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Lauri Donahue

@lauridonahue.bsky.social
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Screenwriter Entertainment/tech/IP attorney Former Sr. Counsel, Motion Picture Association Occasional journalist History nerd Lauri's List of screenwriting fellowships, labs, etc.: tinyurl.com/spmfzxfh Website/blog: lauridonahue.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h
“A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Boston-based sports gambling company DraftKings is using artificial intelligence to identify and target vulnerable gamblers with promotions, incentives, and advertisements.”
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Class action lawsuit alleges Boston-based DraftKings used AI to target vulnerable gamblers
Plaintiff Daniel Vest has spent thousands of dollars with DraftKings, which allegedly led the company to inundate him with promotions.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
Military officials were warned of a potential Iranian drone strike. The warnings were ignored and six US service personnel died.
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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike
U.S. troops wounded in a drone attack that killed six soldiers in Kuwait question Army leadership over safety and say the military medical system failed them.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h
People who ate about 30 to 40 grams of whole grains per day saw heart health benefits, researchers found, with the greatest improvements at about 60 to 100 grams per day, which equates to about four to six servings. wapo.st/4ANWH4H
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 2h
www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-... The Supreme Court is gonna need to sort this out. The financial stakes will be enormous.
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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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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 3h
James Bond never had to do this, just saying
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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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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WIRED @wired.com · 3h
Otherlab’s Lightfoot looks like a box on wheels, but this head-turning urban scooter is designed to go farther thanks to the power of the sun.
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I Enjoyed Driving a Ridiculous-Looking Solar-Powered Scooter, and You Can Too
Otherlab’s Lightfoot looks like a box on wheels, but this head-turning urban scooter is designed to go farther thanks to the power of the sun.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h
Congress once had an office for making sense of new technologies. It may be time to revive it in the age of AI. trib.al/Fznog3E
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It’s Time to Bring Back Congress’s Nerd Squad
Congress once had an office for making sense of new technologies. It may be time to revive it in the age of AI.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 4h
Aaaaaannnnnndddd the skirts keep getting shorter...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4h
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 4h
Northern lights yesterday evening and then the temperature dropped below zero during the night, so we woke up to frost on puddles, leaves and grass. Winter is coming. Or even already here, probably.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4h
Contents of an ostrich’s stomach extracted after its death. Taken at the Zoological Society of London, ca. 1930: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c…
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 4h
OOPS they did it again. www.ft.com/content/fb32...
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AI models used in bank cyber attacks, warns South Korea’s president
Lee Jae Myung highlights public anxiety over what one official calls a ‘completely new kind of crisis’
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 4h
The bench! 😍🐊
Nile River boat lobby with crocodile bench
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Dr Simon Elliott FSA @simonelliott20.bsky.social · 6h
www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/sep...
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Septimius Severus: The African Emperor
Septimius Severus was the African emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna, AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A...
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 6h
...and my grandfather...
• Atomic Number: 103
• Category: Actinide series (synthetic metal)
• Named After: Physicist Ernest Lawrence
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 6h
#RecipeOfTheDay offers a blissful combination of the savoury, subtly sweet and the tangily sharp: it’s Pappardelle with Butternut and Blue Cheese! If you’re unfortunate enough not to like blue cheese, I’d say feta or ricotta salata would be fitting substitutes. www.nigella.com/recipes/papp...
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Pappardelle With Butternut and Blue Cheese
This is one of those welcoming, big-bowl suppers, perfect for feeding friends cosily. Soft, oniony cubes of squash are answered by the salty, sharp and pungent cheese; a little sage breathes its neces...
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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 6h
This 1845 lithograph of Layer Marney Tower has everything: England's tallest Tudor gatehouse, dramatic architecture, and a cow who appears completely uninterested in any of it.
Illustration of a grand Tudor gatehouse with four tall, ornate brick towers featuring patterned stonework and large mullioned windows. A timber‑framed building with a red‑tiled roof sits on the left side. A single sheep stands on the dirt path leading toward the arched entrance. Trees and shrubs frame the scene under a pale sky.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 6h
Cosmic neutrinos with extremely high energies are very rare, so an enormous volume of ice is needed to observe an adequate number of collisions. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory covers an entire cubic kilometre and was finished in 2011.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 6h
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory – ideated by this year’s physics laureate Francis Halzen – tracks neutrinos that originate in the distant cosmos.
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 6h
I'm talking in Glasgow this Sunday 11th Oct. www.atgtickets.com/shows/mary-b... This wonderful painting of Circe from the Hunterian will get a cameo role
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h
Here's your chance to live in a Victorian train station signal box.
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You can now buy part of a Devon railway station – and even live there
The ‘quirky’ property is just one mile from one of the country’s most popular coastlines
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h
Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 6h
Those are very cute neutrinos.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h
Well, if it’s 6 October, it’s the 83rd anniversary of the day the world was deprived of Ignatius Trebitsch-Lincoln, who was born a Hungarian Jew, elected to the House of Commons, spied for Germany in both world wars, and eventually declared himself the 14th Dalai Lama
Frontispiece from Lincoln’s 1916 book Revelations of an International Spy, showing a man in a suit and bow tie, holding papers, wearing a moustache, and looking at camera through small round glasses
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 6h
#filmsky
The Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies, with an anticipated start date of Fall 2027. The Department offers bachelor's degrees in Cinema Studies (with tracks in Production and Critical Studies) and Communication (with tracks in Corporate Communication, Design and Digital Media, Journalism, and Media Studies). The Department has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry and welcomes candidates whose work crosses traditional boundaries.

