maybe we will have to rethink whats the point of legal scholarship

a Black Mirror episode IRL. should be motivation for more regulation on these chatbots.

for a comparative perspective, here's a piece on what China is doing about anthropomorphic AI carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...

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this women's hockey final is something

congrats!

For Toronto area folks, please join us for this super event!

this is a serious snowstorm

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

this is where we're at now

modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening

If the Swedes can come up with the prize in economics, the Norwegians can come up with a special nobel to save denmark

Reminder: proposals for this conference are due at the end of this week

SRI Seminar Series: Saffron Huang, “Beyond the benchmark” — Schwartz Reisman Institute What does it take to build AI that truly serves the public good? Join Collective Intelligence Project researcher, technologist, and writer Saffron Huang for a look at how democratic participation, tra...

join us @torontosri.bsky.social next week for a talk "Beyond the Benchmark" by @saffron.bsky.social on building better instruments for understanding AI's societal effects srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archi...

Trump Signs Executive Order That Threatens to Punish States for Passing AI Laws The order creates a Justice Department task force to challenge state AI laws and directs the Commerce Department to pull future broadband funding from states that pass “onerous” legislation.

President Donald Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order on Thursday that sets in motion a plan to establish a national regulatory framework for artificial intelligence while undercutting states’ abilities to enact their own rules.

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Thank you! We are on week 2 as well of someone being out of commission 😔

Fomo from all the end of the year socials because of a nasty bug

The Gaza Genocide Has Not Ended. It Has Only Changed Its Form. A real ceasefire would mean opening borders, rebuilding what was destroyed, and allowing life to return. But this is not happening.

Gaza remains suspended in limbo. Waiting for aid. Waiting for news of prisoners. Waiting for the world to see that the genocide has not ended—it has only changed its form.
https://bit.ly/48zjsvP

It’s been awhile since I’ve done layovers within the US. Can I make it from gate B to gate A in Denver in less than 20mins or shall I end up sleeping in some random hotel? We will see

postdoc/research fellow opportunity for aspiring law profs and legal scholars! If you want to spend some time in Toronto, we have two such open positions (good for up to 2 years) - deadline for applications is March 6, 2026 jackmanlaw.utoronto.ca/sites/defaul...

i have high hopes for my to-do list during this fall break

My job talk paper just out in the n American Journal for Legal History! I'll write up a thread in a bit. In the meantime, link here:
Who is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada: academic.oup.com/ajlh/article...

'No one is entitled to rest content on their progressive laurels by simply referring to the "rule of law" without attention to the kinds of law and legal institution such invocations end up buttressing.'

Martti Koskenniemi on international law in NLR 154

newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

I finally saw the LeBron ad and one thought jumped out at me.

It’s the exact commercial Donald Trump would make if he was a basketball player.

LeBron came across as desperate.

Desperate for admiration.

Desperate for affection.

And desperate for the one thing he can’t get.

He deserves better.

That sounds wild to me

For people who move a lot: how do you do it without losing your mind

A hidden network handles chats for OnlyFans stars. AI could soon take over Impersonators for OnlyFans models said their sales quotas are soaring, and once AI improves, they could be out of work.

A single mom in the Philippines who works as an outsourced OnlyFans “chatter” told us she now has difficulty forming real relationships. “Sometimes, when [messaging] with someone and it turns flirty, I lose interest. It feels like I’m working.”
https://restofworld.org/2025/onlyfans-ai-dm-bots

I'm not prepared to answer questions about the nature of time from my four year-old

In a note just published by @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I examine and critique Israel’s paridoxical appeal to humanitarian reasoning and language to obscure, justify, and facilitate harmful conduct www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian...

this looks cool