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teaching the next generation of tech justice lawyers @georgetownlaw.bsky.social research + art @ tepski.tech

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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have “a clear head, strong hand… and great hea…

“We don’t know if there will be a happy resolution to the problems plaguing our country, and we can’t skip ahead to find out. But I believe if we support and uplift librarians, there will be more sunlight for all of us.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

06.03.2026 12:26 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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TTAB Deems CHATGPT Merely Descriptive of Chatbot Software
thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/03/ttab...

06.03.2026 14:51 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

Wtf wtf wtf

06.03.2026 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dark green solid with bright yellow and burgundy and lavender pops

Dark green solid with bright yellow and burgundy and lavender pops

Large tortoise boy eating a salad

Large tortoise boy eating a salad

Today in Jeremy's salad: collard greens, coreopsis, pansy, and henbit

05.03.2026 15:58 👍 364 🔁 47 💬 8 📌 3
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Surveillance innovator accuses ICE of widespread patent infringement The patent holder, SecureNet Solutions Group, was an operating company which shuttered almost two decades ago and has asserted its patents since 2015 in 17 US district court cases

www.iam-media.com/article/surv...

06.03.2026 12:28 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Main image features director Guillermo Del Toro.

Text reads "GUILLERMO DEL TORO MEETS FRANKENSTEIN AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

The filmmaker explored NYPL's collection of original works and artifacts of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, the inspiration for del Toro's own acclaimed adaptation."

Main image features director Guillermo Del Toro. Text reads "GUILLERMO DEL TORO MEETS FRANKENSTEIN AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY The filmmaker explored NYPL's collection of original works and artifacts of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, the inspiration for del Toro's own acclaimed adaptation."

The New York Public Library hosted filmmaker Guillermo del Toro for a tour of the library’s Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle to explore some of the historical materials in the collection related to Mary Shelley and “Frankenstein.”

Read more at https://bit.ly/4r774KF

05.03.2026 23:51 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We are hiring a Head of Global Advocacy and Internet Policy at the Internet Society! This is a rare opportunity to join our team and shape the future of the Internet during one of its most challenging eras. 1/5

06.03.2026 00:03 👍 31 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2

Also same.

05.03.2026 23:04 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

www.wired.com/story/openai...

05.03.2026 22:16 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

05.03.2026 20:31 👍 1203 🔁 214 💬 10 📌 0
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Why One Artist Transcribed All 900-Plus Pages of ‘Moby-Dick’ by Hand

The public domain is dope af:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
To Participants in the Conference “Artificial Intelligence and Care for Our Common Home” (5 December 2025) ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CARE OF OUR COMMON HOME” ORGANIZED BY THE CENTESIMUS ANNUS PRO PONTIFICE FOUNDATION AND THE STRATEGI...

“Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by [AI]. Our dignity lies in our ability to reflect, choose freely, love unconditionally and enter into authentic relationships with others.”

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

05.03.2026 20:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

05.03.2026 20:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Look What You Made Us Patch: 2025 Zero-Days in Review | Google Cloud Blog Our analysis of 90 zero-day vulnerabilities tracked in 2025, focusing on techniques and how AI will accelerate the vulnerability landscape.

"For the first time since we began tracking zero-day exploitation, we attributed more zero-days to commercial surveillance vendors than to traditional state-sponsored cyber espionage groups."

Love to see the stats backing up my hunch.

cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

05.03.2026 19:43 👍 77 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 0
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OpenAI hit with lawsuit claiming ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer ChatGPT maker OpenAI has been accused in a new lawsuit of practicing law without a U.S. license and helping a former disability claimant breach a settlement and flood a federal court docket with merit...

www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

05.03.2026 15:37 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Like, we should be celebrating that so many disabled students can attend mainstream academic institutions, with and without accommodations!!!! It’s nothing short of miraculous.

04.03.2026 22:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Brown University researchers launch AI legislation tracking and analysis portal As a tool for researchers, lawmakers, journalists and the public, the CNTR AISLE Portal provides analysis of state- and federal-level AI bills pending across the U.S.

www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

04.03.2026 21:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ellie the opossum crawling on a fence. she is 10 months old currently

Ellie the opossum crawling on a fence. she is 10 months old currently

Ellie the opossum at 3 months old last year

Ellie the opossum at 3 months old last year

happy to report that Cincinnati zoo has an orphaned opossum named Ellie as an animal ambassador and she is adorable

02.03.2026 07:57 👍 454 🔁 77 💬 9 📌 4
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Finnish Public Domain 20th Century Literature Text Corpus | Mozilla Data Collective This corpus contains a curated collection of public domain literature from Finland, featuring works by authors who died between 1901 and 1955. The dataset captures the literary landscape of early 20th...

datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/datasets/cmm... Curated collection of public domain literature from Finland! The dataset captures the literary landscape of early 20th-century Finland and includes independent texts in both of the country's official languages: Finnish (fi) and Swedish (sv).

03.03.2026 11:45 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Thomson Reuters criticized by some Minnesota employees over its ICE contract Workers at the company’s Eagan campus pressed their concerns to executives, including over potential misuse of license plate data, during Twin Cities immigration surge.

Remember that Thompson Reuters owns Westlaw: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2684/

www.startribune.com/ice-crackdow...

04.03.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

04.03.2026 17:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Packard Bell Navigator 3.5 (1995)

04.03.2026 17:09 👍 176 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 6
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Google faces wrongful death lawsuit after Gemini allegedly ‘coached’ man to die by suicide The lawsuit claims Google knows Gemini can produce “unsafe outputs.”

www.theverge.com/tech/889152/...

04.03.2026 17:28 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’d recommend @ubiquity75.xyz’s book on content moderation to learn more about labor issues in big tech.

04.03.2026 17:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

04.03.2026 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools

They are clearly trying to whip up a moral panic about disability accommodations but this article doesn't include any data on accommodations.

04.03.2026 01:53 👍 1409 🔁 189 💬 67 📌 73
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US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

04.03.2026 01:03 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

I like the 50 Hertz ones because they are perfect (local!), but you can just add Szechuan peppercorns to good peanuts and have a fine time.

03.03.2026 23:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Henrietta Lacks' Family Reaches Settlement in Fight Over Her Stolen Cells Details of the Novartis agreement aren’t public, but the family says it is pleased with the outcome.

capitalbnews.org/henrietta-la...

03.03.2026 23:25 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Did you know if you’re having a helluva week you can just eat a whole tin of tingly peanuts? No one can stop you.

03.03.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0