According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”

I’m at the law conference I’m at the political economy conference I’m at the combination Law and Political Economy Conference

from now on I’ll be texting the family group chat exclusively in the style of a Union Army soldier writing home

I think it’s entirely fair to blame adults for having atrocious judgment even if they didn’t personally do horrific crimes

The biggest threats to journalism in this country, and to the possibility of an informed and empowered electorate, stem from the political economy of the media. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

We've known what Palantir was for a very long time. It makes it more egregious that a number of privacy luminaries spent years taking the company's money and defending it. If you were one of them, I remember. I'll wait for your email admitting you were wrong.

thoughts and prayers for my poor therapist who has to deal with me in the midst of law review submissions

three way tie between Light My Fire, Hotel California and American Pie

$1.25 trillion: "the most valuable private company in history" we aren't going to go back to an era where the 'public' markets are the main thing and these 'private' companies & financial deals are the sideshow adjust your priors everyone www.ft.com/content/9d2b...

great thread on the ethics of a side hustle purveying ideas for profit

what should I eat in Richmond

weary of this institution making the NYT for the worst reasons

2026 prediction: tech worker movements are BACK

coming 🔜: How Tech Took Over, an article about how the tech industry became central to our legal and political order

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

even if you *can’t* imagine life before Harry Potter, you can still imagine life after DHS 😉

lol this reminds me of when Jane Harman told a class I was in that she didn’t mean to vote for warrantless wiretapping, it just happened because FISA was too long to read

my crim pro students have only had three classes but they know this isn’t true

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Amazon Ring announced it'd "soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras. That network, an investigation by 404 Media found, has been available to local and federal police and enforcement agencies like ICE..." W h o c o u l d h a v e s e e n t h i s c o m i n g

this. it’s not a misunderstanding; it’s a form of norm entrepreneurship.

told my son that if he is very brave and does the swim lesson he hates I would bring him a special treat from Brooklyn and, with eyes wide, he responded, “like a bag of M&Ms???”

Mother’s Cafe, Austin TX. A quintessential hippie vegetarian restaurant with a weird enclosed patio and very uncomfy booths where disgruntled young waitstaff served the perfect crispy housemade veggie burger and giant spinach salads. the cashew tamari salad dressing! 😭

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

full dystopia in my inbox: emails from Panopto, a norovirus update from school, ”don’t forget to rsvp to active shooter training!”

If for some reason you want to read about how law enforcement targets the press, see my piece Policing Press Freedom

I posted this on the other social media site (LinkedIn) but now I’m posting here too: I’m thrilled to be teaching Internet Law and Criminal Procedure this spring as a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School. Looking forward to meeting my students and engaging with colleagues and friends in NYC!

on January 22 at Rodeph Sholom in NYC my mom will be talking about the Onderwater Cabaret, the books of poetry her father wrote while in hiding. open to the public!

on January 22 at Rodeph Sholom in NYC my mom will be talking about the Onderwater Cabaret, the books of poetry her father wrote while in hiding. open to the public!

just finished Karen Russell’s novel The Antidote. incredible novel about history, memory, ideas, the future, land, motherhood… I want to make all my friends read it so we can talk about it.

what is the current conventional wisdom on optimal law review submission length and/or date 🙃

“we double-dog dare you to see how much race and gender ideology you can pack into PHIL 482, Ethics and Engineering”

weaponized interdependence meets federalism

Interesting call here for chapters on the theme of Tech/Money:

The same is true for constitutional law. It’s critical—quite literally for purposes of future constitutional meaning—that politicians say and be *seen* to be saying that Trump’s actions are illegal + unconstitutional. And ideally that they take formal institutional action grounded in that view.

Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there. How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush? I think it's that...

guess we are all law and tech scholars now, huh

if I were the Las Vegas Police Department I would be uncomfortable with my vehicles‘ location being perpetually tracked but what do I know

2025 was a terrible, depressingly relevant year to be a scholar of technology and corporate power. Some of us tried to make sense of WTF happened here (free to read): doi.org/10.1017/S026...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

and they say books are dead

some of the things I’m proud of from this year: 1. this essay about the Trump admin‘s sketchy relationship to data and information

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 🖕🏻 to those of us who need pleasure reading along with our vast helpings of displeasure.

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 I’m sure they’ll get so many. Me: oh really? how many 100 year olds do you think read the New Yorker??? Oma, thoughtfully: I guess that’s true.

when you’ve written 20,000 words and she just …tweets it out

some news: today is my last day as the Microsoft Visiting Professor at Princeton‘s Center for Information Technology Policy. I’m so grateful to @randomwalker.bsky.social and the rest of the crew for a terrific, generative semester. and I’m thrilled to be visiting at Brooklyn Law School in spring!

I’m 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

thought I was gonna have a great writing day but instead I’m doing my hammiest rendition of Bananaphone to entertain a sick toddler