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DOGE suggests US Patent & Trademark Office salaries are taxpayer funded. USPTO is self funded from fees and operates at a surplus.
March 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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JUDGE ALSUP: “.. The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency.”

@nbcnews.com #OPM
BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.
February 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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UPDATED: The 93 lawsuits filed against Trump admin. directives, with hearing times & statuses, plus tabs for cases appealed to circuits & SCOTUS.

We're still working to get livestreaming for as many of the hearings as possible.

Please let us know what we've missed! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Lawsuits filed against Trump administration directives
docs.google.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Does Elon Musk Have Access to Your Patent Application? With Musk’s latest DOGE ventures in the headlines, you may wonder, does he, or anyone, have access to your unpublished patent application? MVS Partner Heidi Sease Nebel discusses what inventors need to know.
www.filewrapper.com/does-elon-mu...
Does Elon Musk Have Access To Your Patent Application? «
www.filewrapper.com
February 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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So we sued Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Office of Personnel Management on behalf of the two million government employees whose personal information was unlawfully disclosed.

This is a suit for injunctive relief to stop the bleeding. More to come later

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I wrote a little bit about what you can expect under a new Trump FCC.

spoiler: absolutely none of it is good
If You Like Being Ripped Off By Comcast, You’ll LOVE Trump’s Likely New FCC Boss
Current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has spent much of the last decade positioning himself to be Trump’s likely pick for the next boss of the FCC. He’s likely to get his wish; after sp…
www.techdirt.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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The noise of someone chomping on chips can be irritating, especially if it’s directly in your ear.

Doritos created Doritos Silent, a crunch cancellation software that removes the sound of chewing from any call that uses headphones. But it was really created for gamers.
The sound of crunching chips is annoying. Doritos has made a silencer.
“Realistically snacking and gaming go hand-in-hand,” said app developer Dylan Fashbaugh.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2023 at 7:57 PM
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November 9, 2023 at 4:11 PM
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Every once in a while I'm reminded of Blue Zones - areas of the world where people supposedly live for extremely long times - the billions people have spent researching this idea, and the quite convincing evidence that the entire thingis just based on pension fraud www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 2, 2023 at 2:17 AM