AnnemarieBridy

design_law, 1 month ago to random

TIL that there was a live trademark registration for the word ZIMA in connection with malt beverages that expired last year and someone cared enough about it to challenge it at the PTAB: https://www.scribd.com/document/727692539/ZIMA-TTAB-2024

AnnemarieBridy, 1 month ago to random

Hoping not to disappoint the trend-watchers, but I can confirm that I am not about to be wearing horseshoe jeans.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91111593/why-everyone-is-about-to-be-wearing-horseshoe-jeans

stshank, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Grammar time!

AnnemarieBridy, 1 month ago to random

The number of references in this article to “free access to information” is an extreme exercise in question begging. The purpose of the statute is to compel payment for previously free links to news. The novel statutory mandate to pay for links is what’s impeding free access.

California wants Big Tech to pay for news. Google is fighting back. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/21/google-blocks-california-news/

AnnemarieBridy, 1 month ago to random

Is Mastodon destined to be slow because of its architecture? Or is it a question of the home server you’re on? The client you’re using?

coffeegeek, 2 months ago to coffee

Fellow launched a brand new product today in the coffee sphere. A coffee maker.

As usual, pretty and unique. But if it's like other Fellow electric products, it might be a good idea to wait for the Gen 2 version. When they release a brand new category of product, they tend to miss the mark a lot on functionality and output.

Expect to see this in a lot of youtube influencer channels, soon. Fellow likes working with those folks, including a commission link for sales.

#coffee #fellowproducts cc @coffee

https://fellowproducts.com/products/aiden-precision-coffee-maker

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

I will never be OK with calling the US the “homeland.” It’s fascist geography and an outworn trope of the “war on terror.”

FBI fears 'coordinated attack' on US homeland https://www.voanews.com/a/fbi-fears-coordinated-attack-on-us-homeland/7565964.html

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

Because we all know that’s what the MPA really cares about…

MPA: Site-Blocking Will Stop Pirate Site Owners Who Abuse Kids & Traffick Drugs * TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-site-blocking-will-stop-pirate-site-owners-who-abuse-kids-traffick-drugs-240410/

NewsDesk, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Ukraine

The leading U.S. military general in Europe is warning Congress that if they do not pass funding for Ukraine’s war against Russia soon, their army will be vastly overpowered by summer. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, head of U.S. European Command, says in House testimony that Russian soldiers already fire five times as many artillery shells as Ukrainian soldiers do, and that without the U.S. sending more weapons the number will double to “10 to one in a matter of weeks.” Read more from the Associated Press.

https://flip.it/c4_m1D

#Ukraine #Russia #Congress #Weapons

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

An economic (vs. moral rights/moral panic) perspective on copyright and GAI that we don't often see -- esp. in the EU:

Martens, B. (2024) ‘Economic arguments in favour of reducing copyright protection for generative AI inputs and outputs’, Working Paper 09/2024, Bruegel.

https://www.bruegel.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/WP%2009%20040424%20Copyright%20final.pdf

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

Yeah, no fucking way.

House Republicans seek to rename Dulles Airport after Trump https://wapo.st/3PLroS2

MikeDunnAuthor, 2 months ago to random

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

As someone who quit a Third Circuit clerkship, I'll tell you that federal judicial clerks don't quit their jobs lightly, b/c the professional consequences are scary and real. That's less true now than it was when I quit back in the early 2000s. But multiple quitting clerks are a probable sign of either an abusive judge or a dysfunctional chambers, or both.

Cannon Fodder: Law Clerks Quit On Judge Aileen Cannon https://davidlat.substack.com/p/judge-aileen-cannon-law-clerks-quit-on-her

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

Sounds about right.

US falls out of world’s top 20 happiest countries list for the first time ever | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/20/world-happiness-report-happiest-countries

luis_in_brief, 2 months ago to random

Is writing a manifesto… manifesting?

luis_in_brief, 2 months ago to random

I love, love, love the questions raised by this paper; you can’t do modern open source without at least subconscious awareness that (in both good and bad ways) the software industry’s labor situation is intimately tied to IP law. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4761809

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

You know who would have known this, intuitively? It’s @blakereid.
“Never in a million years would I have thought a mango ketchup would be so exciting.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91036517/kraft-heinz-most-innovative-companies-2024

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

Today in enterprise self-sabotage:

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

PSA: Twinings Buttermint Tea is now Creamy Vanilla & Peppermint. Because only old people remember buttermints.

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

Copyright. Promoting the progress of…private equity.

“The next time you listen to Katy Perry’s ‘Firework,’ Justin Timberlake’s ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling’ and Bruce Springsteen’s ;Born to Run’ on Spotify or Apple Music, you are lining the pockets of the private investment firms Carlyle, Blackstone and Eldridge.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/opinion/private-equity-music-spotify.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk0.I5Kf.TyMVf97CCWfh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

AnnemarieBridy, 2 months ago to random

It so awful that in our current state of commerce, buying something online opens you up to constant email badgering by the seller until you literally demand to be left alone.