Gannett Stops Using AI To Write Articles For Now Because They Were Hilariously Terrible

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There may come a time when journalists around the world are left to point at massive datacenters housing AI journo-bots that have perfectly replicated what human journalists can do, screaming “Dey took ‘er jerbs!” like a South Park episode, but today is not that day. And frankly, it doesn’t feel particularly close to being that […]

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YouTuber Tries To Register Abandoned MythBusters Trademark; Discovery Is Not Happy With This

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Last fall, a few people sent me this fun video from YouTuber Allen Pan, which briefly talks about how he ended up with a MythBusters trademark for clothing and apparel. I didn't write it up at the time because, while amusing, the discussion of the trademark (and, for that matter, copyright) issues was so confused […]

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Man Loses Maine Vanity Plates Describing His Love For Bean Mush

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It’s absolutely stupid just how often we’ve had to write about issues surrounding license plates. For convoluted reasons that involve how plates, which are mandated on all cars by states, are government property, that means that a state disallowing a vanity plate therefore does not violate the First Amendment. There are caveats to that that […]

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Elon's (Good?) New DMCA Policy Appears To Be The Result Of Lots Of Confusion & Misunderstanding

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On Monday, I saw Elon Musk tweet the following, and initially thought that he might have actually made a good policy decision for once, and planned to write up something about Elon doing something right (contrary to the opinion of some, I'm happy to give him credit when it's due): Punching back against DMCA abusers […]

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