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@arionwind.bsky.social
Adult, Great Lakes Coast, US, if you need to know anything else, you probably do already or will soon.
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Replying to @annabower.bsky.social
Safer: Whether a false statement is a crime depends on intent, right? Witt: I would think so bsky.app/profile/anna...
Safer: These witnesses were not sworn, right? Witt: Correct Safer: But in your affidavit you said they were, right? And that's a false statement? Witt: It wasn't an intentionally false statement
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You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.
For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.
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Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.
It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning
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This is the best scandal of all time. Some anonymous people have said it's a problem and the guy whose job it is to be sad on behalf of any cop hates it. But everyone else seems fine with it. It makes one wonder who brought this forward
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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somehow, the niche golf course case I became obsessed with last winter developed into a national news story! here's my opus on how that happened, for @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...
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Replying to @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social
that if we scale up production, a bunch of countries will no longer depend on the US—and they can't let that happen at any cost! Someone is terrified for their profits, while we're over here fearing for our lives. Such is life." - Popular Ukrainian Blogger Associated with Air Defense's Vanek.
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For the nonlawyers: This is an accurate description of the DOJ's position. Legally, as they frame it, it is an "Air Bud" argument - new, but no rule against it. It's simultaneously bananapants clownshoes crazy and morally reprehensible.
So if you're following, DOJ's theory here is they can file an initial complaint with probable cause based on incorrect facts, then file a superseding complaint that removes those facts and proceed without probable cause. Novel indeed.
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NEW PREPRINT: Cheap AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering and What It Will Do (in submission) We argue that AI coding tools make it easy, cheap, and fast to reverse engineer software and hardware—and IP law is not prepared for this challenge. arxiv.org/abs/2610.35633
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Replying to @jtlg.bsky.social
The baseline is that current IP law (esp. trade secret and copyright) broadly allow reverse engineering. It promotes the Progress of Science and useful Arts to let people study how things work. Although it helps people make competing products, most branches of IP are okay with this.
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Replying to @jtlg.bsky.social
We discuss four options, (1) Do nothing and let the reverse engineers run free. (2) Tighten IP laws to try to restore the old balance. (3) Loosen IP laws to encourage this creativity. (4) You can do what you want if you own the physical device, but not to other people's devices.
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Replying to @segyges.bsky.social
i am in fact referring to basically this bsky.app/profile/hiki...
hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...
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i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy
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Hello, everyone. I made another website. It's called Crowtails. crowtails.club It is a website for running old-fashioned forum adventures and quests, CYOAs and web serials, with varying levels of audience participation and discussion. Remember Ruby Quest? You can do that here. More info downthread.
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