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Meredith Lowry

@meredithlowry.bsky.social

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Patent & trademark attorney. Attempting to run a half marathon in every state (38/50). Tech obsessed. Social media addict. Opinions my own.

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello new followers! I'm a patent attorney that focuses on protecting retail products through their life cycle and post mainly about new design patents on Tuesdays. With the occasional post on woman entrepreneurs, economic development in Arkansas, and AI.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1h

What if all of these were just DMs?

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

This has real -- I intended to dm "Pam" -- energy.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 1h

D14,886 - issued in 1884 for a "design for a clock-front." #DesignPatents

from the spec: " The design consists in the representation of a landscape, including a church or other 'ike building having a Steeple, tower, or turret, and a clock-dial in the Steeple', tower, or turret."

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Amanda Renteria @amandarenteria.bsky.social · 23h

This shutdown feels different.

States will soon reach a breaking point and millions could see disruptions to food assistance.

Now, thousands are being fired from their jobs. We deserve better. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown

More than 4,000 positions will be eliminated across agencies, the government told a court Friday night.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 21h

Certain celebrity deaths are harder to process than others because the person in question was so full of life and creativity and originality that you just assume it's never going to end.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

A second generation nepo baby, raised by a pair of sociopaths and given every advantage in the world. I'm sure this story will end well.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 21h

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What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial

User exchanges with ChatGPT and other AI tools are a valuable new form of evidence for law enforcement in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

www.rollingstone.com

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 23h

MF Minnesota! Another amazing (and exceedingly windy) race but a new PR of 1:55:18! 38 states done!

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Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 1d

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Drafting AI Contracts: Key Clauses to Protect Your Business - CHIP LAW GROUP

As generative AI (GAI) tools like ChatGPT become common in business services, it’s crucial to ensure your contracts anticipate and regulate their use. Whether you are providing or receiving GAI servic...

www.chiplawgroup.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d

This is a terrific point. Public schools exist for students, not their parents.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.

Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2d

if you know as many engineers as i do then you are also not surprised they were happy to tell trump to fuck off

Breaking News
M.I.T. became the first university to reject a White House offer of favorable treatment for supporting the Trump agenda.

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last vixen on the left @liberalvixen.bsky.social · 2d

Big DOGE energy.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 2d

Kansans resume changes to gender markers on driver’s licenses after two-year legal battle kansasreflector.com/2025/10/09/k...

Kansans resume changes to gender markers on driver's licenses after two-year legal battle • Kansas Reflector

Wednesday marked the first day in two years that transgender Kansans were able to change the gender markers on their drivers licenses after the Kansas Supreme Court denied Attorney General Kris Kobach...

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 2d

Obligatory.

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Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social · 3d

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This whole thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2d

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Anthropic study suggests “poison” training attacks don’t scale with model size.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James
Molly Roberts
Monday, October 6, 2025, 9:59 AM
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It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. Trademark Reg. (Supplemental) No. 5,106,717.

Supplemental register registration for SAFE IP for use in connection with avionics-related hardware and software

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago federal court chief judge says she has not requested National Guard for courthouse

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TTABlog @ttablog.bsky.social · 3d

PT Medisafe Files Certiorari Petition Seeking to Overturn CAFC Green Medical Glove Genericness Ruling
thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/pt-m...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 3d

D259,053 - issued in 1981 for a design for an "an odor dispenser for repelling personal attack." #DesignPatents

generally tube-shaped apparatus with a handle and holes

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 3d

It's giving strong Hunger Games vibes.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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