Kat Walsh

@mindspillage

Internet/tech/©/patent/bitcoin lawyer, free software/culture/speech advocate, musician. Currently legal , FSF board. Really too verbose for Twitter.

Mountain View, CA
Joined November 2007

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  1. It's impossible to argue with people who use words like Scrabble players: only as a means to score points, without regard for meaning.

  2. Just 100 days left. Urge President Obama to pardon Snowden before leaving office.

  3. A list of stories that were set in the future when published, but those years are now in the past. HT

  4. Can Anderson Cooper follow me around to all of my meetings? "Please let her talk, she didn't interrupt you."

  5. Here's Sartre back in 1946 describing anti-Semites as the original trolls. True of the alt-right today.

  6. Fun fact: in addition to being wives and daughters and mothers and sisters and grandmas and aunties, women are also people.

  7. There are a lot of people I have substantial disagreements with and still greatly respect. But I don't know how anyone could respect Trump.

  8. Our clients want to talk about government requests for their customer data, but they are under a gag order.

  9. I had a patent law prof basically skip over design patents: "nobody uses them". & to hear about some nobodies.

  10. Clear your calendars for the last weekend of March 2017! Register now for 2017: "The Roots of Freedom"

  11. (this is not as much of a knock on the less-informed commenters as it is a sigh of despair that no one understands copyright or licensing.)

  12. Sometimes I think the CC licenses are basically easy to understand. Then I read comments on the WMF terms of use CC 4.0 update proposal.

  13. The FTC's long-awaited report on patent assertion entities (aka patent trolls) is now out. 1/3

  14. The Wikimedia Foundation is considering upgrading default copyright license for Wikimedia. Learn more and comment:

  15. Seeing the hashtag "askanarchivist", which on first reading I saw as "ask anarchivist" and approved. (I know and love a few anarchivists.)

  16. It's "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" season, motherfuckers.

  17. Basically, ⚡ increases Bitcoin network capacity by adding fast off-blockchain layer (good for micropayments etc). Also A+ ASCII cat in demo.

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