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• On the post: Eminem Can’t Duck Deposition In Dumb Trademark Opposition He Initiated

  

  nasch ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 08:40am

  Eminem didn’t write ANY of his stuff

  Reference for this?

• On the post: UK Military Censors Dismayed US Tech Companies Won’t Do More Censoring

  

  nasch ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 08:09am

  Right

  Still, the DMSA feels it has the right to complain about US tech companies being less than compliant with D-notices they’re not obliged to comply with.

  Are you suggesting they don't have that right?

• On the post: Whoops: ‘Smart’ Helmet Allowed Real Time Surveillance And Location Tracking Of A Million Customers

  

  nasch ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2024 @ 09:31am

  Internet of Things

  Remember, the "S" in IoT is for security.

• On the post: As Yet Another ‘Protect The Kids’ Bill Is Declared Unconstitutional, NY Moves Forward With Its Latest Attempt

  

  nasch ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2024 @ 07:19am

  Algorithms

  Last summary, a study at NYU showed that when you take away algorithmic feeds

  There's no such thing as a non-algorithmic feed. Chronological? That's an algorithm. Random? An algorithm. A computer cannot display information without using an algorithm to do so.

• On the post: Bill Ackman: Nazis On ExTwitter Are Just The Price Of Free Speech; But Marxist Theory Or Anti-Israel Claims On Campus Are Beyond The Pale

  

  nasch ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2024 @ 07:10am

  No “woe is me, how can you treat me so badly?”

  You've got to be kidding me. "I am greeted with a hostile press the likes of which no president has ever seen," Trump, 73, claimed Sunday night during a Fox News virtual town hall in front of the Lincoln Memorial. "The closest would be that gentleman right up there," Trump said while pointing at Lincoln's statue. "They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse." - May 2020 "Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you know, he had a civil war going on. All right. But Abraham Lincoln had — was just vilified. He was," the former president said. "But now they say Trump got treated the worst of all..." - May 2023 He says he was treated worse than the president who got shot in the head. I could go on, and on, and on. How badly he's been treated is one of his favorite things to talk about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/18-times-donald-trump-complained-about-being-treated-unfairly/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/donald-trump-presidency-media-coverage-russia-scandal https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-has-been-treated-very-unfairly-by-people-who-wrote-constitution

• On the post: Bill Ackman: Nazis On ExTwitter Are Just The Price Of Free Speech; But Marxist Theory Or Anti-Israel Claims On Campus Are Beyond The Pale

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2024 @ 11:56am

  Not that I agree with them, but their complaint is not quite as stupid as that makes it sound. They say that Jesus washed the feet of his followers, not just anyone. However, that complaint implies that the people pictured (the only one I remember off the top of my head is someone getting an abortion but there were others that RWNJ would object to as well) could not possibly be Christians. Which is less stupid, and more evil. So on the whole I think they're even worse than you made them out to be.

• On the post: YouTuber Tries To Register Abandoned MythBusters Trademark; Discovery Is Not Happy With This

  

  nasch ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2024 @ 04:44pm

  There is no 10% standard; fair use is just case by case. Under some circumstances you could use the entire work under fair use.

• On the post: Order Demanding Oregon Paper Return Docs A Lawyer Accidentally Gave Them Reversed By Judge

  

  nasch ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2024 @ 07:31am

  a mark on their record for the next five years.

  Also it should be read aloud at the beginning of every case they preside over for that period. A little public humiliation could go a long way.

• On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Very Mad At Disney For Its Speech, Funds At Least One SLAPP Suit

  

  nasch ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2024 @ 09:17am

  Censure

  And was censured by congress (including my own Congressman!) for the temerity of being Palestinian while her people were victims of a genocide.

  She was censured for something she said, not for being Palestinian, and I'm pretty sure you knew that.

• On the post: FCC Takes Aim At AI Deepfake Robocalls After Sloppy Fake Biden Hoax

  

  nasch ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2024 @ 07:40am

  There is no second amendment claim for generative artificial intelligence.

