Today, Matt Dimick explains why capitalism is neither merely a set of legal institutions, nor a consequence of ineluctable laws of nature, human or otherwise. It is, rather, the convergence of a peculiar constellation of social relations and institutions. lpeproject.org/blog/is-capita…

I cannot express how stoked I am to be able to join this event *in person* in December !!

📢📰 So proud to announce that, after a long journey, the paper "Licensing high-risk AI" by frankpasquale.bsky.social or [email protected] and me, is finally published – fully open access – on CLSR! We propose an ex-ante #justification model for #AI licensing! Here is the link:

Given the manifest flaws of the U.S. Constitution, how did Americans come to idolize this document? And how might we push beyond this confined vision? Today, Aziz Rana kicks off a symposium on his new book, *The Constitutional Bind.* 📕🔥 lpeproject.org/blog/toward-a-…

Today, Willy Forbath continues our symposium on *The Constitutional Bind,* arguing that key left figures and movements have always made canny use of redemptive constitutional narratives and arguments. Rejecting that tradition leaves far too much on the table. lpeproject.org/blog/constitut…

Interesting how Andrew Ross outlined the basics of Zuboff's "surveillance capitalism" as early as 1990

Ok, we're back! New day, "new" paper from the last academic year to plug! (Defining "new" as in new-ish....) Today's paper: Christopher J. Morten, Publicizing Corporate Secrets, 171 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1319 (2023). scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_revie… 45/

In effect, what I propose is a kind of "contextual integrity for trade secrets"—an explicit nod to Helen Nissenbaum, & to Daniel J. Solove, Woodrow Hartzog & other theorists of privacy law who have challenged the premise of a strict dichotomy between "private" & "public" information. 58/

Not sure I've ever seen a more scathing comment from the normally staid Independent Budget Office

someone please do an environmental impact assessment of apple’s push to get people to buy new hardware made of rare minerals because literally phones do everything people need and they were just slowing down replacing them which would have made a very big environmental difference

Isn't it amazing how a bunch of hippies writing in 1971 on "counter-technology" were politically more mature than 99% of today's tech critics?

Well I guess everyone owes Ezra Klein an apology, don’t they?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decision to hold on to her Supreme Court seat and resist suggestions that she step down had vast and tangible consequences that the country will live with for generations. Joe Biden should be mindful of that unfortunate lesson. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit information hub is fighting it off like their the Night's Watch