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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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JOYCE MESSIER - “Of bodies of water and forest-covered surfaces, clusters of light where the cities lie. You've seen the montage, we all have -- this world is enough,” she concludes.

CONCEPTUALIZATION - It *must* be. This is the greatest and kindest arrangement the atoms had in them.

Bad day to be a pedantic ass who is annoyed at Daylight Saving Time. Because I agree with all these takes. But they keep using Savings and I keep cringing.

🎶 wheeeeeennnnn your....
sampling's awry and
new patterns you spy
that's a moiré 🎶

Oh Piers Anthony, so many ridiculous puns, so much unrecognized-by-me-at-the-time misogyny

A Google search results page for "pudding transfer protocol goats". The AI Overview reads "Based on the provided search results, there is no evidence of a "pudding transfer protocol" in goats. It appears the query may have been a misunderstanding of "cud transfer" (also known as rumen transfer or transfaunation) or embryo transfer protocols."

@jonrosenberg.bsky.social I was trying to find an online reference of some kind to the old Pudding Transfer Protocol from Goats, and Gemini made it weird. Thought you might be amused.

2026 limited color character portrait a blue snake person sits behind a desk in a cluttered narrow shop interior. He pushes away a screen/aquarium from his workspace and pauses with his hand over his keyboard to greet you. around the shop, bubbles, fish, waves, scales, and light all trespass their containers.

ssshopkeep (2026)

Cue the mortars down the street

I should get into DDR again....

It's good when you're doing the wonky football plays like 2 point conversion and onside kick, right?

I'm sorry, 7

6??? 6 sacks????

ngl, watching the Patriots get dismantled by this defense is cathartic

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Touchdown!

(I moved to Seattle in the last year, this is a sports account tonight)

Image of Bad Bunny giving his Grammy to young Liam from Minnesota.

Cause that's what heroes do.

SAAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!

That part stood out to me a lot. Hit hard.

Loved the halftime show but 950 day streak on Duolingo really failed me.

Come on Seahawks defense, you can help Drake Maye break the most post season sacks record!

Bast wants you all to know that horses are actually dogs

Trying to watch Superbowl commercials with a dog that reacts to anything even vaguely doglike in appearance showing up on screen is really an exercise in futility

Anybody coded up a Drake Maye sack counter yet?

I only watch live tv like 3x a year and every time I feel like I’m going insane

Great first quarter for fans of blitzes.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Seattle mayor announces plan to block ICE activity, use police to verify federal agent IDs Under the plan, the mayor will issue an executive order prohibiting civil federal immigration authorities from using city-owned and city-controlled properties.

Hey if you live in the greater Seattle area and you approve of Mayor Wilson's plan to ban ICE from using city property, vote Yes in the Komo poll. It's being flooded by right-wing bots.

komonews.com/news/local/s...

multi color 2025 year in review holiday card commission in a 4x6 postcard, a man and woman stand in front of a raging forest fire cradling their cat and smiling. on the desk in front of them is a hawaian shirt, a beer, a macbook, and two coffee cups. around the fire are scattered mementos from their year, magic cards, game controllers, cameras, bananas, seltzer cans, hockey skates, dice, and car keys.

2025 year in review/holiday card portrait

Oh damn, it's a failed Goodhart measure (why is everything a failed Goodhart measure?). People want to use some easily measurable thing as a proxy for the actual reality, but it isn't perfect, so it works sometimes and fails others.

Two axis: one goes from player centric to world centric, and the other goes from utility to poetic. Crusader Kings, Dwarf Fortress, The Sims, and Caves of Qud live in the World Centric / Poetic corner, while Rim World lives in the Player Centric / Utility corner.

Since I love procgen / high systemic story generator games, I decided to finally pick up Rim World. But I did not like it, which did not make any sense. So I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why and made a little graph.