Big thank you to @janl, whose "how to get Google to give you secret options to disable Gemini" worked!! https://writing.jan.io/2025/01/17/how-to-disable-google-gemini-in-your-workspace.html
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Major bug in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: there's an achievement for hitting a fascist over the head with a guitar but it's not called "This Machine Kills Fascists."
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I just saw a cybertruck at night and I am shocked to say that it looks worse than when it is light out!
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"The most important thing you can do about hate isn’t hating the haters. It’s undoing their work." https://pervocracy.com/essays/resistance-is-not-an-emotion/
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Dragonage Veilguard is the incredible, very gay game that my teenage self could not have imagined when I picked up Origins.
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Where could anyone have gotten the idea that wordpress.org belonged to the Wordpress community?
Well, the Wordpress Foundation's original application for 501(c)(3) status to the IRS, filed in 2008, did list wordpress.org as its website.
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If there are folks who are up for fighting the Wikipedia good fight, this biography is super salesy, definitely not NPOV, and suggests that this dude invented web chat customer support, which I am skeptical of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_LoCascio
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Matt Mullenweg is making an absolutely spurious legal claim to silence his critics. Because of the fair report privilege, "platforming the claims in the lawsuits" is on rock solid ground. If anyone knows the person behind bullenweg, there are plenty of lawyers who would delight in telling Matt to go piss up a rope. https://mastodon.social/@mvsde/113373682248521134
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It is not fair to video game scholars and preservationists to pretend that this is about creating sufficiently stringent exemption rules when the Copyright Office seems to have ignored the evidence that contradicts their prior beliefs.
But anyway, I guess, we tried.
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If that evidence does not change the analysis, what could? The Entertainment Software Association has said that they will never support remote access to preserved games, no matter how restrictive the conditions, because they believe that it would always harm their market.
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In particular, the on-the-record comments from re-release publishers that scholarly access would not harm the market for video game re-releases do not appear to have mattered at all in analysis of whether there would be market harm. Compare page 188 with 191. https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2024/2024_Section_1201_Registers_Recommendation.pdf
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Speaking on behalf of only myself, and not any of my clients, I do believe we made the best case we could that scholarly access to video games that are not commercially available does not harm the market. I do not believe that this evidence was seriously engaged with by the Copyright Office.
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I'm gutted by this result, as well as the decision to limit the availability of non-video game software.
There are certainly things we could have done differently as advocates in making the arguments. The C.O. always says we should be more specific about the exact uses.
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The Copyright Office released the 1201 exemption final rule today, which declines to let libraries, archives, and museums provide remote access to preserved video games, even if the org individually vets each request. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-24563.pdf
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Usually trademark licenses include terms that are relevant to use of the mark. Like territories, length and type of license, whether you can sub-license, whether the license survives the agreement, etc.
This one has none of those things.
...I'm not saying Matt M. wrote this agreement. I have no way of knowing. But it sure reads like the person who wrote it wasn't really interested in the TM bits.
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I've been trying to hold back Wordpress related thoughts until I actually write something up but due to @luis_in_brief's encouragement, I will say at least one thing:
the proposed trademark license that Automattic sent WPEngine is hilarious.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69221176/21/13/wpengine-inc-v-automattic-inc/
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...gotta admit, I did not see that one coming. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/25/faculty-members-suspended-harvard-library/
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I wrote this in 2021 but the Chatham House rule is still bad. https://kendraalbert.com/chatamhouse
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Happy global encryption day! It's a great day to give money to projects like @torproject.
$300K of donations will be matched through December 31st, so even a small amount can go further if you give soon! https://donate.torproject.org/
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Without theoretical commitments and/or a grasp on the practical stakes, so much popular non-fiction amounts to “is this anything?”, as described in this article about Malcolm Gladwell. https://culture.ghost.io/forget-gladwell/
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