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Copyright Alliance @copyrightalliance.org · 18/06/2026
In an op-ed published in IPWatchdog, Copyright Alliance CEO @keithkup.bsky.social says, “Judicial site blocking is a safe, effective tool that has been widely deployed around the world to great effect … Congress should enact it.” Read more here! ipwatchdog.com/2026/06/18/r...
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The Real-World Implications of the Supreme Court’s Cox Decision
The thriving legitimate digital marketplace we enjoy today didn't emerge by accident. It was built, in significant part, on the historical bedrock of secondary liability.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/05/2026
Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.
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Mark Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers allege
Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Congratulations to this year’s winners! For book categories, note that the Pulitzer is not a scholarly award. Scholarship/expertise matters for nonfiction categories, but it is at bottom a literary prize. A jury for each picks finalists; the board picks winners…. www.pulitzer.org/news/2026-pu...
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The 2026 Pulitzer Prize Announcement
The Pulitzer Prize Board has announced the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes and Nominated Finalists. Watch the livestream and read the shortlist of winners and nominees here.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@copyrightalliance.org CEO @keithkup.bsky.social responds to the faux public advocacy in the opposition to the "Stealing Isn't Innovation" campaign. ipwatchdog.com/2026/03/11/r...
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A Response to Opposition of the ‘Stealing Isn’t Innovation’ Campaign
Just over a month ago, the Human Artistry Campaign launched the “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” campaign. “Big AI” published its response in late February, and it’s deeply unpersuasive.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Publishers Strike Back Against Google in Infringement Suit
In a new filing, the Association of American Publishers rebuts Google’s efforts to prevent two publishers, Hachette Book Group and Cengage, from joining a class action copyright suit first brought by ...
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"I don’t know how many headlines I’ve read, including quotes by lawmakers in both parties, articulating some variation on the theme that 'we should not make the mistake with AI that we made with social media.'" illusionofmore.com/big-tech-get...
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Big Tech Gets AI Executive Order for Christmas - The Illusion of More
Trump's Executive Order on artificial intelligence is a gift to Big Tech just in time for Christmas. Will it mean anything other than chaos?
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“National defense is a geographic, economic, intellectual, cultural, technological & political consideration in which the greatest strength is also the greatest weakness—that it can only truly be eroded from within.” @davidnewhoff.bsky.social
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Americans Won’t Thank Washington for Protecting Big Tech in the NDAA - The Illusion of More
Big Tech's effort to attach a moratorium on state regulation of AI to the NDAA is politically naive and bad for Americans.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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What happens when you kick millions teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out | CNN
In the next two weeks, social media platforms will start deactivating accounts for children under 16 in Australia under new laws designed to reduce harm online. Other countries are watching, but some ...
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"The question is not whether AI companies can innovate. The question is whether that innovation requires erasing the rights of everyone whose work makes that innovation possible." www.copyhype.com/2025/11/copy...
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Copyright, Competition, and AI Training – Copyhype
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"... the human authorship doctrine, which Thaler seeks to erase, is not a philosophy unique to the views of Director Perlmutter..." illusionofmore.com/thaler-asks-...
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Thaler Asks the Court to Make Copyright Policy - The Illusion of More
In asking the Supreme Court to hold its petition for certiorari, Dr. Thaler seeks to distract from the legal question presented.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
In light of Big Tech's legacy of disdain for human rights and human dignity, it may be fair to wonder whether chatbot-assisted suicide is not seen by developers as a feature rather than a bug. When does this end? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We should be talking about "Kavanaugh Abductions." U.S. citizens are disappearing into detention.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"If the Supreme Court agrees to review the case, I hope it will not be distracted by the selection and arrangement of precedent employed in the sleight of hand at work in Thaler’s arguments—all true out of context, all fatal in context." illusionofmore.com/dr-thaler-as...
