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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Fitting that Jan. 7 marks the hypocrisy of #MAGA in their licking of #ICE's boots after today's shooting in #Minneapolis:

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Kamala lost the popular vote by 2,284,967 votes. More than 7,000,000 people are on a #SAVE #studentloan plan. Feels like if the @democrats.org took #studentdebt even a modicum of seriously, we might not be in this mess.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Sooo... Everybody on the SAVE plan saw we're getting raw dogged in the ass sans lube by the #Trump admin, yes? Can I get banned here for hoping a certain chief exec gets chlamydia of the mouth and rotting disease? Asking for a friend... www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...

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Education Department Officially Kills SAVE Plan For Student Loans

The Education Department announced an agreement on Tuesday to officially kill the SAVE plan for federal student loans, with major consequences anticipated for borrowers.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I say this for no particular reason, but the U.S. Copyright just released a two-year study concluding AI generated proceeds are NOT entitled to copyright protection. Which means EVERYBODY can use Tilly without having to pay or get the consent of the company that owns the software that generated it.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The funny thing is gonna be the number of MAGAts relying on Medicaid tomorrow night at emergency rooms across the country after they drunkenly blow their fingers off with M80s.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Not to mention the format already failed miserably less than five years ago in North America. RIP Quibi.

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Bill Prady @billprady.com · 10/06/2025

There was no problem in Los Angeles. There were people downtown (a tiny area) protesting cruelty. Trump sent troops in to pick a fight. Because he needs a Reichstag fire.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I mean... I get it. If I left the American people the United States of 2016, and then they elected King Tang not once but TWICE, I'd probably step back with a "not my circus, not my monkeys" attitude, too.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Elon Musk just levelled up his feud with Trump! 🤣🤣

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I have a theory that Stephen Miller is jealous of Joseph Goebbels' press clippings.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

To alllll the folks out there who are like "more people were deported under Obama," I'm like "so what you're saying is Obama did it better (since nobody felt the need to protest) and more efficiently?" It's not ICE's mission being protested. It's the manner in which they go about completing it.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Watching Marcy Playground and Everclear at the #Wichita #RiverFest is the most #GenX/#ElderMillennial thing I've ever done.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I'm an attorney, but I still don't know if the past tense of "plead" is "pled" or "pleaded."

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I appreciate the sentiment. However, since 1978, the Copyright Act has expressly protected as fair use the unauthorized copying or use of another's works for purposes of teaching and research. I don't think the WGA presents a winning argument on that basis.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

What I've been saying blockchain's highest and best use is for years. If the Copyright Office would take note, that would be great.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

So, I fell down the rabbit hole watching AGI 2027 videos on YouTube last night. Can anybody convince me we aren't headed for a Terminator-style #AI extinction level event in the next two to five years?

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

America: home of the brave from behind an anonymous Twitter account, and land of the freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Maybe it's just me, but I'm kinda over the "Vibes Era" for motion picture scores and ready to get back to epic, groundbreaking and memorable themes again. Can anybody hum the Inception score? Cuz we've ALL "da da dumdum dum da dummed" to the Indiana Jones on our own without prompting. #Filmmaking

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The Like A Prayer Battle Royale Remix is for Gen Z what Danger Zone was for Gen X and Millennials. #CMV

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Standard take: Syril and Dedra are definitely into BDSM as a couple (no kink shaming, please!) Hot take: They're DEFINITELY a switch couple!!

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Watching #Andor and figured out WHY it feels like it has #StarWars back on track: what makes evil EVIL, rather than just oppressive, is its banality. It uses the board room instead of space battles to show us the clutch of the Empire. It's the Wansee of it that makes them monsters.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Blitzscaling is essentially based on two principles: 1. Once you grab enough market share, people will forgive anything due to perceived dependency, so grab it ASAP. 2. Changing your cost items into perceived growth measurements fools investors into giving you their money.

