Notices by Kendra Albert (kendraserra@dair-community.social)

Official statement from Albert Sellars LLP in response to President Trump's recent executive order.

#uspol

Got quoted in Nature News, talking about how it's not copyright infringement to back up government websites. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00374-y

@lzg oh my god, a version of this teapot was in my home growing up. haven't thought about it years.

"The most important thing you can do about hate isn’t hating the haters. It’s undoing their work." https://pervocracy.com/essays/resistance-is-not-an-emotion/

Moving is going fine, why do you ask?

(With apologies to Tom Gauld.)

The Copyright Office released the 1201 exemption final rule today, which declines to let libraries, archives, and museums provide remote access to preserved video games, even if the org individually vets each request. https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-24563.pdf

Where could anyone have gotten the idea that wordpress.org belonged to the Wordpress community?

Well, the Wordpress Foundation's original application for 501(c)(3) status to the IRS, filed in 2008, did list wordpress.org as its website.

Matt Mullenweg is making an absolutely spurious legal claim to silence his critics. Because of the fair report privilege, "platforming the claims in the lawsuits" is on rock solid ground. If anyone knows the person behind bullenweg, there are plenty of lawyers who would delight in telling Matt to go piss up a rope. https://mastodon.social/@mvsde/113373682248521134

...gotta admit, I did not see that one coming. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/25/faculty-members-suspended-harvard-library/

@kingrat @luis_in_brief it would be surprising to me if Quinn's ethical duties were specifically laid out in an engagement letter such that they could be enforced via contract.

Among many other things, they show that targeted privacy and security interventions that companies like Grindr, Whatsapp, and Signal rolled out got used by community members to protect themselves!

Some big personal news: my partner and I have decided to make it official.

...We now jointly own a Vitamix blender.

Massive, incredible new set of reports from Afsaneh Rigot of the De|center and Article 19 on queer folks in MENA and their resistance to surveillance technology. https://www.article19.org/queer-resistance-to-digital-oppression/#reports

Hello from Harvard yard.

@danhon literally every second time it starts it tells me I'm using the "new teams" and do I want to switch back to the old one?

Everyone who works in "AI ethics" and who has not said anything about Gaza needs to read this article and have a good long look at themselves in the mirror. https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

CCDH won its motion to dismiss against Twitter in Twitter's ridiculous SLAPP suit. Judge Breyer pulled no punches with his opening.

Apparently according to an outlet I've never heard of, the UK police are getting period tracker data on people with pregnancy losses. https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/10/30/british-police-testing-women-for-abortion-drugs/

...I did really not need to do period tracker discourse again. The question remains: what is this data useful to prove? Unless how long the people were pregnant was otherwise unknown, I genuinely don't understand what period tracker data adds.

(The drug testing is actually legitimately a big deal.)

Okay, Fediverse academics. This spring, I'm teaching a class called "Gender and Technology, Gender as Technology" in Harvard's Women, Gender and Sexuality program.

If you teach a related class, I'd love your syllabus, and regardless, I'd love your recommendations for work that you love that would be good for undergrads.

Please boost for reach! Class description below.

It turns out it was SS, not PL, who prepared the filings. PL just filed them, and in his own declaration, pleads ignorance.

Editor's note: My dude, you did have reason to doubt the authenticity of the case law. These were weirdass print outs that don't look like real cases and if you had literally plugged any of them into Westlaw or Lexis, you wouldn't have found them. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368.32.0.pdf