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@jwcph sure why not. The MBA types have screwed virtually every other industry, so why not guitars as well.
Throwback to 2018
@rsabourin @pluralistic yes! Roll on the AI-pocolypse!
@Edent very inventive. Very tough to mitigate. I’m going to let my family know about this one.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/u.s.-and-canada-0m0p8ifgz/-/a-LSWAMYjuRX-lKcWtIialkQ%3Aa%3A3199692-%2F0

Although I want to watch the World Cup, I really don’t want any of my money to flow to any of the clowns behind it #worldcup #dilemma

De argumenten van de reactie op #Fender uitgeschreven. En wat me eerder ontgaan was: door de advocaat die de laatste grote Stratocaster-zaak (over het trademark in plaats van het copyright) van Fender won. https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/6-reasons-why-fender-wont-win-its-stratocaster-legal-campaign-according-to-the-lawyer-who-beat-them-before
6 reasons why Fender won’t win its Stratocaster legal campaign – according to the lawyer who beat them before

Ron Bienstock, the attorney who defeated Fender's previous attempt to trademark the Strat, has been hired to defend a firm hit by recent cease-and-desist letters – and Guitar World has seen a redacted response

Guitar World

Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers. Microsoft has suspended access to dozens of its open source GitHub projects after hackers breached them to inject password-stealing malware. The affected projects primarily include tools for Azure cloud services and AI development apps like Claude Code, Gemini's CLI, and VS Code

https://cloudsmith.com/blog/miasma-worms-path-of-destruction

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/miasma-reaches-azure

Happy Pride!
Can an Artificial Intelligence be queer?
Here's my detailed scientific investigation.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/queer-computers-in-science-fiction/
Queer Computers In Science Fiction

An interesting question appeared on Twitter - where are the queer robots in Sci-Fi? Let's first define what we mean by Queer. This usually means outside of binary gender and/or someone who is attracted to the same sex - what's commonly referred to as LGBT+. Feel free to supply your own definition. As for what we mean by AI - let's go with "mechanical or non-biological autonomous being."…

Terence Eden’s Blog
@nixCraft Google Gemini. Yuck.

@pluralistic How many laser-tag arenas do we actually need?

Four.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/06/applied-counterescatology/

Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow