from Mastodon (mas.to/@troyd/10977904434842…): do you receive spam SMSes or robocalls? I explained how to find the carrier where a phone number is routed - including 10DLC A2P SMS sources and robocall callbacks. that's where your abuse report email should go: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

.@jasongorman Heads up that someone's plagiarizing your blog posts and re-publishing them, back-dated, on a new Wordpress site: news.ycombinator.com/item?id… This person has done it before: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…. Substack kicked them off, so they moved to @wordpressdotcom.

Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers reportphonespam.org/ (news.ycombinator.com/item?id…)

Here's how to shut down robocallers and text message spammers: reportphonespam.org/ Don't just block them – report the abuse to the spammer's telecom provider and get their phone number disconnected. In 90 seconds, you can stop a spammer: reportphonespam.org/ /cc #privacy

My company, Calm Fund, has a big problem and I need your help. We are being sued by SureSwift Capital over the @FounderSummit event series we put on over the past few years. The main issue we have is the impending massive cost of doing discovery in a modern remote company that uses a lot of software, but first here is some context: SureSwift is a PE fund that acquires software companies. We signed a lightweight joint venture agreement to collaborate on the Founder Summit which was an IRL event in Mexico City, an online community and another event in North Carolina. After the final IRL event we terminated the joint venture. The events were by all accounts a huge success, and all in the joint venture posted a small net loss. Then we announced our intention to host our own slate of events in 2023, but ultimately had to cancel those due to budget constraints and reducing our team size. Then SureSwift sued us claiming that we had misappropriated the "intellectual property" and "trade secrets" like the "business model" and "virtual network connections" of the new-terminated Founder Summit JV for the now-cancelled Calm Summits. The suit is a matter of public record and I won't speak about it much further except to say that we deny the allegations and it is my strong belief we would win in a trial. The issue is that we are about to enter the phase pre-trial procedures called Discovery (or eDiscovery) where each side is obligated to share with the other side provide all sorts of their own documents and communications that could be relevant to the case. The big problem is that with modern remote companies using many collaboration tools to create emails, slack messages, docs comments, notion databases, etc the volume of data and the cost of discovery (collecting, reviewing, filtering and processing all these files) seems to have exploded. I've been hearing estimates of hundreds of thousands or more than $1m in costs just to comply with eDiscovery for a single case. That's an insane amount of money, especially relative to the stakes we're talking about in this matter. It puts a huge amount of pressure on folks like me to just settle since its not worth it to go to trial, spend even more money on pre-trial, and still have at least some small % chance of losing. As best as I have learned, in Delaware Chancery court it is also very rare to get your attorneys' fees reimbursed or be able to countersue for the costs when you win. So basically, the status quo situation in the American legal system is that if someone is willing to sue you and willing to spend a boatload of money themselves, they can force you to spend a boatload too (potentially all the way into bankruptcy) with no real defense or recourse unless you settle on whatever terms they dictate. When I asked my LPs for feedback or advice on this topic I was shocked by two things: 1. How many of them had dealt with a bogus lawsuit. 2. How essentially nobody had heard of any good ways to resolve it except paying out a settlement, even if you did nothing wrong. This is a totally insane state of affairs and has been eye-opening for me. Its also a huge risk for early stage founders who simply can't afford a big pay off settlement. I don't see any way I can bring myself to pay a settlement just because its cheaper than litigating the issues. Once you open that door, how do you avoid just becoming a piggy bank for anyone and everyone willing to bring a lawsuit against you? So I'd like to tackle this issue head on and try to find an affordable way to comply with eDiscovery so we can get to a trial and resolve the actual question. The reasons eDiscovery is so expensive don't seem intractable to me and there has got to be a way to do this that is at all proportional in costs to the actual matters of the case. But I need help. 1. Founders (or anybody really) if you have dealt with this issue before and found any kind of good solutions or can point to any good resources please reply below and amplify 🙌 2. I'm looking to collaborate with counsel or firms that have experience tackling this issue or want to. I know a big problem with this whole situation is that nobody on the legal side is particularly incentivized to help reduce costs on this matter, but believe me the entrepreneurial community will be forever grateful for help on this 🙏

Just posted our Q2 LP update. Sharing it here for anyone else who would like to read it too. Thank you to everyone in the UV community for your continued partnership! medium.com/unpopular-vc/uv-q…

If the goal is to quickly increase Seattle housing supply, the single best policy to do that will be to a) eliminate parking minimums and b) increase Multifamily zones to 85’ height. This is because:

Fake all the way down

I searched my local area for locksmiths on google maps mobile, immediately found two obviously fake but worked on businesses: fake addresses (136c = actually local Tesco), photos, video, logos, fake reviews from fake people: maps.app.goo.gl/r6BHyK13tw1v… maps.app.goo.gl/fmjgJRY1oWki…

If any consumer finance reporters are looking for a story… buy services from the fake businesses in news.ycombinator.com/item?id… and see what happens. Who shows up to do the work? How'd they get your lead? Who owns the fake Google biz profile? /cc @ConsumerReports @CaresseJ @CFPB

what happens when scammers can create not only fake @GoogleMaps reviews, but entirely fake Maps businesses? this happens: news.ycombinator.com/item?id… that one network encompasses hundreds of Google accounts. it's touched or created hundreds of non-existent and real Maps businesses

Teen suicides plummeted in March '20, when schools shut due to COVID. Returning from online to in-person schooling was associated with a 12-18% increase in teen suicides, from @benconomics @SDSUCHEPS and Schaller nber.org/papers/w30795

For all in this world that's uncertain…  One thing is clear… We don't have to go home… But we can't stay here. youtube.com/watch?v=VpgdajYC…

先日撮影して頂いたYouTubeが 5日で100万回再生越しました😭✨ 沢山の方に見て頂けて本当に嬉しいです🥹 視聴がまだの方は是非見てください！🌻 youtu.be/hb2T6yD5t7M