Hannah BW
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public law, science, technology | visiting professor @ Brooklyn Law School, spring 2026 hannahbw.com
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just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN. It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.
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How Tech Took Over
Technology firms play key roles in public governance. Their products enable forms of reasoning and data processing that modern agencies must use. Their data per
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6378220
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I wrote something for
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
about Chatrie and the limits of courts in reining in police surveillance powered by private enterprise.
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I wrote something for
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about Chatrie and the limits of courts in reining in police surveillance powered by private enterprise.
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extreme luxury: an air conditioned movie theater during a hot day
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lol my sister who is driving around listening to NPR just speed-dialed me
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looking forward to teaching BPJ’s holding that [REDACTED FOR COMPLIANCE WITH UNIVERSITY POLICY] in con law next year
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not the main point but interesting to see cell phone “addiction“ on p 2 of Chatrie. A concept that has truly broken containment
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spotted Curtis Sliwa!!!
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Dr Michele V
9 days ago
“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽
open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
https://open.substack.com/pub/inpreparation/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type?r=4ptpu3&utm_medium=ios
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it’s the most wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeear 🍒
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I kind of hope Chatrie comes down tomorrow while I’m ooo riding a roller coaster with my husband to celebrate his 40th. would seem fitting
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it’s the remix to ignition hot n fresh out the knish-en mama rolling that dough got every spud in here wishin
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every millennial mom in Trader Joe’s belting out “how do I live“ as Leeann gets piped in over the speakers
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Lisa L. Ouellette
26 days ago
Know a junior scholar who would benefit from the Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM at
@law.stanford.edu
this fall (cosponsored with
@penncareylaw.bsky.social
and Northwestern Law)? Please encourage them to submit by June 15!
conferences.law.stanford.edu/stanford_jff...
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Call for Papers - Ninth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM
Call for Papers The Northwestern, Penn, and Stanford law schools are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Ninth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM, which will be held at Stanford on Novembe...
https://conferences.law.stanford.edu/stanford_jff2026/call-for-papers/
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pre-k today 💙🧡
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Shobita Parthasarathy
about 1 month ago
Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed regulation to increase political oversight of grantmaking. Some have argued this represents increased politicization of science. As someone who studies the politics of science, I think that's the wrong argument to make. 🧵
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-seeks-tighten-political-oversight-grantmaking
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it’s here! Information Law Pluralism, now out in the Indiana LJ, arguing that information law has a vital role to play both in governing tech and in the production of knowledge writ large. timely as the Trump admin and others (looking at you, Colorado) abandon both of these essential tasks 🫠
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Information Law Pluralism
Information-intensive activities are reshaping political, social, and economic institutions. As they respond to these shifts, legislators and regulators are embracing information as a regulatory devic...
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol101/iss3/1/
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it’s here! Information Law Pluralism, now out in the Indiana LJ, arguing that information law has a vital role to play both in governing tech and in the production of knowledge writ large. timely as the Trump admin and others (looking at you, Colorado) abandon both of these essential tasks 🫠
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Information Law Pluralism
Information-intensive activities are reshaping political, social, and economic institutions. As they respond to these shifts, legislators and regulators are embracing information as a regulatory devic...
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol101/iss3/1/
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just chaperoned a pre-k class trip to the museum of natural history. there’s not enough coffee in the world
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Josh Chafetz
about 1 month ago
4/4 Anyway, I've got more to say about this in the removals context in a forthcoming piece, but it is notable that the underlying UET logic has moved out of the removals context and into the entirety of policymaking.
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this is chorizo erasure
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me driving my friends to Bloomington for PLSC
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Girls on a Fun Road Trip
ALT: Girls on a Fun Road Trip
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grades are in I AM FREEEEEEEEEE
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making an exception to my nearly zero tolerance enforcement of a “no penne” rule for penne alla vodka tonight
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Alondra Nelson
about 2 months ago
AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in
@science.org
: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A civic grammar for AI rights
Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeh7153
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oops I did it* again *volunteered to bake a large elaborate cake under stressful circumstances. ask me about the time I baked my sister’s wedding cake after suffering a concussion in a bad bike accident! or the time I drove my best friend‘s wedding cake from DC to the Catskills!
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the hat that keeps on giving
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establishment, free exercise, speech, press, assembly, petition
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your move,
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procrastinating grading so I can’t resist a little 🧵. it is more than a little ironic that the research funding enterprise the current admin has kneecapped was founded precisely to take advantage of the destruction of European universities in WWII—a fate we are now inflicting on our own
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this is a bummer
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Polis says he will sign pared down AI bill that passed overnight
It replaces a broader bill that was set to go into effect this summer and caps off a contentious few years as lawmakers tried to craft regulations to deal with ways AI systems could potentially discri...
https://www.cpr.org/2026/05/12/ai-artificial-intelligence-disclosure-bill-colorado/
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it’s the time of the season for buying new pens
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it’s the time of the season for setting SMART goals tethered to concrete rewards
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Maggie Blackhawk
about 2 months ago
Come work with us! Are you a *great* litigator with a love for teaching? We are launching a formal federal Indian law clinic--and are looking to hire a two-year clinical fellow to work with us and the great Professor Deborah Archer (also President of the ACLU).
apply.interfolio.com/186544
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
about 2 months ago
This is a good demonstration about why companies are trying so hard to become the platform for policing technology. The platform controls the data.
www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
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How AI could help triple the cost of Baltimore Police’s body camera program
Baltimore Police pitched their new $153 million no-bid contract for Tasers, body cameras and software as a no-brainer. What officials didn’t fully explain, however, is that artificial intelligence is ...
https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/baltimore-maryland-police-crime-artificial-intelligence-KV4D3VK5IZACPBPTLKDD3IK53A/
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everything’s great why do you ask
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Jay Rosen
2 months ago
If you missed this thread in February 2026 I am repeating it here because recent events make it relevant again. The thread describes the distinctions I use to make sense of it all. For example: "the media" is not the same thing as "journalism," which is not the same as The Press."
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FINALLY. after reading this story (TW: child death) I cannot imagine Mystic ever being permitted to open again.
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in a world of tech oligarchy, intermediated surveillance, and AI nationalism, organizing by tech workers (and whistleblowers) is really, really important.
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In praise of tech troublemakers
As CEOs refuse constraints, workers feel a responsibility to prevent AI’s most dangerous uses
https://www.ft.com/content/301162e9-a00d-4672-af2d-0ee5dac35690?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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we showed the kids around New Haven and the big one kept asking who lived in all these castles. then they posed in front of the library pretending to ”work like mommy” 👩🏻💻
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why not both tho
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Judah Grunstein
3 months ago
Lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lustration lus
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why, in my list of books to get, do I have “computer history”? what does it mean???
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if your Monday, unlike mine, didn’t start with you spilling an entire protein shake on the bathroom floor, I simply do not wish to speak to you
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we had to say goodbye to our sweet dog Luna, the best companion for the last thirteen years. she was endlessly patient, loyal, and chill. I will miss her so much.
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this pretty succinctly captures my views. I’ll add that I think this is part of what it means to have a genuine perspective or point of view, not just an argument to make or some bit of info you want to convey
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rabies. RABIES.
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Elizabeth Lopatto
3 months ago
personally I don't use AI in writing because I enjoy the process — yeah, even the parts when I want to rip all my hair out! — but hey, here's another good reason to abjure AI: it'll plagiarize
www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
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New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use | Exclusive
The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/new-york-times-cuts-ties-with-writer-ai/
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what does Claude know that we don’t
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I spoke to the Houston Chronicle about Flock, and… well… paywalled but it worked for me in reader mode)
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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