Client asked ChatGPT a fair use question and called me freaking out because he didn't like the answer. I asked him what source ChatGPT pulled. It was the Copyright code, good start. But it was Sect. 101, not 107. I had always said when the robots could answer fair use we'd be in trouble. Not today.

Since the OP of my last repost on this deleted his post, I'll say it again, this is absolutely no way to run a country.

This is an insanely fucked up way to run a country, now that I think about it.

It also means that federal pensions are pretty much a thing of the past.

The Slaughter decision means that government jobs are now at best an 8 year gig and nobody career-minded will ever take a federal position again. It is entirely unclear to me how the US is expected to function going forward.

As of right now the Google AI still says it's a hoax (it's not)

We need to become ungovernable.

But for heaven's sake folks, stop calling the end of 702 "unprecedented." Having 702 was unprecedented.

The thing that is annoying about all this for privacy folks is that 702 is the thing that blew up EU-US data transfers for two years and left us with basically no way to do it.

I am actually really shocked they let FISA 702 die. If it hadn't been for the Pulte fight, I'm not sure it would have happened. The question now is whether anything changes. Do the tech companies just stop responding to warantless subpoenas? Under this administration? We'll see.

Filing THIS at the DC Circuit at 4:20 pm on a Friday.

Wow.

On a happy note, I saw the film "Pressure" today, and it is splendid. Go see it. #pressure #trustscientists

The story about what the former governor of Kentucky did to his adopted son is despicable and infuriating. Jonah Bevin was adopted out of Ethiopa and then abandoned in a horrific teen center in Jamaica and left there when the center closed. Help him. www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...

The USPTO is slapping this logo onto trademark registration certificates now and I HATE it.

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

He should probably split it with @katmabu.bsky.social and the other Broadview defendants.

So they're giving it all to James Comey?

Got a memory notification from FB from 8 years ago where I posted something snarky about M*sk announcing that the Los Angeles 2.7 mile Boring Tunnel would be offering test rides in a few months, in case anyone thinks this Nashville thing is actually going to happen. (The LA tunnel was never built).

Data point: Using Adobe's AI assistant to extract a page from a (non-confidential) document and save it as a new document is marginally faster than using the export feature.

The irony of this happening 250 years after the Revolution is just screaming

To be fair, Popeye’s in a ball gown sounds amazing.

Russian warship, go fuck yourself.

Poor girl got a little puffy with that gravity shot

Nathanson came off as a normal person?

NASA for the win!

Trying not to have a complete panic attack for the astronauts as they drop out of space. We've done this before, I trust NASA. We've done this before, I trust NASA. We've done this before, I trust NASA. Breathe in, breathe out.

Astronauts had to talk to Tr*mp and Ted fricking Cruze on this trip. Why did we do this to them.

Just got sucked in to the Eddie Dalton record, and then found out he’s an AI creation. Damn.

I wonder if the astronauts will be able to see him blow Iran off the map tonight.

Ugly crying over here from Reid Wiseman naming a crater on the moon after his late wife while breaking the record for the farthest distance from Earth. But so is the Integrity crew. 😪

You took ten days off to go the moon but you still have to check your email.

I checked in with my Irish friends. They're grand.

Like, you REALLY need to understand what a miserable suburb Brentwood is. It's defined by the second-fanciest mall in the region and chain restaurants. People only live there to send their kids to the better public schools. Reacher living there is mindboggling. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Spending today trying to figure out how to get to London next month without flying.

Would it kill them to call it “Delores Huertes” Day?

It's Friday afternoon and it is beautiful outside. I will not sit in front of my screen and allow my blood pressure to skyrocket but AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGH nationaltoday.com/us/dc/washin...

I'm currently advising a client who is dissolving a non-profit that brings art therapy to nursing homes because their federal grants were canceled. The videos of the DOGE boys being deposed are significantly more than I can handle today.

O my God no it does NOT.

The saddest thing this privacy pro has read all day.

If course she did.

Sheri's Ranch is giving its sex workers a new contract that purports to take ownership of all of their IP and likeness rights. These women are independent contractors. From the language of the article, I'd bet good money the contract doesn't give Sheri's the rights it wants.

This Women’s Hockey final is pure chaos. #olympics

“Docket” isn’t the strongest mark for a newsletter about the courts, but I’d probably write the letter.

Fortunately, TN’s attempt to make undocumented status a criminal violation is about as viable as their attempt to required the Bible to be taught in public schools. This is what happens when you get your immigration law ideas from Stephen Goebbels Miller.

My contribution to the Bad Bunny discourse is when is Ricky Martin's new record coming out.

I’ve been eating to my macros literally every day since September. Today we are ordering pizza. Apologizing to my body in advance.

This is the funniest thing I have read in weeks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!