Meredith Lowry

Josef MAGALA

This is monstrous.

Photo of square of colourful stained glass in rectangular columns sited in a field of white flowers

Karen Ongley-Snook, UK multi media artist who specialises in glass #WomensArt

Successful psychopaths are very good at imitating normal emotional responses, which they learn over decades of observing normal people. But when facing a novel situation, they have no such learning to rely on, and their jarringly cold responses reveal their hollow interiors.

There is no path back to "normal" that doesn't go through impeachment & conviction. "To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime..." At least that’s what we said when we hanged the Nazis. See avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/09-30-46...

Opinion | The Epstein Files and Our Broken Public Trust

Knock me over with a feather. They ran it! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

Not So Sure: Federal Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment of Inequitable Conduct Despite Inventor's 'Smoking Gun' Statement Federal Circuit vacates summary judgment of inequitable conduct despite inventor's 'smoking gun' statement about withholding prior art, finding credibility disputes preclude resolution without trial

New on Patently-O: A Federal Circuit decision that shows even "smoking gun" evidence isn't always enough to win inequitable conduct claims on summary judgment. The court found credibility disputes remained, requiring a jury trial. Read the full analysis.

4 Guys Near White House Bragging in Bar About Iran Bombing Hours Before It Started A group at a Washington D.C. restaurant was talking openly in the bar area Friday afternoon about a national secret that was about to literally explode hours later -- the bombing of Iran.

“A group at a Washington D.C. restaurant was talking openly in the bar area Friday afternoon about a national secret that was about to literally explode hours later -- the bombing of Iran.”
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me every single day

The King is mad

Ken had to ask.

Well that’s not good.

9. As a result of this extreme anti-transgender law, the state of Kansas has seen its status deteriorate to a "Do Not Travel" warning in the EITM Trans Risk Map. Transgender people should exercise extreme caution when traveling through the state.

There are no longer equal rights in America. And no equal protection either. We don't live in a free country. Honestly, we never did.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
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The Cuban Embassy says a Florida-registered speedboat entered Cuban waters this morning and allegedly opened fire on Cuban border guards who approached it, injuring the commander of the Cuban vessel. Cuba says four people on the U.S. boat were killed and six others aboard it were injured.

American Psychological Association Reaffirms Support For Trans Youth Care, Pushes Back Against NYT A recent article from Jesse Singal in the New York Times seemed to indicate the organization might be quietly retreating from supporting trans youth care.

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e

It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.

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hatchet with curvy lines and lovely lined shading

D583,641 - issued in 2008 for a design for a "hatchet." #DesignPatents

COUNT I PATENT INFRINGEMENT (35 U.S.C. § 271) 23. Plaintiff hereby re-alleges and incorporates by reference the allegations set forth in the preceding paragraphs. 24. Plaintiff is the owner of the Asserted Patent. Plaintiff’s Asserted Patent is valid and enforceable. 25. Plaintiff ’ s exclusive rights include the rights to issue licenses, to reproduce, to distribute copies of, to display, and to authorize the creation of derivative works based on the Asserted Patent.

Tell me you don't understand patent law without telling me....

Requested remedies admittedly unavailable under the law – Rule 11(b)(2) Generac further argues that Brown's prayer for relief requesting “profits on its products found to infringe the '961 patent” and “[r]estitutionary relief ... including disgorgement of wrongfully obtained profits” violated Rule 11(b)(2) because there was no legal basis for the requested relief as the '961 Patent is a utility patent and such relief is only available for design patents pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 289.2 See Generac's Br. [D.E. 46 at 9 n.2]. As indicated above, Mr. Bordas conceded at the Evidentiary Hearing that he had included a request for profits in the Complaint as a result of “re-cycling” a prior complaint he had drafted. “[U]nder Rule 11(b)(2), a party presenting a written pleading to the court certifies to the best of his or her knowledge that the claims or defenses are ‘warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law.’ ” Powell v. Home Depot, U.S.A., Inc., No. 07-CV-80435, 2009 WL 10664817, at *5 (S.D. Fla. 2009) (citing Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp., 496 U.S. 384, 405 (1990)). “[T]he rule establishes an objective standard, intended to eliminate any empty-head pure-heart justification for patently frivolous arguments.” S. Grouts & Mortars, Inc. v. Laticrete Int'l, Inc., No. 06-CV-60119, 2007 WL 9700806, at *3 (S.D. Fla. 2007) (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Simon DeBartolo Grp., L.P. v. Richard E. Jacobs Grp., Inc., 186 F.3d 157, 166 (2d Cir. 1999)). Mr. Bordas’ “empty-head-pure-heart” justification here is precisely what Rule 11(b)(2) intended to eliminate and is objectively insufficient to defend against the imposition of Rule 11(b)(2) sanctions. See S. Grouts & Mortars, Inc., 2007 WL 9700806, at *3; see also Hochstadt v. New York State Educ. Dep't, 547 F. App'x 9, 11 (2d Cir. 2013) (holding that an attorney's explanation that sanctionable claims were included in a complaint “w…

I was reminded today of this decision, where a judge sanctioned an attorney for seeking design patent damages in a utility patent case. Brown v. Generac Power Sys., Inc., 2021 WL 1030229, at *11 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 27, 2021), report and recommendation adopted, 2021 WL 1022872 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 17, 2021).

Snail logos, for some reason, the Japanese have proven to favour this small gastropod mollusk and used it for a whole host of businesses and brands. Often rendered in a cute and playful way, the spiral of the shell provides a distinct graphic motif that draws the eye in.

Ghandi in Civ 6 ass AIs

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

This is insane. I suspect it won't come to this, but I'd love to see the DoD try to invoke the DPA and Anthropic sue arguing that as software this was compelled speech. It would make such a great case for my AI & the Law course. Either way it's a great hypo and super troubling that DoD wants this.

This someone also thinks they own all slippers with shearling.

Police are finding suspects based on their online searches as courts weigh privacy concerns Criminal investigators hoping to develop a suspect are turning to a powerful cyber tool by asking Google to disclose who had been searching for relevant information.

There are privacy implications raised by this, but ingenious investigating to find a serial rapist by asking Google for IP addresses of those who looked up the address of a victim's house apnews.com/article/goog...

Today in design patents:

D1114459 issued for a confection.

#DesignPatents

Today in design patents:

D1114469 issued for footwear.

#DesignPatents