Hi everyone, I'm hiring a post-doc to work on my FLF project on plant IP. Please spread the word! Queries about the nature of the role and working at Queen's should please be directed to my colleague, Dr Ethan Shattock. hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

The founding director of Cornell's First Amendment clinic is retiring, and we need to hire a new one. It's a great opportunity for an experienced litigator/clinical instructor to do important work to advance free speech & free press. If you or someone you know is interested, apply at the link below.

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Social networks drove more than 5.7 million visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026. The top driver of this traffic was YouTube, followed by X, according to a report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. www.wired.com/story/youtub...

For three years now I've been teaching courses about birding and data viz that are *secretly* about building our capacity to notice and fostering environmental care. The next ones start in September. Space is limited.

DeviantArt website in 2005

This admin does so many evil things every day that Idk if I read about this back when the lawsuit was filed & forgot, or if I missed it until now, but withholding ICAC grants - $ meant for fighting child sexual exploitation - from sanctuary cities is truly depraved. www.kpbs.org/news/educati...

Pizza Hut website in 1996

my magnum opus

🙏 www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Some smart people are praising this policy and I’m begging them to talk to a disabled law student 🙏

I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio

⚽🕹️ The first official World Cup computer game was a fiasco. WORLD CUP CARNIVAL: MEXICO '86 was just a tweaked re-release of Artic Computing's World Cup Football, to cash in on the tournament at over 4× the original price. 💸 Its awfulness has been saved for posterity ⤵️ archive.org/search?tab=a...

i think Sony killing physical game discs and the second hand market is going to have the opposite effect -- there's going to be a massive second renaissance for retro games and consoles, as skyrocketing hardware costs drive people to abandon the mainstream industry and seek out the gems of the past.

The Knight Institute is hiring. Open roles include staff attorney, paralegal, communications associate, and fall interns. Learn more: knightcolumbia.org/page/work-wi...

You mean *this* Microsoft?!?

@BerkeleyLaw is hiring a tenured professor in AI, Law and Society, as part of an interdisciplinary campus-wide cluster. Please spread the word, and consider applying! Deadline is September 4. Happy to field questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05397

Sending good vibes to disabled students at Chicago: www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-stra...

The FTC's settlement with John Deere actually has teeth, unlike previous settlements that largely maintained the status quo.

the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me

I tested Meta's new AI image model and detection tool. It lets users deepfake everyday Instagram users, celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, and world leaders like Trump. The detection tool was easily fooled by cropping screenshots of Meta AI images. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

As debates over disability rights & independent living continue, Ariana Aboulafia's latest piece in Disability Culture Currents examines an often-overlooked question: What happens when surveillance tech becomes the default solution for aging & disability care? Read the op-ed:

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

Graphic designer Dominik Bachmann uploaded work from the photography archive of his late uncle, Eric Bachmann, one of Switzerland’s notable photographers of the 20th century.  Here's what happened next ➡️ wikimedia.ch/en/news/a-gr...

Planned Parenthood Arizona clinics are once again providing care for patients insured through Medicaid. Services for Medicaid patients had been on pause since September.

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

I am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.

good morning! ☀️☕️✍️ if you're writing right now on intellectual property, privacy, or tech law we would absolutely love to see you & your work in progress at CLICWIPs this september at @nusl.bsky.social please submit your abstract here by friday: law.northeastern.edu/event/2026-c...

Do you miss the Public Domain Slider? So did we! So we brought it back, along with all the other great interactive tools from the Copyright Advisory Network. librarycopyright.net

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Segment from Alphonse Bertillon’s "Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques", ca. 1909. More on the image here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

“When the BBC reported one of the ads to Instagram, the social media platform responded 24 hours later saying the post did not violate its ‘community guidelines’”

“More than one thing can be bad” and “things can be bad in multiple ways,” my Roman Empire.