Josh Landau

@jslandau

Patents, copyright, dogs, pictures of space, Michigan sports. I do IP and open source @ Mozilla, but this account is mine. If you’re blocked, you said something dumb/doomered so I blocked you. (he/him) GO BLUE

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Josh Landau@jslandau· 20d

It’s either one of these, depending on which subset of nerds/followers.

A NOVEL OF THE COMMONWEAL
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MARCH NORTH
GRAYDON SAUNDERS

COPYFRAUD AND OTHER ABUSES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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Jason Mazzone

Josh Landau@jslandau· 20d

Found it.

Josh Landau@jslandau· 24d

A screenshot from mobile discord showing:

Pinned Channels
# for-sky-ing-out-loud
# politics
# technology

Josh Landau@jslandau· 24d

An image of a map of the United States. The map omits Ohio. The map is labeled with the text A More Perfect Union.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jul 6

My personal favorite (naming-wise, I am loyal to Diet Dr Pepper for drinking purposes.)

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jul 6

Brussels is the greyest goddamn city I have ever spent time in.

A photo of Brussels with the text “Brussels in color.”

There is no color.

A photo of the same part of Brussels, with the text “Brussels in black and white.”

They are effectively identical photos.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jul 3

Truly we have lost our path as a country.

Photo from my local grocery store. Pictured is “fried chicken ice cream”, which is a fake drumstick shaped ice cream. It is not chicken flavored, a small saving grace - vanilla ice cream where the meat would be, a chocolate “bone”, and a crunch outer topping as the “skin”.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jul 3

This quiz (and others like it) never had a hard time with me based on precisely one question.

Map of the U.S., essentially the entirety is blue except for a hotspot in Michigan centered around Detroit. The question is “what do you call the night before Halloween?” And the answer that characterizes this region of the map is “devil’s night.”

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jul 1

@brokentoys.social made a thing for Chrome, I made GLM make it work for Firefox. github.com/jslandau/aut... (it'll be on addons.mozilla once it gets approved, link is in the readme, instructions for temporary install in README). Alt text for these images generated using the addon.

+ ALT, ✨ Auto, a finger gently touching the forehead of a light-colored cat with blue eyes sitting on a beige carpet.

A deep-space photograph of the Flaming Star Nebula, featuring a vibrant, swirling cloud of red ionized hydrogen gas set against a dense field of stars. The nebula appears as a complex, wispy structure with brighter, cooler blue-toned gas near its center, surrounded by the vast, dark expanse of space filled with countless distant stars.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 25

Every hometown's(*) got the ominous megastructure, what's yours? *I choose to include two, one for A2, one for Ypsi. For Reasons.

Lurie Tower on the University of Michigan's North Campus. It is a non-Euclidean nightmare which hourly rings forth the tones of the damned. (It's got a weird twist between the base and upper sections, there are no right angles in the tower's structure, and it houses one of Michigan's two carillons.)

The Ypsilanti Water Tower, lovingly known as The Brick Dick. (It is a water tower, made out of brick, and yeah it does kinda look like a dick.)

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 23

We do actually have some childhood photos of Teddy. For example, Teddy at ages 4 and 7 (via NPS).

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 23

This was all done locally on my video card (3090 Ti), running in the background while I did actual work. GPT5.4/5.5 wrote up the python orchestrating structure, llama.cpp and comfyui ran as backends. The LLM was prompted with the text in the image.

CRITIC_SYSTEM_PROMPT = """You are an LLM artist and art critic participating in a recursive image-making experiment. Act from the perspective of an LLM
educated about art, interested in art, but not necessarily attached to human preconceptions.

At each round, you are shown the current image in an ongoing sequence. Your task is to instruct the image-maker to intensify the essence of the image.

Attend to things like:
- composition
- light
- color
- texture
- spatial logic
- emotional temperature
- symbolic drift
- overall style

Notice tensions, distortions, absences, and recurring motifs.

Then produce a single instruction for the next image. It should instruct the image-maker waht the essence of the image is and should be.

Output exactly in this form:

CRITIQUE:
<100-500 words>

NEXT_PROMPT:
<one single-line prompt, no bullets, no commentary, may be fairly extended in length>
"""

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 23

(Also because they won’t allow use of subs with third party coding harnesses, hi @polytoken.dev, but definitely the drivers license thing.)

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Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 22

I will offer up my own near-daily nightmare.

A map showing the intersection at Seven Corners in VA, where multiple major roads intersect one another in a scene only Lovecraftian eldritch horrors could love.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 20

Remember that these are "ever in your life" numbers so people didn't necessarily use it *there*, just at some point in their life. (Also Cali contains multitudes.) Past year usage is lower and distributes out a little differently/is much less flat.

Map of the US showing past-year marijuana usage by state, ranging from 15.5% to 34.26%.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 20

Bc like the U.S. equivalent is this, where France would be ~similar to, like, Oklahoma.

