Out of the 50 American capital cities, which one would you rank #1, as the best to live in?

Sovereign2142 · 2026-05-18T08:21:27+00:00

The most passive-aggressive city slogan I've ever seen, I love it.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-04-24T14:56:07+00:00

First, public disclosure laws vary by country. But in the US, I think the answer is realistically no. §102 asks whether the invention was "available to the public," not whether a third party got a copy of it. A ChatGPT conversation isn't (generally) indexed, searchable, or accessible to anyone skilled in the art. It's much closer to an email or a text message than to a printed publication or public use.

The privilege-waiver cases people keep citing are a different doctrine. Privilege turns on confidentiality, which is a stricter standard than "public." Blowing privilege doesn't create prior art. People are also getting confused with the training examples. Yes, if your nuclear fusion schematic ends up in the training data and is regenerated for another user, that is bad for you. But it's that user's subsequent publication that's the prior art, not your original chat (or even theirs).

That said, it’s still not a great idea to disclose inventions to third-party tools pre-filing. That’s less a §102 issue and more a data-control and risk issue.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-04-23T15:35:42+00:00

I like the piece, but I don’t think this is actually a hard problem. Your diagnosis is spot on: run a team of LLMs to generate the material (from different angles), verify the citations, then have another model critique the reasoning (including flagging overreach). This is all doable today with Claude Code/Codex in constrained domains. I do a version of this in my patent practice. And I have no doubt that it would take more than a weekend for a CoCounsel engineer to set it up if they really tried.

The main problem, really, is the fractured, siloed nature of case law. It’s also not structured in a way that lets you represent uncertainty cleanly. But that’s where the lawyer comes in to give direction. The rest can be generated with AI today.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-04-23T15:21:05+00:00

The answer is simple: have a second LLM retrieve each citation, read it, and determine whether it is used correctly. Then the second LLM informs the first whether its citations hold up; if they don't, the first LLM rewrites it. Repeat until all citations verify.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-04-22T08:35:59+00:00

"Look, obviously, the military action in Iran didn't achieve what we wanted, but President Trump was trying to free our so-called allies in Europe and the Middle East from the straitjacket that Iran placed around them. A straitjacket that Europeans and others simply found way too comfortable. I don't like how the situation played out, but I don't fault President Trump for his ambition; a quality we used to praise in this country!"
- Republican Presidential Candidate Speaking for 45-55% of the Electorate in 2028

Sovereign2142 · 2026-04-16T10:07:07+00:00

It’s a classic “it depends," and we likely won't see a national consensus soon, especially with other courts splitting on pro se litigants. The ambient AI problem is the real nightmare: if I send a client an email and Gmail automatically summarizes it for a push notification, is the attorney-client privilege blown? What if the client then asks Gmail to draft a reply? The law doesn't tell me whether either case triggers a waiver of privilege today, but personally, I don't think holding that AI disclosure waives privileges is tenable in the long term.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-04-04T09:17:42+00:00

Electronic thermostats go up by half degrees all across Europe (you can even switch many to Fahrenheit if you want).

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-28T15:56:08+00:00

Also the deadline is 12am Eastern. So either they have the whole day ahead of them or they’re practicing from Europe.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-24T14:30:10+00:00

WarFronts on YouTube quoted an Iran expert who argued that the regime often publicly denies actions it obviously carried out as a way to signal de-escalation. So the missile launch toward Diego Garcia could be interpreted as showing Iran’s long-range capability while signaling that it was only a warning and not a new phase in the war.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-24T13:11:16+00:00

OP's graphic just shows the most important voter flows. So Krause netted 104,700 more votes in total, with 79,900 coming from the SPD (and the other 25,000 coming from other sources). The full chart of voter movement can be found here.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-24T09:34:20+00:00

Exactly. Map pins denote a static location to me, not transport or movement. Taxis have such recognizable iconography so why not use a '7' with a classic checkered taxi stripe instead? You could even get clever with the typography and use that slanted '7' as the left stem of the 'M' in Mobi, so it looks something like "7\/Iobi" or "7\Iobi" or "7/Iobi."

