You don't see price charts make right-angle turns very often.

Wait Brent is up by what??

I also see that a lot of people are apparently not familiar with the full text of Article I, Section 7, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, and what happens if a President doesn't sign a bill.

I spent the morning and early afternoon moving furniture around inside the house and taking stuff to the storage locker. Then I took a nap. I come back and everyone's talking about the draft and gas price caps and stuff. And this doesn't actually register as strange or unusual to me anymore.

Also the entire character protection doctrine in copyright law comes from a painful misreading of a 2nd Circuit case from the 1930s, which is nevertheless very influential because it was written by Learned Hand. (Not by *a* learned hand, but rather *the* Learned Hand.)

Thank you! It looks like all of Wilder's works should hit the public domain at the same time, 70 years after her death... Which is to say, February 2027. Even if you fudge it to Jan 1, 2028, the Wilder Heritage Trust is about to face the Conan Doyle Estate problem.

When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I understand from the widespread complaints that it's a bit later on the continent than it was this time yesterday.

Important article. should be gift link. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

Branding: I personally would not drive a truck full of white sheets around Virginia with a prominent "88" on it.

the early cypherpunk meme about how technology is untouchable/untouched by governments was foolishness, especially around the time it got packaged as consumer marketing

A big factor in the AI consciousness debate is that lots of atheists/agnostics believe in souls and don’t know it

Your brain and data may be in the internet, a world that is both everywhere and nowhere. But your ass is still firmly planted in the jurisdiction of somebody's courts. And police. Proton is correct. The odds of you finding a company that won't comply with its local police are basically zero.

Just endless screaming rn

People. ISTG @infinitescream.bsky.social

They...absolutely will, lol. Which is why I and so many lawyers are harping on this. I want people to understand. But anonymity is not privacy. Nobody guarantees you the former, amd the latter is rather fragile. If it matters to you, you'll be better protecting it if you know that.

Switzerland does have strong protections - stronger than the US, for sure. Switzerland does not have unlimited protections. The fact that those protections are not unlimited does not mean that Proton lied or is untrustworthy. Vibes notwithstanding.

Proton still did *exactly* what the promotional material in the screenshots promised: the contents were protected; the turnover of payment information was in accord with Swiss privacy law. The problem isn't Proton. The problem wasn't Proton's promotional material. The problem is people don't read.

I think that's the big question - should tort law develop in the face of a machine that can, and often does, commit all of the elements of torts but is incapable of intent because it's a machine. It feels like allowing the machines to skate on that technicality is an unreasonable allocation of risk.

OpenAI is, in cases like this, making money because an innocent third party is being forced to waste money dealing with frivolous litigation. There's a very large fairness and justice deficit there.

Also: This type of abusive process is absolutely being inflicted on innocent parties much more often now that you have tools like ChatGPT out there, ready to make you happy by telling you that your lawyer gaslit you, and willing to draft legal filings for you to submit.

Lizard is joking, of course, but there are really people, including some rich ones *cough*musk*cough*, who believe this kind of thing. And it's a cyberpunk genre trope - Stevenson's Kinkuta, @greatdismal.bsky.social's Zion. Heinlein's Luna, with Prof's brass cannon. bsky.app/profile/liza...

And if you pay someone using a credit card, you are not anonymous. Actually, lets make it even simpler. You are not anonymous. The only question is how hard you've made it to find your identity. It's not impossible. You have made at least one mistake, and that's all it takes.

I tell people nature wants to kill you, and the internet wants to hack you. Online privacy is not real; it only lasts until someone is motivated to get to whatever you put online.

That said: The only element of tortious interference that is potentially missing is intentional inducement by ChatGPT. And even there, I think there's an argument to be made (although it's *NOT* a strong one). The other elements, including knowledge of the contract, are IMO adequately pleaded.

After reading the complaint: I don't think it's strong. And I do think Nippon's counsel, who is apparently the one driving the action, with Sidley Austin "acting as local counsel," is far to personally invested, is way out over his skis, and really needs to be reeled in by someone.

The legal theory here is much more interesting than I was expecting - it's the insurance company victimized by the frivolous suit that's suing, and the causes of action aren't limited to UPL. There are abuse of process and tortious interference claims here.

(We can fight about whether Moon is a Harsh Mistress is really cyberpunk later. But I'm always going to have a soft spot for Professor de la Paz and his brass cannon.) Thing is, those refuges are genre tropes not because they're realistic concepts, but because they're tools that make stories work.

if the state wants to find you, they’ll find you. accept it, don’t accept it, whatever. it’s just a fact of life that the side with unlimited resources will prevail against the side without unlimited resources. you can delay discovery, but you can never stop it

In the real world, Kinkuta stays a data haven until the rich investors are outbribed by competitors or the CIA orchestrates a coup. Zion's economics probably don't withstand a close look. The secret catapult on the moon is betrayed. You live in the real world, y'all. Whether you want to or not.

Even more fun is that you can be perfect for a decade, mess up once, and then have that decade of data attributed to you. And this happens *all* the time.

So much this. I'm not law enforcement. I don't have warrant power. If a client needs you found...you're getting found. There's no email service charging twenty bucks thats gonna make that outcome different unless your opsec has been perfect. Not good. Not great. Perfect.

The important here is "you are not anonymous". The only question is how hard you make it to figure out who you are. You can't make it impossible and you will make mistakes. Act accordingly.

Your brain and data may be in the internet, a world that is both everywhere and nowhere. But your ass is still firmly planted in the jurisdiction of somebody's courts. And police. Proton is correct. The odds of you finding a company that won't comply with its local police are basically zero.

If you dry hump a goat ironically, you still dry humped a goat.

3d6 is vastly superior to d20 as a resolution mechanism

Lastly, they are for the soul of your nation and your cause. Limits on war preserve humanity. Mercy transcends violence. After the fighting, there has to be something more. Rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict protect you; abandoning them is dire.

OMG

This is how it's supposed to be. Lawyers who think they're professionally obligated to be assholes to each other are the bane of the profession, and you find them everywhere from sole practitioners in strip malls to the biggest of BigLaw in Manhattan.

The former carpet pattern of a Marriott hotel in Georgia that became the focus of a cult after DMCA claims were used to stop people from using the pattern for ninja costumes. Really.

As for their lawyer: based on that community license, I'd personally be open to hiring them in the right case.

Yeah, from everything I've seen so far (still putting together a full picture), the actual problem looks to be about 5% the license, 45% YouTubers looking for content, and 50% minimally creative proxy makers getting resentful because they're not allowed to just free ride.

"O brave new world, That has such people in't"

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Sorry, no. The license does not "impose only restrictions." Without it, there is no right to use the IP. The specific clause you refer to is the most challenging in a community license. Without it, they are at risk of having their own projects held up by IP claims from "community creators."

That's not true. But Rip van Winkle took a twenty year nap in an ultimately futile attempt to get out of an appointment to be interviewed by Chotiner.

And tries to assert IP rights in things like 'trench' or 'soldier with gas mask and trench coat,' they risk asserting rights in stuff that conflicts with GW's rights in stuff like the Death Korps of Krieg. Which gets them in big trouble. Brand Shield is motivated to not do that.

And how *was* the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/