  They're not weapons.

  There is no legitimate use for generative artificial intelligence.

  I've used it to help me with my work. Was that illegitimate?

  Generative artificial intelligence chatbots is another round of terrorism, criminal negligence, dereliction of duty, lemon law violations, bait and switch, identity theft, & fraud, by tech, in collusion with governments, military, haelthcare, mental healthcare, DARPA, & the finanxial sector.

  Do you have any more spaghetti, or has it all been thrown at the wall now?

• On the post: Cornices Centre Goes For The Streisand Effect Multiplier Over ‘Near Miss’ Bike Video

  

  nasch ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2024 @ 07:23am

  Publicity

  Maybe they're doing it on purpose because of the belief that "all publicity is good publicity". OK not likely.

• On the post: Universal Music Group Pulls Songs From TikTok, Causing Chaos On The Platform

  

  nasch ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2024 @ 07:44am

  It's relevant (at least to PR) when one party is claiming to be motivated by concern for a third party.

• On the post: As Congress Grandstands Nonsense ‘Kid Safety’ Bills, Senator Wyden Reintroduces Legislation That Would Actually Help Deal With Kid Exploitation Online

  

  nasch ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2024 @ 08:14am

  neither, in general, deserve your vote.

  That's a great way to let the worse party win.

• On the post: Ben Franklin Was All About Content Moderation

  

  nasch ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 07:43am

  their tears claiming that people are being mean to them hold no water.

  The tears... hold no water?

• On the post: HP CEO Makes Up A Whole Lot Of Bullshit To Defend Crippling Printers That Use Cheaper Ink

  

  nasch ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 07:40am

  It’s not clear if a handful of class action lawsuits will be enough to shift the company’s thinking back to reality, but being so obnoxious that you permanently pollute the HP brand reputation in the mind of an entire generation of future shoppers might just do the trick.

  It won't. HP is in a long, slow, and permanent decline. They will not be able to make the kind of decisions necessary to bring them back. I can't predict when they will shut down but it will not surprise me when it happens.

• On the post: Investigative Report Proves What Most People Already Suspected: The ‘War On Woke & DEI’ Mostly Pushed By A Bunch Of Censorial, Racist Shitheads

  

  nasch ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2024 @ 11:11am

  The question was literally What does ‘woke’ mean to you?

  Yes, and it was specifically asked of people (even more specifically, Democrats and progressives) who use the term as a pejorative. That is an extremely important distinction that you left out.

• On the post: Investigative Report Proves What Most People Already Suspected: The ‘War On Woke & DEI’ Mostly Pushed By A Bunch Of Censorial, Racist Shitheads

  

  nasch ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2024 @ 11:09am

  My point is only that "gay" and "lesbian" are not mutually exclusive terms. Nothing more.

• On the post: Ben Franklin Was All About Content Moderation

  

  nasch ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2024 @ 08:49am

  Copies

  So the social media companies should offer to make copies of a file for people to distribute themselves?

• On the post: Ben Franklin Was All About Content Moderation

  

  nasch ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2024 @ 08:44am

  Franklin clearly understands that printing stuff is a business, and while he finds certain things objectionable, he is obligated to at least print them if he’s offered money.

  If he understood that, it wasn't mentioned in the quote. What he said was, "I would print the piece separately if desired". No mention of being obligated to do so.

• On the post: Judge Releases Last Of The ‘Newburgh Four,’ Excoriates FBI For The Entrapment It Calls ‘Counterterrorism’

  

  nasch ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2024 @ 08:30am

  Why

  why the FBI didn’t spend its time and money investigating and prosecuting its lead informant. "As was revealed on cross examination, in the years prior to his becoming an FBI asset, Hussain engaged repeatedly in activity that constituted various crimes, including bankruptcy fraud, tax evasion, immigration fraud, perjury, and mail fraud."

  Two possibilities come to mind: those aren't terrorism, which is all the FBI cares about these days, and investigating an actual criminal takes work.

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