A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The "food used to be so much better" is as nostalgia for an age that never existed as it gets.

Es gibt kein Recht auf akademische Ehrungen. Was ist das für eine Anspruchshaltung?

When civil servants come to him buzzing about what artificial intelligence will do for their agency, he tells them to swap the words “AI” for “a dozen interns on cocaine” and see if the sentence still makes sense rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/computa...

Opinion: The US Supreme Court should step in to resolve a discrepancy about the need for financial distress to maintain a Chapter 11 case.

Ist der jetzt auch Theologe.

I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing

I genuinely struggle to imagine the minds of people who could live through the last year and a half and somehow still believe that liberal arts professors are the primary problem facing 2026 America - I struggle with that more than I do with imagining what it’s like to be an octopus.

Quousque tandem abutere ...

I am getting a lot of questions about whether Trump's threats alone are illegal. The answer is yes. 1. First, Additional Protocol I states “Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” (also DOD LOW Manual §5.2.2) 1/

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

“A civilian target, by definition, is not a lawful target,” Sarah Yager @hrw.org . “Under international humanitarian law, what the U.S. military calls law of armed conflict, parties must always distinguish between civilian and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives.”

Wusstet Ihr, dass Männer unter 45 Jahren nicht mehr ohne Genehmigung länger als drei Monate das Bundesgebiet verlassen dürfen? www.fr.de/politik/dras...

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

If you don’t stop in mid-sentence to check a thing and then three hours later you’ve learned the entire history of canned food but not finished the sentence, why even be a writer?!

Great quote from @marinklevy.bsky.social "If you’re repeatedly engaging in alarm-sounding, the force of that alarm is going to be diminished over time,” she said. “But just because there have been several fires doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t sound the alarm for the next one.”

Ich lese sehr viel im Moment über Täter:innen in der NS Zeit. Und gestern dazu was kluges bei Angelika Ebbinghaus. Man muss aufhören, diese Täter:innen als Monster zu sehen. Als ganz besonders böse. Es sind Menschen, die zeigen, was möglich ist, wenn Gewalt Gewohnheit wird, toleriert, ja belohnt.

This. And also, if I had never worked with "AI", I wouldn't be too quick to assume that it can do whatever I find unappealing to do myself.

Sir, this is not a Wendy's.

Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

"There is an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind and an out-group whom the law binds but does not protect" ist keine Basis für eine Friedensordnung. Das Gewaltverbot gilt für alle.

Der genannte Brief ist auf dem @voelkerrechtsblog.org zu finden: verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

Was sind das für Soziopathen, die E-Scooter quer am Trottoir abstellen, so dass kein Rollstuhl oder Kinderwagen vorbeikommt.

MAGA Republicans are joining forces with Democrats to oppose litigation finance regulation.

Yeah, one of the best things we could do for undergraduate environmental education (especially in non-major courses) is to teach people that the guy who invented the "Tragedy of the Commons" follows it a couple pages later with the absolute zinger "Freedom To Breed Is Intolerable"

Gut, dass die "Doku" über das Verbrechensopfer nicht ausgestrahlt wird. Die Persönlichkeitsrechte werden aber m.E. auch von denen verletzt, die darüber mit Nennung des vollen Namens und unter Weiterverbreitung der persönlichkeitsverletzenden Medienberichte öffentlich diskutieren.

liberal democracy rests on a foundation of pluralism. We all may be from different groups and have different interests, but we are common in that we have equal protection and rights under the law. The more people refuse to accept the foundational liberal precepts, the bigger the trouble we’re in.

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

The thing is, these guys are actively trying to make a biblical disaster happen, which is why we are in this mess.

EuGH stabil.

Weichen das gelebte Geschlecht und das im Ausweis angegebene Geschlecht voneinander ab, kann es zu Problemen bei Ausweiskontrollen kommen – und damit bei der Freizügigkeit. EU-Länder müssen die Ausweise von trans Personen daher anpassen, so der EuGH: www.lto.de/recht/nachri...

"Die Vollstreckungsorgane sind auch berechtigt, bargeldlose Zahlungen entgegenzunehmen. Die Kosten für die Nutzung der den Vollstreckungsorganen zu diesem Zweck zur Verfügung gestellten technischen Geräten trägt der Bund" (§ 25a Abs. 3 EO) ooe.orf.at/stories/3345...

If US and Israel launched war in hopes of Iran producing a Delcy Rodriguez, they re getting instead a Hugo Chavez: more militant, more radical considering it’s Iran. Buckle up

Rob Mullins: “Biological Sex”, Social Segregation, and the Freedom to Reassign Sex ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...

Hervorragende Analyse des US-Angriffs auf den Iran aus völkerrechtlicher und (US-)verfassungsrechtlicher Perspektive. Auf dem Kanal der Neocons von The Bulwark, die mehr Klartext reden als europäische Regierungen. Die Interviewte war Teil der Obama-Administration. youtu.be/M8SzAcqvl5s?...

Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out. Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.

These kinds of dilemmas are popping up everywhere now.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

The US–Israeli war against Iran is “clearly and unequivocally unlawful.” We spoke with OONA A. HATHAWAY (@oonahathaway.bsky.social), Professor at Yale Law School, about the international legal order and Europe’s reluctance to call the attack on Iran illegal. verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...

Es ist echt bitter: Das Völkerrecht ist das, was der "Gutmensch" mal war, ein Objekt der Häme, fast ein Schimpfwort. Nur dass dies mittlerweile oft aus der Mitte heraus kommt. Wer Völkerrechtsargumente als "naiv" rahmt, macht das Recht des Stärkeren zum Maßstab. Bis er selbst der Schwächere ist.

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime. And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

When I write a report for a court, 90% of my work is compiling, filing, ordering, correctly citing source material. It’s tedious but I do all my thinking while doing so. The remaining 10% is the actual writing which I, without the preparation, I could never achieve. There’s no way to outsource this.

That our leaders are not pushing back against flagrant and clear violations of the most basic norms of international law will come back to bite them - and us.

An important article - in an era of asymmetric warfare and dramatic power imbalances on the world stage, Western democratic leaders, so often in public, will likely come to regret the degradation of the norm against Head of State/Govt assassination by other states much more than autocrats will...

“Ein Völkerrecht, das das Mullah-Regime schützt, gehört in die Tonne.” Solche Sätze sind derzeit zu lesen. Doch das Völkerrecht verbietet gewaltsame Interventionen nicht ohne Grund. Eine Einordnung. #Iran

@sophieduroy.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in @verfassungsblog.de reflecting on the moribund state of the international norm against assassination. Decades of routisination and legitimation have made assassination an available tool of foreign policy, even against heads of state.

Eine Bundes-Krise kann jedenfalls erst beginnen, nachdem die Landeshauptleute informiert wurden (§ 3 Abs. 1 B-KSG), sonst wäre es ja keine österreichische Bundes-Krise!

Understandable. Berries are delicious.

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."