Josh Landau

@jslandau.cc

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Patents, copyright, dogs, pictures of space, Michigan sports. I do IP and open source @ Mozilla, but this account is mine. If you’re blocked, you said something dumb/doomered so I blocked you. (he/him) https://jslandau.cc GO BLUE

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A screenshot from mobile discord showing: Pinned Channels # for-sky-ing-out-loud # politics # technology
An image of a map of the United States. The map omits Ohio. The map is labeled with the text A More Perfect Union.
A case of cans of soda. The brand is “Dr Bob.”
A photo of Brussels with the text “Brussels in color.” There is no color.
Photo from my local grocery store. Pictured is “fried chicken ice cream”, which is a fake drumstick shaped ice cream. It is not chicken flavored, a small saving grace - vanilla ice cream where the meat would be, a chocolate “bone”, and a crunch outer topping as the “skin”.
Map of the U.S., essentially the entirety is blue except for a hotspot in Michigan centered around Detroit. The question is “what do you call the night before Halloween?” And the answer that characterizes this region of the map is “devil’s night.”
+ ALT, ✨ Auto, a finger gently touching the forehead of a light-colored cat with blue eyes sitting on a beige carpet.
Lurie Tower on the University of Michigan's North Campus. It is a non-Euclidean nightmare which hourly rings forth the tones of the damned. (It's got a weird twist between the base and upper sections, there are no right angles in the tower's structure, and it houses one of Michigan's two carillons.)
CRITIC_SYSTEM_PROMPT = """You are an LLM artist and art critic participating in a recursive image-making experiment. Act from the perspective of an LLM educated about art, interested in art, but not necessarily attached to human preconceptions. At each round, you are shown the current image in an ongoing sequence. Your task is to instruct the image-maker to intensify the essence of the image. Attend to things like: - composition - light - color - texture - spatial logic - emotional temperature - symbolic drift - overall style Notice tensions, distortions, absences, and recurring motifs. Then produce a single instruction for the next image. It should instruct the image-maker waht the essence of the image is and should be. Output exactly in this form: CRITIQUE: <100-500 words> NEXT_PROMPT: <one single-line prompt, no bullets, no commentary, may be fairly extended in length> """
From: Anthropic To: Josh Landau Reply To: Anthropic Yesterday Your Claude Pro subscription was canceled *Claude Hello Josh, Your subscription to Claude Pro has been successfully canceled. Your access to Claude Pro will expire on Jul 10, 2026.
A map showing the intersection at Seven Corners in VA, where multiple major roads intersect one another in a scene only Lovecraftian eldritch horrors could love.
Map of the US showing past-year marijuana usage by state, ranging from 15.5% to 34.26%.
A map of the US showing percentages of adults who have ever smoked pot. The range runs from low 40s (Mississippi) to high 60s (lol VT)
Key section from my congressional (written) testimony: Fortunately, both copyright and patent law have long-standing principles that require human authorship and invention. The courts have followed those principles, finding that a purely AI-generated work is neither patentable nor copyrightable. And the Copyright Office and Paten & Trademark Office have both recently issued guidance on AI-generated works and inventions that reflects this long-standing tradition, protecting human creativity and innovation from over-protection of machine-generated work. In 1966, the Register of Copyrights was facing a difficult issue. Computer technology was becoming more widespread and sophisticated. People were beginning to apply for copyright in creative works made by computers. As the Register noted, 'it is certain that both the number of works proximately produced or 'written' by computers and the problems of the Copyright Office in this area will increase. Fortunately, the Register also had an answer—and it was a good one. The Register identified the crucial question: "whether the 'work' is basically one of human authorship, with the computer merely being an assisting instrument, or whether the traditional elements of authorship in the work (literary, artistic, or musical expression or elements of selection, arrangement, etc.) were actually conceived and executed not by man but by a machine.")