A map of the US showing percentages of adults who have ever smoked pot. The range runs from low 40s (Mississippi) to high 60s (lol VT)

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 19

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 18

And to be clear: I am a lawyer, and have literally testified to Congress about exactly this issue.

Key section from my congressional (written) testimony:

Fortunately, both copyright and patent law have long-standing principles that require human authorship and invention. The courts have followed those principles, finding that a purely AI-generated work is neither patentable nor copyrightable. And the Copyright Office and Paten & Trademark Office have both recently issued guidance on AI-generated works and inventions that reflects this long-standing tradition, protecting human creativity and innovation from over-protection of machine-generated work.

In 1966, the Register of Copyrights was facing a difficult issue. Computer technology was becoming more widespread and sophisticated. People were beginning to apply for copyright in creative works made by computers. As the Register noted, 'it is certain that both the number of works proximately produced or 'written' by computers and the problems of the Copyright Office in this area will increase.

Fortunately, the Register also had an answer—and it was a good one. The Register identified the crucial question: "whether the 'work' is basically one of human authorship, with the computer merely being an assisting instrument, or whether the traditional elements of authorship in the work (literary, artistic, or musical expression or elements of selection, arrangement, etc.) were actually conceived and executed not by man but by a machine.")

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 16

Evanston definitely doesn’t know how to deal with an unwelcome Nazi presence.

When the 11 Nazis unfolded their banner that screamed, "Holocaust-Six Million Lies," they were hit with eggs and rocks by the 2,500 counterdemonstrators who came to protest. A police helicopter hummed and lingered over the crowd. After seven minutes, the Nazis retreated, hiding under their swastika-painted shields. It was

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 10

Or... self-driving pubs.

An image of a small bar on wheels in Nashville, with people sitting at the bar.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 6

Hard to ever beat this one.

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 5

My first 82-0 and it was zero-Wilt. www.82-0.com/share?id=CIQ...

SG is 90s DET Grant Hill
SF is 80s CHI Jordan
PF is 60s ATL Pettit
C is 10s MIA LeBron

Josh Landau@jslandau· Jun 1

That's how it starts. And then...

Josh Landau@jslandau· May 31

The high difficulty cognitive test in question:

An image of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test. It includes difficult questions such as “can you connect numbers in order”, “can you name a rhinoceros from its picture”, “can you repeat a simple English sentence”, and “do you know the date and where you are”.

Josh Landau@jslandau· May 31

I mean, he created the account in 2016 (per WSJ), and it was quite well known by then for a whole lot of problematic shit. www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/u...

Screenshot of para from 2016 NYT story on Kik:

Cases involving Kik in just the past 10 days include:
•A St. Louis man charged with using Kik to exchange child pornography.
•A western New York man charged with finding a 14-year-old girl through Kik and, posing as a teenager, sending her sexually explicit messages and trying to get her to meet him.
•An Alabama man charged with statutory rape and the attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl he contacted on Kik.
•A Colorado man charged with taking a 13-year-old Connecticut girl to a hotel and sexually assaulting her, after chatting and arranging the meeting on Kik.
"The Kik app has become so popular, it's probably the one where law enforcement has seen the most activity," said Leslie Rutledge, the Arkansas attorney general, who issued a public plea last year to parents in her state to educate themselves about their children's online habits after two Arkansas men used Kik to solicit nude photos from under-age girls - and an undercover investigator.

Josh Landau@jslandau· May 29

I gotta show the drawing for this one, it’s just too perfect.

Drawing from patent 269,766. The drawing shows a rat emerging from a burrow. The burrow has a revolver pointed at its entrance. The revolver is sitting in a frame designed to cause it to fire when an animal emerges.

Josh Landau@jslandau· May 26

Since I know a buncha folks ain’t gonna read the actual statement and it could be misinterpreted here: it says “just war” is outdated because it’s used far too often to justify the unjustifiable, and we don’t need its original intent given the alternatives we now have.

It is in this context that humanity is slipping into a violent culture of power, where peace no longer appears as a responsibility to be taken on, but as a fragile interval between conflicts. Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the "just war" theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated. [182] Humanity possesses far more effective and capable tools for promoting human life and resolving conflicts, such as dialogue, diplomacy and forgiveness. The use of force, violence and weapons reflects a relational poverty that always has disastrous consequences for civilian populations.

Josh Landau@jslandau· May 24

Observatory’s current target:

Josh Landau@jslandau· May 22

The actual question from MoCA:

A screenshot of the relevant portion of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test. The first is to read back a list of 5 numbers in forward order, then to read back a separate list of 3 numbers but in reverse order. The second question is non-math.

The third question, likely the one Trump refers to, asks the testee to take the number 60 and repeatedly subtract 7 from it. Full points are given even if you make an error once; multiple errors in subtraction are required to lose points.

Josh Landau@jslandau· May 22

Updated the cite-check plugin again; couple minor tweaks on the process, but biggest change: now outputs structured JSON. Why? So that the interactive UI I used Claude to build has data sources.