“Patch it over with some clear sheeting and chalk it up to one of those weird things amorphous solids can do.”

What I really want everyone to reckon with is that corporations – and other artificial entities created as legal persons – are themselves a kind of AI, at least in the sense that all these proposals for "AI Companies" are using the term. Charlie Stross covered this nearly a decade ago...

Dude, you broke the future! - Charlie's Diary

(You can also watch it on YouTube, but it runs to about 45 minutes.)

antipope.org

Dael Norwood@dael.bsky.social · 4h ago

I missed this when it came out but ... consider me unconvinced that this article counts as a meaningful "critique" of Delaware's plan to enact the worst idea since huffing paint

I missed this when it came out but ... consider me unconvinced that this article counts as a meaningful "critique" of Delaware's plan to enact the worst idea since huffing paint

Delaware AI Company Proposal Needs Details Before Road Testing

Opinion: Delaware needs a more holistically conceived regulatory plan for AI-driven companies — that addresses potential risks — for such a proposal to be feasible,

news.bloomberglaw.com

A city in Kansas is suing residents who tried to ban data centers. Edgerton, Kansas, is suing multiple women and an organization in an effort to void a citizen petition that would have banned AI data centers. /1

Edgerton calls citizen petition ‘void and invalid,’ files suit to block data center ban

The City of Edgerton has filed a lawsuit to block a potential data center ban, calling the petition surrounding it "void and invalid."

kctv5.com

"...findings that 3 [insts] violated civil rights law by tolerating antisemitism were predetermined by political priorities that blew past the evidence and cast aside standard investigative procedures..." Reading the whistleblower statement and taking rage breaks www.ms.now/news/frame-u...

Whistleblower says probes into antisemitism at colleges were ploys to harass and strip millions

A former Justice Department lawyer says the Trump investigations squeezed Ivy League universities for millions before they were even concluded. A top Democrat is demanding answers.

ms.now

"every county courthouse was also a slave auction site" #slaveryarchive 🗃

Arkansas Times@arktimes.bsky.social · 2d ago

“They immediately said, ‘Do not mention this to anyone.’ They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they might be watching,“ researcher Tessa Wahlquist said. “They” were members of the Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders administration.

This op-ed answers the titular question in the affirmative, but then spends most of its words worrying that sometime, someday, the answer will be no… The piece also emphasizes & reiterates the anxieties & threats about the franchise that Trump’s SEC Chair, the corporate bar, & the Meyer admin have…

Viewpoint: Is Delaware Still the Default Home for America's New Public Companies?

DSU professor Nancy Ning discusses how Delaware's share of U.S. IPO incorporations is declining and questions the state.

delawarebusinesstimes.com

“Who can forget Aronson v. Lewis^10, Guth v. Loft, Inc.^11, Schnell v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc.^12, Weinberger v. UOP Inc.^13, or one of the longest-running cases, Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc.^14 ?”

What's the name of the minor league baseball team this logo was clearly designed for, and who in the majors are they affiliated with?

Dael Norwood@dael.bsky.social · 2d ago

read the whole piece but also this is the logo Amazon chose for the facility where they are tearing up books to feed to AI yes that IS a tyrannical beast eating a book to turn it into shit, why do you ask

read the whole piece but also this is the logo Amazon chose for the facility where they are tearing up books to feed to AI yes that IS a tyrannical beast eating a book to turn it into shit, why do you ask

404 Media@404media.co · 2d ago

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

uhhhhh

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2d ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

yes, but fwiw, that's not what he said. Here's the relevant portion of the statement.

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Idk lol "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. I knew what I was doing was illegal. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour." is pretty fuckin legendary

How are we managing to fast-forward through the Gilded Age at 2x speed while also running the Progressive Era in reverse

Emily Hamilton@ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from me at Governing: www.governing.com/finance/how-... State property tax caps are spreading like wildfire. And most concerningly, some states are adopting Prop 13-style "welcome neighbor" rules that lead to lower tax bills the longer you've been in your house.

After winning Teacher of the Year award at a conference in TX, UMD Professor Kibret was detained by ICE at the airport. 3 weeks later he’s still in custody. He’s not the “worst of the worst” & detaining him isn’t making communities safer. He should be released, now. www.wbaltv.com/article/mary...

Maryland professor Berhanu Kibret remains in ICE custody

ICE confirmed Kibret is being held at Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Oklahoma, more than 250 miles from the airport.

wbaltv.com

Behind every (alleged) great crime lies a Delaware business entity registration form, a continuing series… World Liberty Financial, Inc., the firm the Trump family uses for various crypto schemes (meme coins, rug pulls, bribery, “banking”), is a DE corp, file #4943581, w/ CSC their reg. agent

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4d ago

Exclusive: World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s flagship crypto venture, says its trust company has received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a bank. on.wsj.com/4wyvwat

This season of Reacher is doing all the Reacher things – so far a step up from last year (or maybe I just like govt conspiracy stories better than serial killer mobster stories…)

www.ft.com/content/47dd...

