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Statistician at the U.S. Copyright Office, but all posts & replies are my own. Been digging into copyright registrations data to see what there is to learn about the geography and demographics of creativity and innovation.

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Huey Lewis & the News' "Sports" was the first album I got as a kid. Good album. Not sure I'd put it in a top-of-the-80s list though.

13.07.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€œThe DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,””

11.07.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 411    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

When I was too young for a real job I sold newspapers Sunday morning outside a Bagel Bakery in DC, and when I got a little older the manager helped me get a job in a Bagel Bakery in the burbs. I don't think this left me with any real bagel skills - but boy do I have bagel opinions!

08.07.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The media also dropped the ball on this one. I live in Virginia, follow the news closely, and saw zero stories about cuts to "Cardinal Care."

04.07.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I already get randomly generated want ads for jobs I have no background/experience to get. Park ranger, chemical engineer, its really all over the place. Why do I want AI doing god-knows-what to my resume and sending it to the Nat.'l Park Service, Dupont, etc. and then picking out a tie?

01.07.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Juli was able to make a phone call late Friday and told her family that:


    She is in a warehouse, but she does not know the location


    She believes that the people who picked her up are bounty hunters


    There are many others being held where she is being held.

Juli was able to make a phone call late Friday and told her family that: She is in a warehouse, but she does not know the location She believes that the people who picked her up are bounty hunters There are many others being held where she is being held.

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:

29.06.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2338    πŸ” 1267    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 92

This looks interesting and useful for studies of creative markets.

25.06.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FFS, let him out of jail already.

I am not a lawyer, but ... The judge denied the govt's bid to keep him in detention, and also he is not likely to be released. Seems fucked.

23.06.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am glad folks are posting about this, but I wish I saw CA politicians and national Dems leaning into it. A bunch of masked, armed unidentified guys show up. Obviously looking to throw people in vans. ICE says it wasn't them, DHS says it was CBP. Who was it? Why don't they identify themselves? Bad.

20.06.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

-93%

Wow.

19.06.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree. It should be some masked guy with a gun and no badge saying "I don't have to tell you who we are".

18.06.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also not watching the parade. I am surprised how many blue sky people are.

It's fun to know the band played fortunate son though.

14.06.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what's the story with Nigeria?

12.06.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations The big conclusion: β€œIf bigfoot is there, it could be a bear.”…

Science, you big ole nerd, stop messing with my squatchin'
arstechnica.com/science/2024...

03.06.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

Well duh.
www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

08.06.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would definitely taste test a wanded Miller high life

06.06.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. Yuck. Barf.

04.06.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is fantastic

29.05.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good God, no no no

26.05.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also worth watching the left side if the graph showing how we've raised taxes on the poor as we've lowered them in the rich.

24.05.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a great idea! But start at 60 then scale up.

21.05.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tried to introduce my kid to the smurfs. They've been redone a few times but we found the 1980s version we grew up on. That stuff is really really weird and dull.

19.05.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think I heard of these guys first when George Mason decided to call themselves ASS Law 😊

19.05.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | RIP American innovation Why destroy the funding that made the United States a leader in technology and invention?

RIP American innovation

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

18.05.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My computer, with fairly strict security settings put in place by my employer, usually won't open the first few links provided in a Google search because they're all ads. I have to scroll down to find the non-sponsored version of the same thing.

12.05.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't agree w her on everything, but I know she cares about working class people and she fights. I'd vote for her 100%.

12.05.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And there’s a term for β€œunidentified, masked law enforcement”: secret police. The US right now has a secret police arbitrarily arresting people, including opposition politicians and students.

10.05.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 671    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ™‹ Lapsed catholic here. If you're not a regular church-ing catholic... Who cares who the new Pope is?

09.05.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Jake Holmes - Wikipedia

Been reading about the new Led Zeppelin copyright case...

Apparently the guy who wrote "Dazed and Confused" before Led Zeppelin covered it also wrote "Be All You Can Be" for the army, and "I'm a Pepper" for Dr. Pepper. #IPLawSky

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Ho...

06.05.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Animal for sure.

But I have been told I resemble Beaker

04.05.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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