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Statistician at the U.S. Copyright Office, but all posts & replies are my own. Been digging into copyright registrations data to see what there is to learn about the geography and demographics of creativity and innovation.
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Well duh. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

This is fantastic

RIP American innovation www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

And there’s a term for “unidentified, masked law enforcement”: secret police. The US right now has a secret police arbitrarily arresting people, including opposition politicians and students.

🙋 Lapsed catholic here. If you're not a regular church-ing catholic... Who cares who the new Pope is?

Been reading about the new Led Zeppelin copyright case... Apparently the guy who wrote "Dazed and Confused" before Led Zeppelin covered it also wrote "Be All You Can Be" for the army, and "I'm a Pepper" for Dr. Pepper. #IPLawSky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Ho...

“Maybe instead of 30 dolls this Christmas, children play with the life-size human figurines they already have,” said the commander-in-chief theonion.com/trump-a...

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

"I do zero market research whatsoever" www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

LOL, badger lickers!

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

Losing My Religion comes on the radio and my kid says, "Hey, it's this song... 'Let's pee in the corner'. 🎵"

Now more than ever

This is so great!

Protest is alive and well in the nation's capital