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

30/ work (yes, a prompt would reasonably be deemed the expression of an idea). AI outputs are merely a skin over actual expression of an idea. But they should not be given protection on the basis that a machine - like a monkey - cannot reasonably participate in the Marketplace. /END 🧵

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

29/ creation of output proceeds. Machines are incapable of "thought," in other words, that adds to or otherwise constitutes participation in the Marketplace of Ideas. It superimposes output over what might otherwise be an implicit weighing of societal and cultural equities through an actual...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

28/ originality. But to say output proceeds are expressions of an original thought as a function of societal benefit, i.e. the Marketplace of Ideas, is absolutely ridiculous before we even get to the question of authorship. Machines are incapable of weighing human equities in the...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

27/ of society. And this is where any kind of protection for generative #AI - whether for the algorithm or the proprietor(s) thereof - breaks down for me: there is no thought or idea underlying the particular output proceed a machine generates. Yes, a PROMPT might be said to have some...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

26/ And, thus, the Copyright Act of 1790. And, thus, the Copyright Acts of 1909 and 1976. Which leads us back to #AI and #copyright protection. At the heart of American copyright protection is the encouragement of participation in the Marketplace of Ideas to promote the evolution and progress...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

25/ Thus, the Founders decided to mke it worth their while, encouraging people to participate in the Marketplace of Ideas by providing to them a means of profiting from an investment of time, money and energy into committing their thoughts to paper and distributing copies. Thus, Art. I, sec. 8....

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

24/ the cost - in time, energy, and/or expense - to jot a thought, reproduce it in copies, and distribute those copies? Simply for the betterment of humankind? Most people did not have the mercantile luxury to devote their time to such scholarly, academic or philosophical pursuits....

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

23/ that people participate in this Marketplace of Ideas. A lack of participation in the Marketplace would result in the death of early American democracy as easily as a prohibition on participation. In other words, they recognized apathy as a potential problem: why would a person go to...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

22/ the Founders recognized they were faced with an old problem in the vein of "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." In other words, even assuming governments wouldn't, or would be prohibited by law from chilling free speech, they could not mandate...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

21/ would ever devolve to the point that the government would ever chill ideas and the free flow of thought was unthinkable. After all, they'd just fought a war over this very issue (and others, but ultimately rooted in this idea). Though later codified in the First Amendment...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

20/ ideas proven good would rise above the others and be internalized either legally or through popular acclimation, and that ideas proven bad would be abandoned; and, in this way, society would progress. Prior to Madison insisting on a Bill of Rights, the idea that the United States...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

19/ religious institutions, monarchies, or even an elected legislature and the popular zeitgeist. Today, we describe this doctrine as the Marketplace of Ideas, wherein the expression, sharing, and debating of ideas is protected with the belief that through this process...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

18/ And at the heart of these ideas was one in particular: the right to freely express ideas inconsistent with or even contrary to the popular orthodoxy of thought was not merely vital, but foundational, to the health of a free societ; regardless whether that orthodoxy arose from...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

17/ Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire, Rousseau, and - in their Anglican way - empathetic to the rise of Protestantism in France going back to the mid-17th Century. In this philosophical ecosystem, ideas challenging established authority grew among the colonists of a certain class....

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

16/ well-published French works which, at the time, would have included the writings of both English and French Enlightenment philosophers, including Locke, Voltaire and Rousseau. Founders that were Francophiles (such as Jefferson) would have been especially familiar with contemporary French...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

15/ was composed of men who had classical educations. Though they considered themselves Englishmen (up to 1776), they studied French language which necessarily included French authors. At the time, this would have meant studying French language not just through grammar but through...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

14/ and - more importantly - British Parliament - were still fresh in the minds of everybody in the Founding generation. Chief among those abuses was the Crown's crackdowns on any type of PEACEFUL protest or dissent by American colonists. Recall that most of the Founding leadership...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

13/ (The Bill of Rights was ratified Dec 1791). So, what gives? And why is it relevant to the relationship between AI and American copyright law today? When Congress ratified the Constitution and - with it - the Copyright Clause of Art. I, sec. 8, recall that the abuses of King George III...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

12/ In other words, the very notion of copyright protection was not simply granted to Congress, but - one might argue - mandated by the Founders. So much so that copyright protection, as a Constitutional matter, predates ratification of the First Amendment by more than a year!...

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

11/ Specifically, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, which expressly granted to Congress the authority "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries...."

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

10/ republic in 1788. Which begs the question: of all the things the brand new United States had to contend with, copyright protection seems like it shouldn't have been THAT high on the list of priorities. But it was What explains this? In a word: the Constitution....

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Eff You Yankee Blue Jeans @poorworkhabits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

9/ copyright protection at the forefront of its collective mind less than a year after the last colony (Rhode Island) ratified the Constitution, and within two years of the Constitution first being ratified by the ninth state to do so in 1788 (New Hampshire), which formally established the...

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