Shane Curcuru
@shanecurcuru.bsky.social
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Father, husband, 20+ years ASF, punny guy. We have cats. He/him. #Trademarks #OpenSource
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If I’m not how you hoped
And I’m not how you hoped
Forgive my Northern attitude
Oh, I was raised out in the cold

If the sun don’t rise
Till the summertime
Forgive my Northern attitude
Oh, I was raised on little light

Thanks for telling our story, Noah.
shanecurcuru.bsky.social
Forgot to post my daily COVID test for #Monktoberfest! Yay for events everyone can feel safe at, plus shiny stickers. 😮
Photo of Corey Quinn’s shiny sticker with a negative COVID test. Duck approved.
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“You have the agency to decide how you treat other people you interact with.”

And doing so thoughtfully, with kindness, and respect - which has always been a key message from #Monktoberfest 💗
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🔬 "What we observe bserve is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning" - Werner Heisenberg

Feels very applicable to neuroscience, and to many ways we measure technical and organizational structures as well. #Monktoberfest always helps you think in new ways.
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Good Morning #Monktoberfest here in lovely and peaceful #PortlandME! 🦞 Today’s Hawaiian shirt in front of the local iconic statue.
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Can confirm; the Chief Duckinator 😮 uttered these very words in public. Always nice when family still takes you in on your travels to #Monktoberfest.
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Today’s Hawaiian shirt at #Monktoberfest dinner, along with the amazeballs @northerneclectic.bsky.social
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💻 “Technical debt always charges interest.” #Monktoberfest 🦞
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Good Evening #Monktoberfest and #PortlandME! Had a wicked sweet hahboh cruise with today's Hawaiian shirt.
Photo of Shane wearing a red and white flower pattern vintage Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirt, looking at the camera, standing next to a painting of a lighthouse in Maine.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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🏎️ Driving up tomorrow afternoon. 🦞
Wondering about the implications of those of us without any skills in art being able to use AI to create some form of art, no matter how sloppy it is.
AI GENERATED SLOP: Gemini 2.5 Flash:
"Create an image in the style of F1: The Movie, showing a stylized Dan Levy from the Shitt's Creek television show, driving an electric blue colored BMW i4 M series sedan.  In the background are pine trees from Portland, Maine and the runway of the Portland International Jetport.  Just visible in the backseat of the BMW is a cooler with a lobster climbing out of the cooler." 
Ooops, sorry, forgot about the beer. And dunno where the Rosebudd productions came from, but it's a priceless addition!
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Hmm... 🤖 what is the intersections of design patents and media depictions/characters? 📽️

If a hypothetical STARRY WARES major movie came out with a robot star that was clearly based on that patent, is there a legal claim? Or only if the movie also sells toys based on the design? 🤔
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Trademarks are very different from copyright - but often confused in non-lawyer circles, so no surprise. 😸

There was a notable 2020 plagarisim (i.e. copyright) case between Parker and Dunn, but that's different.

Trademark policy (which isn't law, just their claims):
inktober.com/trademarkinfo
Trademark Info — Inktober
This is a work-in-progress. As Frequently Asked Questions we will be updating this page accordingly.
inktober.com
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Combine with "Sally" by Asimov.

But thinking about clock cycles really changes how you perceive time, especially when telling from a first-sedan perspective. 🚘
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Thanks for the article and all your past work on bundler and the Ruby ecosystem. Good luck with the #trademark registration; that's a critical part of keeping an open governance community.
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🏷️ Reason #3.7.2 why it's critical to clearly and publicly define your #OpenSource project #Governance, for code, distributions, trademarks, and domain names.

And, of course, not breaking norms and cosplaying a public charity while bowing to a sole sponsor over the community. 😢
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Hey Shane, glad to meet you at #CommuntyOverCode today, especially after that inspiring UN Open Source keynote! Always glad to see teams from vendors that "get" open source showing up and truly helping do the work.
Signed,
- Shane 🤩
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apache.org
🚨 Breaking News from Community Over Code 🚨

Introducing The ASF’s New Logo buff.ly/DzgT82w

#CommunityOverCode #opensource
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But what if you - now hear me out - draft it up, then see what @sogrady.org thinks before publishing it? That should give plenty of time to ponder if you really want it out there or not. 😆

(also, now intensely curiuos what it is!)
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#GenX sitting here drinking fancy AF cocktails and rolling our eyes. Then again, we do that to everyone.

Anyway, if you bring us treats you can sit with us and we might say something wise - or at least amusing.

Or not.

What-𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳.
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There are two kinds of people in the world:

- Those who would do exactly what Joel did
- Those who don't understand it

- Those without children

#TLOU #SoftwareJoke
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Reminder folks 📣 keep your passwords secure, keep your systems updated, and use 2FA/MFA wherever you can. And when security geeks say "Oh, sh*t, we need to fix this", listen to them! #CVE

arstechnica.com/security/202...
CVE, global source of cybersecurity info, was hours from being cut by DHS
Board members have launched a nonprofit to take over the program from MITRE.
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