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🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now.

More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive.

Full announcement ⤵️
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you know what’s a good book to read when you’re feeling all over the place? How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, by Bakewell lapl.overdrive.com/media/470731

This is genius

We don't need no stinkin' 2(f) claim.

Would we say the "configuration of a stretched boat that appears in the form of a car" is somehow the product configuration of "providing transport for sightseeing tours by boat"?

But don't tell Professor Marlan:

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Artists, meanwhile, are getting screwed on both sides of this equation: we don't have a functional social safety net, the copyright system is (and always has been) a TERRIBLE substitute for one, and their closest-aligned "allies"--publishers--have different enough interests to screw them.

It's the data, stupid, con't... It's great to see popular media coverage of Free Law/Access to Information. I was happy to see this work highlight and name checks of some of my favorite... It's the data, stupid, con't... It's great to see popular media coverage of Free Law/Access to Information. I was happy to see this work highlight and name checks of some of my favorite people and ...

Free Law is having a moment. It got written about again in legal tech news and I have some commentary on LI about it www.linkedin.com/posts/sglass...

One of my pitches for kaiju for my abortive collaboration on Dark Horse's GODZILLA comic book back in the 1980s. I revamped this for my own uses later on.

Today in design patents:

D1122849 issued for a tire.

There are so many of these each week along with other vehicle parts. This one just looked pretty.

#DesignPatents

The whole plant in peak flowering season, showing dark purple foliage and flowers that are an ombre of mauve to light rosy purple

Close up of flowers that are an ombre of mauve buds to light rosy purple when open

Astilbe plant named 'Dragon's Lair'

US #PlantPatent 37,379 (granted today)

The variety was a cross between 'Dark Side of the Moon' (PP 35,461) and 'Delft Lace' (PP 19,839)

Gibson Everly Brothers Flattop - Wikipedia

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Caddy Cruise Bring your own drinks and enjoy an unforgettable ride through beautiful Sarasota Bay!

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Salmon also starting record labels and AI workflow aggregator companies in record numbers

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Closeup of a vintage tile floor circa 1910 using square and rectangle tiles.

Note that this figure, if not copied from someone else, was protected by copyright--at zero cost--as soon as it was rendered.

Why spend the extra time, money, and effort to get a design patent?

#BackdoorCopyrights

Today in design patents:

D1122983 issued for a display screen with icon.

#DesignPatents

Today in design patents:

D1123031 issued for a journal with a bead feature.

#DesignPatents

Today in design patents:

D1123052 issued for a ride-on toy.

Some day I'm going to consolidate all the unicorn designs by article for comparison.

#DesignPatents

Today in design patents:

D1123228 issued for a dandelion light.

I'm pretty sure I put the same design by another name and orientation in my new house.

🙄

#DesignPatents

Today in design patents:

D1123258 issued for a bench.

#DesignPatents

Happy early Tuesday! We have 737 new design patents and I have an early flight to San Francisco for an AI talk, so let's see how many designs we can look at before we board.

Kicking off the day - D1122560 issued for a cereal food piece with emoji.

#DesignPatents

Sometimes it’s like is this a product, or a joint venture between buzzwords?

Myaskovsky - Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor Op. 81 - II. Andante cantabile (2/3) YouTube video by Daniiel Cello

Celebrating the Music of Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky!
(April 20, 1881 – August 8, 1950)
Russian teacher, music critic and teacher. Here’s the Andante cantabile of his Second Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 81:
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you never know what you'll find
published for opposition tomorrow in the
Trademark Official Gazette

This is the sort of thing you find when a client asks you to run a clearance search on H-BUD-T as a trademark (let’s say for a tea cafe), and at some point you will start to question your grasp on reality.

Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago IL manhole cover with a lion on it

Lincoln Park Zoo #manholecovermonday

morning xo