Happy “Ben’s My Friend” day to all who celebrate! 🎉 youtu.be/U9RfKKfNT0Q?... open.spotify.com/track/1Ubwpy...
Phil Haack
@phil.neuralgraffiti.com
Software guy turned lawyer; please don't hold it against me. 💼: Patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and "internet law" @neuralgraffiti@sfba.social on the Fediverse. https://profile.neuralgraffiti.com/ Lawyer, but (probably) not yours.
Have created a San Francisco Wikipedia edits Mastodon bot. Bluesky probably coming tomorrow. https://sfba.social/@wiki_changes_top_500
Bay Area Wikipedia Edits (500 articles) (@wiki_changes_top_500@sfba.social)
6 Posts, 2 Following, 1 Follower · An automated feed of edits to a list of Bay-Area-related Wikipedia articles, derived from but not exactly following the Bay Area Task Force list. https://en.wikipedi...
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If you want to preserve old books for public access, fund libraries. If you want to make the contents of out of print books more widely available, shorten the term of copyright. Do those two things and there is no reason to stress about destructive scanning.
We had Pesto alla Trapanese because Sicily.
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2w agoToday is July 25th, often celebrated as the fall of Italian fascism. Mussolini passed draconian controls over pasta production which he considered decadent and overly reliant on foreign grain. Today, we celebrate his fall with a simple, defiant partisan dish: 1) Pasta 2) Creamy butter 3) Parmesan
Apparently not part of Western Civilization (incomplete list): Homer, Socrates, Plato, democracy, Aquinas, Shakespeare, liberty, Locke, Montesquieu, Superman, NATO, vaccines Western Civilization that Must Be Defended: Carl Schmitt, the Confederacy, Green M&Ms in heels, the movie 300, domestic abuse
14. It doesn't say much for the utility of unrestrained capital that the greatest communications miracle in history, the internet, is being aggressively fenced out of a commons and transformed into thousands of disgusting little casinos.
Every person I know who failed the California bar exam is currently practicing law. You’ll be fine, regardless of how it goes next week.
Jess Miers 🦝🦞@jmiers230.bsky.social · 2w agoThe bar exam is next week. I teach the bar studies course every spring at Akron and I coach students for the July exam every summer. If you are studying for the bar (or know someone who is) I have some thoughts for you as you approach the exam. 🧵
Mozilla reviewed the privacy practices of six popular period-tracking apps and has one recommendation: Euki. www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...
Period and Ovulation Apps Privacy Review 2026: Is Your Period Tracker Safe?
We tested six popular period and ovulation tracker apps to find out how they handle your private health data. Our privacy expert Shoshana Wodinsky did hands-on testing of 6 popular period tracking app...
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I am an ebike sicko and I hate these people even more because they’re fucking it up for people that just want a bike that can go uphill a little easier. We should have more light electric vehicles. Also they should have functional brakes and not pretend to be bicycles.
A punitive view of education will never have the answer to what to do when students can use AI. A view of education that cares about motivating students will. In a world where student motivation needs to be earned not just enforced it's pretty clear that's the only way to elicit effort.
I think I will be home with recuperating child, but this sounds like a blast for Easy Bay folks.
Roberto Baldwin@strngwys.bsky.social · 4w agoHey Bay Area If you wanna have fun tomorrow night head to Retro Junkie in Walnut Creek where I’ll be singing, playing guitar, and playing drums for a few songs. I promise you’ll dance and I’ll be giving out free stickers! www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-lava-b...
Hey Bay Area If you wanna have fun tomorrow night head to Retro Junkie in Walnut Creek where I’ll be singing, playing guitar, and playing drums for a few songs. I promise you’ll dance and I’ll be giving out free stickers! www.eventbrite.com/e/hot-lava-b...
HOT LAVA (B52's Tribute) + FLIPPY FLOPPY (Talking Heads Tribute)... LIVE!
HOT LAVA (B52's Tribute) + FLIPPY FLOPPY (Talking Heads Tribute)... LIVE @ Retro Junkie!
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I’m curious about this scam format. Is the idea that, if you were already scammed, you’d be a good target?
It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”
Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · last mo.Some folks will be like "what about women's rights?" Paine landed right on that too! Raised a Quaker, Paine essayed against the "enslavement and oppression of women," partnered with Mary Wollstonecraft on A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argued for state maternity support and civil suffrage.
Honestly, everyone in America should experience America like World Cup fans have. Go to places you haven't been, eat the local food, have a blast. This country is huge and most people barely ever see any of it.
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · last mo.this video from the bbc about texas bbq is frying me
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last mo.You won’t find a more clownish editorial page anywhere in American journalism
you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.
Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."
trans haters can pound sand i love all my trans homies
*slaps Supreme Court* this baby can fit so many more Justices in it, especially if they rotate in and sit by designation on a Circuit Court of Appeals when they're not on SCOTUS.
The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...
Judiciary Approves Funding for Case Management and Public Access Modernization
To fund the accelerated initiative to modernize and strengthen the security of its case management and public access system, the Judiciary is implementing a modest temporary increase in fees for elect...
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Late pass, obviously, but this to me is a fantastic blog in the classic sense. High-quality language and real insight directed at an otherwise shitty news story, by one of the all-time greats at doing all that. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...
Giants pitchers' Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they've missed the point
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Yo @sfgiants.com this is some cowardly shit. If those guys wrote bible verses on their hats every day it’d be one thing; this is spitting in the face of the very existence of a significant portion of your fan base (and basically 100% once you count friends and family).
👑 Empress of Pulls 👑@yerfriendmolly.undertow.cards · 2mo agoman go FUCK yourselves
People of the Bay Area! I’m hosting a new reading series called Text Change, in which five trans writers are invited to read work on any topic other than transition! The first show is at The Stud on June 14th at 6:30! (flyer designed by @cara.city)
New poem, “Advice”, in the latest issue of Island magazine. With thanks to poetry editor Timothy Loveday for giving it a home.
