I had the scariest cab ride of my life last night. I’m talking accelerating into the corners, doing 70 on the FDR (speed limit: 40), seamlessly weaving between lanes. more exhilarating than a roller coaster.

lol at all the Floridians apologizing for the weather, it is literally perfect

the exquisite feeling of having to put down an unputdownable book that expires tomorrow

it’s giving ARA 512L final project (laudatory)

a guy with a greying ponytail just called me a communist and I was very confused until I remembered I’m wearing my Zohran hat. LFG!!!

why isn’t Curtis Sliwa using “Raspberry Beret” as his campaign song

this one goes out to the “artificial intelligence will improve representative democracy” crowd

this reminds me of a progressive reformer who placed personal ads in newspapers, struck up exchanges with the women who answered, and—when he finally met them—measured their heads to try to ascertain why *they* were “abnormal”

coaching the baby to learn the phrase “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore“

very pleased to see Lloyd‘s carrot cake deservedly first on this list. I have baked three wedding cakes for loved ones, but at my own wedding we had Lloyd‘s, baby

getting a LOT of compliments on my hat

happy 100th birthday to Oma. she survived Auschwitz, came to this country speaking no English, made a life and a family in NYC. she is the toughest, most independent cookie I know. here she is on the left in the mid-50s; on the right, a few months ago with our favorite physicist.

honestly never been so excited about a set of slides

this sends a clear -- and chilling -- message to immigrants about *any* political speech, far beyond Kirk www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

need to make a dessert for dinner tomorrow. 20 people, age range 1-100 (not exaggerating). assume minimal fridge/freezer space, so no pudding or mousse etc. ideas?!?

wishing my PTSD a very happy 24th anniversary today

Academic freedom includes extramural speech. And you dont have a university if the president can decide on alleged violations unilaterally - there needs to be a faculty led process. Does American academia ever recover from this? Probably not

It’s no accident that this is happening right after TAMU disbanded the Faculty Senate on 9/1 pursuant to a new state law

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

the course description: “Our task is to think critically about what these books can tell us about how we (and others) understand adolescence, how those definitions have changed over time, and how these books participate in larger movements of history, culture, and literature“

the year is 2028. the course description for Con Law is 709 pages long. it’s a felony to teach Bostock. but at least I’ve perfected a makeup look appropriate for being secretly recorded in the classroom.

the neighborhood is plastered with STOP 🛑 MAMDANI stickers but they seem to be having the reverse effect because every time I see one, my brain thinks, GO MAMDANI🚦

nothing has ever made me feel more [age redacted] than this Rilo Kiley reunion show

Ok let me rephrase: if you are working on a paper related to the law and political economy of tech, and you’re going to the LPE conf in Feb, please hit me or @jvagle.me up

ahem, clears throat, anyone putting together a law and tech panel???

honestly if I could hex this man to experience the unmedicated aches and pains of a thousand pregnancies I would do it

“first day of school” means my kid is in school from 9:30-10:30 am… and we stay with him. 🫠

🎁link for terrific op-ed by @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social Her point is such an important one: the Trump administration is destroying the government's data collecting capacities as part of its war on inconvenient facts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

Did you just read about how traditional Medicare is about to require prior approval - and they’re going to hire **AI companies** to dole out those approvals? Then you need to learn about Dr. Gary Bent.

I wrote for the @nytimes.com about the administration’s abandonment of statistics and data in favor of information as an instrument of raw control

Excellent op-ed with a misleading headline (presumably not chosen by the author). The whole point of the piece is that Trump *is* avoiding facts by dismantling and corrupting systems that gather and disseminate them!

I wrote for the @nytimes.com about the administration’s abandonment of statistics and data in favor of information as an instrument of raw control

I realize the pros on here will be gobsmacked at the clownishness of it all but the real scandal is that a critical law enforcement function - responding to crime, supporting victims, and exposing criminals - has been all but entirely privatized when it comes to the internet.

oh another ghoul I worked with in biglaw

it was never “just innovating new technology”

calling something a “judge made rule” in a draft is starting to feel like a sick burn. send help

this is either my best work yet or my most off the wall. time will tell

Nothing like writing an executive order that says "We're going to use pretext to punish people for something which we 100% are not allowed to do." Really makes the job of a criminal defense attorney much easier than normal, so kudos I guess?

hahahahaha I hate it here

Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything buff.ly/PAqIygo

this really tells you a lot about the way the Times views its commitments as a First Amendment institution

I used to be so precious about my writing routine, like I needed the exact right amount of coffee and my favorite pen in my office and needed to begin at precisely the right moment or it wouldn’t “work.” now it’s like, give me half an hour and any available seat at the public library and I’m cooking

tempting fate by writing with fountain pen on the train while wearing white pants

of all the ethical responsibilities to educate students about—duties toward our collective health, safety, security, environmental protection—learning to use GenAI doesn’t rank anywhere near the top of the list

update: the article now begins in 1880

some professional news: today is my first day as the Microsoft Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy! I’m very excited to spend the fall with this group of thinkers.

OMNY : MetroCard :: MetroCard : subway tokens

can’t quite explain it but Eleven Madison Park jettisoning its vegan menu because it doesn’t want people to be “excluded”* feels very MAGA-coded to me *I think the $365/head price tag is doing a lot of excluding but I note that’s not being revised

dad took me out for a broccoli Reuben and a chocolate egg cream