- boingboing, Intel + DRM: a crippled processor that you have to pay extra to unlock
- Fred Clark finds Jackie at the crossroads
- Juan Cole explains why in a certain foreign leader's mind Ahmadinejad resembles Cyrus the Great
- Greenwald savages Obama's tone-deafness to progressive concerns in Obama's view of liberal criticisms
- Grimmelmann, The Mufti of Constantinople
- Kos, Before you say the country is moving to the right… (look at all the evidence to the contrary)
- The ugly world of constant souseveillance takes a giant step forward with the introduction of the $199 Looxcie (smartphone required); see also the smartpen AKA “The Pen That Never Forgets”
- Reid Report, Herald Tribune on Rubio: public fiscal hawk, private spendthrift
- Steve Vladeck, The Graham Bill and Detention Authority: U.S. Citizens and Material Support
- David Weinberg, The Internet as a human right (not what you might guess from the title)
Recent Bluessky Posts- People keep talking about oil prices reacting (or not) to the on-again-off-again shooting war in the Gulf of Hormuz. I'm more concerned about the looming fertilizer crisis. Apparently, 30% of the world's supply goes through the Gulf. Or, now, doesn't. news.un.org/en/interview... July 9, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell T&E: Reid Weisbord, Empirical Insights into the Rural Estate Planning Crisis, JOTWELL (July 9, 2026), trustest.jotwell.com/empirical-in.... July 9, 2026 Jotwell
- Jotwell Torts: Nora Freeman Engstrom, Immunity Run Amok: Section 230 and the Distortion of Tort Law, JOTWELL (July 8, 2026) (reviewing Dominic Roschival, A Shield for Whom? The Disastrous Hidden Toll of Section 230 on Children, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. 257 (2025)), torts.jotwell.com/immunity-run.... July 8, 2026 Jotwell
- Just using version numbers avoids tempting the word deities. July 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Save a new version every 10 minutes. It's the only way. July 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
