More Celebration of the Music of Francesco Cilèa! (July 23, 1866 – November 20, 1950) Not only opera, but an exquisite chamber work shows us this fine composer’s musical greatness – the Romanze from his Cello Sonata: youtu.be/izhyeOTwVIA?...

Francesco Cilea: Sonata per violoncello e pianoforte (1888)

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Gave my first presentation about my new book (!!) to a full room. Windows 98 nerds, watch w sound on 🔊

breathe (Happy Fogust)

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

Larva of the swallow-tail butterfly, from Book of Monsters (1914) by David and Marian Fairchild who, with the help of a 20-foot long camera, show myriad bugs magnified to a wondrous degree: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-monsters/

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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 6h ago

"a 2010 survey commissioned by KFC found that 50% of americans ages 18-25 did not know colonel sanders was a real person at all, mistaking him for a fictional corporate mascot like ronald mcdonald or mrs. butterworth" -mcgeveran, selfmarks, houston law review (2018)

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.

He also "planned" a working moon mission by 2024 & we're still in the "sometimes it doesn't crash" stage of that process. Stop reporting on any tech bro CEO's claims as if they are facts, especially in outlets connected to our shared collective hallucination called "the economy". CONTEXTUALIZE SHIT.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 11h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

This is dope af

Vintage Obscura Radio@vintageobscura.net · 9h ago

Charlotte Dada - Don't Let Me Down [Ghana - Highlife/afro-soul] 1971 - Really nice cover https://redd.it/36vtal https://youtu.be/RjVW4aQ4JB8

"Wow." - @technollama.bsky.social

Andres Guadamuz@technollama.bsky.social · 11h ago

GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions…

TTAB Reverses Specimen Refusal, Finding Webpage Sufficient for Pet Food Products thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/08/ttab...

Stopped by to check on an old friend this morning.

Not sure if this looks worse for the LLMs or for the legitimacy of SCOTUS

SSRN@ssrn.bsky.social · 12h ago

This paper tests #GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5 & Grok 4 on every SCOTUS argued case from OT 2025. Accuracy looked good until you realise most of it just reflected the Court's usual ideological alignment, not actual legal analysis. spkl.io/633247zQpk #AI #LegalTech

In her house at R'lyeh, dead Morton Salt Girl waits dreaming

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

sidenote but “the corporate mainmast” is now the canonical term for business hierarchies Ladders are out. Mainmasts are in.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 4d ago

"Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale spout in a hurricane. And hit a nickel-sized moving target in open water in one steel stroke. But all those 'biggee' tattoos? Tell me they don’t scream 'diversity hire.'"

Currently in love with this stylized, angular dog from Jacob Lawrence's 1958 painting "Brownstones"

Well, the FCC Commissioner has made the decision, first announced in an op-ed in Breitbart, stating that a regulatory body does not have to observe laws made by Congress if they don't feel like it. Every month is new and unprecedented territory. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Who says patents can't be fun!

Meredith Lowry@meredithlowry.bsky.social · yesterday

It's a banana banana stand. All of y'all are slightly at my mercy if I don't put who obtained the patent. In my defense for this one, there were 2,200+ new designs and still a billable day of work.

More Celebration of the Music of William Schuman! (8/4/1910 – 2/15/1992) Here, the thrilling Tocatta portion of the second half of Schuman’s great Symphony No. 3: youtu.be/DKxnQ0thmGI?...

William Schuman - Symphony No. 3

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Reading list: Do Louis Vuitton's Registered Trademarks in China Appropriate Traditional Chinese Culture?

Seeing Ex Parte Hennen discussed today in the Perlmutter v. Blanche briefs reminded me that I had a scan of the clerk of the Supreme Court's letter from that case in my files. Here it is - not much but interesting. The docket is here for reference: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70345...

Tidepool at Jug Handle State Natural Reserve on the Mendocino Coast flic.kr/p/2ssan5J

Jug Handle State Natural Reserve (north side)

Tidepool

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‘Good photography isn’t about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.’ Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1992. Photo Peter Adams.

"A man walks into a bar . . . "

Trademark Cases Bot@tm.bots.law · yesterday

New filing: "VIP Products v. Jack Daniel's (appeal, again)" Doc #63: OPINION (Marsha S. BERZON, Milan D. SMITH, Jr., Andrew D. HURWITZ) We hold that JDPI is not entitled to an injunction for dilution by tarnishment under… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL71039426

Today in design patents: D1138191 issued to Yeti for a container. #DesignPatents

Today in design patents: D1138418 issued for a bar stool seat. We'll ignore that the title might not be accurate - this is again my PSA that the Patent Center drawings are better than Patent Public Search and everyone should have access to those. #DesignPatents

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Bumping for the people who sleep at night and are now awake

Ansel Halliburton@anseljh.com · 2d ago

I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been busy building. What have I been building, you ask? I have been building Nomolith. Long thread follows! 🧵