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Blake E. Reid
@chup.blakereid.org
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Simple country tech law professor, multidisciplinary dilettante. Ska, Crocs, fizzy water, chup. Need just one more guitar pedal. Someone is wrong on the Internet and it might be me. No legal or good advice; opinions my own, bad .. more

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Reid is a surname of Scottish origin. It means "red".

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 16h
Here’s one. But agreed that the look sucks regardless.
ummjackson.com Jackson Palmer @ummjackson.com · 1d
+ the actual props posted by show staff on Twitter (x.com/lionesspike/...)

chup.blakereid.org
Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 1d
(Can’t vouch for the authenticity…)

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 1d
Still some non-trivial discrepancies, though
dmnd.me Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 1d
That maze looks really bad though

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 1d
There we go:
ummjackson.com Jackson Palmer @ummjackson.com · 1d
+ the actual props posted by show staff on Twitter (x.com/lionesspike/...)

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 1d
Good catch—missed that one!

Reposted by Reid

ummjackson.com
Jackson Palmer @ummjackson.com · 1d
+ the actual props posted by show staff on Twitter (x.com/lionesspike/...)

Reposted by Reid

dmnd.me
Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 1d
That maze looks really bad though

chup.blakereid.org
Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 1d
You can also see a pretty similar maze graphic (maybe with that same title? Can’t tell for sure…) at 25:15. (A better shot of the unfolded prints at 26:54 would solve this all for sure!)

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 1d
@gruber.foo are you sure the “WHOLE” / “LOW-FAT” print is indicia of slop and not just the actual prop’s design? It looks like “WHOLE MILK” might be above the fold text on every flavor’s carton. (See 26:14 of “Got Milk” for a closeup of strawberry and 25:34 for an out of focus closeup of low-fat.)
Tim Cook Posts AI Slop in Christmas Message on Twitter/X, Ostensibly to Promote ‘Pluribus’
Link to: https://x.com/tim_cook/status/2003873311504130173
daringfireball.net

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 7d
You probably know the song from Christmas Vacation but wow: the original music video for Lindsey Buckingham’s Holiday Road goes so hard
Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]
YouTube video by Lindsey Buckingham
youtu.be

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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 9d
As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...
storage.googleapis.com

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11d
Tired: Happy Holidays
Wired: Happy Apocalypse

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11d
@daphnek.bsky.social must-carry for rickrolling when

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Kristelia García @kristelia.bsky.social · 11d
I absolutely *loved* Professor @cathaysmith.bsky.social's engaging piece on Copyrighting Nature (forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review) & think you will too. Check out my Jotwell review here!

ip.jotwell.com/copyright-fo...
Copyright for Dummies Humans - Intellectual Property
Cathay Y. N. Smith, Copyrighting Nature, 79 Vand. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (May 22, 2025).Kristelia GarcíaFrom the use of copyright to combat revenge porn, to protecting slavis...
ip.jotwell.com

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11d
Guess I have to add this to the textbook
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11d
And guess what?

The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11d
If I had access to a time machine the first thing I would do is travel back to the mid-2010s and play these videos for the people getting upset that the President made a YouTube video about net neutrality

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11d
Good grief
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
KIM: Is Trump your boss?

CARR: The president designated chair of the FCC

K: So he's your boss

C: Look--

K: You swore an oath. Does it have the word 'president' in it?

C: I'm not tracking

K: Do you remember the oath?

C: Sir--

K: What are you protecting?

C: In this job--

K: The Constitution

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11d
Good grief
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
KIM: I want to read you a quote & see if you agree with it. 'Congress long ago determined that the FCC is an independent expert agency.' Is that correct?

CARR: Senator, there has been a sea change in the law & approach since I wrote that sentence

KIM: Yes you did. You said it in front of Congress

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 11d
Good grief
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?

CARR: I think th---

L: Yes or no

C: There's a test for this in the la---

L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question

C: The FCC is not

L: So is your website lying?

C: Possibly

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Jason Mittell, Eric Goldman , and 4 more

justinbaragona.bsky.social
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11d
And guess what?

The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!

Reposted by Melissa Johnson, Reid

atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
KIM: Is Trump your boss?

CARR: The president designated chair of the FCC

K: So he's your boss

C: Look--

K: You swore an oath. Does it have the word 'president' in it?

C: I'm not tracking

K: Do you remember the oath?

C: Sir--

K: What are you protecting?

C: In this job--

K: The Constitution

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atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
KIM: I want to read you a quote & see if you agree with it. 'Congress long ago determined that the FCC is an independent expert agency.' Is that correct?

CARR: Senator, there has been a sea change in the law & approach since I wrote that sentence

KIM: Yes you did. You said it in front of Congress

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Colin F. Camerer, Mark A. Lemley , and 9 more

atrupar.com
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?

CARR: I think th---

L: Yes or no

C: There's a test for this in the la---

L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question

C: The FCC is not

L: So is your website lying?

C: Possibly

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · Nov 21
That implies I’m hiding it and not proudly displaying

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · Nov 21
Later, here’s @mrose.ink musing about potato farmers and McFlurry machines with @cfiesler.bsky.social and @aramsinn.bsky.social in the charred ruins of the courtroom
AI and the Future of Copyright Politics | Panel 2: Copyright Politics Beyond AI
YouTube video by Silicon Flatirons
youtu.be

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · Nov 21
Here’s my writeup of a new bill that would break up the Library of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office, reinforcing the Library in Congress and handing the USCO over to the executive branch
The Copyright Office Leadership Fracas and the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act – Blake E. Reid
blakereid.org

Reposted by Zen Faulkes

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · Nov 21
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · Oct 19
I am returning from my Bluesky productivity-induction hiatus just to complain that this NYT headline falsely implies that Lego minifigs can be "beheaded" when in fact the heads *come* detached from the arms/torso in the box
Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines
www.nytimes.com