US patent office confirms AI can’t hold patents - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24072241/ai-patent-us-office-guidance

#ai

@bogo @aimee @plwt

One of the community team's goals this year is to independently manage our merch offerings, AND have a lot more fun with the designs.

You should see some of the stickers @micah and Sol have designed for future events -- they're hilarious, creative, and tons of fun! And they can easily get translated to shirts, mousepads, etc. Stay tuned on that front, ok?

Meantime:

US + Canada store: https://mozilla-na.myspreadshop.ca/

EU and rest of world: https://mozilla-europe.myspreadshop.ie/

Thanks,
~Jason

I swear you used to be able to get @thunderbird and other @mozilla merch. Did they stop doing that? Or is it just harder to find now? #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox

Don’t forget your meds! ✨

@kestral Outside of Isha & Jocelyn, I've found this month too hot already. Weds night I was sweating even with the heating off. :blobcatsweats:​

The amount of PAC emails is getting quite frankly obnoxious already. I'm thinking of setting up a mail filter to try and catch them all to label and auto-archive.

I’ve realised I haven’t really posted much here in a long while. I don’t really know why. I think social media itself has not been a priority for a while.

A few states (including my home state of New York) have recently passed "Right to Repair" laws, but this should be a national right of all product owners. It not only saves money, it keeps broken but repairable items out of landfills.

Tell your lawmakers you want the Right to Repair your electronics, devices, and equipment!

Via #ConsumerReports #RightToRepair #Petition

https://act.consumerreports.org/3uxuyUa

And another #GMail HTML piece that quotes me. This time, quite extensively and quite accurately since the reporter actually asked.

Google Retiring Gmail's Basic HTML View in January

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-is-retiring-gmails-basic-html-view-as-of-january-2024/#ftag=CAD590a51e

#accessibility #a11y

Looks like the global conference of the #OpenStreetMap community, State of the Map (SotM), will be held in a place where it's illegal to be gay & trans.

🙄🙄🙄
#OpenStreetMap #OSM
<https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2023/08/14/announcing-state-of-the-map-2024-september-6-to-8-2024-join-us-in-nairobi-and-online/>

Hey babe I heard you use "differently abled" on this the 33rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Maybe stop.

Disability isn't a bad word.

girls were created by big eep to sell more eep

Want to post the famous cartoon on Popper’s #ParadoxOfTolerance, but daunted by the prospect of adding #AltText? Well, I’ve done it for you! Bookmark this toot and come fetch it when you need it.

Anyone got a #bluesky invite spare? Looking to compare and see how it is.

from tumblrsite

Latest #Reddit news (basically charging a ridiculous price that makes 3rd party apps non-viable) serves as yet another reminder of why Mastodon and the #Fediverse are beautiful!

Even if someone wants to ruin things, you can always change instances/apps/defederate and keep using this tool, it’s not in the hands of anyone.

Everyone should be able to #MakeSlackSafe and control who can contact them. Tell #Slack it’s time for end-to-end encryption, blocking, and reporting features. Sign the @mozilla petition: http://share.mozilla.org/804627781t