Chris Storm
@ProtestedGame
Playing the game under protest. I nerd out on intellectual property, transportation, and cities. Views are my own etc. etc.
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just remembered that americans don’t have random old castles in the countryside that they can go and visit
Absolutely insane that the patent industry thinks it should hold Congress accountable instead of holding itself accountable to Congress and the public.
In this year's edition of our Congressional Innovation Scorecard, 54% of congressional delegations received an average grade of 'C' or below. While IP-intensive industries account for a large share of private sector employment in every state, most delegations show limited…
Frederick Fish told Congress in 1919, "it is just as important that there should be no bad patents issued or sustained as it is that there should be good patents issued." Fish was the most prominent patent lawyer of his era. Modern patent industry leaders could learn from him.
Good. We should stop the pattern of picking patent industry insiders to run the USPTO. It’s like picking tobacco execs to run the FDA. Self-regulation is bad for the patent system and for the public.
The USPTO’s new acting deputy director had ZERO engineering, legal, or IP experience or showed any public interest in IP prior to joining the USPTO as a political appointee. She spent most of her career as an unexceptional political operative.
“Archibald, I want to talk about dynasties. La familia. Lin-e-age, dig? Kennedys. Alec Baldwin and the other ones. Fast and the Furious. Expectations. You hail from a line of swine-skin aerialists. Gridiron aristocrats, k? But David had to give that throne to Solomon, and the…
Coming from someone who grew up in tornado alley, tornadoes in empty fields are the best tornadoes. Also, there's a town called Lorida, Florida???
JUST IN: Tornado captured by drone south of Lorida, Florida. @SevereStudios @MyRadarWX #flwx #tornado
Arlington, Virginia is fascinating as the rare Canada-style suburb in the US: an affluent, predominantly white suburb that builds loads of housing, but almost exclusively in the form of tower clusters next to transit, with the rest of the suburb reserved for mansions.
To be fair, I once flew round-trip to South Africa via China both ways because I wanted to use miles.
John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read
Defenders of the USPTO technical degree requirements for patent practitioners should be feeling nervous...
Kamala Harris: So, as President, I will get rid of the unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs to increase jobs for folks without a four-year degree… And I will challenge the private sector to do the same.
There's a spirit of Verhoeven in this post: celebrity and commodity worship in the background violently juxtaposed with an innocent guy getting pancaked in the foreground, completely ignored by the poster. It's cruel, and unsubtle, and extremely funny in a despairing sort of way.
Kamala Harris: So, as President, I will get rid of the unnecessary degree requirements for federal jobs to increase jobs for folks without a four-year degree… And I will challenge the private sector to do the same.
me: this is a public bathroom ok so don’t touch anything my toddler:
I grew up in a family business and was forced to work in 5/17 hazardous job categories as a kid. No kid should be subjected to that shit.
Never check your work email on a day off
New resume bullet point just dropped
Civilization VII was announced today. The Civ series is sort of like Ender’s Game, but for management rather than murdering aliens. Business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers, in this small experiment.
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