The world may be chaotic and unpredictable, but a sweet treat, a walk outside, a good book, and a nap will never let you down

The title of this post from @riana.bsky.social says it all. This is a blazing big deal for the 4th Amendment. Then again, it's a blazing big deal for like ten other reasons. Mostly because lets the FTC decide if platforms enforced their speech rules correctly. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/18/t...

A Cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover Is Causing a Supply Chain Disaster www.wired.com/story/jlr-ja...

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now. But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library! It's easy! Check your library's website.

I was chatting about this op-ed w/ a friend; what is the best way to communicate to a general audience about police surveillance? etc. & one of my conclusions was that people fixate on the power of the tools when they are new to the subject, but eventually they evolve past the tools

not just climate, either they've destroyed the entirety of federal consumer protection, corporate oversight and regulatory autonomy across every industry that touches every aspect of your lives the impacts will be concussive, unprecedented, incalculable, and extremely fatal

This thread is a calming read 🧵

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

After the standards underpinning the World Wide Web were created in the early 90s, we decided the best way to fund the web’s development was through ads and not as a public resource like roads or libraries. Every day I think about how different things would be if we’d gone the other way.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Sad to find out the things I love the most about America are the things some people hate the most: free speech, democracy, cultural diversity, innovation in arts and sciences, national parks…

Becoming a parent is realizing you’ve gone from main character to backstory

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

Read this investigation on US tech companies played a major role in designing and building China's surveillance state, by @dakekang.bsky.social and @yaelwrites.com apnews.com/article/chin...

In the future everyone will be AI for 15 minutes

Marvel Studios leaving Georgia and taking all its productions to the UK because they don’t have to pay for employees’ health insurance there due to universal healthcare is a valuable lesson for America. We’ll ignore it but the lesson still stands. Universal healthcare creates jobs.

Whew this is an intense read. Grateful to all the judges and lawyers who are working so hard for basic due process.

Oh wow. This is big news. EFF has survived leadership transitions in the past, but it will be interesting to see who is taking over and what direction they'll focus on.

We can still make positive change happen. Good job, New Mexico!

Remember when everyone said Roberts was an institutionalist who could be counted on to be a steadying force for moderation on the Court

Standardization can help fight censorship

"the announcement has left some customers reconsidering their relationship with the brand. While Oura's consumer data does appear safe from military use, the company’s willingness to align with defense and intelligence contractors is part of the equation for users deciding whether to keep the ring."

This is a remarkable article. Federal judges are increasingly speaking out against SCOTUS’s approach to the shadow docket. This isn't typical & underscores the impossible position for lower courts when SCOTUS makes new law on its emergency docket – especially when it doesn’t explain its rulings. /1

My book is absolutely great. My book is absolutely great. This is my mantra as I read it for the nth time while doing copyedit corrections. Please you guys preorder this book because I have suffered to deliver it to you lolsob (actually it really is great I’m just tired, please preorder)

It’s happening again! Remember when states formed regional alliances to acquire COVID supplies because Trump’s 1st Administration failed to protect all states equally?

Translation is an art. As with all arts, humans are still better than AI, for now.

I'm very happy to share that I will be hosting the *Second* Annual Democracy and Public Law Works-in-Progress Conference at the Michigan State University College of Law on April 3–4, 2026! Law scholars (current and aspiring), I'd love to host you! Application: msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

ICYMI: they added a search function to user profiles (FINALLY) We can now go to any user profile including our own and tap the three dots at the top right and select “search posts”

Science has eliminated one of the best Criminal Procedure hypos from law school 😔

Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right

Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

I am delighted to be publishing "An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship of Unlawful Immigrants' Children: Anti-Gypsy and Anti-Chinese Restrictions as Categorical Context" in the UC Law Journal (formerly Hastings L. J.). @uclawsf.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed. "Deeply saddened" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

Why is this meme always relevant

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

Here is Weizenbaum in 1976 clearly expressing my own view: using AI as a psychiatric tool to treat human beings is not just wrong, it is obscene. I believe we should be using the term “obscene” far more often to describe these perverted uses of AI technology.

The problem isn’t that there is no way to alert residents. It’s that officials too often don’t use it. New from @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ipaw...

New from me and @meganmunce.bsky.social - Hexavalent chromium, a compound made famous by the movie "Erin Brockovich," has been found in the air around LA wildfire cleanup sites. For @sfchronicle.com tinyurl.com/3k5ap2te

“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’” “And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”

They better settle for eleventy bajillion dollars because if this thing gets in front of a jury that's game over lol lmao lol Please dear Lord may it get in front of a jury

FULL STORY from me: Clergy rally to defend Kilmar Abrego García as he is detained by ICE —> religionnews.com/2025/08/25/o...

A fun thing that xAI's lawsuit claims is that it is being disadvantaged in the AI race because it doesn't have access to queries from iPhone users www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/t...

Want to see the economic impact of #NIH grant cuts in your community? Check out @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors what is happening. scienceimpacts.org