Posts by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
(DIR) Post #AVzs58g0DgxOC7rGCG by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-05-24T23:54:31Z
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This is my hot take on #VI vs. #Emacs (cc @SteveBellovin @mattblaze @paulohm)
(DIR) Post #AWNqn23MCEs7APX9ea by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-06-05T13:52:28Z
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@cfiesler @mikarv @davecb @kendraserra
(DIR) Post #AWNqn2zqgley5otrpA by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-06-05T13:57:49Z
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@cfiesler @mikarv @davecb @kendraserra
(DIR) Post #AWNqn73BcIhqfKUaa8 by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-06-05T14:02:03Z
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@cfiesler @mikarv @davecb @kendraserra not trying to be unproductive here but I think trying to make sense of this through the lens of actual copyright doctrine is not a useful exercise. It’s just the invocation of copyright bullshit as cover for some bizarro low-stakes academic publishing gatekeeping.
(DIR) Post #AXG7k97ZIHT1gUAhLk by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-07-01T18:16:11Z
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Tired: having a business modelWired: blaming users for the cost of operating the site
(DIR) Post #AXG7kA2ds57YXUsHJI by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-07-01T18:19:21Z
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Tired: not warning paying API customers when you're about to break an endpointWired: not warning Fediverse and Bluesky admins when you're about to break the whole site and send an exodus of users their way
(DIR) Post #AXG7kAhPQVjMZvwpqy by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-07-01T18:20:39Z
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Tired: destroying the site on accidentWired: destroying the site on purposeInspired: destroying the site on accident on purpose
(DIR) Post #AXG7kTkaauZ1fIa8wq by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-07-01T18:22:47Z
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Tired: paying billsTired: paying employeesTired: continuing functionality
(DIR) Post #AXG7kkOWiC17HnOGQ4 by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-07-01T18:31:42Z
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I don't like to talk about #Twitter because my heart hurts for what EM destroyed, but let me take this opportunity to say that he is a singularly bad, malicious, and incompetent person who deserves neither power, wealth, nor control over anything important ever again
(DIR) Post #AXGSoHOYZTxHXcvifg by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-07-01T18:50:51Z
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I hope this finally gives journalists and government agency social media folks the courage to jump ship. Especially on the latter count, the site is useless if it can only be accessed by registered users. It's just a much less ubiquitous and reliable version of Facebook.
(DIR) Post #AXGT5rlGcDmRFhwFOq by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2023-07-01T22:41:20Z
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@mmasnick I can't verify, but here's some detail on the rate limit->race condition->self-DDoS thesis https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723
(DIR) Post #AjxYGA8Duv91m2jzEm by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-15T15:11:41Z
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Judge Cannon’s ruling is disturbing and alarming. But it should not be surprising. That it is suggests a lack of awareness of what is happening. Here it is: there is a sizable chunk of the American judiciary scattered across the trial and appellate courts (particularly the 5th Circuit) and a majority of Supreme Court Justices that are willing to depart the rule of law toward overtly partisan ends in cases involving President Trump and radiating outward to other partisan priorities. 1/
(DIR) Post #AjxYGBeWGKZYUUrIDQ by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-15T15:14:47Z
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It is important for lawyers, academics, journalists, and other commentators to understand that these cases do not represent some faithful, learned, good-faith, balls-and-strikes interpretation of primary legal materials applied to the facts at hand. They are an exercise of political power. And they need to be understood as such. 2/
(DIR) Post #AjxYGCQNOOqysvFVoG by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-15T15:17:12Z
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It is critical to understand that this dramatically shifts the role and power of lawyers. There is no amount of carefully crafted legal argumentation or strategy that can lead to different results in these cases. That does not mean that lawyers do not have important work to do in bringing forth good-faith arguments and bearing witness to the derogation of of the rule of law. (That’s part of the oath lawyers in most (all?) states take to support the Constitution.) 3/
(DIR) Post #AjxYGCvZWPo6RfqQQy by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-15T15:20:55Z
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But once judges have broken bad and abandoned their commitment to perform their critical role in upholding the rule of law to become overtly political actors, there is no legal remedy left—only political ones. At a federal level, they basically boil down to Congress exercising its prerogative to reshape the judiciary, impeachment proceedings, and the constitutional amendment process. 4/
(DIR) Post #AjxYGDjCXtVQvb43n6 by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-15T15:24:53Z
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There is a great temptation among many commenters to dither on the flaws in the superficial reasoning provided in cases like these in the hopes that the legal system can provide remedies. And of course those remedies should be pursued. And perhaps someday with political change, the foundations of reasoning and argument they develop will form the basis for the rule of law again. Again, lawyers play an important role here. 5/
(DIR) Post #AjxYGEJiM8iGkq9Dhg by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-15T15:29:56Z
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But it’s important to remember that those remedies will over and over again run aground on the shoals of politics in areas where judges and Justices have decided to depart from the rule of law. And it is important that these cases not be framed entirely through legal lenses at the expense of the political remedies that respond in kind to what is happening. These cases demarcate the boundaries of what lawyers can do to defend and protect the Constitution and democracy. /fin
(DIR) Post #Ak6SDmm8vtr7SFXGnw by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-19T14:47:58Z
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Today is a helpful reminder that networked computer systems are load-bearing societal infrastructure and also that they rely on industrial practices that are pretty much tantamount to witchcraft and it is a miracle that they work at all, much less most of the time
(DIR) Post #Ak6SDvrn8GineNFPMG by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-19T14:50:34Z
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CS friends on here arguing about “phased incantations”
(DIR) Post #Ak6TFiif5IPVPMOSie by blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org
2024-07-19T23:06:25Z
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@design_law are we allowed to talk about what we are reading, watching, listening to or playing for not fun