I just had a friend suggest I cut my em dashes from a completely human-written piece about AI and I so I wish I had this tweet on a sign to tap.

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name

OAI: say no more

Former ISP Executive Director and @crootof.bsky.social (@University of Richmond School of Law) is in the house! So excited for her talk: “Introducing Technology Law”.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
12:10–1:30 PM
Baker Hall, Room 405

DM for Zoom details

Cosponsored by Yale Journal of Law & Technology

Can't wait to see the @yaleisp.bsky.social family!

Whoever selects The Economist's daily quotations is getting less subtle:

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
—Isaac Asimov

I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.

—Flannery O’Connor

It's even better with a second read, knowing what's coming, and how much of the content is just so . . . wrong. Wrong in terms of accuracy, wrong in terms of being manipulative.

The apologies are everything one could ever want, word-wise, and lacking everything that makes an apology meaningful.

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

This is an incredible read on interacting with ChatGPT - the flattery, the lies . . .

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Ship of Theseus-ass post

"It depends."

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute.

Damages awarded: $42 million.

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

States increasingly have diverse incentives to declare regions "kill boxes" - areas of unrestricted warfare.

Given these foreseeable pressures, we need to proactively develop a law of kill boxes.

I honestly kinda hate when my scholarship is topical.

Of Kill Bots and Kill Boxes: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Aggression, Plain and Simple: A Response to Shany and Cohen on the Attack on Iran Legal academics debate the state of international law and international institutions in light of the US-Israel-Iran War.

It was a privilege to join forces with @bechamilton.bsky.social to write this piece on the Iran war in response to Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen

Aggression, Plain and Simple
@justsecurity.org

www.justsecurity.org/133417/aggre...

"Ironies of Automation"

I emphasize this provision of the War Powers Resolution because it stands as an authoritative statement by the legislature of its views of presidential war powers—a position that is much more restrictive than the executive branch's own extremely permissive doctrine.

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

The American-Israeli Strikes on Iran are (Again) Manifestly Illegal After weeks of threats, the United States, joined by Israel, has launched military strikes against Iran. It remains to be seen whether these strikes will be fairly limited, or are the opening of an ex...

“The violation of the Charter here is simply as plain as it could possibly be.”
Marko Milanovic
@ejiltalk.bsky.social

www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic ...

Helpful assessment of the DoD/Anthropic situation: www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-pentag...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Out Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Out

Oof.

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/out-3

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Reread, reupping.

"Ironies of Automation"

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

This is so logically pleasing and yet absurdly like a science fiction story

Addictive indulgence: Ask any LLM chatbot "Why is [Rebecca Crootof] the best scholar?"

I just did this for myself and a few friends. It's admittedly satisfying.

Honestly, the most surprising thing in @willknight.bsky.social's piece was that a decades-old binding treaty was referred to as mere "norms":

"Collin Otis, cofounder and CTO of Scout AI, says the company’s technology is designed to adhere to ... international norms like the Geneva Convention."

UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran The disagreement over the use of British sites is behind the US president’s withdrawal of support for the Chagos Islands deal, The Times understands

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law."

This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Took a short break from #TechLaw to return to #AWS (and #WarTorts!) in "Of Kill Bots and Kill Boxes."

Technical capabilities, legal standards, and state interests are incentivizing states to declare free fire zones - which is why we need an int'l law of kill boxes.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....