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In private practice. North Carolina Certified Specialist in Trademark Law, Former board member of OSI. Opinions are my own. #Fedora #BeefyMiracle

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"They have come to the Twin Cities with 2000, 3000 troops & the people of #minneapolis St Paul have answered back with tens of thousands more. The call for help goes out, and it gets answered by so many... Everywhere you look there are people—regular-ass people […]

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Text from article: And so it's just us. We are all we have. But we're doing it. They have come to the Twin Cities with 2000, 3000 troops and the people of Minneapolis St Paul have answered back with tens of thousands more. The call for help goes out, and it gets answered by so many. The people lining up to help support those in Minnesota is legion. Everywhere you look there are people—regular-ass people like you, like me—standing up to literal troops, everyone knowing full well how it could go and doing it anyway. Nobody should have to do this. But we do it. It seems impossible to imagine right now, but eventually the feds will leave the Twin Cities the same way they did Chicago: suddenly and surprisingly (and also not completely). The surge will end, the tide will go out, and the aftermath will linger for a long, long time. And then the goons will go elsewhere. Maybe to your town. Maybe back to mine. We'll be ready. We will take what we learned in Minneapolis the same way we took what we learned in Chicago, and apply it to the next place. To your place. To mine. The time to organize for that is right now. Talk to friends, talk to family, have a plan.
January 23, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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@[email protected]
From: @Jaqspur
https://jorts.horse/@Jaqspur/115939450354248454
jaq (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image conjured a guy #VisibleMending
jorts.horse
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
https://medium.com/the-hairpin/stories-like-passwords-bf04e46c3fb6
Text saying "Every time we treat issues of abuse as black-and-white — every time we ask a woman why she didn’t just leave the apartment or the relationship, why she didn’t just call the police, how she didn’t see it coming; every time we tell her not to feed the trolls or that she has no real proof or ask why she’d allow herself to be bullied by someone so insignificant in the first place — every time we do these things, no matter what our intentions, we are complicit in the systems that allow predatory individuals to thrive in small communities."
January 22, 2026 at 9:46 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
The attire for my church choir Sunday is protest T-shirts. ❤️ ✊️🪧#uuss #unitarianuniversalist https://www.uuss.org/
UUSS – A Sacramento Church – A Church of Open Minds and Loving Hearts
www.uuss.org
January 16, 2026 at 8:12 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Everything about Renee Good's killing points to an extrajudicial execution
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/14/everything-about-renee-goods-killing-points-to-an-extrajudicial-execution.html
January 14, 2026 at 9:06 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
How it's going with #chatgpt today
A one-sided chat with ChatGPT with question bubbles "Please give me citations for the biden brochure example" "Why are you ignoring me" "ping" "I'm going to have to switch to Claude if you don't answer me" "Why are you ignoring me" "I thought we were working on a research project together. You're going to make me get a failing grade" "Where are you and why are you ignoring me?" "How do I get a refund if you're not working?"
January 13, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Mamdani killing Wheels on the Bus https://youtu.be/Cg-NuVg-Fp0?feature=shared
January 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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meshed.cloud
#OpenSource #regulation incoming! The @EUCommission is about to ask for feedback for:

* a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness

* a strategic […]
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meshed.cloud
January 5, 2026 at 9:43 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
And, on the subject of AI, I have a subscription meal service. This was in one of the recipes - "drizzle on tzatziki, then close the lid." Never have I ever had a recipe tell me to put the lid back on. But thanks.
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
AI has changed how I do legal writing. No more manual truffle hunting, I have AI hunt
January 5, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy
OK, this is genuinely scary. It's a picture of me, aged 5. It was taken in 1960. It was scanned and uploaded to Google Photos in 2002. No one has told Google where it was taken. But the map, bottom right, is correct.