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Dr. Thaler Asks SCOTUS to Decide the GAI Authorship Question - The Illusion of More
Dr. Stephen Thaler wants SCOTUS to agree that humans are not necessary for copyright to attach to works of expression.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“With generative AI, Big Tech—again with the help of many in IP academia—now promotes the alleged value of ‘democratizing’ the production of works, finally revealing democratization as the anti-humanist and, therefore, anti-democratic term that it truly is.” @davidnewhoff.bsky.social
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More
Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
That word "democratization" should be rejected by anyone who cares about democracy. illusionofmore.com/rescuing-dem...
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More
Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"...we confront an authoritarianism that we recognize from history paired with a threat of technological feudalism that is unprecedented." illusionofmore.com/rescuing-dem...
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Rescuing Democracy from Democratization - The Illusion of More
Regarding intellectual property and artificial intelligence, it is essential to rescue democracy from democratization.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"We don't need to guess what happens without meaningful oversight. We're living with the consequences right now. The question is what we do differently this time. Real accountability should mean independent safety testing before deployment.." www.digitalcitizensalliance.org/news/press-r...
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When "Move Fast and Break Things" Breaks People: What Social Media's Reckoning Teaches Us About AI
There’s an old adage: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It’s time to apply the lessons of the social media platforms to AI. Anything less would be foolish.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Limiting constraints in the creative process has its pros and cons. illusionofmore.com/on-ai-removi...
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On AI Removing Creative Constraints - The Illusion of More
Notwithstanding some valuable applications of GAI, the idea that artistic expression functions without constraints is misguided.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"... GAI...reframes the question of what it means to create works of expression in the first place. And this includes the question as to whether removing “constraints” is either conducive or harmful to the creative process." illusionofmore.com/on-ai-removi...
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On AI Removing Creative Constraints - The Illusion of More
Notwithstanding some valuable applications of GAI, the idea that artistic expression functions without constraints is misguided.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#Photographers, We're hosting a free #copyrirght webinar for members of Photographic Society of America. Tomorrow 6p ET. Join us! psaphotoworldwide.org/Login.aspx
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Aunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I genuinely wonder how #TemuGoebbels thinks this going to end. The real Goebbels ended his story murdering his 5 kids in Hitler’s bunker before shooting his wife, then himself & had their bodies burned so the people couldn’t abuse their corpses for revenge like they did w Mussolini. #NurembergWaits
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
As tragic cases like Garcia v. Companion AI and Raine v. Open AI proceed, expect to see the defendants argue the speech right to avoid liability. Some discussion... illusionofmore.com/are-ai-outpu...
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Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More
AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Kid Rock. Fashion critic.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Republicans now apply the anti-vax model across the board: Something (vaccines, basic government functioning, the economy) works well enough for so long that they start to blame the thing itself for often imaginary problems. They break the thing. And now we wait for the consequences.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
"But Sam is post-rights. The question is: if he’s post creative rights, can we honestly believe he isn’t effectively post other kinds of rights?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde
His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Many arguments advocating the view that AI training does not conflict with copyright rights share a common fallacy, namely that AI outputs represent “competitive” works that copyright law was intended to promote." illusionofmore.com/ai-works-do-...
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AI Works Do Not “Compete” with Works of Authorship - The Illusion of More
Claims that AI outputs "compete" with works of authorship are meant to undermine market dilution as a consideration under fair use.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
RightsClick, Inc is looking forward to hosting this webinar for members of the Photographic Society of America. lnkd.in/e_k37iZn
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"Simply put, if development of AI severely degrades the incentive of people to create new works, then both the creative economy and the AI models will collapse." illusionofmore.com/sound-ai-pol...
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Sound AI Policy Demands Protecting Diverse Expression - The Illusion of More
Contrary to the claim that copyright rights cannot be allowed to stymie AI development, protecting diverse expression is essential.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"...policymakers should take note that America’s diversity of expression is a critical advantage in developing world-class artificial intelligence (AI)." illusionofmore.com/sound-ai-pol...
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Sound AI Policy Demands Protecting Diverse Expression - The Illusion of More
Contrary to the claim that copyright rights cannot be allowed to stymie AI development, protecting diverse expression is essential.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Hegseth is by far the worst in his job in history. And that’s including the three months when Rutherford B. Hayes mistakenly named a walrus in a top hat the Secretary of War.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"If the tone of the senate hearing and the opinion of the court so far in the Garcia case are any indication, Big Tech may not so easily shape-shift its way around AI product liability as it has with the harm caused by social media." illusionofmore.com/are-ai-outpu...
