M. Scott Boone
@mscottboone.bsky.social
Law professor: IP, Law & Tech, Property, Legal Ethics, Legal Ed—especially interested in law that affects authors and artists
Unredeemable soccer fanatic—you’ve been warned
Unredeemable soccer fanatic—you’ve been warned
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
This administration has a distinct subgroup of members, perhaps even a majority, who are basically the European far right. The vocabulary they use and the ideas/lies underlying it are a dead giveaway.
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This administration has a distinct subgroup of members, perhaps even a majority, who are basically the European far right. The vocabulary they use and the ideas/lies underlying it are a dead giveaway.
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I’m not saying anything particularly smart or new here: A press that runs on sensationalism is just a rolled out red carpet waiting for any fascist weirdo who prints money for “both sides” by saying and doing crazy things all day.
there's no way to explain our politics without the media being overwhelmingly complicit
Now only did White House pool reporters not stick up for their colleague who Trump repeatedly called “stupid” but you can hear them thanking Trump a few minutes later after he ended the Q&A. Sad stuff.
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m not saying anything particularly smart or new here: A press that runs on sensationalism is just a rolled out red carpet waiting for any fascist weirdo who prints money for “both sides” by saying and doing crazy things all day.
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If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Now that we’re past Thanksgiving (dinner), here’s a Christmas meme:
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Now that we’re past Thanksgiving (dinner), here’s a Christmas meme:
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Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.
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This company designs its products to sycophantic. It knows it is doing this. It knows why it is doing this. The design principles involved are well-known in HCI. OpenAI, quite literally, is a monstrosity.
“OpenAI’s court filing argued that the harms in this case were at least partly caused by Raine’s ‘failure to heed warnings, obtain help, or otherwise exercise reasonable care,’ as well as the ‘failure of others to respond to his obvious signs of distress.’”
OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This company designs its products to sycophantic. It knows it is doing this. It knows why it is doing this. The design principles involved are well-known in HCI. OpenAI, quite literally, is a monstrosity.
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I was chatting to a collaborator about this only last week. We think you need to have a chat with every collaborator and coauthor at the beginning of a research project about whether or not they use LLMs, how (if so) and to be clear if any words have been prepared by LLM.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I was chatting to a collaborator about this only last week. We think you need to have a chat with every collaborator and coauthor at the beginning of a research project about whether or not they use LLMs, how (if so) and to be clear if any words have been prepared by LLM.
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
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you can report on these people without sitting down with them and having weird glamour portraits of them snapped. the only people that should be talking directly to these freaks are congresspeople asking tough questions in oversight hearings. you dont have to do this
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
you can report on these people without sitting down with them and having weird glamour portraits of them snapped. the only people that should be talking directly to these freaks are congresspeople asking tough questions in oversight hearings. you dont have to do this
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They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.
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Popular D.C. bagel chain Call Your Mother says this Long Branch, N.J. cafe's similar name and logo are trademark infringement. Now they're suing. Here's the schmear and skinny: share.inquirer.com/hWgorB
Jersey bagel shop sued by D.C.’s Call Your Mother in branding dispute
Call Your Mother, the popular D.C. Jewish bagel chain, is suing the Jersey Shore cafe, claiming trademark infringement.
share.inquirer.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Popular D.C. bagel chain Call Your Mother says this Long Branch, N.J. cafe's similar name and logo are trademark infringement. Now they're suing. Here's the schmear and skinny: share.inquirer.com/hWgorB
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I can’t believe Judge Smith put internal emails in his opinion. I dont think I’ve ever seen this before. It’s such a massive breach of decorum that it leaves Roberts/Elrod little choice but to discipline him ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Texas Gerrymandering Case Prompts Fifth Circuit Judge to Crash Out In Alarming, Antisemitic Fashion
Someone needs to take the Fox News machine away from Jerry Smith’s chambers.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I can’t believe Judge Smith put internal emails in his opinion. I dont think I’ve ever seen this before. It’s such a massive breach of decorum that it leaves Roberts/Elrod little choice but to discipline him ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
November 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."
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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
Which in turn creates an incentive for people to become those cranks and creates a crank arms race, wherein each crank tries to out-crank the other cranks.
A fun thing about being obliged by charter to present everything as a debate is it literally forces you to go looking for cranks who will defend Trump's inane tyranny
November 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Which in turn creates an incentive for people to become those cranks and creates a crank arms race, wherein each crank tries to out-crank the other cranks.
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It’s not a free speech question. It’s about an authoritarian calling for his political opposition in an elected branch of government to be prosecuted for opposing him. It’s a constitutional crisis.
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It’s not a free speech question. It’s about an authoritarian calling for his political opposition in an elected branch of government to be prosecuted for opposing him. It’s a constitutional crisis.
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Respectfully, what’s the debate?
The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush.
As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.
The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush.
As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.
President Trump’s recent statements accusing Democratic lawmakers of making “seditious” comments to military and intelligence community members have ignited a free speech debate.
#ConstitutionDaily unpacks the constitutional obligations of those who serve the country: https://ow.ly/fXXk50XvVxB
#ConstitutionDaily unpacks the constitutional obligations of those who serve the country: https://ow.ly/fXXk50XvVxB
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Respectfully, what’s the debate?
The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush.
As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.
The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush.
As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.
Everyday, the DOJ looks at what it did yesterday and says to itself, “hold my beer.”
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”
That’s seems really bad.
That’s seems really bad.
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Everyday, the DOJ looks at what it did yesterday and says to itself, “hold my beer.”
Because you know I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks
(With apologies to Meghan Trainor)
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks
(With apologies to Meghan Trainor)
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Because you know I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks
(With apologies to Meghan Trainor)
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks, no substance
I'm all about those clicks, 'bout those clicks
(With apologies to Meghan Trainor)
The inevitable result of relying on for-profit media and journalism:
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The inevitable result of relying on for-profit media and journalism:
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