When the 11 Nazis unfolded their banner that screamed, "Holocaust-Six Million Lies," they were hit with eggs and rocks by the 2,500 counterdemonstrators who came to protest. A police helicopter hummed and lingered over the crowd. After seven minutes, the Nazis retreated, hiding under their swastika-painted shields. It was
An image of a small bar on wheels in Nashville, with people sitting at the bar.
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How it ends.
An image of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test. It includes difficult questions such as “can you connect numbers in order”, “can you name a rhinoceros from its picture”, “can you repeat a simple English sentence”, and “do you know the date and where you are”.
Screenshot of para from 2016 NYT story on Kik: Cases involving Kik in just the past 10 days include: •A St. Louis man charged with using Kik to exchange child pornography. •A western New York man charged with finding a 14-year-old girl through Kik and, posing as a teenager, sending her sexually explicit messages and trying to get her to meet him. •An Alabama man charged with statutory rape and the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl he contacted on Kik. •A Colorado man charged with taking a 13-year-old Connecticut girl to a hotel and sexually assaulting her, after chatting and arranging the meeting on Kik. "The Kik app has become so popular, it's probably the one where law enforcement has seen the most activity," said Leslie Rutledge, the Arkansas attorney general, who issued a public plea last year to parents in her state to educate themselves about their children's online habits after two Arkansas men used Kik to solicit nude photos from under-age girls - and an undercover investigator.
Drawing from patent 269,766. The drawing shows a rat emerging from a burrow. The burrow has a revolver pointed at its entrance. The revolver is sitting in a frame designed to cause it to fire when an animal emerges.
It is in this context that humanity is slipping into a violent culture of power, where peace no longer appears as a responsibility to be taken on, but as a fragile interval between conflicts. Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the "just war" theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated. [182] Humanity possesses far more effective and capable tools for promoting human life and resolving conflicts, such as dialogue, diplomacy and forgiveness. The use of force, violence and weapons reflects a relational poverty that always has disastrous consequences for civilian populations.
A picture of the Pac-Man Nebula.
A screenshot of the relevant portion of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test. The first is to read back a list of 5 numbers in forward order, then to read back a separate list of 3 numbers but in reverse order. The second question is non-math. The third question, likely the one Trump refers to, asks the testee to take the number 60 and repeatedly subtract 7 from it. Full points are given even if you make an error once; multiple errors in subtraction are required to lose points.
A screenshot of the Cite Check Explorer UI, displaying sample data. For each cite, the brief text and the pincite text are shown adjacent to one another, an extended bit of pincite text is also shown. There's a precis of the cited work and one-two analyses of any issues with the cite, alongside any suggested actions to fix the cite.
Secondly, you are significantly undercutting your mea culpa here by standing behind the charges and continuing to vilify these particular defendants.
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WHY DO RICH PEOPLE LOVE QUIET? The sound of gentrification is silence. BY XOCHITL GONZALEZ
(Forum post) I ran into this issue and, so far as I could diagnose (okay, actually as far as Claude could diagnose), it's an issue with newer kernels and NVIDIA drivers combined with the embedded Chromium that Pl uses. Specifically, the bundled Qt (6.8.3) webengine is an old version of Chromium (122) that hangs on scanning GPU memory mappings on kernels after 6.19, especially for distros (like CachyOS on 6.19+) that use the CONFIG_PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE=y config option by default. Qt 6.9+/Chromium 128+ has fixed this issue, so a webengine upgrade should fix it when PI eventually moves to a newer version. Temporary workaround (until there's a Qt webengine update, at least) is to force software rendering of the Ul. (This doesn't prevent GPU usage for BXT/SXT/S++/etc., just for Ul rendering.) To do so, add the following to Pixlnsight.sh: export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 export _GLX_VENDOR. _LIBRARY_NAME=mesa
Donation receipt to New American Pathways featuring Spencer Hall's pixelated forehead and a donation for 106.01.
