Many Minnesotans are receiving fraudulent text messages claiming to be the MN Department of Public Safety. Let me be clear: the MN DPS and DVS will never send you a text message for money. Please go to ag.state.mn.us/robocalls to file a report and help us stop these scammers.

Every few months someone reads a terms of service and spots the *basically necessary* copyright license that any site that handles 3rd party content HAS TO HAVE to avoid getting sued out of existence by awful copyright lawyers and freaks out. Mike here explains why.

I took 10K words to work through my thoughts on how best to use social media. TL;DR: Be intentional. Find your community. Control your algorithm(s). It's a story of how I came to find social media I enjoy, a showcase of content you might ❤️, & tool tips for how you can take control of your feeds. 🧵👇

This is a BDF! Major congrats to @qsteenhuis.bsky.social, @samglover.bsky.social, & the whole @suffolklitlab.org team for their work on this tool. And thank you to @senatorledwards.bsky.social for helping bring this law into existence and for using our tool this morning to file a petition.

If this is on TikTok, there's hope for the world.

I (and my co-author @[email protected]) have an essay up at MIT Reader that's an extension of some of the ideas in the book. Would love any feedback, as we're still working the ideas out ourselves, but we both think there's something interesting there.

I had already made up my mind to stop supporting Amazon by buying or borrowing Kindle books, but now I'm spending the morning downloading all my purchased books while I still can. www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

If you do a lot of writing and are looking for a grammar, style, and spell checker that doesn't send what you write to a third party service, I wrote up instructions for how to setup and use the open source LanguageTool locally on your machine. ben.balter.com/2025/01/30/h...

I’m trying to come up with a catchy way to phrase a theme for #LITCon that encompasses poverty law/A2J + innovation/AI + showcasing actual solutions (as opposed to promising ideas). Whatdya got?

Why does the difference between 40ºF and 80ºF feel so much greater than the difference between -20ºF and 20ºF?

What’s the best pencil sharpener that fits nicely in a pencil pouch?

It's still –13ºF this morning. The air hurts. My husky is laying against the patio door so he can be as cold as possible without going outside because that would mean being separated from his people.

Check out this ITC wrap-up from @bobambrogi.bsky.social: www.lawnext.com/2025/01/at-t... (Apparently I am always looking at a screen when someone takes a picture of me at a conference.)

I attended my first LSC ITC conference this week, and it reminds me of this post @bobambrogi.bsky.social wrote after ITC 2024: www.lawnext.com/2024/02/the-...

First book review of 2025: bitesizebookreviews.com/blood-in-the...