Lindsey Barrett

It's out! Are you nervous about rebuilding government capacity to do anything beyond corporate giveaways and/or fascism? Then you care about civil service hiring dysfunction & the ron swanson-pilled mythologies that made it like this. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... aulawreview.org/blog/federal...

Every industrial product is being discontinued in favor of manufacturing different form factors of wire mother

If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for another game of…

If you think technology will solve your problems you don't understand technology—and you don't understand your problems. —Laurie Anderson

If you wanna talk about AI training data, pls check out my early work addressing public domain data, licensing, and fair use (scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2439/) and also why it’s possible for uses to be both fair and garbage (scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2717/).

RETVRN (to the days when the Pope had an army)

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

i don't think every institution in the united states should have all pushed the big red "ERODE FAITH" button in unison. what do i know though

i don't think it's glib to say this: it's possible that nobody on earth cares less about consent than mark zuckerberg

The motorist community needs to clean up its act, especially if drivers expect taxpayers to keep building car lanes.

It’s always silly when judges insist that they are magically nonpartisan and have no political beliefs, but it’s especially funny when you have a long track record of saying things like “ANY REPUBLICAN IS BETTER THAN ANY DEMOCRAT” (all caps in original)

there is some desperate core of me that cannot accept this armando iannuci-scripted hellscape as reality

I assume each 6-pack comes with a copy of the collected works of Sheila Jasanoff.

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

Ultimately what is killing higher Ed in the United States is not just hostile politics at the Federal level, but the greed and ineptitude of university leadership.

On one hand, AI might cause nuclear annihilation in the dumbest way possible. But on the other hand, it is semi-almost-useful at making lists. Gotta take the bad with the good!

Finding information and knowing things are different

Prisoners paying off kids' school lunch debts speaks to the US's failures at so many levels.

If you wanted to support home-makers you wouldn’t gut their healthcare in your big beautifully bill. This is just about further hurting working women.

Still unbeaten. RIP

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

It's cool how you can lose two different antitrust lawsuits and still not have to make any structural changes to your business at all www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...

And this is why we need to help people stop focusing on a brand name and start hating the surveillance state as a whole.

damn right

Look. There is a reason that Sisyphus is, for many, the patron saint of activism. You will never reach the summit. The point is the climb. And once in a glorious, rare while, the boulder rolls back downhill… and stops a centimeter higher than it started.

happy july 50th to all academics who celebrate

COINTELPRO never ended; it just became the modern surveillance state.

writing a horror movie about a jewish exorcist whose catchphrase is “dybbuk stops here”

the devil’s advocacy bench remains overstaffed

Here's the thing--rather than replace Flock with the company that wants to put taser on drones, why don't we just spend all this money on addressing the root causes of crime and not just creating a massive surveillance theater stalking machine.

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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“Leonard Attorney Registration Fee,” which is also what chat gpt mumbles if you ask for its favorite philip roth character

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rigorously maintaining my 'don't overthink phrasing' early draft policy

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

Wingnut welfare in academia. $8k to $12k for writing about vaccine injuries. Bonkers.