law
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Plain-English notes on California's November 3, 2026 ballot measures, from the Official Voter Information Guide and the ballot text.
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Proposition 41 pairs public audits of certain new special taxes with a rule against parking new state taxes outside the spending limit.
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A New Mexico jury found nearly 44 million Facebook privacy violations after other states released those claims inside a child-safety settlement.
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Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was killed, a Las Vegas jury convicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis of first-degree murder—legal responsibility without settling who pulled the trigger.
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Proposition 40 is a proposed one-time billionaire wealth tax, plus a threshold declaration for resident tax filers. This note reads the November 2026 ballot text, not the commercials.
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A California appeals court revived an unfair-competition suit over Apple's past iPhone repair practices—not by finding liability, but by accepting a marketwide competition theory of injury.
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California lawmakers unanimously passed an amendment exempting most open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act—a needed correction to a law written for platforms, not forks.
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A federal judge ruled the Anthropic blacklisting unlawful. The harder question is what “unlawful” means when consequences arrive before the courts.
Joshtronic (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshtronic.com
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Part of running your own website is being able to do what you want on it. Within the confines of the law, of course. Back in the day you'd add something trivial to your site and make a formal announcement about it to your adoring fan base. I've done it in the past . My buddy Geoff still does it . As of late, it seems like what's old is new again on the web. Rather than bore you with some navel gaz