ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

VICE covers one of Smiley's many, many exploitive Schedule A lawsuits filed against individual Etsy sellers who dared to use the word "smiley" to describe their smiling products. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9a3n/the-people-getting-sued-by-big-smiley

I guess I need an #introduction!

hi, I own a small law firm (it's me) that focuses on defending people accused of intellectual property infringement related to the sale of products (primarily online).

I track and post about new design law cases (design patents, copyright, trademarks) usually related to consumer products. I am particularly interested in the right to resell and repair products.

In another life I was a Wall Street defense lawyer but I like posting from the woods of NH better.

When it comes to hacking everyone has ideas about how AI might enable or prevent attacks in the coming years but the details as to *how* are a lot vaguer than the numerous predictions themselves.

It is OK for kids to feel bored. In fact, boredom can help children to develop a number of important skills.
https://theconversation.com/mum-dad-im-bored-how-to-teach-children-to-manage-their-own-boredom-these-holidays-217680?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1706170588

This is peak Times (Baker) symmetrical bothsidesism, as if one is not trying to tear down democracy, the other save it; nothing of the stakes. This is not journalism....
The Looming Contest Between Two Presidents and Two Americas https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/two-presidents-two-americas.html?smid=tw-share

I hit another jackpot playing the #Midjourney slot machine! 😍

Prompt: 'a colossus holding a dove by joey moya, in the style of minimalistic drawings, white background, ultrafine detail, creative commons attribution, mori kei, painted illustrations, serene faces --ar 2:3 --stylize 250'

#aiart

Do you know me
I enjoy reading particularly science fiction, art, #aiart, science, technology, and many other things.
Dall-e 2 images
#stablediffusion #dreamstudio #dalle2 #dalle #aiartist #aiart #nightcafe​

@paezha beautiful Foto!

Spain set to slash work week to 37.5 hours

Spanish Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz has said her ministry will soon reduce the working week by two and a half hours, a decision which will improve the work-life balance of 12 million employees across the country.

https://www.thelocal.com/20240123/spain-set-to-slash-work-week-to-37-5-hours

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #Spain

@dangillmor shouldn’t the “Privelages and Immunities Clause” of the Constitution allowing freedom of travel? Supported by Saenz v Roe with the first of three protected aspects being the right to enter one state and leave another (as an inherent right supported from Articles of the Constitution).

I am not an attorney, but the desperation of these states to turn women into chattel is repulsive and I’m hopeful that we can get rid of the limitations once and for all.

Congressional Republicans have now repeatedly admitted that they have accomplished nothing of consequence since taking control of the House in 2023.

This won't matter unless Democrats make it matter though.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/s-embarrassing-republicans-worry-no-achievements-run-2024-rcna131902

“It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it.”

Anaïs Nin on how reading awakens us from the slumber of almost-living https://t.co/nGgfYejNlX

The American oligarchs, whose fortunes are not remotely clean, are making the Russian crime bosses look like paupers. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy-introduction-essay-russia-ukraine-capitalism/

What is it like for people who are migrating to the fedi *today* ?

Are there still tools that help link old accounts and find followers?

I'm helping a friend move over, and it occurs to me that if the "find followers" tools are mostly hard to use or broken it might be very hard to get ensconced.

If you have a decent sized account here I think it helps to introduce new people, if you know them and have some overlap with their social circle.

Random #GoldenAge scan tonight. Cover artist #EdWheelan

First appearance "Comics" McComick, the world's number 1 comic book fan.

#comics
#comicbooks

"Microsoft has hired a director of nuclear technologies to oversee a program to develop small-scale atomic reactors to power datacenters as an alternative to fossil fuels"

What could possibly go wrong when ClippyAI manages your uranium cores?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/microsoft_nuclear_hires/

Fluid becoming solid becoming wonder – stunning cyanotype prints of ice formation by artist Meghann Riepenhoff, with some stunning words by @RebeccaSolnit https://t.co/owphaR0nfl

2/ And while I’m at it, my dear friend Wiley Miller’s strip, Non Sequitur, killed it today too:

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/01/21/