Monthly Archives: October 2016

Personal Notes

Recently I’ve been posting pretty much nothing but videos. There two reasons. First, to the limited extent I’ve had spare time, I’ve been spending it reading political news with more horror than inspiration. Second, there hasn’t been much spare time: I just sent in a revised first draft of an article that will in due course be published by the Arizona Law Review. Meanwhile I also did a first draft of a conference proposal on some AI issues to send to a co-author. And, last week I discovered that the other conference proposal, on a privacy issue, that I thought was due at the end of this week turns out to be in fact a call for finished papers. Fortunately, I’d already started, but getting to the finish line is taking most of my time at present and seems likely to do so through the coming weekend. After that, another large privacy-related project looms in the distance. Meanwhile, of course, Jotwell is humming along. We recently started a new Contracts section.

I just had to turn down an invitation to speak on AI and robotics in Hong Kong next month because I couldn’t find enough times for all the makeup classes on such short notice. That hurt, as I’d have loved to go. But if you were maybe thinking of asking me to come talk about the exciting things I’m working on, some of which I’ll blog about when they are a little more baked, please be aware I’m on writing leave next semester, and I will have much more flexibility than usual–and, I hope, more work product too.

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will.i.am Does Trump

To be honest, will.i.am’s election video didn’t work for me. Maybe my expectations were too high, given that I usually like his stuff. But being as it’s a cultural event, here it is anyway.

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TIME to Go

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Trump once said on the campaign trail that he would approve of torture as President, “even if it doesn’t work.” With four weeks left to Election Day, he seemed to be testing the proposition on the public.

Inside Donald Trump’s Total Meltdown | TIME.

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Obama Passes the ‘Sniff Test’

Not to be confused with Trump’s sniffing problem. The background to this video is that radio talk show host Alex Jones claimed on his show that President and Mrs. Obama are literally demons and smell of sulfur.

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A Plea from the UK

Amidst all the horror of this campaign, the joy of Lin-Manuel Miranda in his SNL performance is a joy.

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