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Josh Landau

@jslandau.cc
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Patents, copyright, dogs, pictures of space, Michigan sports. I do IP and open source @ Mozilla, but this account is mine. (he/him) jslandau.cc GO BLUE

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Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 6h
I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 29/09/2026
I do not appreciate being called out like this.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 28/09/2026
This is about what I expected the UN thing would turn out to be - not a hack so much as weird attempts to access public data using the available tools, which don’t work with the public data access mechanism.
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Air to Ground Message: WENT THRU FLOCK OF SEAGULLS...NOT THE BAND. DO YOU STILL NEED A LOG IF WE ARENT SURE WE HIT ANYTHING Area: Jersey Shore, NJ, USA A: #a7c2a23ee40 F: #f9d4e90b33a
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 25/09/2026
I would throw myself on a pyre
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 25/09/2026
“I’ll only vote for a candidate who promises to eliminate intellectual property entirely.”
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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 24/09/2026
This all comes after A. Feder Cooper, a respected researcher on AI and hardly a shill for the AI companies, leveled serious substantive critiques of the study, including a subtle reference to Chakrabarty’s funding: afedercooper.info/whack-a-mole/
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Playing Whack-a-Mole with misconceptions about memorization, extraction, and copyright
A response to Alignment Whack-a-Mole and some broader thoughts on the field
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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 24/09/2026
OpenAI’s attorneys dropped a bombshell brief yesterday informing the court that the allegedly neutral scientific study of market effects submitted by the plaintiffs in their class action suit had actually been funded by the plaintiffs’ law firm, Sussman Godfrey. (Link below)
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 24/09/2026
Gonna laugh if the “hack” turns out to be akin to the weev/Burke cases where the “hack” was guessing/using a non-public URL.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/09/2026
you really do need to click through and read the whole thing, it gets so much funnier
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 20/09/2026
Three way tie here.
Cover art for Final Fantasy I on NES.  Stylized text “Final Fantasy” over an orb containing a floating city; the orb sits atop the crossing point of an axe and sword crossed over one another to make an X shape. Cover art to the game Civilization.  Says “Sid Meier’s Civilization : Build an Empire to stand the test of time” over a picture depicting a modern city lying over the tomb of a pharaoh.Cover art to Star Control II.  Stylized Star Control II over an image collage composed of a human, an angry tentacled monster, and multiple spaceships in front of the planet earth and a starry space sky.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 19/09/2026
You can do the second part without being fucking weird about gender, you know.
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 19/09/2026
This is weaponizing gender, in a bad way. In the same way Tilly Norwood is not a woman, Harry Potter is not a Man. But we've never had this conversation about Harry Potter.
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Re:Create Coalition @recreatecoalition.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Congress and its entertainment industry allies have decided to build out a sweeping infrastructure for censorship.” - Meredith Rose, @publicknowledge.bsky.social. Read more from Public Knowledge here:
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Public Knowledge Warns Copyright Bill Puts Small Businesses at Risk of Global Website Blocking
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/09/2026
and, as ever, my reminder that if you are writing about a court case it is basically authorial and editorial malpractice not to provide a case number or copy of/link to the documents you're talking about
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 17/09/2026
Even Bodybuilding.com forum participants know it has a b.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 16/09/2026
CA9 affirms in Doe v GitHub, holding that there is no DMCA CMI violation even if a model produces substantially similar output to a piece of training material. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People 2014-2024: “We don’t want robots reviewing our content! We demand human review!” People in 2026: “Holy shit, did you know humans are reviewing our content!? How creepy! We only want robots!!”
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 14/09/2026
Mountains by Denver: inferior to mountains by SLC.
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Noah Weinberger @noahweinberger2003.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am #lookingforwork. I’ve done this LinkedIn slop a lot on well, uh, LinkedIn but it’s true. Job market is ass right now and I don’t like being a NEET, I am too qualified imo. My DMs are open on signal NoahW.03, and I can send my resume upon request. If you like AI models, run FOSS projects
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Eliezyer de Oliveira @eliezyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After a long journey through review, our paper is finally out in Nature Communications. We started with a simple problem: The visual cortex is strongly modulated by movement. So how can it represent the visual world without movement interfering with everything? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
trump has the temerity to talk about how the White House was in bad shape when he got there while my city looks like this
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austin @aparker.io · 14/09/2026
if you wonder 'why does it feel like all the expertise is draining out of the public sphere' then you kinda have to grapple with the fact that displaying expertise is often an all expenses paid trip to the omelas hole
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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 13/09/2026
The number of folks who think that the frontier labs are "selling at a loss" is pretty startling. That's uh... That's not where the industry is anymore.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 12/09/2026
GO BLUE
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qntm @qntm.org · 12/09/2026
So,
scp-wiki.wikidot.com
Statement On V/H/S SCP Foundation Film - SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation's 'top-secret' archives, declassified for your enjoyment.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 12/09/2026
Oh hey someone found Jeremy Gallon's cloaking device.
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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Absolute S-tier level of dudes rocking
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
update www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...
The Wednesday evening statement from OpenAI was more emphatic: “We can say categorically that it is impossible for Dr. Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the last two months to have influenced the system in any way, including training.”

