For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

I can’t help but notice many of the people celebrating Maduro’s rendition to the United States are the same ones who were utterly outraged at the idea of Netanyahu facing justice at the International Criminal Court.

The thing is though they spent a decade investigating and building evidence against Hernandez before he was indicted. It’s the flimsy and pretextual nature of the accusations here that stands out, since the same could be applied to Sheinbaum or Carney or virtually anyone else next week.

Going to be really interesting to see how this plays out once Maduro actually appears in court, from a democracy/rule of law perspective.

My serious question for the Conservative leadership would be what stops the U.S. from up and snatching Claudia Sheinbaum next week, or Mark Carney the next time the trade war heats up?

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Should I use #AI to record my conversations with clients? NYC Bar Ethics Opinion 2025-6 addresses the ethical issues affecting the use of #artificialintelligence to record, transcribe, and summarize conversations with clients. Among ... (cont.) lnkd.in/esXtch22 #lawsky #law

Glad to see these enter public domain. I do think it's sort of insane that Disney has deformed our copyright laws for decades to prevent this from happening and the consequences are like.... nothing. Micky entering the public domain has not destroyed or even really impacted Disney.

We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

It’s increasingly clear the mistake we made was turning them back on.

This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland

This is a great illustration of the resource gap between right wing and left wing institutions, where the former can throw money at grievance trolls (and thereby incentivize the industry), while the latter doesn’t have the resources to provide a safety net to people victimized by these grifts.

Is the Internet an enabler of rights or an alienation machine? What are the alternatives? Join me and my first guest, Professor @daphnek.bsky.social in exploring this questions on my micro podcast 7-minute futures. Listen here pod.link/1859854491

Good, timely thread for first year law students who are about to have the jarring experience of getting their first set of grades back. It’s a scary time (at least, it was for me!). But a D or two isn’t the end of the world, it doesn’t necessarily reflect on your actual skills and potential.

This is very funny, but if @tobymorton.bsky.social wants to keep the address he needs to set up something legit there asap before Trump files a claim accusing him of domain squatting. My suggestion would be some commentary on the renaming which fits into fair use (ideally w no chance of confusion).

America’s ability to attract the best and brightest from around the world to high skill positions is by far the most important ingredient in the country’s economic and technological success. Economic protectionism is one thing, but this is just astonishingly self-destructive.

the success of the user-created For You feed while the official Discover feed flops is actually a pretty major win for Bluesky — it literally is the embodiment of their goal to decentralize feed generation and give users more control/autonomy

We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.

"Texas judge blocks state’s App Store age verification law." "Apple has confirmed that it will 'pause previously announced implementation plans and monitor the ongoing legal process'. " 9to5mac.com/2025/12/23/t...

I would take the tone policing arguments more seriously if I thought there was any possibility that a shift in tone would resolve their concerns. Realistically, if activists stopped saying “from the river to the sea” tomorrow, by next week we’d be hearing complaints about something else.

This is why @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social say to name the specific thing rather than calling it "AI". Right now, ChatGPT is bucketed under the same term as a model train to translate one specific language into another and which is carefully trained through curated data.

The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.

I also find this sentiment puzzling. I’m pretty sure nobody paywalls articles just to be a jerk. And if an article is worth reading, maybe it’s worth paying a couple of bucks for the people who wrote it.

This is, of course, always where this was headed. Things will only get worse as facial recognition becomes normalized unless lawmakers ban it outright. Next up: precautionary facial surveillance of everyone, all the time, just in case (with guardrails that will also eventually be rolled back).

Thank goodness Americans no longer have to fear foreign interference now that TikTok is owned by *checks notes* the Emir of Abu Dhabi.

It takes a special kind of arrogance to publish an article like that knowing his Epstein ties would likely come out eventually. Just zero sense of public accountability.

This struck me as well. If expressions of Palestinian nationalism are deemed unacceptable, shouldn’t expressions of Israeli nationalism be subject to the same standard? We’ve seen a genocide carried out under the Israeli flag: why are those still permitted?

1/ Hope this thread helps break through the mental logjam for normies. For anyone in the game of technology/ innovation/development this is just basic facts now. For the first time in 2 centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology,but the follower www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One of these two makes me feel significantly better about the world; the other not so much.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Job applicants read ads with Talmudic intensity, but it comes down to this faculty member hates that faculty member, we’ve hired two Americanists in a row, and the person who could teach this elective class might retire in five years. There’s no way an applicant can guess any of it.

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

As governments around the world explore age verification laws, stories like this are a great reminder of why mandating this kind of invasive surveillance is a terrible idea: techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/h...

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Really didn’t sink in that I’m a professor at my alma mater until I saw this. Best of luck to my students today!

New year, new job? Come work with me ❤️

Yes. It is also why so many destructive monstrous conspiracy theories that don’t “start” out anti-Semitic quickly end up that way It’s just a bigotry that is so fundamental and pure in its evil that you will eventually or quickly get there if you choose to live that kind of life

now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

60,000 is the *low end* estimate.

A great example here is online age verification. There’s pretty broad consensus that kids being able to access vast quantities of hardcore porn is a bad thing. But changing that effectively involves tying everyone’s online behavior to a traceable real-world ID.

A point I find myself raising repeatedly: people focus on tech policy within a silo (privacy, speech, safety, copyright, competition, etc.), without understanding the actual impact on the system, where you push on just one of those levers and don't realize it's disastrous for the other ones.

@reddit is currently complying with the legislation but has said the new law "has the unfortunate effect of forcing intrusive and potentially insecure verification processes on adults as well as minors". www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

These agencies are really, really overestimating how much people want to visit the United States.

I remember at a conference a few years back a colleague postulated that China's censored Internet was going to bite them in the ass once their LLM-powered products started to hit the market - so I hope he's taking a victory lap today.

Call it the Huawei Effect: As American tech-industrial-surveillance giants are increasingly perceived as arms of the state, other countries will…increasingly perceive them as arms of the state. American global tech supremacy depended on the perception of this public-private sector boundary.

November roundup on tech litigation from Tech Justice Law Project’s Madeline Batt and Melodi Dinçer! This month covers key legal developments in antitrust, lawsuits against OpenAI, and legal challenges to child online safety laws. www.techpolicy.press/november-202...

I talked with @karanicolas.bsky.social about the importance of "red-teaming" democratic institutions in the post-Trump era, whenever that might begin. badfaithtimes.com/how-to-save-...

Any American colleagues interested in a move up north should hit me up...