M. Scott Boone

@mscottboone.bsky.social

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Law professor: IP, Law & Tech, Property, Legal Ethics, Legal Ed—especially interested in law that affects authors and artists Unredeemable soccer fanatic—you’ve been warned

Michael Jordan meme: “and I took that personally.”
It's absolutely insane how the Nasdaq changed rules around its exchange to include Space just 15 days of trading, allow less than 5% of free float, and require a weighting of multiple its float in the index. This is the largest wealth transfer in history from everyone's retirement to Elon. Alejandra Caraballo • @esqueer.net • 4m The exit liquidity for insiders at SpaceX will be everyone's 401ks and pension funds that are required to buy stocks within the index as part of index funds. It's so criminal what they're doing. Not just the blatant raiding of retirement funds but changing the rules to allow for this. Alejandra Caraballo • @esqueer.net • 4m And it won't just be SpaceX. OpenAl will benefit from this rule as well. So everyone's retirement can get used to fund Sam Altman's vanity fire of cash. It's going to be disastrous and people should go to prison for this.
Human king says no and keeps the one ring. Scene from The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Lonely middle aged man standing in a mostly empty, decrepit pool
Posture of the cover of the Fiend Folio from AD&D 1981. The cover features a humanoid monster with fleshy sacks hanging from its elbows.
Trump in a gigantic mad max type vehicle complete with flame throwing guitar player with a banner that reads “Violent Rhetoric”; Trump is leaning out of the huge vehicle toward a super tiny old timey truck with a small bullhorn being driven by a donkey. Trump is saying “your words incite violence.”
One person dangling by a rope in a deep green tinted hole. A blue skinned vampire lady is hanging from them. A giant white snake, who completely fills the lower portion of the hole, is about to bite the blue skinned vampire from below.
GIF from early Simpsons episode. Soccer players from one team pass the ball back and forth while the other team reacts.
Scene from movie Captain America Winter Soldier featuring three carrier/gunships flying over DC
The badge of Arsenal Football Club wherein the cannon at the center has been replaced with a bottle.
Large menacing robot with guns for arms, from an early scene in the movie Robocop. Executives and engineers are seen standing behind the robot looking happy about the unveiling and demonstration.
A shot from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The wizard Saruman holding his hand over a black and red orb (one of the palantir). He has long straight white hair and beard. The red swirls within the orb menacingly.
Tiny Troy Polamalu standing in a forest of giant tree-sized hair with shampoo suds around his feet.
Cartoon black and white line illustration of man staring at desktop computer. The man says: say “I’m alive” The computer says: >I AM ALIVE The man says: oh my god
Comic book illustration of several members of the Red Lantern Corps, many of them aliens from the DC universe. They are dressed in red and black uniforms. They are depicted as being very angry, as their super abilities are fueled by their rage.
Comic book illustration of several members of the Red Lantern Corps, many of them aliens from the DC universe. They are dressed in red and black uniforms. They are depicted as being very angry, as their super abilities are fueled by their rage.
Image from the South Park animated show. Stan’s father is being arrested. He is bleeding and bruised from a fight and stripped down to only his underwear. The text overlaying the image is him saying: “OH I'M SORRY, I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA”
Photo of a witch in a pointy black hat holding a lit candle; she’s saying “If you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.”
Scene from the good place wherein a quote has been added over a characters head. The quote says “I want a Viking funeral but I don’t have a boat so chuck my corpse onto some rich guy’s yacht and set it on fire.”
Scene from the movie Better Off Dead. On top of a mountain, one character is on his knees beside another character who getting ready to ski down the mountain. The first character says “This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is!”
Black and white drawing of a man standing in front of a computer. The man says, “say ‘I’m alive.’” The computer displays, “>I AM ALIVE” The man says, “oh my god.”
Two twin boys wearing purple suits with shorts, long white socks, and white shoes. Each has a white boutonnière on their lapel and is holding a white heart shaped pillow trimmed with ribbons and lace. A wedding band is tied to each pillow. They are standing in a church. The boys are 4-5 years old.
