This is why I keep rolling my eyes at people who insist my profession will be obsolete in (insert number of choice) years. All that information doesn't ingest itself, you know.

This was posted yesterday by a retired senior officer and now corporate leader. If AI cannot even generate a map of the US accurately what is it all about? Lunacy.

Exactly what we expected

Courts are using originalist arguments to expand executive power, weaken long-standing rights and protections, and entrench inequality. It’s crucial that lawyers push back. Our new guide shows you how. bit.ly/4iQ1v0B Art Credit: Adrià Fruitos

Interesting and important 9th Circuit decision about the free speech rights of professors at public schools, just won by FIRE, likely to be subject of culture war disputes. /1 cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

I am highlighting a bunch of examples of people genuinely trying to use LLMs and genuinely not finding them very useful to illustrate that this really isn’t just a “rabid AI haters who’ve never actually tried it” conversation

100% true for legal work

👀 What is going on?

"The report also highlights pitfalls of generative AI in law firms, ....moving ... toward a 'stratification' of firms into the 'haves' who use professional-grade AI tools that are expensive and the 'have-nots' who use consumer-grade tools that present privacy and confidentiality risks."

Consumers don’t know if their medications came from factories that used dirty water, were infested by insects or birds, or were outright banned from shipping drugs to the U.S. Our new app provides answers that the FDA won’t.

Will there ever come a time that lawyers figure out they can’t rely on genAI without double-checking? #legalwriting

Rick Steves is an American treasure. Just all-around, one of the absolute best of us.

This isn't framed as an essay about how AI companies manipulate their users, but that's definitely what it's about... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/o...

Really enjoyed this fantastic piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and @cnygren.bsky.social Here are few favorite pull quotes of mine + one little quibble at the end:

Truly some of my best witchcraft in the second half. 💅🏼

Okay, so. This happened, apparently: www.advocate.com/news/tenness... Libraries put in place precautions against this very thing a long time ago, but still, this is really bad.

just did the eagles fight song on the Johnny Brenda’s balcony, this is the irrepressible Philadelphia spirit

I’m open to suggestions on what else to cover! What needs editing?

And yet AI is a Frankenstein’s monster made of the stolen words of academics who did not use AI. So how does this position make sense? Do you think that academics are under some obligation to stay up on technology? I have colleagues who get admins to print out their emails for them and they’re fine.

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Also, what serious academic is going to be upset that an AI fan doesn't "trust" their work? Pretty sure there are folks out there who think we should be using Ouija boards or phrenology too. They don't trust us either. You can go play with them.

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

Curious what the First Amendment knowers think about this decision. There’s some language in here I think is pretty troubling. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

On the seventh night we watch the Eagles. Go Birds! 🦅

Just explained the direction of threading for the embroidery machine bobbin as "make sure the thread coming off the bobbin makes a Phillies logo" in case you wondered how well I'm assimilating to the area (though ironically I was thinking of the one from the 70's when I used to visit family here).

Accurate

Big news out of Montana: Dr. Thomas Weiner has lost his license and will never practice medicine there again as the medical board finally responds to reports that he hurt and mistreated people. They noted Scott Warwick, who got 10 years of chemo etc, died from it, but never had cancer. Context 👇

A good thread. IME, when a (former) employer threatened to challenge my copyright of a published work, the eventual decision was that the reputational damage far outweighed their willingness to enforce their rights. Today is a different day.

Academic freedom has largely granted the teacher control over the Syllabus itself. And one thing that state Democrats should not hesitate to do is openly confront these “meddling” Republicans messing with state universities.

@design-law.bsky.social is circulating a great explainer on “who owns the syllabus” in copyright law. I would note that there is an additional problem from an academic freedom standpoint from UNC’s policy which also states that the system retains instructional control over the syllabus.

The extent of this across academia is quite extraordinary. Students are citing made-up papers supposedly written by the very staff members marking their assessments.

In the wake of this news from UNC, I'm seeing some talk about copyright ownership and faculty scholarship. If you're interested in the topic, here's a good explainer from from @authorsalliance.bsky.social:

Nope

Not in a box. Not with a fox. I do not want it, Sam Am I. I do not want your gen AI.

We did this whole thing a few years ago where we taught all the men about why this is but they said we took it too far because there might be some accountability (but there wasnt?) and now here we are

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

LRS: I am laboring through my book's introduction because I'm reading the scholarship, so the actual books and articles, but also looking up and reading the scholarship that is cited. So it is bonkers to think that people are citing work without having read it.

All the lawlessness ... it all goes back to John Roberts.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled the Trump administration is unlawfully depriving potentially thousands of people in ICE custody in New England of the opportunity to challenge their detention.

Hate it.

Really vindicates my approach of "pinpoints or it didn't happen"

History and tradition.

It's not looking great for me, guys.

Fascinating discussion on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City about trademark law this past week. Angie had insulted Brittany last season that she had "high body count hair," a phrase that then achieved some notoriety. On this week's episode, Brittany stated that she "trademarked HIGH BODY COUNT"

The natural next step in Facebook/Meta’s long-running transformation into one of the purest embodiments of modern evil: of course it’s a “making people pay if they want to post links” model

People out here worrying about ChatGPT inventing cases and DOJ isn’t even using spellcheck. #legalwriting

So, Temple won (yaay), and someone I know (cough) covered the story. Check it out: Owls take down Wildcats: temple-news.com/owls-take-do...

Beautiful story with lots of new reporting on Michele Reiner, a woman in her own right in addition to half of a Hollywood power couple www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/e...

Excited to see my baby nephew tomorrow and to have him open presents! I am thinking about the end of my year professionally. I met with one of my mentees today, and it got me thinking about how much I miss our LLD Q&As. So, if you’re a young law student or “lady lawyer”, reply or DM with questions

No dean in the history of academia has ever told a job applicant they were being blocked be side they were white because (a) that never actually happens and (b) if it did there would be a massive lawsuit. But thank you, Naomi Wolf, for confirming that this is something the Crazies believe.