Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans
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Full time entertainment attorney (among other types of law), part time #screenwriter and #producer. #Jayhawks, #Chiefs and #Royals fan for life! Aspiring #BBQ pitmaster and life-long reader of physical books and newspapers. BlackSky refugee.
I say this for no particular reason, but the U.S. Copyright just released a two-year study concluding AI generated proceeds are NOT entitled to copyright protection. Which means EVERYBODY can use Tilly without having to pay or get the consent of the company that owns the software that generated it.
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I say this for no particular reason, but the U.S. Copyright just released a two-year study concluding AI generated proceeds are NOT entitled to copyright protection. Which means EVERYBODY can use Tilly without having to pay or get the consent of the company that owns the software that generated it.
The funny thing is gonna be the number of MAGAts relying on Medicaid tomorrow night at emergency rooms across the country after they drunkenly blow their fingers off with M80s.
a happy 4th of july greeting with a flag and fireworks
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July 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The funny thing is gonna be the number of MAGAts relying on Medicaid tomorrow night at emergency rooms across the country after they drunkenly blow their fingers off with M80s.
Inevitable.
July 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Inevitable.
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There was no problem in Los Angeles. There were people downtown (a tiny area) protesting cruelty. Trump sent troops in to pick a fight.
Because he needs a Reichstag fire.
Because he needs a Reichstag fire.
June 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
There was no problem in Los Angeles. There were people downtown (a tiny area) protesting cruelty. Trump sent troops in to pick a fight.
Because he needs a Reichstag fire.
Because he needs a Reichstag fire.
I have a theory that Stephen Miller is jealous of Joseph Goebbels' press clippings.
June 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I have a theory that Stephen Miller is jealous of Joseph Goebbels' press clippings.
To alllll the folks out there who are like "more people were deported under Obama," I'm like "so what you're saying is Obama did it better (since nobody felt the need to protest) and more efficiently?"
It's not ICE's mission being protested. It's the manner in which they go about completing it.
It's not ICE's mission being protested. It's the manner in which they go about completing it.
a cartoon of spongebob with the words nuance written above him
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June 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
To alllll the folks out there who are like "more people were deported under Obama," I'm like "so what you're saying is Obama did it better (since nobody felt the need to protest) and more efficiently?"
It's not ICE's mission being protested. It's the manner in which they go about completing it.
It's not ICE's mission being protested. It's the manner in which they go about completing it.
Dangerous Animals is just "Saw meets Jaws."
a little girl is dancing with the words i said what i said behind her
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June 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Dangerous Animals is just "Saw meets Jaws."
The best era was when you had to buy your rolling papers and Jones Soda at The Third Planet. #ElderMillennial #90sKid
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June 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The best era was when you had to buy your rolling papers and Jones Soda at The Third Planet. #ElderMillennial #90sKid
Watching Marcy Playground and Everclear at the #Wichita #RiverFest is the most #GenX/#ElderMillennial thing I've ever done.
May 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Watching Marcy Playground and Everclear at the #Wichita #RiverFest is the most #GenX/#ElderMillennial thing I've ever done.
I'm an attorney, but I still don't know if the past tense of "plead" is "pled" or "pleaded."
May 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I'm an attorney, but I still don't know if the past tense of "plead" is "pled" or "pleaded."
I appreciate the sentiment. However, since 1978, the Copyright Act has expressly protected as fair use the unauthorized copying or use of another's works for purposes of teaching and research. I don't think the WGA presents a winning argument on that basis.
"OpenAI has been referring to [training AI on creative work without paying or getting permission from creators] as 'the freedom to learn.' In New Jersey, it's just called theft."
AI’s Napster Moment May Be Next
In 1999, a groundbreaking site launched that felt too good to be true. And that’s because it was. Sam Altman should take note.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I appreciate the sentiment. However, since 1978, the Copyright Act has expressly protected as fair use the unauthorized copying or use of another's works for purposes of teaching and research. I don't think the WGA presents a winning argument on that basis.
