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Friday funnies: Internet scraping for me but not for thee
I hate to have to defend such an unlikable CEO as Mark Zuckerberg, but what’s also funny about this anti-Meta meme are its logical and legal fallacies. Can you spot them?
Fall readings
In addition to my usual fare of scholarly papers and erudite essays, below are some of the books that I am reading (or in the case of item #4, re-reading) this fall: Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology (W. W. Norton, 2017) … Continue reading
PSA to my fellow academics
Delete your academia.edu accounts, if you have not done so already. Here’s why. See also the screenshot of their super-scammy updated user agreement below:
More assorted links re: A.I.
Julie Bort, OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild, Tech Crunch (18 September 2025). Nils Köbis, et al., Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour, Nature (17 September 2025). u/MinuteDistribution31, Why ChatGPT isn’t a good tool for … Continue reading
Two questions about the former president of the University of Florida (UF), Ben Sasse
What is the real reason he resigned from his post after only 17 months? Was he forced out? Why is this motherfucker still being paid $1 million dollars a year?
Four competing views of ChatGPT, Claude, et al.
Is Al a scam, a potential genocidal maniac, a wizard with magical powers, or just meh? (See below.) What is your take on Al? A.I. as scam. See Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, The AI con (Teaching in Higher Ed … Continue reading
Natural Property Rights: An Introduction
That is the title of this erudite 68-page law review article by Eric R. Claeys, a law professor at George Mason University. (See also Professor Claeys’s book with the same title.) Alas, Professor Claeys makes no mention of the greatest … Continue reading
Is Pam Bondi our Franz Gürtner?
Pam “The-Epstein-Client-List-Is-on-My-Desk” Bondi needs to divulge her law school transcripts so we can verify whether she is even qualified for the position of Attorney General. While discussing the assassination of Charlie Kirk on an episode of “The Katie Miller Podcast“, Bondi announced that … Continue reading

