seth gardenswartz🇮🇱

Trademark, and tech lawyer. Cares about LLMs, local merchants, startups, and the mountain west. Opinions are my own.

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

This is an important and thoughtful post. I'm particularly interested in your point about not knowing Graham's overall position on Israel or the Middle East. I have to wonder about his motivations. I have followed him and I'm deeply respectful of his achievements in tech, but his approach and behavior in this area have made me think very differently about him as a person.

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@afalkhatib You are a voice in the wilderness

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@afalkhatib Happy birthday, and many more grey hairs!!

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

"The inevitable fall of the billable hour" was fun to write, but scary to think about. Love to get some discussion going. https://t.co/4juxpsS3SJ

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

5 names. A trademark C&D from Anthropic. Crypto squatters. A founder who almost deleted everything.

The OpenClaw saga is the best branding case study no one planned to write. I wrote it anyway:

https://t.co/4DrIildfkR

@steipete @coloradoainews #OpenClaw #Branding #Trademark @Co@ColoradoAINews

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

An interesting take on how AI may really affect the workforce. I like the box in the lower-left quadrant, but I'm not sure how many of the humans in that box will have a law degree. https://t.co/qPGOEyHEkA via @Gartner_Inc

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

Clawbot's Expensive Branding Lesson You'll Never Learn From https://t.co/rSMZbuBRJv

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@thestustustudio @UCLA Shame is not enough.

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@theallinpod @chamath Here is a good link with more context https://t.co/eQgDirEyRf

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

Loved the pod this week, but wanted to point out that when @chamath said “there is no attorney-client privilege ..... once you start to use those tools,” it may have sounded like using AI automatically breaks attorney-client privilege. I saw that headline too and had to look it up. In that case (US v. Heppner), Heppner (who is charged with attempting to defraud a company and its investors) reportedly used an AI tool to generate corporate documents and then sent them to his counsel. The judge ruled that his creation of these documents and subsequent transmission to his lawyers did not meet the criteria for privilege because they were not primarily for seeking or providing legal counsel. Privilege does not automatically extend to all documents shared with counsel, especially if they're independently prepared. I didn't read the whole opinion, and there are certainly potential issues regarding LLM generation using public tools that could disclose information or break privilege, but there are other reasons independent of AI drafting that this communication may not have been covered. Had his lawyers drafted the documents using AI at his request and sent them to him, it would be a very different situation.

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@afalkhatib Does Spike Lee have a pin for that?

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The Great Hospital Con: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) pulled out of the al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, and just yesterday explained its decision. It has said exactly what I have repeatedly talked about for over a year and shared personal examples of friends of mine being imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured within various facilities inside the hospital from Hamas's intelligence and security services. MSF is two years late to this recognition but it is ultimately confirming what even a child in southern Gaza could have told the organization or the NYT, Washington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera and countless others had they bothered to ask - which is that Hamas has literally turned Gaza's three main hospitals into headquarters for security, ministerial, and administrative operations.

When I said this time and again, people would yell and scream how I was irresponsibly justifying Israel’s targeting of the hospital, even as the same people would not utter a word about their favorite terrorist fascist organization jeopardizing the safety of medical facilities for two years of the deadly war.

Congratulations “pro-Palestine” activists: you have been conned by your beloved resistance organization which has caused the death of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians by its conduct and behavior.

Get Hamas out of Gaza’s hospitals now!

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@BriannaWu Welcome to the tribe!

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

This is a great read. I just stumbled across the version of it from the free press. Most of us using AI are somewhere on the continuum between your parents before their awakening and where you are today. Pursue about automation that takes at least some of the frustration and anxiety out of day-to-day chores and freeze up time for the important stuff.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

I wrote an op ed for the @nationalpost today to say this plainly: Jewish Canadians are being targeted simply because they are Jewish. That is antisemitism. And it is getting worse.

https://t.co/i0gkJiIupu

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

If automation is driving down car insurance costs, what will it do to legal fees?

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: U.S. insurer Lemonade has announced that it will offer a 50% rate cut for drivers of @Tesla vehicles when FSD is steering because it had data showing it reduced accidents.

“A car that sees 360 degrees, never gets drowsy, and reacts in milliseconds can’t be compared to a human. Beyond the product announcement today, we’re also announcing our commitment to the Tesla community – the safer FSD software becomes, the more our prices will drop,” said Shai Wininger, co-founder and president at Lemonade.

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@BriannaWu Yes!! Go Bri!

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The desire to see the fascist Iranian regime fall has become a personal vendetta for most of the people of Gaza – not because they are steeped in geopolitics or deeply engaged in political analyses of regional political and security affairs, but because they feel, and accurately so, that their devastation, annihilation, destruction, and suffering were enabled, financed, supported, and instigated by the Islamic Republic and the Mullahs. Hamas, PIJ, and the entire terror industry and infrastructure that was propped up for decades under the banner of “resistance” would not be what they were on October 7 without tens of billions in direct involvement by the IRGC and countless other Iranian state apparatuses. Regardless of what kind of system and government ends up taking over in Tehran, should the regime fall or in the event of a transition following a forced or negotiated exit of the Mullahs, Gazans hope that the new system in Iran will no longer meddle in Palestinian affairs, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. This would remove a significant obstacle to non-violence and peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and indeed, the entire region.

[seth gardenswartz🇮🇱 @sethgarden]

@markstrathmore @Apple I feel like almost everything in the last @Apple update make the entire platform, less usable, slower and more like the platforms the Mac cult generally makes fun of. It’s the first time I felt like the iOS ecosystem is no better than the others

[Mark Strathmore @markstrathmore]

Dear @Apple - whomever the muppet was that decided to insert a “quick start” button, ironically creating a step that wasn’t there, in Watch workouts: please make them stop.