Mike Lissner

We need more video content. One of these days...

Once again urging CA folks to vote! This link gives you access to a bunch of guides, can you can add even more of them on the right. It makes it pretty darned easy. www.openballot.app/elections/ca...

Everybody wants to pack the court. These reforms are muuuuch better and don’t lead to an arms race. +1 from me.

This is a fun one for SF folks!

PACER fees going up instead of down. If you’re planning a bulk data project, now is the time.

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

This is a hugely important role. If you know any fundraisers that want huge impact, please send this along!

The thing about this is, maybe too many people have gone apathetic to their own health?

More rumors today about how a certain company continues to take the data we make freely available according to our non-profit mission, gives us nothing, and then attempts to win away our partners. Lame stuff, folks!

Grapeflation has got to stop!

The DOJ late Thursday sued Alaska to block certification of its U.S. Senate election if Dan J. Sullivan appears to spoil a victory for Sen. Dan Sullivan storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We haven’t done a PACER article in a while. This is a good one!

Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride. [train.samismith.com]

Woo hoo!

The time between vulnerability patches and web-scale exploit has reduced to zero. The only solution is taking systems offline until they're fixed. I just asked @free.law's infra team to get good at rapidly taking all our systems offline. What a world.

“Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth.” [arstechnica.com]

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

... Oh God 😳

Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

New: A committee of judicial investigators is imploring a federal judge in Texas suspected of suffering from a mental condition to cooperate and explain ‌why she emailed confidential and sealed court documents to about 140 judges, lawyers and members of the press. - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

A former federal prosecutor who was in the pool on Sept. 10 has filed a claim against the city, alleging exposure to noxious fumes and the “agony” of other swimmers.

What happens when people without lawyers turn to AI in the courtroom? Hear from our Justice Initiatives Director Jessica Frank at the Access to Justice conference this Thursday in Cincinnati: a2jnetworkconference2026.sched.com/event/2O4Uu/...

A cybersecurity incident is disrupting bankruptcy court operations. Multiple websites are down and the related bankruptcy noticing process are still unavailable. cybernews.com/security/us-...

It’s true! In 2010 or so, funders told us it would be too hard to make an open case law archive. In a few weeks, it’ll be done. Their funding would have helped accelerate this!

Trump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine."

Trump cancels Pentagon plans to livestream firing squad execution: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This has happening for the past year+ globally with RTI/FOIA/public records systems. Very existential problem I haven't seen much serious government policy response to yet.

I hope this email finds you and your family in the very best of health and that all your projects are progressing rapidly and on a very successful path.

If you're voting in California, this app compiles all the voter guides into a handy table. Pick your guides and get to work. www.openballot.app/elections/ca...

Join us Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 1 p.m. ET for a training on carceral book bans with @themarshallproject.org, @prisonpolicy.org and Moira Marquis of Prison Banned Books Week. Join us next week by RSVPing 👇

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

"Anthropic told investors on Wednesday distillation accounted for 5 per cent to 7 per cent of revenue" If true, and Q2 revenue was $11.5B, then that's more than half a billion dollars spent by other labs to distill Anthropic's models! www.ft.com/content/1163...

I’ve decided to only watch this show after getting a new TV that has darker blacks. As a little prize for myself.

A shocking thing to do to a sitting congresswoman.