We seek a candidate with the range to teach across both production and critical studies, grounded in a strong command of film and media history and theory. Given the rapidly evolving digital media landscape, the ideal candidate engages with diverse modes of production and brings a deep understanding of the craft alongside its social, cultural, political, and aesthetic dimensions. Candidates whose scholarship focuses on national, global, diasporic, African American, or LGBTQ+ cinemas are also welcome to apply.

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates must hold an MFA or PhD. ABD candidates are eligible provided the degree is conferred prior to appointment.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 6h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | What Ada Lovelace Would Have Said About A.I. (Gift Article)
What Ada Lovelace can teach us as we develop artificial intelligence.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h
‘We’re not going to go away’: the mom fighting for social media reform after her son’s suicide
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‘We’re not going to go away’: the mom fighting for social media reform after her son’s suicide
A new documentary follows Kristin Bride as she takes on Congress after the death of her 16-year-old son who was cyberbullied
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 6h
"Does Greatness Require an Ego and a Work Ethic Like Cormac McCarthy’s?" "His life ...was also packed with ...wives and children left behind..." I think it's safe to say you don't need to be an asshole in order to be a great writer. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Book Review: ‘Cormac McCarthy: A Legacy Revisited,’ by Tracy Daugherty (Gift Article)
A new biography of the late novelist details his youthful escapades, messy relationships and intense commitment to his craft.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 7h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu Knows That ‘Digger’ Is Polarizing. That’s the Point. (Gift Article)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu knows that “Digger” is polarizing. “I prefer that to the lukewarm reception,” he says of the climate-change satire with Tom Cruise.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 7h
I'm mystified why restaurants think it's a good idea to repel customers. I asked one new local restaurant about it, and they said they were "in a hurry" to open. But the horrible signs are still up months later. It's almost like people are brainwashed... 👽🧠 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Why A.I. Food Slop Looks So Gross (Gift Article)
Is anything even real anymore?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Yemen’s Houthis have claimed strikes on Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Jazan and Najran International Airport.
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👏 apnews.com/article/nobe...
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California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids
The kids were asleep in the family home in Stanford, where their father had been speaking in the middle of the night with journalists and well-wishers. Deisseroth, who is 54, shared this year’s medici...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18h
Lepiota procera, 1894 watercolour by Beatrix Potter. Best known for her children's books. Potter also studied mycology, the scientific study of fungi and was a keen conservationist #WomensArt
Watercolour featuring a study of three mushrooms or toadstools of the same species against a cream background
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h
The Shining axe used by Jack Nicholson for sale as part Stanley Kubrick auction
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The Shining axe used by Jack Nicholson for sale as part Stanley Kubrick auction
Excluive: Weapon is one of hundreds of items to be sold as part of the influential late director’s personal archive The axe wielded by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his chillingly manic line “Here’s Johnny!” in the 1980 horror movie The Shining is to go on sale. Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, uses the axe to hack out an opening in a locked door protecting his terrified wife Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall. It is also the murder weapon in the killing of Scatman Crothers’ character, Dick Hallorann. One of cinema’s most famous axes could be yours for a list price of between £30,000 and £50,000. Continue reading...
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 7h
'But most of all I am worried about AI's impact on learning... We need people who are tough enough to fight intellectually in the arena of the mind & to fight, in real time, what is being done to us, what freedoms are being encroached upon...' www.youtube.com/shorts/v0hh9...
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AI's greasy little voice
YouTube video by The New Society
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h
A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h
Hungary to open Communist-era informer files in reckoning with Cold War past reut.rs/4hL9lc3
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Hungary to open Communist-era informer files in reckoning with Cold War past
In a historic move, Hungary will soon start releasing tens of thousands of Communist-era police ​files in an online public database, giving people access to lists of informers and collaborators used by the former state security services.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 8h
Mildred Prevost, a Black Creole librarian who was deeply active in her parish, raised the first American pope. She died in 1990, decades before her youngest son took the name Leo XIV.
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The Black Creole Mother Who Made the Pope
Mildred Prevost died in 1990. In October, as Pope Leo XIV, her son told a Vatican synod what she had said in 1972 when he asked if women wanted equality with men, she responded “we’re already better.”
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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8h
Nice out the back..in the morning for a change. I wasn’t t expecting blue skies today.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 9h
‘Creepy, Weird’ Steve Hilton Ad Denounced by California Republicans An online spot for Mr. Hilton, the G.O.P. candidate, is full of sexual innuendo that has befuddled Republicans and Democrats watching the race for governor in California. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Steve Hilton’s ‘Just Try It’ Ad on Mail Voting Denounced by Republicans (Gift Article)
An online spot for Mr. Hilton, the G.O.P. candidate, is full of sexual innuendo that has befuddled Republicans and Democrats watching the race for governor in California.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10h
Analysis: insurers brace for multimillion-dollar claims caused by rogue AI agents, amid concern that execs like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei could be held liable (Lee Harris/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 21h
RSV - Pregnant women between 32-36 weeks, people over 50 at increased risk, and all adults 75+ (one-time only) Do your part to protect yourself, loved ones & neighbors by making an appointment today! 2/2
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