Associate dean for academic affairs and Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech), research financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. Dem soc org & pol’y 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.
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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target
The problem with libertarianism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money
Hi @harpers.bsky.social can I pitch a new, updated open letter about free speech?
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My colleague @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social had a great op-ed for MSNBC about the First Amendment and Jimmy Kimmel. Check it out!
I mean whatever their next Reg FD eligible comms are, it’ll be in an 8K soon
Can't wait to see how Disney handles this in their next SEC filing.
H-1B extensions also purportedly covered by the $100K fee. That makes it a recurring expense, so many people who are on H-1B now would be forced to leave if this goes into effect. Absolutely devastating for Silicon Valley communities in particular.
becoming fully beaudrillard pilled. realizing the entire project of 5-4 has been in many ways detailing how conservatives have built a simulation of academic and legal scholarship, in order to live in a hyperreal world in which the constitution demands white supremacy
What about pizza plate and napkin??
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Hi @harpers.bsky.social can I pitch a new, updated open letter about free speech?
Dave Klion did a Harpers Letter where are they now 5 years later piece in May of this year: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Have deleted my academia.edu account (long overdue to be honest). Thread below explains how to do so and why, and I can confirm this method works, even if, like me, you've forgotten your password.
Saving a couple hundred bucks a year with all the subscriptions I’m canceling, so that’s nice.
Ah man, sorry! That wheel looks so sad.
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
Also this is amazing: “Every one of these seven [ensemble] performers is an acting Oscar nominee” 😲
I get it — Bish was on the run, Coz was in prison — but the aging is not that accelerated
The funniest conceit, though, is that Redford’s and Kingsley’s characters are supposed to be in college in 1969, and then 22 years later (1991) they are 55 and 48.
The score fits in Very Well with the movie!
Is this bad
That is the Part IV of all of our papers these days. Anyway, I’d read it
Are you writing something about that for LPE Blog and if not would you
Just putting this out there in case people don’t know of the case: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankin_...
Whatever the merits are here, you really shouldn’t upend the proxy voting system via a no-action letter
oh you have an wrds license, luckyyy
Who needs the 34 Act anyway
The first US-born leader of the Catholic church singled out the Tesla chief as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining 'the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society' on.ft.com/4653oC8
the gemeinschaft of the bezos fiefdom wapo and the sulzberger family business new york times verus the gessellschaft of the nikkei-owned financial times
Looks like the ICE presence in Chicagoland—and I emphasize the “land” part—is purposefully operating in a way as to avoid media coverage. By grabbing people here and there on city edges, outskirts & random suburbs, they don’t attract activity that generates coverage, let alone protest.
I get the Chicago malort thing. I get the giardianera thing. But I don’t get the Green River Soda thing
As public spectacle, as opposed to disciplinary practice or pedagogical tool, “good-faith debate” is effectively an oxymoron. It’s certainly not a feature of political discourse, which is (especially for champions of “debate”) a matter of hammering home talking points and slogans.
Before 8am is a bit early for the neighbor to have the Bluetooth speaker out
It’s mid September, which means it is time for the short film ROOM ON THE BROOM feat. Gillian Anderson
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
they should invent logging on that is good for you
Hey #FOIA nerds wouldn't it be cool if a bunch of agencies got FOIA requests for all call logs of agency bigwigs to or from this number? @muellershewrote.com @annabower.bsky.social
I just repurchased some of these pedals at 41. Godspeed.
It would be nice to live in a functioning democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
this is as far as i can genuinely go on this
Putting it out there that Tarik is among the best commentators we have.
If only Gandolfini’d played a character from southie. Think what we missed.
Masshole Tony is a great bit.
"free speech on campus" was always a disingenuous lie what they actually mean is our speech should be free from criticism and yours shouldn't be allowed at all, and anyone who claims otherwise is either lying or a rube
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
I think we should all at least prepare for the absurdist humor of overruling Humphrey’s on the shadow docket. Real 2025 energy.
It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
NEW POLL says capitalism’s hold over the U.S. population is slipping. Only 54% of Americans view the economic system of capitalism favorably—the lowest percentage since Gallup began collecting data in 2010. trib.al/fDh7kQf
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted
And white out.
The text editor smith-corona
According to the Hunt for Red October
imo, especially if you look at the menu, trump has actually perfectly recreated something I'm closely familiar with: a non-profit awards dinner at an airport marriott ballroom
ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump. Join us.
This was a problem in my old college town chapter — people cycling through the YDSA chapter and never interacting in 4 years with the rest of the local chapter
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
Americans clearly don’t understand that this line of argument is entirely lost for at least a generation. Talk about the US as representing “democracy” or “the free world” will be met with scorn everywhere. The world has converged to Latin America in that regard.
Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
lol yeah “let’s book this expense to FY 2022”
No, I have unsuccessfully put in reimbursements myself up until now
It was an expense reimbursement.
“Mr Beast has acquired first strike capability”
Animal Collective album-release 20th anniversary is giving me some FEELS
I successfully completed a small task at my office that has bedeviled me for three years.
Fun Jonathan Mitchell fact: he once filed a suit claiming the Harvard Law Review discriminates against white men, and argued that Twombly/Iqbal didn't apply to his case and conclusory pleading is fine. The judge was appalled enough to describe this "astonishing proposition" in the dismissal order.
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”
As Marotta-Wurgler & Issacharoff have observed, the dual rise of arbitration and federal class adjudication has hollowed out state consumer and contract law governing digital technologies. I think that the same is about to happen to real property law. profhoffman.substack.com/p/out-of-cou...
It's obviously a shithole, isn't it?
Sign of the times: Came across a D.C. home bearing an upside-down city flag, indicating distress, and the sailing flag associated with man overboard.
And yet a trace of the true self resides in the false self
My balance at the grocery store was an even $25 today and everyone involved was like “whoa—round numbers are so unusual as to appear fraudulent”
I keep MA and DC because they are non-MCLE jurisdictions. I went inactive in NE because they had a (DCC-violative) requirement to attend CLE in person. With no clients or active practice, the IL application by motion's paperwork burdens and the state MCLE requirement are a real deterrent.
This is how I describe it in admin law, more or less.
Impossible to put into writing what should happen to the agents whose job is taking fathers from daughters, but you can certainly think it.
This is sick freak shit to say and it's alright to point that out
In news that is entirely unsurprising to faculty
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
There’s always a local news angle
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education 1/
The university where I did my PhD is destroying itself. I’m not sure its forner reputation will ever recover. www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
The latest thing Trump has done to DC: Scare the visitors away. Damaging all the businesses, large and small, that depend on them. Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August. (Article and more photos to come later today.)
rise and shine!!!
Sounds like a new obligation of law review faculty advisory committees, not joking
Who among us
There was no seller. No transaction. No filings. No board disclosure. No new shares authorized or issued. But the government “owns” 10% of a public company.
As the ABA discusses the proposal to double the required number of experiential credits, here's a very informative and timely paper from Chilton, Joy, and Rozema. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It provides grounds for real skepticism, and so far I have not seen good counter-evidence from the ABA.
LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
I pitched a Calvinball themed essay a couple months ago and it was desk rejected. Feels good man
Imagine explaining to Bill Watterson while he was drawing this that "Calvinball" would one day appear in a United States Supreme Court dissent
@jfallows.bsky.social recs on best books about the Carter admin?
We have general sections of PR plus sections of Business Ethics and Ethics in Advocacy that appeal to specializing students.
