Big mood.

Thanks @denniscrouch.bsky.social for addressing the current status of the USPTO. Patent activity may not be the most urgent issue, but impacts to the U.S. patent system will be an important factor in the overall long-term economic damage we could be looking at here.
patentlyo.com/patent/2025/...

That people now see the typical person Silicon Valley has produced through decades long juvenilizing and coddling of young men and the persistent sidelining of women is an important thing except it’s also too late. These toxic adult toddlers are grown and cloning more.

Me: I think I'm doing a pretty good job of self-regulating, keeping my head screwed on straight, focusing on what's in my control, not spiraling...
Also me: eye has now been twitching almost non-stop for 6 days straight

Spotted elsewhere: Law firms w/ expertise in fed employment law:
Shaw, Bransford & Roth 202-463-8400
Alden Law Group 202-463-0300
Correia & Puth 202-602-6500
Federal Practice Group 202-862-4360
Gilbert Employment Law 844-287-1991
Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch 202-558-5979
Erlich Law 703-791-9087

Take a break from reading about The Horrors to look at this cat. Maybe drink some water and stretch your neck a little bit while you’re at it.

Yep. There's a whole lot of potential in machine learning, even large language models. But the stuff getting the hype and most of the money is trash with a net negative effect on society, polluting the environment, the Internet, and people's brains all at once. The sooner it pops, the better.

If Duolingo is going to insist on adding random new features rather than improving the educational quality of the exercises, I don’t care about weird fake video calls. I want expanded lore. How did Zari & Lily become friends. Why is Eddy a single father to Junior. What’s Lucy’s deal??

Cicero was a very wise man

I can’t & won’t tell anyone what to do, but I’ll gently suggest if you’re already feverishly tracking everything this incoming administration does & says & every piece of lobotomized court intrigue you’ll lose your mind right about when you need it most. Go paint some model figurines or something.

It is rainy and the morning news headlines only get more ridiculous each day. I don’t want to work, the purralegals (pictured below) don’t want to work. We’ll start by making some tea and opening a laptop. Baby steps. 🖤🐾

Oh to be a dumb little cat, spending my days napping with another dumb little cat. 🐈🐈‍⬛

My cats are the only thing keeping me sane right now.