Jane Street suffers $15bn hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

Secretive Wall Street trading firm wrongfooted by July AI rout

ft.com

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 4d ago

time for another fuck you friday

Joke's on him, it's already not in California

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · last wk.

Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to pull the company out of California starting October 1. Paramount will stay if AG Rob Bonta agrees to settlement talks over the lawsuit seeking to block the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

In which I identify the concept of “authoritarian entrepreneurs” to explain why some campus executives might see the administration’s agenda as an opportunity, even if they don’t fully subscribe it. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/is-the-com...

Is the Compact 2.0 the Work of Authoritarian Entrepreneurs?

Academic status seeking might drive some campus executives to work with the Trump Administration.

academicfreedomontheline.substack.com

This interview, and Prof. Law's work, more generally, is an excellent corrective to reporting that – quite wrongly – repeats the claim that fed govt's monopoly over migration was enshrined in the Constitution. (Nope!) E.g. this @spotlightdelaware.bsky.social spotlightdelaware.org/2026/08/14/m...

Commonplace: the journal of early American life @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social · 5d ago

How did early state regulations and the institution of slavery shape modern U.S. immigration policy? Find out in "Read More Books: Immigration is about Staying Put, too.", where Karin Wulf interviews Anna Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) on her new book: vastearly.am/4wv54ii

"Reading the news, you’d be forgiven for thinking that immigration policy in the United States is about policing national borders. But the longer history reveals a much more complicated federal legality and the essential role of states in managing migration."

Commonplace: the journal of early American life @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social · 5d ago

How did early state regulations and the institution of slavery shape modern U.S. immigration policy? Find out in "Read More Books: Immigration is about Staying Put, too.", where Karin Wulf interviews Anna Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) on her new book: vastearly.am/4wv54ii

This Day in Labor History: August 14, 1889. Workers on the London docks walked out on strike. Over 100,000 workers eventually struck and they won an incredible victory, one of the greatest achievements for organized labor anywhere in the world during these years!!

An interesting response from Bainbridge to Lipton's article "The Legitimation of Shareholder Primacy." Bainbridge attempts to analyze the political crisis over Delaware corporate law using public choice theory, re-describing it as a rational conflict of interests btwn the DE bar, leg, & judiciary.

“Novelists are told to write what they know, but they’re not forced to. Good thing: Vanishingly few novelists are kings, monsters, street urchins or pirates; nevertheless, very good books have been written on the subjects.”

Flock just announced some pretty huge changes that are clearly the result of increased scrutiny on the company from journalists, activists, and local communities. An indication that it sees the current state of affairs as untenable: www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-g...

Flock is cutting default data retention to seven days, making misuse detection mandatory for every customer, and inviting the rest of the industry to meet the same standard.

flocksafety.com

A thoughtful essay about what seems like a very useful book (David Backer, As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Public Schools, 2025)

Public Education and the Long Tax Revolt - Dissent Magazine

Public schools are in need of major funding reforms, but any egalitarian vision for the American education system will need to overcome a right-wing crusade to dismantle it altogether.

dissentmagazine.org

In an era of billionaires making stupid rich guy choices that cause irreversible global harm and kill untold numbers of people, it’s refreshing to hear about a mere multi-millionaire spending like a weird idiot now that his own corrupt grift has been run.

Dael Norwood@dael.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Mr. Lane is now focusing on his own projects. In 2023, he co-founded … a competitive horseracing association. … this summer, he mounted a rock musical he wrote about Benjamin Franklin titled “The Sound of America” in Philadelphia … It finished its debut run this month.”

“Mr. Lane is now focusing on his own projects. In 2023, he co-founded … a competitive horseracing association. … this summer, he mounted a rock musical he wrote about Benjamin Franklin titled “The Sound of America” in Philadelphia … It finished its debut run this month.”

Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment

Randall Lane, the magazine’s chief content officer, received the money from the founder of Shook Research, which has worked with Forbes on content about wealth advisers.

nytimes.com

NEW: I talked with @gilduran.com about his new book, Network States and the "apocalypse capitalism" embraced by so many leading tech figures. www.inc.com/sam-blum/thi...

This Journalist Says Tech Billionaires Are Trying to Take Over U.S. Democracy. Here's What He Wants You to Know

The Nerd Reich, by journalist Gil Durán, parses the rising tide of authoritarianism embraced by leading tech investors and the ‘Network State’ ideology.

inc.com