The statement added, “After investigating, we can say with full confidence that no user inputs past July 3rd could have influenced this system in any way.”
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse
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ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good place Jason figured it out meme with the post's text
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 10/09/2026
A good video about how to be normal about AI (and also make it useful _and reliable_ for things like research).
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 09/09/2026
Looking for full-time, remote senior/staff or tech lead level work. TypeScript is my strongest suit, but I'm a flexible polyglot. Boosts for visibility appreciated!
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
CachyOS is great as an Archlike and it isn't run by a guy that wants to exterminate the Roma
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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Huh
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
there are a lot of authors who believe that copyright entitles them to control what kind of beneficial use third parties can make of their intellectual property beyond the limited rights in the Berne Convention, and this is not or has never been the case.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Except that Germany (among other European societies) has robust social welfare and other state benefits and that still hasn't stopped the AfD's rise, because the AfD's rise is mainly about immigration (and therefore identity).
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 08/09/2026
Installing Ethernet cabling at frat/sorority houses.
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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Prospective copyright plaintiffs have started asking me my opinion about citing "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" in litigation. It reports that fine-tuning makes frontier LLMs reproduce up to 85-90% of copyrighted books. I don't think the headline results hold up: afedercooper.info/whack-a-mole/
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Playing Whack-a-Mole with misconceptions about memorization, extraction, and copyright
A response to Alignment Whack-a-Mole: why its headline book-memorization coverage numbers rest on a measurement procedure that can't separate memorization from coincidence or prompt leakage.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 06/09/2026
Prolly shouldn't have fired the facilities folks who knew what they were doing, huh.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 06/09/2026
Defense is what we thought, offense is what we feared.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 05/09/2026
I think the reason that AI-generated food photos for menus and ads don’t bother me is because “real” food photography has nothing to do with the actual food either. I take it as an illustration of what the food is supposed to be, not as having anything resembling accuracy.
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 04/09/2026
Hey a 1/1 ever! I found a Rarity-81 word worth 92 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 851 points · 10 rare words. No one else in Outlier has ever found it. 7 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/HDKTE6
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OUTLIER · Day 107
jslandau scored 851 on Day 107. Can you beat them?
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Josh Landau @jslandau.cc · 04/09/2026
*cough* github.com/jslandau/leg...
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legal-tools/plugins/legal-tools/skills/cite-checking at main · jslandau/legal-tools
Claude Code skills for legal processes. Contribute to jslandau/legal-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"they blocked me and i never even said anything to them" buddy i have some bad news about how many people can perceive your behavior in a public setting
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
deleted; not because the story is wrong but because it's a 2018 story describing Trump 1 deportation regime rather than the present Trump administration's deportation regime, distinct from the interim deportation regime
Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social • 1h
Glad we've found the real victim of Trump's deportation regime: the guy who didn't stop police from returning a camp escapee who was hiding in his shop www.miamiherald.com/news/ local/i..
Death threats flood auto shop where immigrant girl hid after escaping detention center
Gonzalez Auto Center in Homestead has been flooded with death threats after police apprehende...
& www.miamiherald.com
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
yeah gotta get off 1Password, sorry
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