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Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/19/justice-department-openai-new-york-times

Scoop: DOJ's copyright filing took key agencies by surprise
The department argues copyrighted works to train models should be considered fair use because that practice is new and transformative.

Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan,
has warned that there will be more “bloodshed” unless Democrats
“shut their mouths.”
Following the
back-to-back fatal shootings of a Colombian native in Maine
and a Mexican man in Houston by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
👉the Trump administration has tried to shift the blame onto Democratic leaders who have been educating immigrants on their rights.
“I'm scared to death because assaults with vehicles …

Border czar warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’
Tom Homan’s comments come after two men were fatally shot this week at the hands of ICE agents in separate incidents

Damn! spent the whole evening reading articles and not editing photos (as planned) ...
Ah well - then I invite you to a walk we did recently on a sunny day along some nice blooming bushes.
#hiking #flowers #outdoors

Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/19/justice-department-openai-new-york-times

Scoop: DOJ's copyright filing took key agencies by surprise
The department argues copyrighted works to train models should be considered fair use because that practice is new and transformative.

Heute gebe ich mir kulinarisch die Kante.
"Du warst nicht in Straßburg, wenn du keine 'knack' gegessen hast", stand sinngemäß auf einem Schild. Das habe ich sehr ernst genommen und bin extra morgens in die Stadt reingefahren, um diese besondere Wurst zu probieren.
Danach zum Bäcker, vor dem sich eine Schlange gebildet hatte und aus dem es herrlich nach Brot duftete: Madelaine, Éclair und Canelé, ein wabbelig-fester Miniguggelhupf.
Abends dann einen Flammku…

In all honesty, it is almost always difficult for me to post my music. In the end I make myself do it, not just in case someone derives an interesting [something] from it, but because practicing the decision is an investment into a feeling about world where people read such sharing charitably.
Even harder than sharing it is sharing *about* it. “Who wants to know?” But because I got so much from @…

Hayao Miyazaki will return in Avengers: Doomsday.
https://geektyrant.com/news/hayao-miyazaki-is-showing-up-to-work-at-studio-ghibli-every-day-but-nobody-knows-what-hes-making

Hayao Miyazaki Is Showing Up to Work at Studio Ghibli Every Day, but Nobody Knows What He’s Making — GeekTyrant
At 85 years old, Hayao Miyazaki apparently still has somewhere very important to be every morning. The legendary filmmaker continues to report to Studio Ghibli on a daily basis, and while that might sound like confirmation that another Miyazaki movie is taking shape, there’s a wonderfully strang

How many cases of prompt injection in legal cases are we unaware of because they succeeded?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case…

BOK BOK - "Misfit" (1980)
Heard this song earlier. First time in decades. It's always a weird feeling to all of a sudden recall a very old memory through song.
This is Buzzcocks bassist Steve Garvey and Fall drummer Karl Burns. This is pretty much their only release. It's ok.
#music #UK

A few highlights from the Turkish-Persian section of a random carpet symbolism book I skimmed while stopped at a random library in New Jersey a couple days ago