“A New Yorker who spent months in Syria working for ISIS & returned disillusioned with his experience and convicted of material support charges asked if terrorism scholars would consider writing a letter of support to a judge so he could legally change his name. Every time a potential suitor googled his name before a date, the first result would be his terrorism conviction. The dates were always quickly cancelled.” My colleagues and my latest @lawfare piece about terrorism recidivism. lawfaremedia.org/article/ter…

🚨 BREAKING 🔴 Saudi front collapses in #Yemen as 3 full brigades surrender 🔹Three full brigades of #Saudi forces and their allied fighters, along with their light and heavy weapons, have surrendered to Yemeni #Houthi forces across the Hays, Al-Mokha, Al-Khokha, Taiz and Al-Jawf fronts. 🔹Ansar Allah has described the event as the largest mass-capture operation in the history of modern warfare.

Expecting forgiveness is spiritual poison

Please do not contribute to the Adderall shortage if you do not actually have this condition - a prescription that goes to someone for fun or an "edge" means someone like me can't get theirs, because the DEA caps how many pills can get made every year! People who actually have ADHD often need medication to function effectively at work/school but also be safe - accident and substance dependency risk increases sharply if someone is not medicated, for example! I struggle to ensure my symptoms don't impact my quality of work with therapy clients (ie focus on the client) when I can't get it, and couldn't for 2 weeks this month.

I don't mean "metaphorically Nazis", or "might as well be Nazis", or "I'm just looking for some bad group of people to associate leftists with". I mean literal, actual, Adolf Hitler idea promoters.

New essay on the closure of the Internet, the mass censorship campaign that transformed every platform and the Internet as a whole from free and open to a closely monitored playpen 2015-2022. Longer than usual, around 27,000 words, so maybe best read in multiple sittings. Link in next post. Before 2015, the Western Internet was almost entirely free and open, except for actual criminal activity. Internet censorship was opposed by the major relevant institutions and seen as something distinctive to authoritarian states like Russia and China. Then within just a few years, every major platform (I cover YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Wikipedia, and Google Search, as well as more general deplatforming of websites, forums and open source projects, and comments sections) created a colossal censorship apparatus with tens of thousands of human moderators, opaque and ever-shifting rules, and an entirely new field of machine learning spun up ex-nihilo.

there is something deeply frightening in the simplicity of the regrets people realize in their old age, where most of what they regret is just two or three actions away from living a completely different life.

they read lindsay clancy's journal entries out loud in court today and they sound....like mine. when I had a baby and a toddler. they say things like "I'm drowning taking care of three kids," "I'm living moment to moment, just waiting for the next nap time."

As a general rule of thumb if you can’t name a woman in a field you’re not qualified to speak on it. There’s a woman who’s done something important in almost every topic for the simple reason there’s a lot of women in every society ever. You should be able to come up with one.