So, I fell down the rabbit hole watching AGI 2027 videos on YouTube last night. Can anybody convince me we aren't headed for a Terminator-style #AI extinction level event in the next two to five years?
May 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
So, I fell down the rabbit hole watching AGI 2027 videos on YouTube last night. Can anybody convince me we aren't headed for a Terminator-style #AI extinction level event in the next two to five years?
America: home of the brave from behind an anonymous Twitter account, and land of the freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee.
May 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
America: home of the brave from behind an anonymous Twitter account, and land of the freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm kinda over the "Vibes Era" for motion picture scores and ready to get back to epic, groundbreaking and memorable themes again. Can anybody hum the Inception score? Cuz we've ALL "da da dumdum dum da dummed" to the Indiana Jones on our own without prompting. #Filmmaking
May 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Maybe it's just me, but I'm kinda over the "Vibes Era" for motion picture scores and ready to get back to epic, groundbreaking and memorable themes again. Can anybody hum the Inception score? Cuz we've ALL "da da dumdum dum da dummed" to the Indiana Jones on our own without prompting. #Filmmaking
Standard take: Syril and Dedra are definitely into BDSM as a couple (no kink shaming, please!)
Hot take: They're DEFINITELY a switch couple!!
Hot take: They're DEFINITELY a switch couple!!
May 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Standard take: Syril and Dedra are definitely into BDSM as a couple (no kink shaming, please!)
Hot take: They're DEFINITELY a switch couple!!
Hot take: They're DEFINITELY a switch couple!!
Watching #Andor and figured out WHY it feels like it has #StarWars back on track: what makes evil EVIL, rather than just oppressive, is its banality. It uses the board room instead of space battles to show us the clutch of the Empire. It's the Wansee of it that makes them monsters.
May 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
1/ NEW THREAD RE: #AI (Yeah, I know... But hear me out cuz I promise it's a new take!!)
The #Copyright Office and federal courts are - right now - struggling with whether/how copyright protection ought to extend to generative #artificialintelligence "works" (I put "works" in quotes because the...
The #Copyright Office and federal courts are - right now - struggling with whether/how copyright protection ought to extend to generative #artificialintelligence "works" (I put "works" in quotes because the...
May 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
1/ NEW THREAD RE: #AI (Yeah, I know... But hear me out cuz I promise it's a new take!!)
The #Copyright Office and federal courts are - right now - struggling with whether/how copyright protection ought to extend to generative #artificialintelligence "works" (I put "works" in quotes because the...
The #Copyright Office and federal courts are - right now - struggling with whether/how copyright protection ought to extend to generative #artificialintelligence "works" (I put "works" in quotes because the...
What if dogs DON'T love us? What if we just kidnapped them, took them home, kept them leashed up outdoors, made them eat and poop on our timeframe for years and now they have Stockholm Syndrome?
a woman in a blue shirt says " what if "
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April 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
What if dogs DON'T love us? What if we just kidnapped them, took them home, kept them leashed up outdoors, made them eat and poop on our timeframe for years and now they have Stockholm Syndrome?
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In the words of an unnamed Trump aide:
"Some people seem to think Trump's playing chess, when most of the time the staff are just trying to stop him from eating the pieces."
"Some people seem to think Trump's playing chess, when most of the time the staff are just trying to stop him from eating the pieces."
April 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
In the words of an unnamed Trump aide:
"Some people seem to think Trump's playing chess, when most of the time the staff are just trying to stop him from eating the pieces."
"Some people seem to think Trump's playing chess, when most of the time the staff are just trying to stop him from eating the pieces."
There were times in Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Communist China and Vietnam when scholars were put on lists for the things they had published.
Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded.
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research
A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.
www.tampabay.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
There were times in Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Communist China and Vietnam when scholars were put on lists for the things they had published.
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Good! Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump. They are weighing whether to take jobs at firms that have either capitulated to Trump or are fighting him in court.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump
Law students are weighing whether to take jobs at firms that have either capitulated to Trump or are fighting him in court.
www.politico.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Good! Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump. They are weighing whether to take jobs at firms that have either capitulated to Trump or are fighting him in court.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...