Text from Kavanaugh opinion: Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.
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Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.
“Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.” Quote from Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion, the “source” for the new term “kavanaugh stops”
Hypnotoad from the animated tv series Futurama but he has been colored purple and TCU is written across his chest. The background is swirling psychedelic colors.
The Hypnotoad from Futurama. It has been recolored purple and “TCU” has been added to its chest. The background is a psychedelic swirl of colors.
Heavily muscled, shirtless man in blue jeans aggressively playing a saxophone. From the movie Lost Bays
Illustration of spider that is primarily white with pink and black highlights. The spider is the main character of the anime “So I’m a spider now, so what?”
Arjen Robben mid-dive versus Mexico in an elimination game in the 2014 World Cup.
Arjen Robben mid-dive versus Mexico in an elimination game in the 2014 World Cup.
This shows a variation on the shocked girlfriend of the boyfriend with wandering attention. The boyfriend’s head has been replaced with the head of a grey cat with wide eyes. He has turned to stair at a woman in a red dress whose head has been replaced with a Christmas tree. The shocked girlfriend’s head has been replaced by an elaborate cat tree.
This shows a variation on the shocked girlfriend of the boyfriend with wandering attention. The boyfriend’s head has been replaced with the head of a grey cat with wide eyes. He has turned to stair at a woman in a red dress whose head has been replaced with a Christmas tree. The shocked girlfriend’s head has been replaced by an elaborate cat tree.
Plastic utensil dispenser
Calvin is saying to his imaginary tiger friend Hobbes: “If you do a job badly enough, sometimes you don’t get asked to do it again.” In the cartoon he has shoveled a path in the snow all the way around the house and placed several large piles of snow in the way of the shoveled path, instead of shoveling the relatively short path from the houses front door and the car.
Strahd standing on a stone balcony flanked by small dragonic gargoyles. From an old D&D book called Curse of Strahd
Scene from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Finn (actor John Boyega) is holding a lightsaber in a snowy forest.
Photo of Neil deGrasse Tyson Text: The fact that there is a rise of flat earthers is evidence of two things. 1. We live in a country that protects free speech. 2. We live in a country with a failed educational system.
Large heavily armed robot from the movie Robocop.
Comic strip Andy Cap. In the first panel a soccer ref is blowing his whistle aggressively while Andy says “Don’t make such a fuss, ref.” In the second panel, Andy says “It was just a slight tug of his jersey.” The panel shows Andy still holding the opposing players jersey that he has pulled completely off the now shirtless opponent. The ref appears to be rolling his eyes.
“Is this a” butterfly meme. The young man who is Atlanta United asks “Is this a trophy?” while gesturing at a butterfly who is the wooden spoon.
Illustration of the villain known as Spot from the spider-verse animated movies. He’s all white with black spots.
Facebook ad for a company that helps people form LLCs. The ad compares themselves to lawyers who bill $150-400 an hour.
A brown llama appears to be screaming at the sky which is full of storm clouds. The llama is standing in grass field with ancient stone ruins in the background.
Black and white photo of troops walking across the Kent State campus in 1970. Smoke/gas fill the air in the background.
Photo of small cat. Text says: “I had been told that the training procedure for cats was difficult. It’s not, mine had me trained in two days.”
A vertical electronic ad board on the side of a building. The advertisement shows a woman painting a wall with a paint roller while standing on a step ladder. At the top is “ChatGPT” and its logo. The text beneath the woman says “Check out my lease — is painting my walls okay or a mistake?”
Ralph’s from The Simpsons sitting at the back of an otherwise empty bus. The text reads: (chuckles) I’m in danger.
Image for the tv series named Threshold. A bright fractal pattern surrounds the title of the show in the top half of the image. The bottom half of the image shows the main characters of the Scifi/thriller ensemble show.
Glowing skeleton from an animated superhero series. The quote text says “Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?”
Blue flag with yellow circular crest in the middle. The crest features a phoenix rising from flames. Across the top it says “resurgens” across the bottom it says “1847 Atlanta GA 1865”
Picture of January 6 rioters attacking police; the text above the picture says “imagine if they’d had sandwiches”