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Ann M. Lipton
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Law prof at U Colorado, business and securities. Blogging at https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/
Scholarship at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2365170
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February 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords
proptermalone.bsky.social post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15h
yeah Bluesky is primarily a Tumblric language
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Noted
trial in pampena v. musk begins march 2 did musk defraud twitter shareholders by falsely suggesting he could escape the merger agreement (thereby keeping the market price of twitter stock depressed)?
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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i can't possibly have a single favorite, but among the favorites -
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Auto dealers have done everything in their power to stifle the growth of a healthy US EV market for decades. This is the result. www.thedrive.com/news/u-s-dea...
U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars
NADA CEO on Chinese cars coming to America: "It’s bad for our industry, it’s bad for our country, it’s bad for consumers."
www.thedrive.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM
annmlipton.bsky.social
As a corporate scholar who is usually somewhere in the progressive corporate law space, I gotta say, this bears out some of my more cynical takes which is - the market will not save us

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...
Stocks Rebound After Volatile Week as Dow Hits Record High
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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tonytula.com
who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice
February 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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ericmbudd.com
interesting data that is sadly missing Nextdoor
polltracker.bsky.social Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 22h
Trump job approval rating by news platform

🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40

www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
February 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
annmlipton.bsky.social
Okay, I posted this post, then LexBlog ate it, and I had to repost it - I'm hoping it sticks.

This week's blog post is a collection of securities law things:
www.businesslawprofessors.com/2026/02/chec...
Checking in on securities things
(I posted this post, and then LexBlog ate it, so I am posting again - hopefully it will not show up twice.) Misfit toys.  Interesting opinion from CA9 in
www.businesslawprofessors.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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well who could have seen that coming

www.ft.com/content/8f6d...
Donald Trump’s policies dent international travel to US in blow to tourism sector
Foreign visitors to the US fell 4.2% in 2025, while international travel worldwide rose 4%
www.ft.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM
annmlipton.bsky.social
NO SERIOUSLY HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING

www.law360.com/securities/a...
Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit - Law360
A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thurs...
www.law360.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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samwang.bsky.social
Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...
Why I'm running for Congress
Congress today is deeply polarized, ignores the priorities of voters, and fails to check the other two branches of government. But neither party, Democrats nor Republicans, is meeting our moment of ne...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:38 AM
annmlipton.bsky.social
Okay I see the problem here. He sucks at drafting ChatGPT prompts.
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d
The Court’s eyebrows must be through the roof by now
The Response was also noteworthy for its conspicuously florid prose. For example, it featured an extended quote from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and metaphors comparing legal advocacy to gardening and the leaving of indelible "mark[s] upon the clay." (Response 3). And it included the following passage: Your Honor, in the ancient libraries of Ashurbanipal, scribes carried their stylus as both tool and sacred trust - understanding , that every mark upon clay would endure long beyond their mortal span. As the role the mark (x) in Ezekiel Chapter 9, that marked the foreheads with a tav (x) of blood and ink, bear the same solemn recognition: that the written word carries power to preserve or condemn, to build or destroy, and leaves an indelible mark which cannot be erased but should be withdrawn, let it lead other to think these citations were correct. I have failed in that sacred trust. The errors in my memorandum, however inadvertent, have diminished the integrity of the record and the dignity of these proceedings. Like the scribes of antiquity who bore their stylus as both privilege and burden, I understand that legal authorship demands more than mere competence — it requires absolute fidelity to truth and precision in every mark upon the page. (Id. at 7-8). Needless to say, Mr. Feldman's overwrought metaphors and historical references raised the Court's eyebrows.
February 6, 2026 at 5:30 AM
annmlipton.bsky.social
it's comforting that i can still be shocked
memeorandum.com memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 1d
Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project -- if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him (CNN)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
February 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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honeybakedsam.bsky.social
Times article has an incredible illustration
Diagram of a skier jumping with the extra crotch material highlighted, and then a diagram below showing that an extra 2cm in suit circumference can help the skier get an extra car length on their jump
February 5, 2026 at 7:45 PM
annmlipton.bsky.social
For my Business Associations class on Monday: Uber held liable for a driver's sexual assault on an "apparent agency" theory.

www.law360.com/corporate/ar...
BREAKING: Uber Hit With $8.5M Verdict In 1st Fed. Sex Assault Bellwether - Law360
An Arizona federal jury on Thursday found that Uber wasn't negligent with respect to rider safety but was liable for the actions of a driver who allegedly sexually assaulted a passenger in 2023, award...
www.law360.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:45 PM
annmlipton.bsky.social
Little known fact about how to get your money back when you own publicly traded stock ...
davelevinthal.com Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 1d
These several Democratic lawmakers have been outspoken against Trump’s immigration policies.

But they’ve also personally invested in Palantir, the tech company that scored a huge gov’t contract to work w/ ICE.

@bueninvierno.bsky.social of @notus.com reports: www.notus.org/congress/pal...
These Democrats Decry Trump’s Immigration Actions. They Also Invested in ICE Contractor Palantir.
“I wish I could get my money back,” one liberal lawmaker said.
www.notus.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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pbump.com
Anyway, congrats to Will Lewis bumping the UK tabloid scandal to the second sentence of his obit.
February 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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did something happen
February 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
The comms rep just had no ability to comprehend that AI takes in the information that already exists in the world and repackages it. Our reporting had yet to be published and therefore wasn't out in the world hadn't been ingested by any chatbot.

And they just... believed the chatbot.
February 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
rmac.bsky.social Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.

We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Mingled With Silicon Valley Start-Ups
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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kathleenclark.bsky.social
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
… 25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again. The officers mocked me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there. 26. Security guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27. No one said anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th. 27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable. … 30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release … 32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE … I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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February 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM