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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 5h

If you’re an influencer, and you take a sponsorship from Miracle Whip, does that make you a bland ambassador?

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"The Third Circuit rejected an artificial intelligence company’s fair use defense after it trained its AI on a competitor’s product, finding the training constituted copyright infringement — and potentially setting a landmark precedent for artificial intelligence."

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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 11h

my basic bar for journalists anthropomorphizing AI is this: if Kermit the Frog ran over and killed a guy with his car, would you report Kermit was driving and maybe we shouldn't give licenses to frogs? Or would you drop the kayfabe and say some puppeteers committed vehicular manslaughter?

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026

I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A LinkedIn post from me that reads "DHH is openly a Nazi. You should not promote anything he is doing or relay his opinions on software development. It is shocking to me when I open this app and see people casually discussing his opinions on AI or interface design or whatever, as if he were a "thought leader". He is an open advocate for mass murder. It doesn't matter what else he thinks, do not promote his ideas." followed by the text "Only you can see this post because this content goes against our Professional Community Policies."

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 29/09/2026

For as much as I've criticized @analogue.bsky.social over the years for marketing decisions and inability to reliably stock products, they're not a party to war crimes. While that's a low bar to clear, their primary competitor amazingly does not.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 29/09/2026

This week has been utterly exhausting and it's only Tuesday morning.

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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this site is still ticking, btw... isaiprofitable.com

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Is AI Profitable Yet?

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TechInsights Inc. @techinsightsinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TechInsights is heading to SEMICON West, Oct 13–15 in San Francisco. Our analysts will cover manufacturing analysis, materials analysis, and sustainability data across the semiconductor supply chain. Book time with the team before the show fills up ➡️ bit.ly/4yfejVi

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 28/09/2026

I’ve had this, multiple times, and it’s… fine. Can’t really taste a difference. Couldn’t swear to it having an effect, but I was also way more fit living in Japan because I was biking everywhere.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine being so wrapped up in your tiny corner of the world that when you learn there are people who don’t live in that corner, your first thought is that they must be posturing.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Agree with Greg‘s general point. But let me ask the hard question about moral hazard: if the likes of Zuck or Jensen (or Dartmouth or Paul Weiss) pay no price for having kowtowed to Trump, won’t they end up looking smart for having done so? And if we want to curb this moral hazard, what must we do?

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 24/09/2026

I am once again soliciting suggestions for weird (but, safe for work) things to put on my bookshelf to mess with my coworkers (and others) on work calls.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 24/09/2026

very very very fun news (from me) next week

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TechInsights Inc. @techinsightsinc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🆕 TechInsights is expanding its analysis into robotics and drones. We’re getting our first hands-on look at the 2024 Unitree G1 humanoid robot. 🤖 Explore our latest robotics research and follow updates to the Unitree G1 teardown 👉 bit.ly/4xMxZ1R

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perhaps the biggest tragedy with the current state of both PlayStation and Xbox on a cultural level once you get past the bloodbaths—and you shouldn't, to be clear—is just the sheer disinterest they share in maintaining any sense of a cohesive, healthy ecosystem, both internally and externally.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 19/09/2026

The power of magnets is awesome!

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Asif Anwar @aanwar-sa-ads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Infineon Technologies' planned sale of its NOR Flash and F-RAM business to Winbond would transfer a market-leading automotive NOR franchise to an established memory specialist. TechInsights addresses immediate questions around this deal. library.techinsights.com/analysis-vie...

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TechInsights Platform

The authoritative information platform to the semiconductor industry.

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Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 16/09/2026

For fuck's sake if someone wants to be taken seriously take your work seriously!

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Skellyton 🦇 @infinitefinite.blog · 01/11/2025

You can pry the Oxford Comma from my cold, dead, and third adjective hands.

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Cilantro @cilantroll.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Millennials love us a doofus

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Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

LLMs are interesting. They’re helpful in some cases. When I clean up an audio transcript, I no longer have to do a bunch of find-replace/delete commands; Gemini usually gets it mostly right by the third pass. But it’s not magic. None of this is magic or intelligence in any form.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 11/09/2026

You can extrapolate this experience to practically every Facebook group.

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 10/09/2026

“The tag must to be hiding after folding. The width of fold should same all after folding and alignment of front of shelf also.”

A plastic placard at MUJI.

The text reads:

The tag must to be hiding after folding.
The width of fold should same all after folding and alignment of front of shelf also.

MUJI
無印良品
MENS

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Eric Smith @esmithtech.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Noteworthy that on-device AI is front and center for the #Apple event today. "Intelligence" being listed before performance and battery

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 05/09/2026

My favorite clock is freaking out this morning. 😕

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doctor of softboyology @vea.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That person saying trans rights are important to securing “machine rights”: I’ve been reading a lot of sci-fi and keep saying to everyone that too many sci-fi writers are cultivating really shitty tech politics with their anthropomorphism of AI systems.

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TechInsights Inc. @techinsightsinc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

💡Memory has become one of the most strategic components of the AI era. We've covered the technology roadmaps, now we’ll tackle the market questions. Including recent volatility, pricing dynamics, and the 5-year outlook for AI-driven memory growth. 👉 bit.ly/3V9dluY

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 31/08/2026

“Is this anything?” #16: If you host a roundtable webinar about photovoltaic cells, does that make it a solar panel?

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 31/08/2026

My analysis of NVIDIA's Vera CPU is now live at @techinsightsinc.bsky.social's Microprocessor Report: library.techinsights.com/hg-content/2... (Subscriber only, but if you're not a subscriber, message me and let's fix that. 😉)

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 28/08/2026

so this ”Twitter” took like a day to get hacked

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 27/08/2026

lol I’m on “Twitter” app.twitter.now/user/jas

app.twitter.now

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 27/08/2026

The information assistance robot at the San Jose airport is… on vacation.

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Eric Smith @esmithtech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you need a Tim Curry fix, Clue is free to stream on YouTube with ads

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

best way to spend your time today, right here

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Perfect posting day, everything is either a very sweet wholesome post or the most deranged nonsense I’ve ever heard

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 26/08/2026

I can’t believe it, but somehow this is a @quantuminthings.bsky.social violation, and it *by a mile* is the least bad thing about this advert.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

randomly remembering that they had a national holiday in the UK after the queen died

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TechInsights Inc. @techinsightsinc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

⏰ Last chance to register! Drawing on TechInsights’ die-level analysis, the webinar will explore the technology roadmaps, innovations, and competitive developments shaping the future of memory. 📅 August 26 ⏰ 11:00 AM EST Register now and save your spot ➡️ bit.ly/4guwY7P

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I remember when not everything was embarrassing

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 24/08/2026

I managed to get a selfie with Satoshi Matsuoka, the director of RIKEN (and also the co-programmer of Pinball on the NES) at #HotChips!

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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 24/08/2026

I don’t travel with a USB-C to Ethernet adapter anymore, the last time I was given a wired connection at an industry event was HPE Discover in 2019. But this… this is Palo Alto.

A wall plate with an RJ-45 connector and the text “Complimentary T 1 Access”.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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