Hannah BW
@hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
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public law, science, technology | Microsoft visiting professor @ Princeton
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Super happy that this paper is forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal!
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Itâs the most wonderful time of the year
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Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls
Spreading cream cheese into the layers of dough enhances the richness and moistness of these nut and spice-packed cinnamon rolls
https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Cream-Cheese-Cinnamon-Rolls/
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and they say books are dead
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some of the things Iâm proud of from this year: 1. this essay about the Trump adminâs sketchy relationship to data and information
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Opinion | Trump Is Ruling by Willful Blindness
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/opinion/trump-facts-statistics-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.45PC.Z6OJ30O7TWrT&smid=url-share
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Sunday NYT devoted the entire style section to supposedly postfeminist rightwing women (who appear totally unfamiliar w feminist thought but whatevs) AND is eliminating the magazine recipe column?! a huge đđ» to those of us who need pleasure reading along with our vast helpings of displeasure.
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Me: Oma, did you read this? Oma, very moved: yes, it was SO TRUE. Everyone should read it. I was thinking I should write a letter to the editor, but Iâm sure theyâll get so many. Me: oh really? how many 100 year olds do you think read the New Yorker??? Oma, thoughtfully: I guess thatâs true.
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Becoming a Centenarian
Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/becoming-a-centenarian
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when youâve written 20,000 words and she just âŠtweets it out
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some news: today is my last day as the Microsoft Visiting Professor at Princetonâs Center for Information Technology Policy. Iâm so grateful to
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and the rest of the crew for a terrific, generative semester. and Iâm thrilled to be visiting at Brooklyn Law School in spring!
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Iâm not a narcissist but I would believe you if you told me that this entire thing has been engineered specifically to drive me, a professor at a public university in Texas who teaches First Amendment and writes about AI, out of my mind
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Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/texas-universities-ai-course-audits
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thought I was gonna have a great writing day but instead Iâm doing my hammiest rendition of Bananaphone to entertain a sick toddler
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is liking the sticky bun at Flour basic or nah
11 days ago
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if i were developing an alternative law school ranking one important factor would be natural light in the library reading rooms
12 days ago
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boarding passes used to look like this
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Overslept, left my coffee at home, missed my train, made the next one, bought more coffee, sloshed coffee on my shirt, realized shirt is inside out. doing really great
14 days ago
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Josh Chafetz
14 days ago
1/ A few thoughts about
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âs comment in yesterdayâs NYT chat that, âItâs amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/supreme-court-trump-independent-agencies.html
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cancel culture is when you publish a bestselling book that gets excerpted in major newspapers and magazines and reviewed in others. many people do not like the book, but donât be fooled: this is not evidence of diversity of opinion. true expressive freedom means never having to say youâre sorry
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Iâm eager to see what the order says. Early leak suggested it was going to direct DoJ to seek to enjoin any state AI legislation on dormant commerce clause grounds. OTOH this seems like a great admission that the imperial First Amendment wouldnât go far enough to undo all AI regulation⊠so, yay?
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this baby is TWO đ„č
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âLibrarianâs dividendâ is a great phrase. we talk a lot about how LLMs eviscerate expertise and knowledge, perhaps not enough about how they may reinvigorate demand for experts who actually know wtf theyâre talking about. 1/2
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18 days ago
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I believe we call this âwishcastingâ?
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19 days ago
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present me has questions about why past me felt it necessary to cite so many hearings. too hard to bluebook!
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the LPE conference schedule just dropped and itâs đ„đ„đ„đ„
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Excited to read this. I think legal scholars who work on press freedom and the First Amendment are going to need to really grapple with the tension between the ideals of a free press and the doctrinal impediments to reforms that would help realize those ideals
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20 days ago
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someone is wrong on the internet about something I care about and know a lot about and Iâm not wading into it. please clap
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Paisley Currah
20 days ago
I have a piece in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on the anti-trans agenda and the dangers it poses for the rights of cis women.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah
The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/the-anti-trans-playbook-paisley-currah/
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Paisley Currah
20 days ago
And that movementâs most influential social victory, the decoupling of ideas about biology from ideas about how women ought to be, is precisely the achievement under threat today
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looking at the jumble of papers that faculty leave to university archives makes me feel much better about the mess that is my office.
21 days ago
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seriously considering driving to Philly to stock up on Gold Rush apples
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The instructor determines that, not me! itâs not my class. Itâs not my assignment. Itâs not my discipline. Itâs not my university. I have no idea what the rubric for the assignment is. If someone were Monday morning quarterbacking my syllabus like this Iâd be outraged.
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I guess my hottest take today is that you cannot just avoid the culture wars if you simply ensure that you have airtight pedagogy
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whet moser
23 days ago
you could lawyer your way to a passing grade for that OU essay i guess (and i would be sympathetic if the prof had done that just to move on) but it's very clearly not a good-faith interpretation of the assignment and academics is dependent on that
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sometimes I ask my First Amendment students whether requiring them to complete the final exam in order to pass âcompels speechâ in violation of the Constitution. the answer is no, but the lesson here đ is that you can get a lot of mileage out of complaining even if your complaints lack any merit.
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23 days ago
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It finally happenedâmy mom and I are walking our dogs in mismatched blundstones
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salted maple pie
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6â1â punks in the beerlight thunder road see no evil pretty pimpinâ
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27 days ago
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me when my mother (my OWN MOTHER!!) casually admits she used ChatGPT to draw up a lease
29 days ago
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bring back graphs like this
30 days ago
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one of my favorite things about NJ Transit is that the conductors are always wishing each other happy birthday over the PA system
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everyone knows that the government has a compelling interest in preventing corruption or the appearance of corruption. what this *gestures wildly* presupposes is, maybe it doesnât?
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about 1 month ago
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the more I write down why I think Iâd be good at this job the more I think Iâd actually be really good at this job
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great opportunity to work on public sector AI
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about 1 month ago
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taught an information scientist how to find court documents on courtlistener today!
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Dr Emma L Briant
about 1 month ago
This will send faculty fleeing in droves. It is a recipe for harassment and censorship. I would quit academia before working under these conditions. I mean that.
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Secretary of Defense Rock
about 1 month ago
âWe will simply go from being scammed by the primes to being scammed by defense VC land, checkmate libâ
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Milan Markovic
about 1 month ago
Here is the statement on the initial TAMU system proposal. The adopted rule apparently prohibits "advocacy" of "race and gender ideology" without approval.
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canât wait to tell my students in the middle of class, âhold onâgotta email the chancellor before I can answer your questionâ
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judging by my texts this story has now fully broken containment
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Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/texas-am-gender-race-ideology-rules-classroom.html
about 1 month ago
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my sister got me a Lloydâs for my birthday đđ
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about 1 month ago
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people keep asking me if I want to work for Mamdani and like, definitely yes! put me in, coach! but also, maybe no?đ
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about 1 month ago
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i am the parent of a child in pre-K and it is literally impossible for me to imagine speaking to my kid like this OR being so checked out as a parent that you donât care about your kidâs social skills
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about 1 month ago
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on the free shelf at the coffee shop
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