so frustrating that the nyt is latching onto the issue of "should women's colleges admit [trans] men" and distracting from the much more pressing issue of "how can wellesley be more welcoming to its existing trans[masc and fem] students"

The UX choices of Westlaw are so bizarre that I don't if it's more comforting to assume 1) they do a ton of user testing and this is what lawyers prefer or 2) they do no user testing.

TikTok’s users — including more than 150 million Americans, according to the company — "are indisputably exercising First Amendment rights when they post and consume content on the platform," writes Jameel Jaffer. nyti.ms/3nebc0i

The full program guide for Monday and Tuesday April 3+4 is finally available in its fully formatted glory. Find it here: platgov.net/wp-content/upl…

I have collected >1 GB of tweets about the Stanford & academic freedom / DEI discourse. AMA.

The signatories of the “AI pause” letter “fall into the trap of assuming that it is up to the tech industry to create their own benchmarks for what passes societal muster,” write D&S’s Janet Haven & Jenna Burrell, PhD. “It is not.” points.datasociety.net/ai-harms-are-a…

There *are* important qs to ask about the optimal design of multi-stakeholder (government, civil society, academia) collaborations with social media companies around topics like election info and public health. However, the Twitter Files has lost (and perhaps never had) the plot.

The stuff I am reading on social media from my Stanford Law friends about death threats & attacks on students there is incredibly disturbing. Not pointing to anyone, but folks who need to get another dig in re the protests, maybe slow your roll? @marklemley Rabia Belt

Here's our analysis of the 15 million websites in just one highly-filtered CommonCrawl web scrape-used to train models like Google's T5 & Facebook's LLaMA -copyright symbol appears >200M times -pirated sites, 1 for e-books -half the top 10 = news sites washingtonpost.com/technology/int…

Men being blatantly misogynistic during class no longer ruins my day, so I guess I've adjusted to law school.

BREAKING: Stanford provost to step down, with little explanation and no warning. The Dean of Research also stepped down a month and a half ago. That means two of the top scientists in embattled president Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s administration are out in as many months.

Some say "a PhD is like a marathon, not a sprint," Ph.D. speaker Daniel Griffin begins. 🏃 “Doing a PhD is much more like a trail ultramarathon…There is a “route”, a few signs and blazes, but no clear, safe path—weaving through disciplines, far from your fellow runners.

1st year of law school complete! Leaving the year with great friends, the requisite embarrassing cold call story, and the ability to explain what a tort is. In DC for the summer, so hmu if you want to chat tech law & policy, platform governance and/or related research methods.

We’ve heard countless stories about women almost dying when hospitals denied them emergency abortions. But we’re not grappling with the thousands of people unable to get abortions and forced to give birth. Those are also horror stories. Me in Jezebel jezebel.com/after-roe-abor…

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ICYMI 📰 Lauren Chambers received the 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Fellowship. 👏👏