legalminimum.bsky.social
No longer head lawyer for Bungie. Kinda retired. Have entered my super villain era. Ex-Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon. Produced Detective Pikachu. Entertainment Law prof (University of Washington). Supporter of trans kids.
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I’m torn. On the one hand, it’s a podcast. On the other, I low-watt don’t believe that @faineg.bsky.social is an actual person, I’ve always thought of them as a force of nature, and this could resolve that once and for all.
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What answer would assuage you on this?
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I suspect this is a 3rd party service and that’s the logo they’ve picked for TCGO or whatever you call that now.
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Or at least ask Leadership to stop whipping votes against impeachment?
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Legal teams in-house have a remit that goes beyond strictly legal issues. They handle “conscience of the company” stuff.
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The person who can fix this is @thevowel.bsky.social and he knows a damn sight more than me. That’s things getting better right there.
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Howard Jones says no one is to blame.
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Different division, but yes, one and the same. Why would I think that? Because I know the Legal team at Sony.
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But this would require them to stand for something. Instead they want to wait until the midterms and hope that voters are angry, rather than helping actual human people right now.
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Bungie has 1 shareholder. Its name is Sony. I would be very surprised if Sony was requiring such things.
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If you reach out to NCMEC for comment they won’t have one, because their Board has instructed them not to oppose laws permitting increased child labor. There might be a whole thing to investigate right there.
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Give this man an O visa immediately. He is truly a national treasure.
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The exact opposite of a threadjack. Apology NOT accepted for that reason.
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It was doable, they just didn’t want it. “People will use it to survey the map.” Okay, then drop a pause screen graphic on them. “They will spam it to avoid dying.” Okay, put a cooldown on it. “The players aren’t asking for it.” Maybe the people who want it aren’t our players because it’s not there.
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There may be forms of multiplayer I wouldn’t dislike but I’ve never found them in the wild.
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I won’t send you back through my old skeets and will summarize by saying: yes, your experience was both standard and not seen as undesirable.
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You could force it to be turn-based if you really tried but yeah, you’re right.
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I had a friend in college who, at the beginning of 2nd year, when he called to order a pizza the person answering the phone called out his name and also yelled “it’s him! He’s okay!” because it had been so long since his last order on account of summer vacation that they feared he was dead.
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5 stars is pretty good. 4 is the worst. 3 is the best. 2 is also pretty good and 1 is fine.
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I respect your dedication to Witcher lore but am Team Triss so can’t Like any of these skeets.
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And: apologies. Prof Vaidyanathan and I aren’t on a first-name basis, I suspect. I should have referred to him as such.
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My excuse, such as it is, is that for most of the past 25 years I’ve been busy making law and not reading it.
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In fairness, I know Tim because I was his RA in college. I assume I’m unfamiliar with Siva because I’m grossly underread in general. I very don’t read law reviews.
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But I do feel obligated to say that his reply was such a perfect flex that I really did go buy a couple of his books as a result. I have to respect a well-executed flex. 10/10 no notes.
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And also, he wrote an entire book about not liking Google, which is where I store my bio, so impossible he could have heard of me.
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You’re very kind. But the good professor is right. I don’t publish in my field. I turned down an offer from Lexis/Nexis because they wouldn’t provide free copies for my students (profs assigning their books to their students is their business model).
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A thing that might be interesting to know: have similar orders been given for previous Presidents?
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In fairness to the good Professor, I'm barely an academic.
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That made you a sale.
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I've published precisely nothing of note. That's accurate.
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Well played.
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Thanks for the link. The books listed on his Wikipedia page don't seem to be authoritative and aren't widely-referenced outside (I suspect) his classroom. I have literally never heard of any of these books and I have been active in the space since 2005 and teaching since 2009. Tl;dr: he's no Tim Wu.
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Somehow omitted.
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Which books? I teach Entertainment Law and am fairly well-situated to say that I suspect Midjourney may not land where Google Books did, but you may be better-situated.
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I also saw him say he’s an expert in emergency management, which seems unsupported if not mildly contradicted by everything else he has said.
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Ms Kimes, please don’t let this dishearten you. By your being On Here and the authenticity you bring to your statements, you’ve become my favorite ESPN commentator. Sure I’m just one idiot (who hopes Sam Darnold becomes Matt Flynn 2.0), but I bet there are others similarly-situated who aren’t idiots
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That was a spectacular setup for this payoff. I bow down before it.
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Are you saying Gavin Newsom is the Mark Carney of California?
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Not quite but close. I think it’s 4. Suzanne went to Université de Montreal. Mahmud went to McGill (he was the guy who made my recruiting call). I think Richard Wagner went to Montreal also.
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She is herself literally “political elites”.
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Every one of these dorks passed a fucking kidney stone when confronted with the “audacity” of having to call the First Lady Dr Jill Biden.
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I probably couldn't plead before the Supreme Court because I know 4/9 Justices socially.
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Canada also regularly takes people directly from law firms to the Supreme Court. In front to his right is Mme Justice Suzanne Côté, who is one of the worst people on earth. They took her straight from a firm also.
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I never pleaded before the Supreme Court of Canada, but no matter. I’ll miss the Santa robes.
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The guy 2nd from right at the back is a partner from my old firm, Mr Justice Mahmud Jamal. Great guy.