Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

New day, new product on the Atmosphere. Launching glean.at a Social RSS Reader on @atproto.com. What does it mean? - Your RSS reader becomes connected to your social graph. - See what people like you read, like or annotate - Discover feeds or articles you wouldn't have known before

::ugly crying:: ::wipes away tears and snot:: “No, no, honey. These are *happy* tears…”

I am once again asking you to watch Gundam Wing and tapping the “Did Treize Khushrenada Die For Nothing?!?” sign.

Apple famously has a circular headquarters

Plot of Sneakers remake just dropped.

Update on where things stand on FISA: this deal is a win. We got the House to back down from an 18 month extension, buying us time to negotiate on real reforms. I'll be fighting like hell for reforms that put your privacy first, and will have more to share soon.

I briefly did employment litigation, which took place in state court under state law. I decided for some reason that I needed to see the text of the case everyone cited for some very bread and butter proposition. But that opinion wasn't the primary source for the proposition. So I went upstream...

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

If Bluesky's got a hangover or whatever the least they can do is wheel in the TV cart and put on an episode of NOVA for us or something.

writers room mailing it in again with reused plotlines…

A fun random thing I circle back to every few years: a widow dies in 1913 and leaves money for 3 buildings: to the Dutch Reformed Church (1) and Rutgers (2) to honor her late father; to Columbia (3) to honor her late husband, an alum. The first two buildings were built; the third was not. 🤷‍♂️

As good excuse as any to re-up this absolute gem of reporting from the heyday of online published media:

This is fun. I wish I had a ‘time machine’/version navigator of so many statutes (side eyes Title 47)

We don't have to feed to trolls because trained professional @dieworkwear.bsky.social is doing god's work .

This is 100% taking the bait, but as a point of pedantry, the tax rules are shackled to a system from the *1980s* (i.e. the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, established by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and as amended since...)

Catholicism with Chicagoland characteristics.

Man is born free, and everywhere his side-loadable devices are in chains. Jean-Jacques “DRM” Rousseau

“I’m leveraging AI to scale myself” sus, tech bro coded, possibly in self-induced psychosis “I used software to automate some really tedious stuff” relatable, normal, clever

“…FOR GOD’S SAKE” “Oh? And which god would that be again?”

Tired: in the long run, the South won the civil war Wired: in the long run, the cavaliers won the English civil war

Car makers still not liable for crimes where perpetrator used a car to get to scene of the crime.

::cackles maniacally in E-Form*:: *theres maybe a half dozen people on this site who will wince in pain at that reference. @anjalikdayal.bsky.social @gshans.bsky.social perhaps

My initial reaction to agentic AI:

It’s not a question of iftar, but whentar…

That nike ad with kids recreating iconic jordan dunks, but its mamdani, and instead of Jordan nodding approvingly from the sidelines at the end, its Donald Shoup.

::stares at camera in Millenial::

FWIW, this is also why I think some of these publications are making a mistake when they opt-out of AI scans, since AI is generating more traffic instead of search. But it's also why I always focus on direct traffic to @techdirt.com more than any referrer.

Early in my copyright career I had a complex, nuanced take on the ethics of piracy. Now I'm like, fuck it, pirate copies are perhaps the main way any copies of corporate-owned media (esp tv/movies) are gonna persist through unrestrained corporate looting, have at it.

Did not have “Anthropic as standard bearers of Khushrenada Thought refusing to develop Mobile Dolls” on my bingo card.

One of the Microsoft accounts always lies, though.

trying to wrap my head around agentic ai, and it feels like a violation of every lesson that linux permission errors tried to teach me?

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

wow.

- Masterpieces of Western Music - Social History of Columbia University - Architectural Representation: Abstraction - Honors General Physics - History of the English Novel II

"We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and second hall... The end comes... drums, drums in the deep. They are coming" - Ori's final entry in the Book of Mazarbul, on the third of four straight snow days at home with the kids