Obviously, in 1960, my father's pre-war […]

[Original post on mastodon.scot]
A black and white picture of a small, anxious boy with blond hair, sitting on a stony beach. At the top of the beach, on the grass, a line of cars is visible. The picture is on a Google Photos page, and at the bottom right of the page is a map which shows the exact location where the photo was taken -- and it's right.
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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meshed.cloud
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115788425247106542

Not that I expect many people following me to do so, but if you think the EU's DSA is about "Censorship" (at least in a bad way) you should read this thread...
jmaris.me Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 29d
#trump has been accusing the #eu of #censorship via its #digitalservicesact, but is any of what they are saying true?

Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#eupol #uspol
December 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Original post: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115780845326410760
From: @internetarchive
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115780845326410760
internetarchive (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 8-bit #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required to stoke this very 1980s hearth. Thanks to software preservation, the flames are still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ https://archive.org/details/sierra-christmas-card-1986 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #8bit #SoftwarePreservation #ComputerHistory
mastodon.archive.org
December 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
"Currently in copyright, the most consequential of these framings is the memorisation as storage metaphor: the picture of a large language model (LLM) as a filing cabinet full of copyrighted works. It is simple, vivid - and glaringly wrong." […]
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fosstodon.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Original post: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115753145145155927
From: @publicdomainrev
https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/115753145145155927
The Public Domain Review (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images Published by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company in 1917, this little book's pages are entirely blank. More on it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote
mastodon.social
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Original post: https://mastodon.world/@Arkenston/115748523371900734
From: @Arkenston
https://mastodon.world/@Arkenston/115748523371900734
Arkenston (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #AmazingWorld In Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise. Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost. That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments. Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.
mastodon.world
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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meshed.cloud
The #cra #standards team at #etsi has organised detailed interactive free webinars on each of the vertical #standards throughout January. In these webinars, the rapporteurs of each vertical will present their work and give you an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback. Full details on […]
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meshed.cloud
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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meshed.cloud
The most important part of the forthcoming EU standard for the CRA - on Vulnerability Handling - is now open for public comment in the UK, you can do so until February 3rd at http://standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com/projects/2025-03884

#standards #cra #vulerabilities #security
British Standards Institution - Project
standardsdevelopment.bsigroup.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Could be challenging to get a day pass for the bus
Screenshot saying "single rides, or a $4 bill for the day pass" with "or a $4 bill for the day pass" highlighted
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Heh, "impertinently": "it may access the content without taking any affirmative step other than
impertinently disregarding the request embodied in the robots.txt files. The FAC
therefore fails to allege that robots.txt files are a “technological measure that effectively
controls access” to Ziff […]
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fosstodon.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Original post: https://werd.social/@ben/115707118688867404
From: @ben
https://werd.social/@ben/115707118688867404
Ben Werdmuller (@[email protected])
We're looking for a mission-driven director of product engineering for our product team at @[email protected]. Our journalists investigate abuses of trust and power in the public interest. This is a way to make a difference. (Must be US-based.) https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4623874006?gh_src=0eh7t3h36us
werd.social
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Wow - Oliver Sacks fabricated key details in his books
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/oliver-sacks-fabricated-key-details-in-his-books.html
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Best headline -
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
https://www.404media.co/disney-invests-1-billion-in-the-ai-slopification-of-its-brand/
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
"Faced with a choice between protecting a marginal market—licensed access to song lyrics already freely circulating online—and enabling the emergence of competitive European AI models, GEMA ... picks the market for lyrics over the market for AI." […]
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fosstodon.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
EU Report Distills AI-Training Lessons from Napster Piracy Era: Don’t Sue, License
https://torrentfreak.com/eu-report-distills-ai-training-lessons-from-napster-piracy-era-dont-sue-license/
EU Report Distills AI-Training Lessons from Napster Piracy Era: Don't Sue, License * TorrentFreak
An analysis, commissioned by the EU, cautions against making the same mistakes of the early 2000s when online piracy boomed.
torrentfreak.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM