Kevin Holbeche 🌾

ip lawyer / patent and tm agent / raised by celery

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Waking up this morning to a new icon for that #TwitterBird app. Whatever it's called! ⚰️

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“We're sick and tired of your ism / schism game.” – Bob Marley, Get Up, Stand Up (1973)

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Often, before an election, the opposition's campaign boils down to “Vote for us, and help vote out the other guys.” And, if they later end up winning, they try to claim, “The voters gave us a clear mandate.” 🤣

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between two truths
another lies

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= > ÷

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Where does Twitter fall in this list... ? :\

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Net Trust In (X):

Weather network: +62%
CTV: +55%
Global: +53%
CBC: +51%
BBC: +42%
Globe: +40%
Canadian Press: +38%
National Post: +30%
CNN: +29%
Macleans: +28%
Toronto Star: +26%
Sun papers: +4%
Western Standard: -2%
Beaverton: -5%
Rebel media: -8%
Fox: -27%

- Pollara -

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“Dream big enough that everyone is needed.”

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“Anyway, this is a... This is a song for the, uh... Well, there's no need to name them. There's absolutely no need to name them. They are who they think they are.” – Roy Harper, I Hate The <Name Redacted> (1970)

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The king is dead. Long live the king. #twitter #threads

#hashtag, you're it.

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“If you're suffocating, just breathe. If you're drowning, just swim. If you're sad, just be happy. I don't get why everyone thinks life is so hard.”

— The 11 year old (a few minutes ago, to a friend online)

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Hey @sama, do you think we could get any traction on modeling an International treaty on AI (#AITreaty) after the #OuterSpace Treaty, for example, as contemplated below?

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Hereby moving for an #InternationalTreaty on #ArtificialIntelligence / #AI (an #AITreaty) I took a 1st crack at drafting something...

(This draft is certainly not perfect... Its provisions were adapted from the Outer Space Treaty : )

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Time to reconsider our
Newsfeed settings:
✅ Clickbait
✅ Outrageous
✅ Radicalize

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“... But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.”
– Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005)

Although, as it turns out, most kinda do live that way :)

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“The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful... and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world...”

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@IntuitMachine Morphology?
https://t.co/IIqJyM2lfI

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“Something, Something, Zombies, AI. (This stuff writes itself.)” – 1 July 2018

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Gotta go. This whip isn't going to flagellate itself.

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No, the benefits from these technologies have helped companies and their owners (or shareholders) to amass more capital.

It may come down, in part, to us asking: what is all this capital for? And who are its real stakeholders?

2/2 #AIstakeholders

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Increasing efficiencies has not made work life easier for most. For the most part, it's not like helping to create a time-saving machine has helped its human inventors to work a four day week.

1/2 #AI

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@rrseidler @TiffanyAndCo ^ not legal advice

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@rrseidler A hat tip to you for sharing this, good Sir. Now, I could see him being able to register the smell in association with jewelry (à la @TiffanyAndCo's distinctive scent mark) or some other goods / services, but not in association with cannabis...