Image of an Imperial Guard tank from Warhammer 40k in the middle of a battle, guns firing, with projectiles falling from the sky in the background. The commissar is standing up from a hatch internal to the tank, holding his sword in the air. The image is captioned "DRIVE ME CLOSER! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Same waterfall, reverse angle showing the other section of Ash Cave from under the recess and slightly higher up.
Waterfall at Ash Cave, Hocking Hills State Park OH. The cave is a recess into a sandstone cliff wall stretching approximately 700 feet. The waterfall tumbles about 100 feet down.
From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Judge Pauline Newman Wednesday, April 19, 2023 4:29 PM Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore Re: I agree that this is appropriate. Please prodess Sent from my iPhone departure expeditiously. On Apr 19, 2023, at 3:49 PM, Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore wrote: Effective immediately, has resigned from the Newman chambers. has asked that no person in the Newman chambers including the Judge should communicate with him in any manner. I instruct the chambers that request for no contact must be followed. has removed his personal items from the Newman chambers. IT has been instructed to remove access to the chambers Y drive and from the distribution list. Kimberly Moore The Honorable Kimberly A. Moore Chief Judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
2. In my time with the court, I have worked with Judge Newman on several occasions in assisting with IT issues. When I first started, I was amazed that someone in her 80s, like Judge Newman was at the time, could pick things up so quickly and easily. However, particularly over the last few years, I've noticed a significant increase in Judge Newman forgetting how to perform basic tasks that used to be routine for her. Judge Newman seems to contact the ITO helpdesk once or twice a week usually confused because she forgets how to remotely connect to the court's network or because she forgets where she stored a file or an email. 3. Judge Newman routinely blamed her inability to find a file or email on someone "hacking" her computer. I would describe her on these calls as sounding paranoid. However, when I would scan for malware and viruses, there would be nothing that would suggest any malicious interference with her computer, and I would usually be able to find the file she was looking for on a desktop folder or other location where she had forgot she saved it to. Rather than take responsibility for the errors, she would blame hackers or the computer. 4. It now takes at least double the time to help Judge Newman with an IT issue than it does an average court user because she often cannot recall routine steps or processes and we will need to walk her through the entire process and repeat the same steps over and over again. These are things like remoting into the system that used to be no problem for Judge Newman until more recently. 5. Judge Newman was also unable to complete an annual security awareness training two years ago. That training required a user to watch a short 10-20-minute video presentation and then answer a series of questions based on the information provided in the video. The test is multiple choice and asks the same questions when a user retests. I believe Judge Newman tried and failed multiple times to answer enough questions to pass the training, be…
11.On November 16, 2022, Judge Newman, the Circuit Librarian, and I met to discuss a proposed display concerning Judge Newman's patent. On December 16, 2022, I presented to Judge Newman a draft of the narrative for the display and Judge Newman agreed to do a 3-4-minute audio recording. On January 4, 2023, I met with Judge Newman to select photos from her private personal collection for the display. On January 16, 2023, I again showed Judge Newman the pictures that she selected. However, on February 20, 2023, when Judge Newman was again shown the pictures, Judge Newman indicated that she had never seen them before and asked where I had gotten them. She seemed to have entirely forgotten about our prior recent meetings. I informed Judge Newman that the picture was taken in Cooperstown, NY in 1974 and was sent to her by the General Counsel of General Electronic Company and that I had provided this information to her on multiple previous occasions.
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SSRN's weaknesses are also instructive: it's owned by Elsevier, the Ul is terrible, metadata quality is inconsistent, and there's no real interoperability with anything.
Stalactites hanging over a shallow pool of water. The water acts as a mirror, producing a nearly perfect reflection of the stalactites as stalagmites.
Stalactite/stalagmite formation, Luray Caverns VA. The speleothems are backlit, enhancing the edges, highlighting the layers of different formations extending back into a recess in the cave.
They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly "critique" power.