The article is freely available on www.army.mil/article/1098...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

On this day in 1873, US Patent 139,121 was granted to Jacob Davis, assigned in part to Levi Strauss & Co., for “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings”. It is often described as the patent for the first jeans. #OnThisDay #OTD #PatentHistory #Patents #Levis

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

This should make your skin crawl...

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

No context Microsoft

When did Walgreens get a sports team

Please enjoy this illustration of TMNT's Raphael imitating Bloom County's Bill the Cat, from the December 1986 one-off "Leonardo: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle."

Read the Guardian's review of "a prize-winning blockbuster" novel about Italy: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... ...Then the NYT review by a freelancer who used generative AI & plagiarized the Guardian: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b... This is why some people call it 'derivative AI.'

OpenAI was sued this week over a mass shooting in Florida and the overdose death of a college student in California. They are among two dozen cases filed in the last year that claim ChatGPT should be subject to consumer product safety laws: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/t...

That (still live) registration (maintained last year) goes all the way back to when it was just called the Patent Office! tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=7...

And correct me if I’m wrong but this setting is required to save your chat history. So if you want your chatbot to remember your convos and learn your habits as described in the product description, you have to let it train. Regardless, DO NOT CONNECT SAM ALTMAN DIRECTLY TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT.

Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

RIP to a real one

Considering a road trip? Look out for gas pump card skimmers. Skimmers can be hidden inside pumps or attached to readers, and they can steal enough data to clone your card. Tap-to-pay is safer than swiping, and credit cards are usually better than debit cards. More: www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

Okay, trademark friends: Have you ever actually seen a case where a registered mark was deemed abandoned due *only* to a "failure to police" third-party, unlicensed uses?

Oof, I *thought* this would be satire, á la The Onion.

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Oof, I *thought* this would be satire, á la The Onion.

NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

I'm updating a presentation I have given several times and came across this note in it. I have said this every time I have had the chance to say it and I now get to update this section with HERE IS A STELLAR EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT DOING THIS COST PEOPLE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

Confessions of a Showgirl vs. The Life of a Showgirl: The plaintiff is seeking a preliminary injunction to stop Taylor Swift from using her album title as a trademark. What I find interesting about Swift's opposition is that it focuses on the Rogers test. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Journalists, let’s be careful about the language we use when writing or talking about AI. Here’s a thread — @emilymbender.bsky.social, I know you pay attention to this, too, so feel free to chime in. (1/x)

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography

So, just making stuff up. That’s what you’re saying. You’re just going to make stuff up.

LKQ issue-spotter of the day: Would a laundry basket count as analogous art?

Old style law exam grading rubric, author unknown.

Are These Two Logo Marks Confusable for Candy? thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/05/are-...

Today in design patents: D1125851 issued for an agricultural harvest basket. Oh, what is in a name! #DesignPatents

Ceci n'est pas une remote.

It appears that Instructure (makers of Canvas) just straight up paid off the criminal gang www.instructure.com/incident_upd...

i will simply incant "do NOT corrupt me. make NO mistakes" before wielding the One Ring

The @404media.co article led me this article with a very interesting example of "AI writing looks like me, not the other way round." marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

costello: i want a burger down under abbott: down & out? costello: i sure am abbott: no down & out, in 'n out sued them for trademark infringement costello: what's it now abbott: nameless costello: down & out has no name? abbott: no, it's nameless! www.tastingtable.com/2164757/aust...

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NEW: Graduating humanities students were told that AI is the “next industrial revolution” in a speech. It was met with thousands of booing graduates.

She didn't expect boos from her "AI is the next industrial revolution" any more than she expected wild applause for "Only a few years ago, AI wasn't a factor in our lives." People are sick of generative AI.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

you annual reminder that in order to federally register something as a trademark, you have to use it *as a mark* in connection with goods or services you offer for sale that move in interstate commerce

Weird fact: Bastrop, TX (pop. 14,184) is home to the official corporate headquarters of the social media network formerly known as Twitter. For tax reasons. It's also about to be home to close to a million Houston toads (god willing). (📷: Texas Parks & Wildlife)

Still enchanted by this strange Chicago tradition of raising the bridges in sequence so that the tall boats can escape to the lake for the summer.

The 1893 Coca-Cola trademark registration, featuring the logo's distinctive cursive, can be found in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division's U.S. Patent Office Trademarks Collection. On this day in 1886, the very first Coca-Cola was sold at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.