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@novel-af.bsky.social
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Patent Attorney. Electrical Engineer. Computer Programmer. Volunteer. Lecturer. Art Enthusiast. Human. Cat dad. (Former) dog dad. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
'The Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo canceled his plans to visit the U.S. later in the year; “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.”' newrepublic.com/post/208820/...
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Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump
It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂 Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…
Cloisonné pin similar to the NASA logo, but reads “NOT FLAT”, with “we checked” underneath l
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Animophs? 👀
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thanks. It's somewhat frustrating how misunderstood the patent system is and how it is reported on. If you are interested in learning more about Patent Attorney gripes with Patent reporting, check out the podcast A Lawyer's Guide to the Galaxy S07 Eps 13, 14, 16.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@vixx.bsky.social has repeated the false claims that Sony has obtained a patent in this story www.ign.com/articles/son... They haven't obtained a patent! An Examiner hasn't even been assigned to review it yet. This is just a publication of a patent application.
Screenshot of patent center showing that no patent has been granted and no examiner has been assigned.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@manchesterwrites.bsky.social has repeated the false claims that Sony has obtained a patent in this story www.polygon.com/sony-ai-gene... They haven't obtained a patent! An Examiner hasn't even been assigned to review it yet. This is just a publication of a patent application.
polygon.com
Sony patents AI-generated podcasts voiced by your favorite video game characters
Sony's AI-generated podcasts would have characters like Kratos and Aloy delivering news and making jokes at your expense.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Read the order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#23 in United States v. Jefferson (E.D. Va., 3:25-cr-00160) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER (Striking and Barring Future Use of Title; Providing Notice): This matter comes before the Court on the United States of America's (the "Government") Response to the Court's January 6...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Here’s a good explainer we @lawfaremedia.org published earlier this year (by Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly, and David Reiser) that covers a lot of these issues. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
lawfaremedia.org
State Prosecutions of Federal Agents and the Presidential Pardon Power
State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Why was ICE recording on a cellphone and not a body cam?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026
Almost like despite proclamations to the contrary, they are getting the message that they can use “vehicle as a deadly weapon“ as an excuse to fire on people
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Further, it can increase competition since new entrants who may have novel devices no longer have to worry about whether their product infringes the patent(s), e.g., those that practice the patent AND additional new features. They can still (potentially) protect their new features.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
But that doesn't extend a patent. A patent provides a property right to legally exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing a specific invention. Here, regardless of whether there is a remaining valid patent, they are offering a license to their technology per the EULA.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes, it will still work with Bluetooth.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This would not extend the patent.
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tante @tante.cc · 08/01/2026
This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
You can also get stuck in an infinite "Buy yourself a book"-loop.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
NEWS: Congresswoman Joyce Beatty sues Trump to block the renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Read the complaint: washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/new-law...
Case 1:25-cv-04480
Document 1 Filed 12/22/25 Page 2 of 18
INTRODUCTION
This is a lawsuit to stop the unlawful renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts ("the Kennedy Center"). Shortly after President Kennedy's assassination,
Congress designated the Kennedy Center as the sole national memorial to the late President within
the nation's capital.
Because Congress named the center by statute, changing the Kennedy
Center's name requires an act of Congress. But on December 18 and 19, 2025—in scenes more
reminiscent of authoritarian regimes than the American republic the sitting President and his
handpicked loyalists renamed this storied center after President Trump. This is a flagrant violation
of the rule of law, and it flies in the face of our constitutional order. Congress intended the Center
to be a living memorial to President Kennedy-and a crown jewel of the arts for all Americans,
irrespective of party. Unless and until this Court intervenes, Defendants will continue to defy
Congress and thwart the law for improper ends.
2. For decades, the Kennedy Center has served as a renowned hub for the arts in the
nation's capital. But when Defendant Trump entered office for his second term in January 2025,
he became fixated on controlling the Kennedy Center. In February 2025, in a norm-shattering
development, Defendant Trump ousted members of the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees;
installed sycophants in their place; orchestrated the firing of the Kennedy Center's President; and installed Defendant Richard Grenell, who served in the first Trump Administration, to lead the Kennedy Center. In a stunning move, Defendant Trump even appointed himself to the Board, after
which his handpicked Board elected him as Chair. The ongoing politicization of the Kennedy
Center has had grave consequences for the institution. Major figures have broken their ties with
the Kennedy Center, and public reporting has found that nearly half of the Kennedy Center's
tickets now go…
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Can you provide a link to your rip?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/12/2025
Sigh www.news9.com/ou-essay-rem...
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OU removes graduate teaching assistant after discrimination investigation
The University of Oklahoma has concluded an investigation into claims that a student was discriminated against by receiving a zero on an assignment for referencing the Bible. The University said the g...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Omg Jacob is such a Bluesky user 😂💀
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(And if you just want to read the texts that are the subject of these filings, you can read them here, via @lawfaremedia.org): www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Signal screenshots
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2025
Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.
The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Having my brother around is fun bc I’ll be like “everything is bad! The future we were building is disappearing before my eyes!!!” & he’ll be like “hey do you think I could throw this grape through the ceiling fan, have it hit the ceiling, then catch it in my mouth?” & I’ll be like… “idk lemme see”
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
They offered $2.99 for 6 months.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Did you miss that they don't live in FL anymore?
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...
creators.yahoo.com
Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Yes! OETA is only $5/mo and you get to stream PBS programming! 💜
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
What's the article about?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees. In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay. Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024. Textbook corporate greed.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This you? Just two hours later?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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NPR @npr.org · 11/09/2025
The teenager who opened fire at his classmates before shooting himself has been identified by authorities as 16-year-old Desmond Holly. He died at the hospital of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. via @coloradopublic.bsky.social
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Evergreen High School shooter identified by authorities
Authorities say the school shooter was radicalized by an “extremist network.”
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 11/09/2025
His former friend and political ally Rep. Joe Walsh said as much yesterday: bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Plus, for a long time, your email was tied to your ISP, so if you got AOL you had an AOL email. Then I got a yahoo with a whole 6MB of mailbox storage!
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
They are trying not to get locked into a position.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
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Andrew @novel-af.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I kinda wish people would stop using trillion or billion and actually showed the numbers. I think people are desensitized to the words. Like: The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6,600,000,000,000, after getting $1,200,000,000,000 richer over the past year alone.
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