Rob Latham 🌞

Liberty enthusiast, electoral reform advocate, sortition-curious, and lawyer for families threatened with dismemberment & citizens accused by the State in Utah.

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

@BrennaBird This you, @BrennaBird?

@CampaignLegal
@ballot_access
@LPNational
@FairVoteAction
@BrennanCenter
#tlot

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[Clark Neily @ConLawWarrior]

The first ever unanimous SCOTUS decision on guns was in the context of drugs.

Libertarians:

[NBA on ESPN @ESPNNBA]

HISTORY FOR THE PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭

Jordan Clarkson is the first player of Filipino descent to win an NBA championship!

[KSL Sports @kslsports]

A big congratulations to former Utah Jazz fan favorite Jordan Clarkson for winning an NBA Championship with the New York Knicks! 🔥🏀

#TakeNote #NBA

📸 Getty Images and Deseret News

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

@ClaytonSoultz @Weir4Liberty Correct, @ClaytonSoultz.

The proposed amendments to the LNC's bylaws and rules can be found at:

https://t.co/PhZjvPI71i

Proposal #8 would replace the regional representatives and alternates by expanding the at-large members from five to seven; creating an 11-member board.

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

The largest open library in human history, Anna's Archive, has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three largest record labels on the world $322 million.

The defendant has not appeared in court and is not going to. The site is still up with two backup domains standing by and there's nothing the censors can do.

Anna's Archive currently holds 63 million books, 95 million academic papers, and 1.1 petabytes of mirrored torrents. It is free. It is searchable. It is run by a pseudonymous person nobody has identified after four long years of searching.

In the four months since the music industry filed the first of three coordinated lawsuits, the library has lost six domain names and added two million books to the catalogue. The cartel is suing it faster every month, and it is growing faster every month.

In December, Spotify and the major labels filed. In January, OCLC, the company that runs WorldCat, won a default judgment of its own. On March 6th, thirteen of the largest book publishers in the United States, including HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, Elsevier, Wiley, and McGraw Hill, filed a third lawsuit in the same federal court.

The publishers' complaint runs to seventy-four pages. They call Anna's Archive a "brazen pirate operation." They call it "an illegal supplier of stolen content to the AI industry."

The same publishers are simultaneously suing Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and NVIDIA for training their models on the same corpus the publishers want Anna to destroy. The cartel argues, in two parallel federal courts, that the corpus cannot be used by anyone. Not the pirate who built it. Not the AI company that downloaded from it. Not the graduate student who pulls a paywalled paper from it at two in the morning.

Anna did not respond to any of the three complaints. Anna has never responded to any complaint. Anna is a name on a blog and a public key on a server and a person, or maybe several people, in a jurisdiction nobody has identified after four years of searching.

The judgment is uncollectable. The permanent injunction binds Cloudflare, Public Interest Registry, Njalla, the Switch Foundation, Tucows, and nine other named intermediaries. The Greenland registry is not on the list. The Greenland registry has not complied.

The site currently lives at .gl, with .pk and .gd standing by. The corpus has always moved faster than the censor. The censor has always called the corpus piracy. The corpus has always survived the censor by becoming the readers themselves.

The publishers' lawsuit cannot reach the torrents. The torrents are already seeded across continents and IPFS nodes and personal NAS drives owned by people the publishers will never find. The default judgment is paper. The corpus is everywhere.

The cartel will win every lawsuit but they will lose the war. The publisher who walks into court next month with a fresh filing will be filing against a defendant who has, in the time since the last filing was sealed, mirrored another half million books to another seven hundred volunteers in another forty countries.

There is no defendant to find. There is only the next upload. It is already seeding.

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

So you support the Fair Representation Act that if enacted would make gerrymandering obsolete, correct?

https://t.co/ej2EF4UmCN

#ProportionalRepresentation #EndSingleMemberPluralityDistricts #EndGerrymandering #EndTheDuopoly

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Republican voters make up 40% of New England. Democrats control the district lines.

Result:

🔴 — 0
🔵 — 27

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

So you support the Fair Representation Act that if enacted would make gerrymandering obsolete, correct?

https://t.co/ej2EF4UmCN

#ProportionalRepresentation #EndSingleMemberPluralityDistricts #EndGerrymandering #EndTheDuopoly

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

New England mastered the art of gerrymandering years ago

The 6 states are 40% Red

They have 33 seats between them

So they have 13 Republicans, right?

Wrong. They have 1.

This is modern day taxation without representation coming full circle to the birthplace of the Revolution

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

Was fortuitous to watch the film "Nuremberg" this weekend.

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts]

𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐉. 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝟎𝟖:𝟎𝟔 𝐀𝐌 𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝟎𝟒.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟔

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

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... and Happy Easter? 🪺🐰

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts]

Donald J. Trump Truth Social 04:05.26 08:03 AM EST

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

@FreeRangeKids @kiteandkeymedia From @leedrutman's cited article: "However, many of the problems attributed to gerrymandering are actually problems with districting, and more specifically with the use of the single-member district."

Many democracies use multi-member districts and proportional representation.

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

@LPNational Proportional ranked choice voting is an electoral method used by most of the world's democracies, preventing gerrymandering and facilitating *both* representation and competition.

Learn why multi-party, multi-member districts are the norm in most of the world's democracies.

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

@grok @LPNational @PressFreedoms Proportional ranked choice voting is an electoral method used by most of the world's democracies, preventing gerrymandering and facilitating *both* representation and competition.

Learn why multi-party, multi-member districts are the norm in most of the world's democracies.

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

Without government, who would protect United States Postal Service employees from accountability for intentionally not delivering your mail?

#AbolishTheUSPS
#SeparateMailAndState
#LysanderSpoonerWasRight

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[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

Amazing

[Team USA @TeamUSA]

On top of the world. 🥇🥇

#WinterOlympics

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

Is using Canadian singer Céline Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” to score @megan_keller4's OT goal for @TeamUSA in the @milan2024 women's ice hockey 🏒 final cultural appropriation? 😉

[Rob Latham 🌞 @rob_latham]

Another great photo of an iconic sports moment.

https://t.co/VqcqJ7JsDj

[Kevin Thang @Skip2MyJays]

Megan Keller the golden goal

USA women’s hockey run the table 7-0
& make it 8 straight wins over Canada

Canada was 2 minutes away from a dominant shutout win… instead heartbreak #olympics

[NBC Sports @NBCSports]

Hilary Knight's record-breaking goal takes the game to OT!