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Rule #1 of power: never outshine the master


The FBI won't get involved unless it's politically advantageous.


Wait until your local police force has fully autonomous lethal robots on the streets.


This one isn't actually inevitable in the near term. Lethal robots policing the streets isn't something that can just sneak up on us[0] - it's a pretty clear-cut civic issue affecting everyone, so excepting hardcore autocracies with no vertical accountability[1], the public can push such ideas back indefinitely[2].

It's hard to "agency launder" a killer robot when it's physically patrolling a public square.

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[0] - Except maybe through privatization of law enforcement, which could be more gradual - think police outsourcing more work to private security companies, which in turn decide to "pioneer innovative solutions to ensure personal safety" by giving weapons to mall security patrol robots and putting them out on the streets - but it'll still be pretty obvious what's happening.

[1] - Some cursory search suggests this is the correct term for the idea I'm thinking of, which is how much the people in power have to, in practice, take their subjects' reactions into account.

[2] - Well, at least until armed forces of multiple countries start using autonomous robots as ground infantry, and over the years, normalize this idea in the minds of civilians.


...and then what happened?


it’s in the discovery process with a deadline of February 23rd, at which time kellogg’s is to prepare their argument and motion for summary judgement. If that’s denied it tentatively goes to 3-4 day trial in July.

Court listener:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70447787/kellogg-north-...

Pacer (requires account, but most recent doc summarized )

https://ecf.ohnd.uscourts.gov/doc1/141014086025?caseid=31782...


I never saw them again (and I host large food truck festivals here) so I just assumed they threw in the towel. I did not know they are still operating but apparently so.

I have to imagine they’ll spend more time and money fighting this suit than they did starting the food truck. I see no reason you wouldn’t just rebrand. The name is mid at best anyway.

But also, I’m kinda rooting for them. From a distance though.



Could they have gotten around this by actually serving Eggo waffles? Would that have then fallen under nominative fair use?


I doubt it, no. I couldn’t go buy Taco Bell sauce at the store, serve it at my restaurant, and call my restaurant Taco Bell.

They could probably mention it on their menu.


I'm guessing (NAL) that would actually make it worse. Trademark violation revolves around brand confusion. If you actually serve their product you are making that _much_ more likely (in my uninformed opinion anyway).

Otherwise it's a standalone argument about a stupid pun applied to food in general.


He uses the word "fascism" without any relationship to that word's meaning.


The ballot has always been a proxy for the bayonet.


The war always comes home.


Massive outages of core Internet services popping up shortly after corps firing devs and bragging about AI writing more of their code.


Tailscale isn't a massive corp, more like a Series B startup. And the CEO's take on LLMs is a sober one, not based on hype.

https://tailscale.com/blog/ai-changes-developers


I’m sorry, Apenwarr is the Tailscale ceo?

Weird how you notice a few names on a message board then they disappear to do something new.


I could be mistaken but I don't recall Tailscale being one of these?


Tailscale is definitely not one of that crowd. Their CEO had some very reasonable takes on AI and developers on LinkedIn / their blog (linked in a sibling comment).


But Tailscale IS VC funded which means an exit is imminent and around the corner.

Not good.


Can we stop changing our clocks twice a year as well?


I recently jumped into typst for creating a course syllabus to learn programming. The experience has been great, especially compared with the LaTeX memories from grad school.


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