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Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More
AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The argument that AI training is per se fair use is wishful thinking. It would also be bad law. illusionofmore.com/public-knowl...
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Public Knowledge Post on AI & Fair Use Misses the Mark - The Illusion of More
Public Knowledge issues a PR statement disguised as a copyright argument claiming that AI training is per se fair use.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"Notably, Gallaher masks the substitutional purpose of GAI by referring to it in general as technology that serves a 'public good' and which provides 'broad benefits.' The plain fact, though, is that we do not know this to be true." illusionofmore.com/public-knowl...
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Public Knowledge Post on AI & Fair Use Misses the Mark - The Illusion of More
Public Knowledge issues a PR statement disguised as a copyright argument claiming that AI training is per se fair use.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"...Gallaher manages to hide (or expose) the distinction that the purpose of many GAI products is to produce works without authors." illusionofmore.com/public-knowl...
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Public Knowledge Post on AI & Fair Use Misses the Mark - The Illusion of More
Public Knowledge issues a PR statement disguised as a copyright argument claiming that AI training is per se fair use.
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Creators often think about #copyright AFTER they discover their work misused. And that's often too late. Learn more at rightsclick.com/copyright-re...
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Beware Today’s ‘Fire-Eaters’ www.thebulwark.com/p/beware-tod...
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Beware Today’s ‘Fire-Eaters’
There are echoes in our political rhetoric of the men who helped talk the United States into civil war.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The obvious stories here are: (A) It credibly makes Homan appear to be wildly corrupt. (B) It credibly makes Trump’s DOJ appear to be wildly corrupt. The less obvious story is how SCOTUS basically legalized a lot of official corruption—and Congress never fixed it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
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Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"It should be intuitive that interacting with AIs designed to mimic human behaviors can be dangerous." illusionofmore.com/are-ai-outpu...
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Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More
AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"It should be intuitive that interacting with AIs designed to mimic human behaviors can be dangerous." illusionofmore.com/are-ai-outpu...
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Are AI Outputs Protected Speech? - The Illusion of More
AI companionship has already led to the death of teens and causes psychological harm. Can developers argue that the bot's outputs are speech?
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Remember the George Floyd riots—how Trump made the public anger worse? Remember how he instigated a mass attack on Congress that killed police? (And the pardoned the attackers?) Feels like that now. The man only ever makes things worse.
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Rick Allen @rallennautilus.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A spokesperson at Hyundai's battery joint venture partner, South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solutions 373220.KS, said in a statement it had paused construction work. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Hyundai plant shut down after hundreds of workers arrested in massive ICE raid
The facility, a $4.3 billion venture, is one of Hyundai’s most substantial investments in the US
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The case that will be cited most consistently addressing the question of "authorship" in AI works will be the one that affirmed protection of photographs in 1884. www.amazon.com/Who-Invented...
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The case that will be cited most consistently addressing the question of "authorship" in AI works will be the one that affirmed protection of photographs in 1884. www.amazon.com/Who-Invented...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Phang: The judge notes that the MacArthur Park show of force was just sheer political theater. Major General Sherman, objected, expressing concern that there would be a large number of people because it was Father’s Day. To which Bovino criticized him, questioning his loyalty to the country.
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Rick Allen @rallennautilus.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Legal experts say the case marks an escalation in the administration’s attacks on first amendment rights. Afghanistan war veterans who know him say the case against Mavalwalla appears unjust. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice
Legal experts say the charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights
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David Newhoff @davidnewhoff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"Blaszczyk claims to want to rescue copyright’s true humanism from the mere rhetoric of humanism." illusionofmore.com/a-response-t...
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A Response to Post Humanist Copyright Paper by Matt Blaszczyk - The Illusion of More
A response to the paper by Matt Blaszczyk arguing that copyright does not serve humanist principles and must be reexamined for legitimacy.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.
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