Esquiring Minds

• Mini-Topic: Disney
  Link: https://esq.social/@jacobschumer/111852556415303391
  
• Main Topic: Elon Musk
  Link: https://esq.social/@annmlipton/111855062479332113
  The Bill Comes Due - Prof. Ann Lipton
  
• Recommendations
  Jake: https://infinitewealth.sega.com/
  Jason: https://www.amazon.com/Green-Glove-Dryer-Gloves-Shoes/dp/B07HYDRYYL?th=1
  Andrew: https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
  
  

We're back! With a mishmash episode. Few links, lots of shooting from the hip. 

• Winston Strawn Legal Filings Copyright Question
• The Boy and the Heron

*By us.

• Elon Musk Slams Accusations of Antisemitism as ‘Bogus’ | TIME
• OpenAI Shakeup
• Our structure
• Who Controls OpenAI? - Bloomberg
• https://www.threads.net/@itsmattslaw/post/Cz3sncIrHD9
• 95 Percent of OpenAI Employees Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door | WIRED
• Meet the Board of OpenAI Who Pushed Out Sam Altman - WSJ
• https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/openai-letter-board-2023.pdf
• Twitter vs. Media Matters
• https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-matters-complaint-filestamped-1

• Real-estate class action lawsuit against realtors: Attorney says it costs homebuyers $60 billion per year in commissions | Fortune
• NAR lawsuit: After a $1.8 billion verdict, the clock is ticking on the 6% real estate commission | CNN Business
• Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven criminal fraud counts
• https://jacobschumer.com/2023/10/31/alan-wake-wrote-about-me/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQXfOfemYpc

• Logic Games dropped from the LSAT
• This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI | MIT Technology Review
• X, formerly Twitter, tests charging new users $1 a year to use basic features - CBS News
• Proposed advisory opinion on Lawyers’ and Law Firms’ Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence – The Florida Bar
• Corbin Carroll is one of the fastest baseball players ever and can cover 30.4 feet in a second (thanks Micah!)

• https://twitter.com/JenShahade/status/1707039851642495423?s=20
• https://www.chess.com/news/view/st-louis-chess-club-issues-statement-on-alejandro-ramirez
• https://www.engadget.com/patreon-overhauls-its-platform-with-free-content-and-more-creator-control-202357279.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/04/15/school-chess-class-clubs/

• Mini-Topic: Judge Newman Being Suspended
• ‘Simply losing it’: Bitter fight brews over federal judge’s forced retirement effort | The Hill
• https://cafc.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/JudicialMisconductOrders/September%2020,%202023%20Judicial%20Council%20Order.pdf
• Judge, 96, suspended over mental fitness concerns (axios.com)
• Main topic: Unity Engine Disaster
• EGDF calls for EU regulation on non-negotiable contracts in wake of Unity backlash | GamesIndustry.biz
• Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" | GamesIndustry.biz
• Mobile game developers rebel over Unity charging, company will 'make changes'
• The video game industry is in uproar over a software pricing change. Here's why
• Recommendations
• Lies of P

• Mini-Topic:
• Musk ADL - Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over lost X revenue
• Main topic: Your car could be capturing data on your sex life
• https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/07/mozilla-modern-cars-are-a-privacy-shitshow/
• X Plans to Collect Biometric Data, Job and School History (3)

• Lewis Brisbois Defector Firm Loses 25 Attorneys, Marking Its End
• Twitter begins throttling all links to Threads, Instagram, news outlets, and more - 9to5Mac
• Trump Fourth Indictment Lays Out Sweeping Georgia Election Plot
• Twitter begins throttling all links to Threads, Instagram, news outlets, and more - 9to5Mac
• Thomson Reuters Completes Its $650M Acquisition of Casetext | LawSites
• Baldur's Gate 3
• esq.social Matrix
• Lawstodon.org

• From Twitter to X: Elon Musk Begins Erasing an Iconic Internet Brand - The New York Times
• Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name | CNN Business
• ‘Barbie’ Pissed Ben Shapiro Off So Bad He Made a 40-Minute Video About It | Them
• ‘Barbie’ Seems to Have Destroyed Ben Shapiro
• What Happened When SAG and the WGA Went on Strike in 1960 | Time
• Why Actors Are Going on Strike | Time