New supergroup.

Our Data Security folks compiling all the big events in these zones going back to January 2024. They do a great job. unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

Post your warning sign.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Patent, copyright, trademark. (Trade secret is secret, obviously.)

YGR is such a good judge. I wish I could watch this.

Reminder on Independent Bookstore Day that: 1) bookshop.org has a very nice ebook reader these days, which works great on a Boox or your phone 2) Medicine for Nightmares on 24th Street has the best SF (Science Fiction) section in SF (San Francisco)

This high schooler is doing a better job of developing Internet policy than virtually every legislator in the world edsource.org/2026/social-...

get in loser we’re being prosocial we’re paying our taxes we are NOT stealing from whole foods

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am.

this is why the reddit BuyItForLife community exists, and also, it’s really annoying that I now have to do a ton of involved research to avoid buying crap whenever I need new boots or an appliance.

Testimony is evidence. Testimony is evidence. Testimony is evidence. (Seems like some people need this reminder)

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Space stuff is cool. We should do somewhat less war stuff and somewhat more space stuff. Artemis II is $4bn per launch, roughly the cost of 2-4 days of War in Iran. What if we did not do War in Iran, but instead did cool space stuff?

“The idea of keeping a location dossier on every single person just in case one of us turns out to be a criminal is just about the most un-American approach to privacy I can imagine."

it's valid to not trust software that has been hastily thrown together by overconfident, error-prone neural networks (that nobody really understands), often to satisfy a bunch of hype-driven investors who can't see beyond next week in other words, most of the software ever written

It is very funny (to me) when I get recruiter emails anonymously recruiting for partner positions at what is very clearly my old firm.

Fifth Circuit Vacates FTC’s Cease-and-Desist Order Against Intuit, Holding Internal Adjudication of Deceptive Advertising Claims Unconstitutional: seems pretty bad!

This is why we need to ban the sale of location data. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

I haven’t cared deeply about the NBA in a very long time, but I love basketball, and this is a great piece.

Never run with --dangerously-skip-westlaw

To celebrate the publication of my new game, Page Turners, I'm doing an AMA on Reddit even as we speak www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

Fritos contain three ingredients: corn, corn oil, salt. People regularly disbelieve this because they think something unhealthy must have scary chemicals.

Keep an eye out for anti-ebike bills. We have one coming up in California that would require me to register my bike at the DMV. It's ignorant (written by somone who wants to conflate ebikes and emotos) and a real blow to climate, economic, and mobility justice. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/02/18/n...

See, this is why we’re going to be able to use it for legal work.

It is both true that: 1️⃣ lawyers have very good reason to demand high reliability (errors are caught very expensively in law; there is no linting (yet)) 2️⃣ lawyers overrate their own reliability, and vastly overrate the reliability of the median lawyer

*People still quote this Mars quip, but I'm actually rather keen to see somebody really build a functional Walden Pond retreat in a chilly and waterless desert *That wouldn't be a "retreat," more of a genuine advance

somehow Ford Motor Co. has patented dominion over God patents.google.com/patent/DE102...

But that’s because 90% of the GOP platform is: “Do you have a profound inferiority complex? Let us help you project that on national politics instead of getting therapy.”

I can't believe the headline isn't "OpenAI entirely on board with mass surveillance of Americans, signs up enthusiastically".

How have we not had Statham in a Predator movie yet

The framers were wrong about a lot of stuff but they were definitely onto something with juries

I have definitely found that, for certain types of problem, using Claude is really more about rubber ducking the task that throwing an LLM at it for performance gains.

one thing i *am* wondering though is the extent to which there is a placebo effect: since you have to organize yourself considerably to get reliable results out of it, to what extent does the process of organizing *itself* help you?

(extraordinarily laudatory)

Finally wrote about it. "I’m calling it the Cookie Theory of Collective Action: Everyone has a role, anyone can start small, and joy is an essential part of the broader fight for your community." snackstack.net/2026/01/30/t...

A podcast called Large Language Malpractice in which lawyers pose legal questions to LLMs and then identify all the mistakes and the consequences for the client from following the bad advice.

And honestly if there is one lesson you should take from the occupation of Minnesota is that the sooner you meet with your neighbors the better. Help them regardless of whether ICE ever shows up.

Even putting aside the AI stuff, how can you think it’s “objectively reasonable given the circumstances” to rely on a law clerk—a person who is not yet a lawyer—for work product *you* are signing?!

Go big or go home.

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

Mark McKenna and I have a new paper arguing that trademark law is doing very two different things --protecting against consumer confusion and also giving property-like rights to certain brands. Lumping them together is making a mess of trademark law. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Here. I couldn't think of anything better to say. othermeans.io/p/on-being-a...

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

I guess really do need a Max plan to do real work with Claude.