Brad Barrish

yancey:

An hour-long interview between me and Glenn Fleishman covering the history of Kickstarter, the relationship between artists and money, and I walkthrough our approval process for new projects in depth.

Just finished listening. Worth the hour.

Lessig Blog, v2: Tumblr goes to the Supreme Court

Lessig Blog, v2: Tumblr goes to the Supreme Court

lessig:

On Thursday, Senator Elizabeth Warren and I will participate in an event hosted by the Constitutional Accountability Center (livestream here) to discuss a brief I submitted in a corruption (aka “campaign finance”) case that the Supreme Court will hear on October 8: McCutcheon v. F.E.C.

At the center of the brief is a Tumblr — the first time a Tumblr has been used in an argument in a Supreme Court brief.

I find myself walking down the street, and every fucking thing I think about, I also think, “How could I fit that into a tweet that lots of people would favorite or retweet?” It’s disgusting, and I feel like a meth addict, with constant, obsessive urges to fit every goddamned idea into a tweet. To share. With you. Without any real filter, which is what the writing process is.
What I would have written