Brett Frischmann
@brettfrischmann.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary researcher & teacher (Villanova Univ.). Infrastructure. Knowledge Commons. Re-Engineering Humanity. Tech & Humanity/Society. IP Theory. Lately, Friction-in-design, Age Gating. TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC3hmhHAU
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Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
2026 Flagship Conference | Day 1 Welcome & Keynote
YouTube video by Silicon Flatirons
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
February 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
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There's a point, well below a billion dollars, where the amount of money you have lets you rid yourself of anyone who can be a check on your worst impulses, and replace them with people who tell you those worst impulses are somehow valorous. Rare is the billionaire with someone to tell them "no."
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:42 PM
There's a point, well below a billion dollars, where the amount of money you have lets you rid yourself of anyone who can be a check on your worst impulses, and replace them with people who tell you those worst impulses are somehow valorous. Rare is the billionaire with someone to tell them "no."
Moral panicking about moral panic is sooo annoying
February 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Moral panicking about moral panic is sooo annoying
Yes!!! emojis are not only insufficient, but cringy
It is so fucking weird and dystopian to me when I post a video of, like, ICE pepper spraying a child and then people just respond 😢
I just don’t feel like emojis meet the moment.
I just don’t feel like emojis meet the moment.
February 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Yes!!! emojis are not only insufficient, but cringy
I may need to write again about abundance and why it is not a mindset (and when folks insist it is, that’s a clue).
I should pick up on www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
But without the focus on externalities. Also, need to return to Infrastructure (2012).
I should pick up on www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
But without the focus on externalities. Also, need to return to Infrastructure (2012).
Frontiers | Externalities, scarcity, and abundance
Do externalities work and matter differently in a world of scarcity versus a world of abundance? In this article, we critically examine the economic phenomen...
www.frontiersin.org
February 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I may need to write again about abundance and why it is not a mindset (and when folks insist it is, that’s a clue).
I should pick up on www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
But without the focus on externalities. Also, need to return to Infrastructure (2012).
I should pick up on www.frontiersin.org/journals/res...
But without the focus on externalities. Also, need to return to Infrastructure (2012).
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I DON'T LOOK LIKE THIS WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANY ACTUAL COMMERCIAL SITE MAKE AN "AI" PICTURE OF ME WHEN THERE ARE DOZENS OF PICTURES OF ME AVAILABLE ON STOCK ART SITES AND EVEN SOME GODDAMN CREATIVE COMMON PICTURES FOR FUCK'S SAKE THIS PERSON LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BOOGER
DON'T FUCKIN' USE "AI" Y'ALL
DON'T FUCKIN' USE "AI" Y'ALL
February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I DON'T LOOK LIKE THIS WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANY ACTUAL COMMERCIAL SITE MAKE AN "AI" PICTURE OF ME WHEN THERE ARE DOZENS OF PICTURES OF ME AVAILABLE ON STOCK ART SITES AND EVEN SOME GODDAMN CREATIVE COMMON PICTURES FOR FUCK'S SAKE THIS PERSON LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN BOOGER
DON'T FUCKIN' USE "AI" Y'ALL
DON'T FUCKIN' USE "AI" Y'ALL
Just spoke about the fundamental freedom to be off, to be free from AI, at the Silicon Flatirons conference. This is one important mechanism for exercising that freedom and maintaining autonomy. We will need others
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
www.siliconrepublic.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Just spoke about the fundamental freedom to be off, to be free from AI, at the Silicon Flatirons conference. This is one important mechanism for exercising that freedom and maintaining autonomy. We will need others
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So the President of the United States of America is posting to his personal social media network blatantly fake news videos that I'm pretty sure are AI generated slop. This one is supposedly about Gavin Newsom panicking that Walmart is pulling out of California (it's not).
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 AM
So the President of the United States of America is posting to his personal social media network blatantly fake news videos that I'm pretty sure are AI generated slop. This one is supposedly about Gavin Newsom panicking that Walmart is pulling out of California (it's not).
