Meredith Rose
@mrose.ink
Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, @publicknowledge.bsky.social . Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff. Negate the gods -- raise rocks. She/her 🏳️🌈
My 2-point reform platform: 1. Naming your product after sci fi requires a 10-page essay with your TM application to prove that you understood the source material; 2. CEOs of >$1B market cap companies must spend one day per year in a dunk tank, where anyone in America can pay $1 to drop you.
god i love local news
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
There is a split on the right about immigration -- it is not that some oppose deportations per se, but some are more concerned about government interference and workers (as Mullin gestures to here) and some are basically full-on genocidaires.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterdayDon't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Love how this centers the impact to everyone not storing their metal boxes on the street. Move your car. Don’t block street sweepers. 📸 @emmagf.bsky.social
After personally reading 6,000 pages of romantasy fiction, Judge Colleen McMahon called this copyright suit over the bestselling Crave series "open and shut.” The "shut" part still took four years, three judges, and $3.4M in fees. Full story: copyrightlately.com/crave-copyri...
After 6,000 Romantasy Pages, Judge Hands Crave Plaintiff the Bill
The Crave copyright case was open and shut once a judge compared the books. Getting there took four years and $3.4 million in legal fees.
copyrightlately.com
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
trib.al
The only reason BlueSky is a thing is that it gave people fleeing Nazi Twitter a plug-and-play place to reconnect with the people and formerly good parts of Twitter they enjoyed without turning every conversation into an edge lord fight club of bigotry.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
If you live in the US, you want to know about this website.
Have I Been Flocked? – Search Flock ALPR Audit Logs
Have police looked up your travel history? Search Flock Safety audit logs for your license plate.
haveibeenflocked.com
Get in the fucking Criterion Closet where you belong Shinji (are they gonna restore the cast karaoke covers of Fly Me to the Moon tho?)
IGN@ign.com · 6d agoHideaki Anno’s iconic anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion is officially coming to the Criterion Channel this September. https://bit.ly/3TuAlnB
it is not about the horse specifically but it is about the discourse about the Odyssey (as before: the Odysseyposting will continue until hospitality improves)
This is framed as a feel-good story, but it should scare the wits out of anybody on the road. Tesla's deceptive marketing is convincing seniors that the cars drive themselves. In reality, a human must always be ready to intervene. If someone lacks the ability to do that, they shouldn't be driving!
Forget rideshare. How seniors are using Teslas for transportation
As Waymo and Tesla robotaxi services promise more rides for more cities, seniors are taking matters into their own hands and self-driving Teslas.
detroitnews.com
"Whenever you get into the copyright realm, a lot of judges just decide it's all vibes." Senior Policy Counsel @mrose.ink breaks down Google and Reddit's uphill DMCA battles against @serpapi.com — and why the bigger risk is a broader "re-enclosure" of the open web. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.
arstechnica.com
Any law that lets you muzzle Heritage would be easy to use to muzzle the ACLU, for instance.
D555D@d555d.bsky.social · last wk.Did nonprofits not exist before corporations were given human rights? Can we not have Congress assign rights to different types of organizations? For-profit companies having free speech rights has been a real problem — so have some nonprofits (Heritage for example).
the oil tanker thing killed me. i am officially dead.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.ok reasonable
Been upgraded to a new kind of liminal space: A Hallway, where we’ve been standing for twenty minutes and had our juror numbers roll called four separate times.
Meredith Rose@mrose.ink · last wk.Woke up, talked with CBC Morning Live about AI and music, and am now sitting in the legal equivalent of a liminal space (jury lounge)
After seeing Odyssey, I am rereading Cold Mountain, also about a soldier’s long journey home thru trials. In that story, I suspect Inman had many victims before we meet him, but you see them only thru his memories bc it’s a war & they’re dead & that’s how these stories go
Seagull This Far Inland Must Be Total Fuckup https://theonion.com/seagull-this-far-inland-must-be-total-fuckup-1819578988/
Tons of peoples' Claude chats are exposed on Google. Cryptocurrency keys, API keys, login credentials, legal discussions, more. This happened with ChatGPT last year. And Claude too. There's clearly an ongoing issue with search engines indexing peoples' AI chats www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...
Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
404media.co
never ask: - a woman her age - a man his salary - a European what their opinion is of Romani people
Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
[guy who follows 192 Bluesky accounts and logs on to the site once a week] man this place is dead
Adaptation and translation are different projects. Wilson's Odyssey captures in modern language the values and preoccupations of dark age Greece. Nolan is viewing the story through a modern lens and with a focus on what the story and how we read it says about us.
paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 2w agovery funny that after all the “Emily Wilson is going to longhouse Western Civilization with her woke Odyssey”, Emily Wilson herself is like “yeah, a bit too much ‘healing trauma’ and not enough ‘relishing in the blood of your enemies’ in the new movie”
Woke up, talked with CBC Morning Live about AI and music, and am now sitting in the legal equivalent of a liminal space (jury lounge)
