Josh Landau

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"In the 1950s, William Blaisdell of the Copyright Office . . . offered an alternative economic justification for copyright: Copyright creates national wealth . . . This article . . . shows that the argument that copyright creates national wealth or jobs . . . is without merit." - Glynn Lunney

Been telling people inference is profitable for a while now. Didn’t expect quite *how* profitable.

Trademark threat letters (which these days mostly come from “brand protection” agencies, not actual lawyers) rarely acknowledge things like “fair use” and “reasonable consumers” and “reality”.

I couldn’t do this from my backyard with more or less commodity stuff when I was a kid.

Come improve the quality of my life! I can look up the exact band if necessary, but the salary range is roughly 200k to 300k USD IIRC. I’m not involved in the hiring process.

As recently as last month, the Alt National Park Service was amplifying election misinformation. For god's sake, don't trust them. They're just click farmers.

This inevitably brings me to my favorite patent title worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/searc...

thank you emudhra. "My only micro-B cable is bent" -> using leaked certificates to spoof the sony app store to get root on my camera

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

PACER is stupidly expensive when it doesn't need to be, and now the per-page fees are increasing by 20%. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

Canon is not a social construct; it exists due to Japanese corporate law. Many IP owners mess with Canon. Much of the audience has in fact rejected Canon, they prefer Sony.

No Dave’s, no Jack, no Checkers (I think, that last is possible but I don’t remember doing so.)

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Are we gonna do this, Bluesky? Are we all just gonna not understand accounting? 72B$ of the 80B$ is convertible notes. They became greater liabilities because the company's valuation skyrocketed. They don't have an 80B$ loss in the sense that almost everyone here is imagining.

If you’re in Minnesota you should go to the Jack-o-lantern spectacular. Everybody else should book a trip for next year to see 5,000 pumpkins at the zoo.

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The first three stripe usage Adidas *won’t* sue.

The first three stripe usage Adidas *won’t* sue.

Worth the time it takes to read and then some.

Maybe this’ll slow down the daily spate of Russian takedown/“we are adding this site to the register of banned sites” notices targeting VPN addons I get. … prolly not tho.

Despite its name, the DEFEND IP Act would instead incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

also by doing this I learned from the appendix that "Participants in the control condition had access to a fixed sidebar panel titled “How to Solve Fractions” throughout the main experimental phase. " ????????????????????????????????????????????? I mean that's a motivation-influencing prompt

open source and open data as an ethos is largely anti capital and anti authority and is inherently political in ways we need more of

Ok — I've seen enough. #WSocial is the politics of Elon Musk meets the accountability of Mark Zuckerberg.

a lot of people are replying with 'what are you going to do about it,' and while every level of government could do more, the powers the *DC City Council* has in this situation are comparatively limited. This isn't just voter intimidation, but an argument for statehood for the District of Columbia.

mf wears separates?!?!

you know the onion was funnier when they tried to be funny

If we moved to a house of the same value as the one we have today, financing the same exact amount, our mortgage payments would nearly double, so yeah, I don’t have a lot of incentive to give that up.

Soft Rain Chill Mist Heaped Leaves Warm Sun (Iykyk)

Explaincars Drama: an interesting fact is that at the ground-based end of every laser being pointed at an aircraft, is a dickhead.

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

It is mind-boggling to me that anyone can see the rampant lawless abuses taking place with Schedule A/SAD Scheme litigation & still think we should give copyright owners an expedited way to block entire websites by bending due process www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... & www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

anybody need a job? .NET, Unity, react native ideal.

Glad I had family stuff to do today and couldn’t watch whatever that nonsense was. Congrats Goldy and crew. I guess.

A genuine, serious headline of "Is Mike Tomlin good at MINECRAFT? We asked an expert" is such a beautiful thing to exist.

oh man this is the first time i've actually overtly seen "being anti-copyright is being pro-AI" in the wild in no uncertain terms, this one was on my bingo card, how exciting it is to be alive in 2026

Hey look! Let’s shit on democrats for *checks notes* doing the right thing.

I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

I do not appreciate being called out like this.

This is about what I expected the UN thing would turn out to be - not a hack so much as weird attempts to access public data using the available tools, which don’t work with the public data access mechanism.