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  1. @stuartl
    Woah, that's huge. Good on you for taking a stand on principles. Hope things aren't too dicey and you land on your feet.

  2. Claude will embrace the gospel of just like did after source for weights were leaked

    @carnage4life mas.to/@carnage4life/116330826

  3. FFT: Stallman once wrote "Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.”

    marc.info/?l=kde-licens%20ing&

  4. "After Turnitin bought the company in 2018, a new set of terms and conditions took effect: Now student papers go into Turnitin’s global database and the company maintains a perpetual, royalty-free license over all of them."

    themarkup.org/artificial-intel

  5. Today is a good day to remind folk about the Declaration on Free Access to Law (falm.info/declaration/).

    It declares, among other things that: "Public legal information is digital common property and should be accessible to all on a non-profit basis and free of charge"

  6. "Ask yourself: why would society tolerate a legal profession that outsources all its professional obligations to someone else? What value does such a profession provide? Why would anyone need or even want a lawyer if this is all a lawyer is good for?"

    @design-law.bsky.social fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

  7. As I wait for students to arrive at their tutorial...

  8. I think of legal academia as a festival movie, full of nuance and craft. I think of legal practice as a bunch of tiktoks, droning vlogs and "reels" chaotically rolled into one.

  9. I genuinely feel for the legal team.

    Folks, remember, lawyers are independent advisors (or should be). We don't make decisions - those are for management.

    My guess is that lots of solid legal advice has been ignored regarding the update.

  10. There is a peculiar tyranny to working without KPIs. thoughts?

  11. Spare a thought for the trying to work out how to implement social media ban...

  12. Yesterday was annual Day . A good moment to pause and consider what's been achieved and the challenges ahead for this 'experiment' in

  13. Adobe to update vague AI terms after users threaten to cancel subscriptions | Ars Technica

    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

    Yerp, some burning thr midnight oil...

  14. Kindly stop 'hoping that I'm well'.
    My welfare is generally not the concern of my correspondents. If the missive, to which these well wishes relate, is likely to decrease my welfare, then consider apologies instead.

  15. "We track the Internet browsing behavior of 48,154 monthly visitors to the Web sites of 90 online software companies to study the extent to which potential buyers access the end-user license agreement. We find that only one or two of every 1,000 retail software shoppers access the license agreement"

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

    WILD. And I'm guessing the 1-2 per 1000 are bored ....

  16. Sigh... sloppy lawyering and drafting of deserves to be corrected so publicly. Wdyt ?

    After overreaching TOS angers users, cloud provider Vultr backs off | Ars Technica

    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

  17. missing.csail.mit.edu/
    "Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools."

    Does any one know if there's an equivalent for ?


  18. Is anyone hearing anything about those provider indemnities? Has anyone had heard of anyone enforcing them?

  19. Listening to Microsoft's apac lawyer trying to convince us that 'Copilot' was a deliberate branding choice... tehehe

  20. - are there any books or resources you could recommend for those transitioning from private practice to inhouse?

  21. After some life advice , - I'm realising that I'll always be replaceable as a legal resource. But I don't know what to do with this information. Don't like the idea of just cruising. Not sure a 'forever' job exists in our industry...

  22. The valley goes fast and breaks things. I spend my days going slow and fixing them.

  23. What was the first question you asked ?

  24. @lmorchard ,👏👏. It's tiring to watch the same corporate/tech lines about free speech, building things that might break and listening to our users...