The ACA is safe. For now. I was wrong. Maybe. It still has quite a few problems that, don't get me wrong, need to be fixed. And sooner rather than later. But as Trump has decided to ignore it, odds are it won't be fixed any time soon.
But this is a thing. I've tried it. It is as tasty as you'd expect. But eating did make me feel like a romcom protagonist at the end of Act II.
On to the main event: A grand jury totally called that seizure-inducing gif an asshole sent to Kurt Eichenwald a deadly weapon. I was trained as a paralegal, so this is interesting to me because it represents a big change in how we view online interaction.
Cyberstalking is one of these legal frontiers with only limited statutory coverage at the moment. Yet it has far reaching and troublesome effects for the survivors, but little or no consequences for the perpetrators.
Geeks may remember Gamergate. Remember, the people harassing poor Zoe Quinn, including sending posts with her home address and photos of her home, got away with it. Hell, I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that any remotely geeky woman with even a minimal presence on the internet probably has similar experiences to relate.
Obviously it is bullshit that an obviously potentially deadly targeted attack on a man is the thing kicking the legal system in the pants to start fixing it. But it shows that we as a society are ready to start thinking about cyberstalking much more seriously. Injunctions against harassing an ex through social media. Criminal charges if you post someone's home address with death and/or rape threats. These might not be sci-fi things anymore.
Unfortunately, no ex-post facto means we can't go back and persecute those people that harassed Zoe Quinn, but I like no ex-post facto. And the asshole who used Gamegate to start a media career lost it after being outed as a pedophile. I shouldn't regard that as a plus, but we won't have to put up with his nonsense anymore. So there is that.
