Read more about the "Seattle windshield pitting epidemic" of 1954 in "Rumors have rules," a 2023 Issues in Science and Technology article by @cip.uw.edu co-founders @emmaspiro.bsky.social and @katestarbird.bsky.social: issues.org/rumors-resea...

It’s 👏👏 that 👏👏 easy

Ryan Calo

@rcalo.bsky.social newest book, “Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach,” published late last year, is a guide to a legal analysis of regulation and technology.
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Stop Calling Hungary an Authoritarian Playbook Casting Orbán’s attacks on higher education as an “authoritarian playbook” risks treating the erosion of academic freedom as inevitable.

Stop Calling Hungary an Authoritarian Playbook msmagazine.com/2026/04/11/h...

Trump sticker pointing at $110.79 for 14.579 gallons of gas reads “I did that.”

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I feel seen

I imagine its default mode is Depeche

Artificial intelligence Jesus chatbot sparks debate over future of faith For some evangelical Christians, a personal relationship with Jesus is central to their faith. Now, a tech company called Just Like Me is offering to take that concept to an unprecedented level, allowing users to engage in video calls with an artificial intelligence-generated avatar of Jesus for $1....

When you see one set of footprints, that’s because a chatbot is non-corporeal.

Value Sensitive Design In the midst of technological, environmental, and social turmoil, engineers, policymakers, and designers of all kinds seek approaches to responsible innovati...

Congratulations to my friends and colleagues Batya Friedman and David Hendry on the publication of the second edition of Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination mitpress.mit.edu/978026255325... Such important work!

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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April 7! Kashmir Hill (NYTs) and Jeff Horwiz (Reuters) on the harms of AI chatbots events.uw.edu/event/abc619...

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You know my feelings on this

Happening in twenty!

More embarrassing that they changed their name 🤣

3:1 punitive if federal but yes & yikes

Thank you 🥹

We had the most wonderful day with @rcalo.bsky.social giving LawTech talk about his must read brilliant new book Law and Technology: A Methodological Approach. Thank you @uvalaw.bsky.social and LawTech fellows present, future and past :))

Reminds me of papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Accolades: Professor Leads Legal Scholar Citations In a new ranking, Professor Danielle Citron of the University of Virginia School of Law was the most-cited legal scholar of 2025 for work published from 2019-21, among other achievements and recogniti...

Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social was the most-cited legal scholar of 2025 for work published from 2019-21, among other achievements and recognition for members of the #UVALaw community.

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Jon Bings Memorial Seminar 2026 - Law and Technology - Department of Private Law How should law engage with technological change when the objects of regulation are fluid, complex, and often framed as inevitable? This seminar examines the challenges of regulating emerging technolog...

Honored to give the Jon Bings Memorial Lecture at University of Oslo next month. www.jus.uio.no/ifp/english/...

Witness Caught Using Smartglasses in Court Blames it all on ChatGPT A judge in London tossed out witness testimony after discovering the man was receiving coaching through a pair of smartglasses.

NEW: An insolvency judge in England tossed out testimony after discovering a witness was being coached on what to say in real time through a pair of smartglasses. When the voice of the coach started coming through the cellphone after it was disconnected from the glasses, the witness blamed ChatGPT.

Is there truly no limit to the dumb

The Trump Administration really cares about AI innovation. That’s why it’s divesting in basic research, cutting off access to foreign talent, & trying to destroy a leading American AI company 👍

oh, there it is!