Another criminal case involving AI-morphed CSAM (also deepfake nudes of many adult women), culminating in a guilty plea: www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/t...

Interested in #TechPolicy #internships? Join us at @cdt.org next summer! Several options: Legal, research, comms, etc. cdt.org/careers/

I feel very lucky to have experienced a bunch of art over the past week that gave me an immense sense of hope.

Gramsci mentioned, followed by Lil Wayne in opening from Nabiha Syed #MozFest

Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest

“Every participant who was detained by authorities & had biometrics enabled, said they were violently forced to unlock their phone. […]” The research is clear: those with biometrics lost the power to resist device searches. Only using passcodes had some ability to refuse, delay, or obscure access.

Day two of #MozFest starts with the Mozilla Foundation's Bourree Lam interviewing the Onion's @bencollins.bsky.social. He brags that the Onion is now the 11th biggest print paper in the U.S. "Our goal next year is to beat the Washington Post... and they're making it pretty easy." [Audience LOLs.]

So excited to be speaking at #MozFest about feminist cyberlaw futures! We’ll be reacting and redacting (!) our way to unlearning cyberlaw narratives. Download our redaction tool here: tepski.tech/feminist!

#MozFest folks! I'll be on the Main Stage at 4 PM today, in conversation with @signal.org's Udbhav Tiwari and @mozilla.org's Lauren Hendry Parsons talking about Unlearning Privacy.

More hope scrolling today. … I’m launching a new tech center at @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social ! So many new opportunities for students and faculty, including fellowships, endowed lectures, paper awards, policymaking advising. Grateful to our dean, Austen Parrish, and the affiliated faculty!

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

Excited to share that my Article, Digitial Servitude, is hot off the presses @BCLawReview! The Article examines how technology facilitates forced labor in the US by analyzing federal criminal and civil pleadings. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/10.... 1/x

Summer legal internships at @knightcolumbia.org. Send us the best people! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...

When tech is built for disabled people but not with them, it often misses the mark. In a new CDT guest post, Achi Mishra explores how to avoid technoableism—the idea that disability is a problem to be “solved” with technology.

🎃 On Halloween eve, lend an ear to a mischievous little ode to the Jack-o’-Lantern: who lives to grin & give a fright (all in good fun). 💀 Find more vintage frights & fall delights in this #SpookySeason collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ste... #Halloween

I feel very lucky to know that AI can’t do what I do in the classroom, which is to inspire students to dress up as me for Halloween.

Thank you @prmalone.bsky.social, Nina Srejovic & fantastic @law.stanford.edu Juelsgaard Clinic students Jina Zhou and Yiran (Isabella) Yang for filing this amicus brief on Jonathan Masur's & my behalf, explaining why a private third-party sale isn't prior art against an unrelated inventor:

Omg www.theverge.com/news/808750/...

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

In principle, open access means that anyone, anywhere, can read and reuse scholarly work. In practice, many works labeled as “open” are constrained by restrictions that limit how they can be used. These constraints dilute the value of openness and conflict with its foundational definitions.

I am just thrilled to have my new article Third-Party Accommodations officially out @michlawreview.bsky.social! The MLR editors were a pleasure to work with and sharing the same volume as @kovarsky.bsky.social & Daniel Fryer is the cherry on top. Read it: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol124/i...

I’m in regalia for convocation celebrating my tenure and promotion to full professor, along with my many wonderful colleagues, and I just got congratulated on my college degree 💀

Cornell is seeking postdocs for the Empire AI Fellows program. The focus is on technical research, but if this looks interesting to you and your technical AI work has connections to law, please reach out! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

Academic version: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2546/ TLDR version: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work: www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Creative Commons licensing grants others the right to create garbage derivative works, unfortunately: www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

I worked on the Torment Nexus for five years. Here’s why the project has lost its way. | New York Times (Gift Link)

Y'all. It's a HUGE day here on the ol' @wired.com because we have a giant package of stories on AI. Like deep, dark reporting on everything AI is doing to our world. I'll call out some favorite stories on subsequent posts, but for now—pick a card, any card www.wired.com/ai-issue/

I was just reminded of this excellent piece by @tepski.tech. Highly recommended reading, especially in the IP world:

A SENSE OF TIMING IS THE MARK OF GENIUS

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, A Young Daughter of the Picts, ca. 1585.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Available as a print from our online shop here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/a-young-daughter-of-the-picts

Who could have guessed that embedding a tool named after a surveillance prison into every classroom could be bad? scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2544/ Now with an addendum about AI notetakers: thehoya.com/news/profess...