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jtlg

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I’m a law professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech.

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luis_in_brief, to random
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Need @annmlipton to drop a piece on how, if you stuff a $90B for-profit into the ambling corpse of a California non-profit, and tell the staff and board that they’re serving higher goals than mere “capped” profit, and your corporate control chart looks like a Rube Goldberg machine, maybe you built an unaligned intelligence and you deserve what it gave you.

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief @annmlipton I have been telling people for a while that the trajectory of the AI industry over the last few years is strong evidence for (a) instrumental convergence, and (b) the futility of most alignment schemes under real-world conditions.

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief @annmlipton Do they understand that even within their own narrow frame of reference, that “destroyed” value has merely been transferred somewhere else?

design_law, (edited ) to random
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Geekcommerce v. #ScheduleA - New complaint alleges, inter alia, infringement of this design patent for a "valve stem cap."

On the one hand, kudos to SRIPLAW for publicly filing some claim charts.

On the other hand, the claim charts show that the accused products are different enough not to infringe.

https://www.scribd.com/document/683350593/Geekcommerce-v-Schedule-A-Complaint

#DesignPatents

jtlg,
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@design_law @rtushnet truck nuts for tires?

hewittlaw, to random

I’m not really an “ideas” person but what if we all agreed to call 😀🥰💩🥳 “emoties” to put the trademark troll that owns the registrations for the word “emoji” out of business? #ScheduleA

jtlg,
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@hewittlaw Never give them an inch.

jtlg, to random
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Found among my childhood books … the original orb-ponderer.

luis_in_brief, to random
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Cool, someone needs to print out the Wikipedia article on the Principality of Sealand and send it to these folks.

https://www.delcomplex.com/blue-sea-frontier

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief Someone ought to tell them about the last group of VCs who threw money at offshore compute.

https://james.grimmelmann.net/files/articles/sealand.pdf

jtlg,
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@dreamword @luis_in_brief wait, seriously?

jtlg,
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@dreamword @luis_in_brief good grief

luis_in_brief, to random
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I need a hardware+ML combo to listen to my microphone and whenever I say “, right?” as the end of a sentence, an increasingly large shock is delivered. And 1.5x if I’m recording a podcast.

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief Just use the ML to cut out the “right”?

design_law, to random
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My notes from the last time I taught 101:

jtlg,
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@design_law I can never unsee this pun.

mathowie, to random
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the Transatlantic Accent from 1940s actors is a whole thing in the world of linguistics but I noticed a modern day equivalent is definitely what I’d call Sportcasters Voice. How every baseball announcer stresses weird syllables. How comedians can adopt it onstage and immediately the audience knows the impression.

https://youtu.be/M_YO4lsGyW4?si=XZ3P9bi9SmWBlh-v

jtlg,
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@mathowie

At least one guy seems to have made an online career out of having sportscaster voice without actually being a sportscaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_-ItwAA60U

It's closely related to newscaster voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuOqpOpXRxU

gruber, to random
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I’m surprised the setup process for every new iPhone still asks whether you want to use FaceID with a mask when 99+% of people aren’t wearing face masks any more. There are lots of features that a small percentage of people use, but they don’t get asked in the device setup process.

jtlg,
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@gruber I ride the subway to work and mask usage averages about 10-20%. So there is a substantial contingent that wears masks some of the time.

jtlg, to random
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I just realized something important about the fact that the latest generative-AI lawsuit is headed by the Authors Guild. As we saw in the Google Books lawsuit, the AG might be willing to strike a settlement that its members see as providing fair compensation to authors.

annmlipton, to random
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Excuse me?

https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/united-plane-engine-parts/

jtlg,
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@design_law @annmlipton

design_law, (edited ) to random
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"In a flurry of filings, Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Elyse Dorsey and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP counsel Angela Landry accused Wright, a former Federal Trade Commission member, of violating Virginia's anti-SLAPP law with his defamation suit, which the women in their jointly filed counterclaim call a 'transparent attempt to punish' them for their protected speech." - Law360

https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/1723663?nl_pk=fd062d42-234e-4b6a-b9b5-4052fd7ef7ac&utm

#LawFedi #LawSchools #WrightVersusDorsey

jtlg,
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@design_law 100% agree. I am also struck by the egregiousness of the conduct described.

foone, to random
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ahhhhhrhgghghr. I finally got around to digging into a Switch game for the first time, because someone wanted me to hack one, and the first thing I see is a filename:
img/unity_logo.png

jtlg,
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@foone

kellan, to random
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Also has anyone done any work on the how the changing nature of work place norms mean that folks out of academia are often more hierarchical and authoritarian in their impulses than folks out of Corporate America?

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief What field and country was this person in? This is radically unlike anything I have ever experienced in 16 years of teaching.

danielnazer, to random
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The infamous "Bad Art Friend" case has ended in a stalemate at the trial court.

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/LarsonvPerryetalDocketNo119cv10203DMassJan302019CourtDocket/2?doc_id=X4C1JG8DIN58IVP76AC7631DIMB

The judge found the short story to be fair use of the plaintiff's letter about her kidney donation BUT also rejected the "plagiarism" defamation claims on the basis of substantial truth.

It's an excellent decision in my view and a great citation for plagiarism ≠ infringement.

Apologies for adding to "the discourse" but, well, I have some thoughts ... 1/too many

jtlg,
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@danielnazer could the court order the lawyers to submit affidavits describing how they counseled their clients about the likely outcomes of pursuing their claims?

molly0xfff, to random
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been pretty delighted with #obsidian lately, but just discovered the #annotation plugin (built on #hypothes.is) and am now quite thrilled with it

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief I have had a very good experience with it.

jtlg, to random
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The Copyright Office has rejected registration of the Midjourney-generated image that won first place at the Colorado State Fair.

https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/Theatre-Dopera-Spatial.pdf

mathowie, to random
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whoa the new teenage mutant ninja turtles movie really was better than I ever thought it could be

jtlg,
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@mathowie I, a person with young children, thank you, a person without young children, for this recommendation.

design_law, to random
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Okay, so I finally got a chance to read all the amicus briefs (so far) in

https://fedcircuitblog.com/en-banc/cases/lkq-corporation-v-gm-global-technology-operations-llc/

Here are some initial thoughts.

jtlg,
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@design_law this was a dealbreaker for me on joining the brief

luis_in_brief, to random
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A regular theme of my recent reading has been the indigenous Americas before and during European colonization.

This 3D reconstruction of #Tenochtitlan from @thomas_kole is a pretty amazing addition to the genre. I can’t speak to its accuracy (though a lot of work does seem to have gone into it) but there is important power in nudging the imagination to question history as you’ve received it.

http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief The The Circa 1492 exhibition volume is also a classic.

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief yes!

jessamyn, to random
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Moving my annual "what I've read" lists over here to Mastodon. Last year's list is here

https://twitter.com/jessamyn/status/1478058276734615553

This will be a 2023 thread.

First up: Gender Queer. I was the first person to check this out of my library somehow. I'd only seen the "racy" parts when reading internet stories by haters. This book is, OF COURSE, much more complex and thoughtful and it's a great look at what it means to be questioning gender and sexuality even when growing up in a totally supportive household.

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief @jessamyn Interestingly, Cole Wehrle has made very provocative boardgames about both. An Infamous Traffic is about opium smugglers making trade routes and manipulating the British government into opening up China; John Company is about competing administrators inside the East India Company trying to look out for themselves, while incidentally conquering and ruling India.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206490/infamous-traffic

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/332686/john-company-second-edition

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