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!

the hat that keeps on giving

establishment, free exercise, speech, press, assembly, petition

your move, @ssrn.bsky.social

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

this is a bummer

it’s the time of the season for buying new pens

it’s the time of the season for setting SMART goals tethered to concrete rewards

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

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...

everything’s great why do you ask

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."

FINALLY. after reading this story (TW: child death) I cannot imagine Mystic ever being permitted to open again.

in a world of tech oligarchy, intermediated surveillance, and AI nationalism, organizing by tech workers (and whistleblowers) is really, really important.

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” 👩🏻‍💻

why not both tho

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

why, in my list of books to get, do I have “computer history”? what does it mean???

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

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.

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

rabies. RABIES.

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...

what does Claude know that we don’t

I spoke to the Houston Chronicle about Flock, and… well… paywalled but it worked for me in reader mode) www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

just posted a new book chapter I’m working on for a forthcoming edited volume on trade secrecy in data and data infrastructure. it’s about Shotspotter, Flock Safety, and the consequences of private firms’ enclosure of law enforcement infrastructure. check it out!

just posted a new book chapter I’m working on for a forthcoming edited volume on trade secrecy in data and data infrastructure. it’s about Shotspotter, Flock Safety, and the consequences of private firms’ enclosure of law enforcement infrastructure. check it out!

just finished book 22 of 2026, easily the most unhinged novel I’ve read recently, 10/10 5 stars highly recommend

SAVING MILLIONS ON IT SERVICES AND SOFTWARE CONTRACTORS BY BRINGING IT IN HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wake up babe, new internet law case just dropped

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Cornell Law School's @gshans.bsky.social on "First Amendment Balancing" -- new in @knightcolumbia.org's series on "Reconstructing Free Expression" knightcolumbia.org/blog/first-a...

life is short. I’m not spending it reading someone’s robot article about how robots are required by the constitution and i‘m sure as hell not debating its merits online

As we consider Bob Mueller's legacy, here's the cover profile I wrote about him in TIME on his 10th anniversary as FBI director. ti.me/2L7TEhH

stares in First Amendment

I think this is a depressing approach to the production of knowledge

I am SO EXCITED to read this, for two reasons. First, I have been utterly baffled about why it is that this account has been largely left out of legal scholarship. Second, I've felt like I'm on a lonely mission to bring history into law and tech scholarship and I'm selfishly relieved to have company

three of these cities are just far flung suburbs of the DFW metroplex, in which it’s true that job opportunities abound (along with hours-long commutes)

gonna start writing law review articles longhand in notebooks like Lauren Groff

do any of the legal scholars or social scientists on here use @obsidian.md or a similar zettelkasten tool

Chilling effects are hard to measure or document. They are what doesn't get said over here, because of some gvt action over there. But pieces like this are a small part of making visible what is obvious: right now, chilling effects are everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

adding up everything we spent on childcare in 2025 like 💸😩💸

a mitzvah!!!!

fun job alert

happy to be at Cornell to talk about How Tech Took Over! it’s gorges

being at war with Iran is the thing that makes me feel unsafe on the subway

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.

how is this not a straightforward right of publicity problem???

I reviewed The Ordinal Society, by @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co, for jotwell. I think this is one of the most important books for law and tech scholars, and yet it says almost nothing (explicitly) about law, which makes it a special treat to read!