You are talking past this person’s point for some reason. They’re just saying you should use “Pro Israel group, StopAntisemitism,…” and they’re not wrong? Why in the world are you so dead set on being clear in the title who exactly this scumbag organization is??

Zionism? The ideology that fundamentally is based on the belief that Jews cannot safely exist anywhere except in a global ghetto built on ethnonationalism and apartheid? Touching tips with antisemites? Naw, not possible!

I would have to look into the actual patent and file wrapper, but presumably it didn’t cover just any rounding of rectangular corners, but as you said, a defined range.

Where bad patents get through prosecution, they are problematic, be they design patents or utility patents, but design patents in general are not even a blip on the radar of what needs to be fixed in our IP system imo. As a general rule of thumb, they are in fact fairly narrow. Meanwhile, pharma patents very much need focused and thoughtful revisions, and IP around software needs to be reworked from the ground up basically, creating special rules for patents and dropping the legislatively declared copyright framework entirely. The problem is that reporting on IP is fucking awful so people say things like “ohmyglob this design patents doesn’t even have real claims” even though that’s literally how they are structured and enforcing the right requires a pretty intensive investigation of the drawings and line patterns therein.

But, sure, I’ll give that maybe Apple’s design patent in this case was overly broad. I’m not particularly interested in defending Apple’s IP.

Design patents effectively work like brand protection. They literally only protect new aesthetics and ornamentation. The reality is that the iPhone did start the trend of rounded corner rectangular touchscreen phones. When it first came out, it was a fairly novel form factor for a phone. It didn’t prevent other form factors from being released. Like, the fact that it is now so ubiquitous that we take for granted smartphones look this way is a testament to its success. And, actually, plenty of phones did right angle screen corners. Design Patents are extraordinarily narrow things and, among the many issues with the current USPTO and the US IP system in general, it is probably the absolutely least problematic piece.

What is described in the second point is literally how Design Patent claims work. They don’t work the same way as utility patents. Anyway, yea, people not knowing how patents actually work aside, leadership at the USPTO is currently fucked.

In my part of the US, it is on average 38k/yr to raise a child to 18. Rent/mortgage is about the same. Not even getting to utilities, food, and healthcare. Life is wildly expensive for families these days.

Israel, its many crimes aside, has a deeply integrated economy into a lot of our tech. Basically any advanced technology companies either or both have a research site in Israel or acquired an Israeli company. The BDS list is an ok starting point, but recognize that it’s kind of arbitrary and has a lot of gaps as well companies whose presence on it is a little questionable.

I thought that was weird, too, but that’s not what they’re arguing actually. Their argument is that these were pirated for personal use by various people on the company network over a course of years and that the IP address is not sufficient to identify the appropriate defendant (not Meta). Accordingly, they argue the case should be dropped because tje pleading does not, and cannot from what has been provided, identify a correct defendant. At first blush, it isn’t an unreasonable argument. It would be like suing a university for detecting porn torrents on its network over a number of years (and alleging that the relatively small number of torrents were for AI research/training data).

Anthropic paid 1.5bil to settle not because they trained an LLM, but because they literally torrented an enormous corpus of training data from piracy websites like a late 00s college student downloading porn. It was just straight up run of the mill piracy.

Fair. I appreciate your reasonable and informative reply to my admittedly more than a bit snarky post!

The gesture is very old because, and I know this is a wild unsubstantiated theory, it’s a pretty natural and organic way to hold your hand when speaking to or before a large group? I suppose magic makes more sense.

Ah, gotcha. Appreciate the clarifications!

No one is seriously talking about a 100% tax bracket at 1mil/yr. Moreover, wealth taxes and caps look at an entity’s total value. Many of the super rich are not making the money they spend as traditional income, you have to go after actual wealth. Finally, those progressive taxes and caps are typically put forward as the primary method to finance something like UBI or wealth floors–literally a manner of redistribution.

I don’t necessarily disagree with everything you’ve said, and what i do disagree with is more along the lines of thinking you’re painting with an overly broad and ambiguous brush.

There is a just a lot here that is based on some baked in internalized presumptions, some of which just straight up are contradicted by research that has been published in the last few decades. But the one thing I want to respond to is the assertion that most leftists are against the idea of wealth redistribution. There is a huge and growing cohort of people strongly in support of extreme marginal tax rates at the top brackets and wealth taxes and/or caps. These aren’t fringe topics even remotely.

This already happened. Back in February, Musk/SpaceX got the contact to “modernize” ATC.

Convert it into a museum dedicated to memorializing and studying America’s greatest failings and violations.

This ruling is important because it finally brings to the floor that it is not at a valid presumption that local cops cannot enforce the law on federal agents. In the last year, the narrative that “herpaderp supremacy clause means states and cities can’t do anything to enforce law on someone claiming to be a fed” has so normalized a totally unproven and unsupported extension of the supremacy clause that it’s become hard to even bring this up in municipal conversations.

Man, this is all a deep bummer. I’ve only been very tangentially paying attention to this race and was excited to see a candidate gaining a lot of momentum and with a lot of messaging i could generally get behind who could replace Susan shitfuck Collins. But, whoof, I dunno if I’ve ever experienced such a sudden and complete collapse of any interest in or support at all for a candidate in my life.

There is absolutely no data scientist, data engineer, or dev in the “AI space” that has turned down a million+ salary because of the state’s mild marginal tax rate bump. Like, jfc, these pissbabies

Coupled to a highly progressive tax, a wealth floor, and UBI, and we got something really cooking!