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Month: March 2025

New World (Krewella, Yellow Claw ft. Veva) Extreme Gameplay 10 second preview

Posted on by Roshinka

I’m pretty certain that she says “new earth” rather than “new world”, but maybe it’s just how my ear interprets autotune. This is a super beautiful routine when you get into it, but very sweaty, too. Editing will be for another day. Many more routines to unpack before I can sit down. 

Blessed with Lunar Eclipse from my window, 4am

Posted on by Roshinka

At first I wasn’t sure what I was looking at. I opened the window, and it took me by surprise. Had I known the sky would be so clear, and that the moon would be positioned exactly there, I would be better prepared, but it was totally hazy at sunset, a nice hazy blanket right where the moon is right now.  Now you can even see stars, not all the stars, but many… so it is in the moment. I tried to put a few unedited clips with ambient Montreal sound, mainly a peaceful city hum, police sirens and my own breath and exclamations, but this platform is not accepting media in raw video for security reasons. 

At first it looked like something burned-orange and spherical is on or in front of the moon, or as if there were cloud-like spirals showing up and disappearing, maybe it was haze residue, but it was too repetitive to be that, and THEN the eclipse recess process began. There were moments the moon looked like a plate with another circle inside. it is now by its end at 4:51 am. This is why I couldn’t sleep at all. I will have to make a progression video from the combined footage. When the “overshadow” is almost gone the moon is extremely bright and impossible to film or photograph just as easily. When I take a photo I get all the colors of the rainbow but no definition. 

The footage however cannot remotely represent the breathtaking beauty of the situation.

I’ve never seen anything like this. What a nice surprise! Thank you, Universe!

Update: I caught some sleep and it is all over the news. Visible in clear skies all over North America. Blood-moon eclipse it is called, because it is the only time you can see a lunar eclipse, usually it is invisible. It means I literally caught the eclipse exactly when it was full at 4am and started receding for roughly an hour. The “spiral-like formations” were the intense light from the moon bleeding through. It appeared multi-layered and if it wasn’t so huge to the naked eye, you’d think you’re looking at a hybrid between Mars and Jupiter, but I wouldn’t say it was “red”. It was between orange and red and various shades in between.

you know… DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS

Downsizing To Infinity, the little box dream

Posted on by Roshinka

I had a dream where I was trying to escape from a powerful person and everyone was helping them to find me, all until I locked myself up in a little box where I finally felt peace and vowed to never get out of there. 

yesterday I saw an adorable photo of at a cat sleeping in a cardboard box three times smaller than the cat. The cat appeared totally comfortable. 

It reminded me of my dream and how good I felt inside the little box. 

I want to be like that cat. 

I don’t need the square footage or the tall ceilings, nor do I need encryption

anymore

where I come from I can fit inside an atom

I am a fakir.

AI, Discuss the Supreme Court Dewberry Case Decision

Posted on by Roshinka
SCOTUS Dewberry Case Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a $43 million award to a real-estate developer in the Dewberry trademark case, ruling that plaintiffs cannot recover profits from a defendant’s affiliates without suing the affiliates themselves.The decision, issued on February 26, 2025, was unanimous and based on the plain language of the Lanham Act, which specifies that only the “defendant’s profits” can be considered in trademark infringement cases.

  • Key Points:

    • The case involved a dispute between two entities using the “Dewberry” name for real estate services.

    • The defendant, Dewberry Group, operated at a loss, but its affiliates, owned by the same person, made significant profits.

    • The district court and Fourth Circuit had considered the defendant and its affiliates as a single unit, which the Supreme Court found to be incorrect.

    • The Court remanded the case for further proceedings, noting that the “just sum” provision in the Lanham Act allows for adjustments in the amount of recovery if necessary.

    • Justice Sotomayor wrote a concurrence urging courts to consider practical business realities in calculating damages.

Follow-up: Did the court address corporate veil?

the Supreme Court did not explicitly address the issue of piercing the corporate veil. The decision focused primarily on the plain language of the Lanham Act and the specific provision that allows recovery of “defendant’s profits” in trademark infringement cases. The Court held that plaintiffs cannot recover profits from a defendant’s affiliates unless those affiliates are also sued and found liable.

However, the Court’s decision does touch on the broader issue of corporate structure and liability. The Court emphasized that the profits must belong to the defendant, not to affiliated entities, even if those entities are closely related or owned by the same person. This suggests that the Court was cautious about expanding liability to encompass the financial activities of related entities without a direct legal basis.

  • Key Points:

    • The Court did not pierce the corporate veil in this case.

    • The decision was based on the statutory language of the Lanham Act, which limits recovery to the “defendant’s profits.”

    • The Court did not address the broader legal principles of corporate liability or the conditions under which a corporate veil might be pierced.

Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers Inc, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-900_19m1.pdf