorm if you don’t fix this before the morning.

Says an angry SE

[Reuven Za @reuven_za]

@AirCanada How can anyone change anything if your website and app are both down???

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

Now that I have my first iPad with cellular, I understand why so many people have been begging for cellular Macs for years.

Having native cellular support is soooooo much better than tethering. It's faster, doesn't kill your phone battery, more reliable, etc.

Wow, it's great.

[Sean Marotta @smmarotta]

What I always find stunning about these passages is that even this OSG cannot bring itself to state these things as facts. It has to ascribe them to the President, expressly, every time, because it knows how bonkers they are.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: America has always had competing stories about who we are and what the nation stands for.

The first story says that even though we got rid of a king, there is still a caste system in America, a pecking order of who makes decisions That if somebody doesn't look like or think like you or practice religion the same way you do, they must be a threat to your way of life, and they need to be put in their place.

That is how Donald Trump thinks about America. Make America great again by putting the people in charge even if they don't know what the hell they are doing. But here is the thing. That story is not new. It is the oldest story in the book. It is not even uniquely American. For most of human history, that is the way society has worked. For somebody on top and somebody on bottom. There were lords and peasants. For a long time, that story of caste and privilege and concentrated power was the law of the land here in America. If you look like me, you were likely treated as property. If you were a woman, or a white man who did not own property, you could not vote.

But from the very start, there was another story, born of this nation's true revolutionary spirit, a story that says, we the people means what it says, that all of us are included, that we are not subjects, but citizens, defined not by race or religion or gender or sexual orientation, but by our commitment to a common creed and a willingness to accept not just privileges, but responsibilities that come with that citizenship.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

“100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL.”