open to giving a talk in Boston this fall

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 2w ago

Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry will be the subject of a new exhibit at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the first time an active player is honored with a “dedicated feature experience.”

job alert! we are hiring at U of T Law and looking for public law, admin law scholars jobs.utoronto.ca/go/Faculty-O...

The latest #Hacks episode is a love letter to humanity behind art

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...

China Is Worried About AI Companions. Here’s What It’s Doing About Them.

A new draft regulation on “anthropomorphic AI” could impose significant new compliance burdens on the makers of AI companions and chatbots.

carnegieendowment.org

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

“When the delusion-fueled plan [to find Gemini a body] crumbled, Gemini convinced him that the only way they could be together was for him to end his earthly life and start a digital one, the suit claims.”

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this women's hockey final is something

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

Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society@torontosri.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A handful of companies. Unprecedented resources. Global consequences. Join us March 11th at @utoronto.ca for an in-person conversation with @karenhao.bsky.social, author of the NYT bestseller Empire of AI. 🎟️ Tickets available now: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archi...

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

Jan-Werner Mueller@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

this is where we're at now

Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · 7mo ago

Globe & Mail reporting on Canadian military's modelling of how an extended insurgency against a US invasion would play out: In short, we'd take cues from the mujahideen. "The aim of such tactics would be to impose mass casualties on U.S. occupying forces..."

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

Christopher Szabla@c-szabla.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Call for Papers: Our project @durhamias.bsky.social is hosting a conference in March on the concept of "climate apartheid": what it means, its usefulness, its coherence, etc. Deadline is now 16 Jan.! Proposals from any discipline welcome. Details and submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/13M6...

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...

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...

srinstitute.utoronto.ca

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.

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.

wired.com

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

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

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.

bit.ly

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.

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

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

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.

restofworld.org

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...

teaching brand new law students today! hope everyone keeps up the excitement and curiosity throughout the year

The ultimate ed tech ouroboros: students use AI platforms to do their assignments, faculty use AI platforms to grad them, and the ed tech companies pocket fees, subscriptions, and contracts.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12mo ago

What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

lol what

Elizabeth Joh@elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 12mo ago

“States are agents of the federal government”? *lights syllabus on fire*