Ever since this podcast first launched, I’ve considered this to be the book it was made for.

Huge @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop: Trump is preparing to try and ban all state AI laws, going so far as having Brendan Carr’s FCC pull rural broadband funds from states that try to regulate AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I just learned that HeinOnline is now inserting "AI" summaries at the start of law review articles when I download the PDFs. Um, what the heck? I don't want this.

When you’re *in* the philosophy department (kind of), but not *the* philosophy department.

Jury trials remain a bastion against encroachment, too bad immigrants instead get fake judges and no juries

Part of the basic purpose of law is that it is action-guiding. It lets me know what is expected of me *right now,* who is authorized by the state *right now*, what is required of me *now, as I am making my decision*, etc. If this sort of thing flies, there is no longer the pretense of rule of law.

No there isn’t you Vichy bastards

As a journalist quipped about the clamping down on reportage of major socio-political issues in the prelude to the Uruguayan coup of ‘73: “freedom of the press had been reduced to the freedom to buy a press.”

I really appreciated these insights from an environmental historian regarding the use of AI in publishing. drb.ie/move-over-fo...

Hi yes hello this is 1 facet of exactly why we told you not to use "generative AI" in the regulatory production pipeline: Eventually the bullshit it spits out— even its citations— will fail to agree w/ consensus reality, but they'll sure *look* like they do, & by then you'll have started trusting it

What'd I say? bsky.app/profile/emos...

Pandoc is magic.

In the late Roman Republic, troops were paid directly out of their general’s personal funds. My recollection is that did not end well.

Reports of ICE on DePaul campus right now, stopping students, asking for papers. Be alert out there!

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Here’s an idea: you could just not accept the emergency petition and let the process play out as it ordinarily does. Ridiculous

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I often find Arendt’s more pithy observations more relevant than her more well-known works.

There’s an episode of Monk where a guy hides all the gold he stole by melting it into ink and writing it into a library full of journals. There was way more of a point to that.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

It turns out that many publishers (mine included) ignored contractual obligations to register copyrights. See: writerbeware.blog/2025/08/29/i... I wonder if there’s anything to be done about that.

Can I please delete AI from every aspect of my life?

NEW CASE: We just sued DHS to stop the immigration raids on construction sites. Our client, Leo García Venegas, has been arrested twice just for working in construction while Latino—despite being a US citizen with a Real ID. Here’s a short video explaining the case: youtu.be/rYSfX9Wxs3M

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

If you have never followed up the Dame Quickly reference in ch. 1 of Capital, you ought to lol.

We are all now open to this arbitrary, uncontrolled power. We are unfree. A short, relevant essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/a-diff...

All I can think is that Tiresias must appear to everyone who agrees to be interviewed by Chotiner and then they ignore his warning.

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

Honestly late 80s/early 90s Charles Mills is an excellent Marx exegete.

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

it is simple, I’ll give it that

I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.

Imagine writing about “cancel culture” when the president is dictating what comedians should be on television and openly declaring that broadcast licenses should be contingent on the kind of coverage one gets.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

My review of two recent public-facing books on the recent Mexican political situation is now out in The Latin Americanist. It reviews @franciscobaezr.bsky.social’s “Populismo neoliberal” and José Ramón Cossío Díaz’s “Los futuros de la militarización en México.” 1/3 dx.doi.org/10.1353/tla....

"Cancel culture" was partly about the cultural grievances of conservatives against diversity efforts and LGBTQ+ acceptance. However, it was also an effort to confuse people about what free speech was, to make it easier to dismantle 1A protections when conservatives held power.

“Librarians are reporting this overall atmosphere of confusion and lack of trust they’re experiencing from their patrons,” Macrina told 404. “They’re seeing patrons having seemingly diminished critical thinking and curiosity.” bsky.app/profile/samu...

John Adams, on the Boston Massacre:

As far as we can tell, this also means they can generate fake articles under your name and then use them to promote their "Academia Letters" journal?

I had kept my academia.edu page active for convenience, but the new Terms of Use are rapacious — they can use all your content for AI. (See below) Sorry! NO. Please share and consider.

Tapping the sign: bsky.app/profile/tani...

September’s post in the APA Blog’s “Teaching and Learning Video Series” is a very fun consideration of our intuitions about the threshold for moral status by way of an iconic scene from “The Good Place.” Thanks @profprof.bsky.social! blog.apaonline.org/2025/09/17/c...

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.