There is an absolutely fascinating drama playing out around the use of the term "Mormon."
As a one-time religious studies major and a current trademark attorney, I don't often see legal disputes that can scratch both pet interests of mine at the same time! www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.
Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
In our latest video, I discuss a few common reasons why the trademark registration process can end up costing you more than you expect (and a few strategies to keep costs under control). youtu.be/ONPQPeVDJtU?...
I'm not a luddite, btw, I'm just someone who takes companies at face value when they say that AI can replace this lawyer or that.
"Replace" assumes (to me, at least) that AI can produce equivalent output *and* face equivalent consequences if they fail at the tasks they've been given.
Every time I see a story like this, I wonder if a junior associate who "hallucinated" a bunch of cases that were submitted in court would keep their role.
Would they convince their supervising attorneys that they're "getting better every day, just wait!"
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Thank you for calling out Sonic.
I still don’t get why so many people I respect in pop culture analysis decided to dunk on the studio and praise the change instead of considering whether maybe “mob of fans complain loudly enough to get what they want” *wasn’t* the victory we needed right now.
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.
Whales are sacred beings.
OMG
Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
I wish I could say, at my age, that I've voted more often than not for a candidate I actively liked.
That is, as opposed to the "least worst" option.
But I don't regret any vote I've taken for the "least worst" option, if I helped in any way to avoid "actually the worst" on election day.
Article headline: “House breaks with Trump, voting against ending deportation protections for Haitians”
Headlines like this take me on a real journey…
“Oh, they’re against… no, they’re for… not they’re against… no, they’re … um… double-negative … and … got it (I think.)”
This.
I saw a post here a while back comparing AI skepticism to x-ray skepticism, and since then all I've thought about is the very specific ways we use x-rays and the precautions we take around them.
We didn't put x-ray machines in every toy and appliance.
We have radiologists.
i'm not necessarily an ai hater, per se.
i'm more of hater of the "ai needs to be in everything" mindset.
He takes these contradictory positions with zero pushback.
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I’ve never seen a film franchise as dedicated to avoiding character arcs as the SUPER MARIO movies.
Just the hardest tagline for a horror movie imaginable. If someone doesn’t use this, I guess I’ll just have to go into filmmaking so as not to let it go to waste.
Clearing the house of clutter is the Zeno’s Paradox of our time.
This is a great thread that also leaves me frustrated that Marvel Studios lacked the imagination to extrapolate from the first film to show the fruits of T’Challa’s labor—a world in which more underprivileged children had the benefits of his outreach programs and could grow up to change the world.
What movie posters used to look like… 🥺
Going to be thinking awhile about the BlueSky discourse this week that landed on the conclusion that (for some) protesting under Trump is (a) too hard, and (b) pointless.
I concur.
Absolutely, but you can’t say he doesn’t have a sense of humor about it! youtu.be/s2wBtcmE5W8?...
Me, revisiting the movie and realizing that Shatner wrote a movie about confronting God, calling him out to his face, and walking away the victor:
💯
Say what you will about that movie and Shatner in general.
The man understood something about Star Trek that few writers for the franchise do, and this became abundantly clear to me when I recently did a complete TOS front-to-back rewatch.
“Take Me Home” by Phil Collins is a direct response to “Solsbury Hill” by Peter Gabriel.
I have no idea if this is actually true or even vaguely the case. But I believe it in my heart and refuse to hear otherwise.