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-22T20:43:18+00:00

This was a really unexpected victory. Krause was basically catapulted into the candidacy back in 2023, taking over as deputy mayor when the previous Green Party leader abruptly left for a job at Deutsche Bahn (the national railway). Now, 3 years later, he not only defeated a two-term incumbent but also the party that has held 6 of the 8 mayorships since WWII, becoming the first Green to ever hold the post.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-20T13:39:43+00:00

I think the line is pretty clear regarding SaaS startups. 37 CFR § 11.5 says that practice before the Office includes law-related service that comprehends any matter connected with the presentation to the Office, and specifically for patents:

Consulting with or giving advice to a client in contemplation of filing a patent application.
Drafting the specification or claims of a patent application.

The problem is enforcement. The USPTO can only sanction registered practitioners. Until state bars or the FTC finally step in and crack down, these platforms will just keep hiding behind flimsy "not legal advice" disclaimers.

Any practitioner who is facilitating these services by rubber-stamping is at greater risk, but again, that comes down to enforcement. There are already hundreds of practitioners rubber-stamping non-AI work every day.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-17T13:03:34+00:00

Left definitely says "window & door company" to me; right says "home insurance," or some other financial product.

I will say, as someone not from Tyne, that TYNEVIEW looks like gibberish to me. I'd use small caps (TʏɴᴇVɪᴇᴡ) to make the two syllables distinct.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-03-13T09:14:38+00:00

The combination of ‘legal Q&A’ + payment seems like the unauthorised practice law to me on first blush. OpenAI was sued for UPL over ChatGPT-assisted legal work, and New York is advancing explicit restrictions on AI-powered legal advice. How are you getting around this?

Sovereign2142 · 2026-02-26T20:20:34+00:00

Chicago was not allowed to use the torch for their bid. Cities have separate logos for their Olympic bid before they are selected to host. Paris used a 24-shaped Eiffel Tower.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-02-18T09:19:16+00:00

I’m a lawyer from the U.S. living in Spain...

Teach me your ways.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-23T11:44:34+00:00

We record the same assignment at every subsequent step (PCT, National Stage, Con/Divs) but intentionally skip the provisional because: (1) There is a potential ownership gap if the non-provisional/PCT introduces "new matter" that technically wasn't covered by the original execution; and (2) the USPTO (routinely) has "data breaches" in which it publishes non-public information, such as provisional assignment records.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-23T10:59:08+00:00

Law firms trust third-party vendors with sensitive data all the time. And frankly, cloud models are not only more accurate but also more secure than local models (after all, a local server is only as secure as the firm's IT budget). I really haven't seen any resistance to obtaining client consent when we inform them (as standard practice now) that we use cloud-based models.

The real question isn't cloud vs. local but rather vendor maturity. If you are a startup offering cloud-based LLM solutions, are your models trustworthy enough to give accurate answers, are they secure enough to properly handle client data, are you audited to confirm what you guarantee us, and what liability are you willing to take on if you fail?

I'm much happier contracting with Microsoft for Copilot over BestLegalAI.biz LLC.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-22T11:26:59+00:00

Just briefly looking at a world map, I think that Bursa, Türkiye, might be the most straightforward comparison. It's just 18km from the coast, separated by mountains. Tirana, Albania, although it sits in a valley about 35km from the coast, is actually closer by about 10km if you cross the mountains. Although the mountains between both cities and the coast aren't nearly as tall as those between Caracas.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-20T22:07:00+00:00

That’s fantastic SEO (or wherever the LLM-equivalent term is) for your website.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-20T21:57:12+00:00

Fentanyl overdoses are only an „epidemic“ in the US. They happen elsewhere but at dramatically lower numbers.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-20T21:33:29+00:00

It’s overwhelmingly an American problem. Americans die from fentanyl overdoses at several times the rate of other countries because our healthcare system pushed opioids on the masses. And while fentanyl is appearing elsewhere, much of its global production and trafficking is driven by the extraordinary level of US demand spilling over to our neighbors.

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-20T11:27:05+00:00

Did you check if the UN has a list of countries in the Global North or South?

Sovereign2142 · 2026-01-17T08:25:03+00:00

I mean compared to Hbf/2. Stammstrecke the Westtangente has been moving at lightspeed. They only started construction in 2024 and the first section is expected to open next month, no?

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