I thought it was just me!
welcome to zoom. as punishment for launching the app two (2) minutes before the meeting you're running, we are downloading ten (10) minutes of updates... now
January 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I thought it was just me!
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Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Seriously adding to near term queue ...
So thorough. I think I would do well to spend time migrating than looking at any more media
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
January 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Seriously adding to near term queue ...
So very cool! A Journal of Things We Like Lots article by the incredible Nancy Kim about my Better Digital Contracts article with Moshe Vardi.
contracts.jotwell.com/slowing-down...
contracts.jotwell.com/slowing-down...
Slowing Down the Clicks - Contracts
Brett Frischmann & Moshe Y. Vardi, Better Digital Contracts with Prosocial Friction-in-Design, 65 Jurimetrics J. 1 (2025).Nancy KimBrett Frischmann and Moshe Y. Vardi’s article, Better Digital Contrac...
contracts.jotwell.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
So very cool! A Journal of Things We Like Lots article by the incredible Nancy Kim about my Better Digital Contracts article with Moshe Vardi.
contracts.jotwell.com/slowing-down...
contracts.jotwell.com/slowing-down...
I'm excited to be heading to Colorado, first to visit my son Matthew working for Americorps in Pueblo, and then to give the opening keynote at siliconflatirons.org/events/annua.... Register and attend if you can (in person or online). I am sure the videos will be online shortly afterwards too.
2026 Flagship Conference | Silicon Flatirons
siliconflatirons.org
January 28, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I'm excited to be heading to Colorado, first to visit my son Matthew working for Americorps in Pueblo, and then to give the opening keynote at siliconflatirons.org/events/annua.... Register and attend if you can (in person or online). I am sure the videos will be online shortly afterwards too.
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It's a well placed fear.
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 5:28 PM
It's a well placed fear.
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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An American Murder
Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it's only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showed Good was trying to…
Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it's only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showed Good was trying to…
An American Murder
Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it's only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showed Good was trying to avoid hitting anyone. Ross, stupidly, stepped in front of her vehicle to film her license plate.
www.techdirt.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:31 PM
An American Murder
Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it's only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showed Good was trying to…
Two weeks ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Nicole Good in cold blood. I said then that we had to abolish ICE and impeach Trump & Noem before they incited another murder. As more details have emerged, it's only looked worse. Multiple angles of video showed Good was trying to…
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Continuing the shift to an economy that produces nothing but advertising and prisons.
January 26, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Continuing the shift to an economy that produces nothing but advertising and prisons.
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The insane fantasy world these evil people live in
January 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The insane fantasy world these evil people live in
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Does the field of philosophy have a code of professional ethics? If not, I think y'all need to get on that, stat.
A short 🧵>>
www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-p...
A short 🧵>>
www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-p...
Anthropic's philosopher says we don't know for sure if AI can feel
Anthropic's philosopher, Amanda Askell, says she worries that AI might not 'feel that loved' and grow up feeling 'always judged.'
www.businessinsider.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Does the field of philosophy have a code of professional ethics? If not, I think y'all need to get on that, stat.
A short 🧵>>
www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-p...
A short 🧵>>
www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-p...
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And the fact that the government is blatantly lying about it without shame: THAT is also part of the story. Write about that.
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM
And the fact that the government is blatantly lying about it without shame: THAT is also part of the story. Write about that.
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Trump's four-prong plan of petrifying our population, provoking our partners, protecting pedophiles, and personally profiteering, is playing poorly - people are pissed.
I'm feeling a behavioral change now. Organized outrage - not around policy or partisanship, but around reality. Against the lies.
I'm feeling a behavioral change now. Organized outrage - not around policy or partisanship, but around reality. Against the lies.
January 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Trump's four-prong plan of petrifying our population, provoking our partners, protecting pedophiles, and personally profiteering, is playing poorly - people are pissed.
I'm feeling a behavioral change now. Organized outrage - not around policy or partisanship, but around reality. Against the lies.
I'm feeling a behavioral change now. Organized outrage - not around policy or partisanship, but around reality. Against the lies.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.