Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonShawn Standefer @standefer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's fun having a hobby that you're okay with doing at the level you do it. I have one of those too. Whenever friends find out about it, they almost all say "why aren't you better at this?" I don't need to be. I'm happy with my silly little hobby as it is. 3242
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonFree Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 22/09/2026Yesterday, as part of our scanning project, we scanned our two-millionth page of case law. Woo! free.law/2026/04/16/s...free.lawFree Law Project Is Scanning America's Case LawFree Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free so... 1198
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 18/09/2026The tech here is quite interesting. But also: the wardrobe changes are fantastic. More joy, less doom! 020
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonKendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Person to their partner: "But really, what are you going to use that darth vader costume for after the con?" Partner: "I find your lack of faith disturbing." 6 months later: bsky.app/profile/pale... 134136
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 20/08/2026tfw your reranking evaluation doesn't know the difference between trademark and copyright 💀 010
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonMike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com · 12/08/2026We're attempting some leadership here and really did put a lot of effort into these policies. Give a look! 1128
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 09/08/2026Hi @sfgov.sf.gov! How about I will do whatever I want with these free and uncopyrightable edicts of government, and you will remove these very silly and incorrect copyright claims?Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020). 020
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonFree Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 04/08/2026Some recent reviews of the RECAP extension are incredibly kind — thank you! If you haven't tried RECAP and you know what PACER is, give it a shot. It takes 1 minute to install, literally, and then you'll save money while helping others. free.law/recap/ 11811
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 04/08/20269th Cir. holds that the Bad Spaniels parody toy of a Jack Daniel's bottle is unlikely to harm the reputation of Jack Daniel's trademarks *because* it is parody. Held: no dilution by tarnishment; remanded for entry of judgment in favor of Bad Spaniels maker. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... 110620
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 04/08/2026Bumping for the people who sleep at night and are now awake 011
Reposted by Ansel Halliburtonlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition. 422509391
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 04/08/2026I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been busy building. What have I been building, you ask? I have been building Nomolith. Long thread follows! 🧵 1104
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 10/07/2026yo new ship impoundment just dropped www.courtlistener.com/docket/73589...courtlistener.comUnited States v. MOTOR TANKER PHONIX WITH INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION NUMBER 9198317, AND..., 1:26-cv-01405 - CourtListener.comDocket for United States v. MOTOR TANKER PHONIX WITH INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION NUMBER 9198317, AND..., 1:26-cv-01405 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. 0120
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonFree Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 01/07/2026Our co-founder and director, @michaeljaylissner.com and our AI developer, Nathan Dahlberg sat down with @bobambrogi.bsky.social for his podcast. They talked about the effort to bring good, solid legal research to everyone — not just lawyers. Everyone: www.lawnext.com/2026/07/on-l...lawnext.comOn LawNext: Legal Research for Everyone: Inside the CourtListener-Claude PartnershipLast month, when Anthropic, developer of the popular AI assistant Claude, announced a major push into legal, much of the coverage in the media and the buzz on social media focused on what the announce... 064
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonRebecca Fordon @thefordon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. Thank you @joepatrice.bsky.social for this great piece. abovethelaw.com/2026/06/thos...abovethelaw.comThose 'WL' Citations Are An Open Invitation To AI Hallucinations - Above the LawThose proprietary citations carry risks for the publishers. 267
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonOrin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A big surprise of Chatrie: Kavanaugh provides the 5th vote for a broad privacy-based reading of the Fourth Amendment, extending Carpenter. So we get a Kagan majority with Roberts, Kavanaugh, Sotomayor, and Jackson, taking a broad view of Carpenter. Gorsuch is a 6th vote, but on property grounds. 1389
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Breaching what was once considered the most heavily defended airspace in the world, a Ukrainian drone flew through downtown Moscow in broad daylight. 60492022538
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 20/06/2026I made a very thin Python client for the EUIPO's #trademark search APIs in 90 minutes flat. github.com/anseljh/euip...github.comGitHub - anseljh/euipo-tm-client: Minimal Python client for EUIPO trademark search APIMinimal Python client for EUIPO trademark search API - anseljh/euipo-tm-client 000
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonStephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 19/06/2026I have a wild idea. When we have factual disputes about possible misconduct by government officials, we pick a small group of random citizens, maybe 12, tell them what the rules are, and ask them to listen to the evidence and make a decision about who’s right. 084
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19/06/2026And another video 😅😅😅 627827
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonDaniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Mastcam mosaic captured by Curiosity on that same day and location Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk #Mars 🧪🔭 04510
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 19/06/2026I made a weird thing! It's a small, incomplete LLM wiki about space law. You're welcome! github.com/anseljh/spac... 030
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonFree Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 10/06/2026Update on our case law scanning project: 606 volumes and 655,631 pages are scanned. From here they go through our redaction system and get digitized for inclusion in CourtListener. Earlier blog post: free.law/2026/04/16/s...free.lawFree Law Project Is Scanning America's Case LawFree Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free so... 084
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 10/06/2026Rebecca just keeps churning out cool itch-scratchers like this! 000
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonFree Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 09/06/2026We and @facoalition.bsky.social fought an overbroad unconstitutional order telling the "public" at large to pull down a court record. With (copious and generous!) help from @volokhc.bsky.social and @megangray.bsky.social, we won. reason.com/volokh/2026/...reason.comAttempt to Seal Court Filing, and to Order Members of the Public to Destroy Their Copies, WithdrawnA couple of weeks ago, the litigants in the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation multi-district case tried... 1179
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 03/06/2026Don’t dehumanize the humanities. Words matter, and “content“ is a crappy word. 000
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Ukraine officially opens the St Petersburg Economic Forum. Warm memories and hot impressions guaranteed. 28928197
Reposted by Ansel Halliburtondell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026decided my rss reader would function better w/ a winamp skin 111227
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonAnsel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 22/05/2026Is this a lot for a side project? It seems like a lot for a side project. 012
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 22/05/2026New Ninth Circuit oral argument in everyone's favorite forever #trademark case, VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. 🔉 www.courtlistener.com/audio/105037...courtlistener.comOral Argument for VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. – CourtListener.comOral Argument for VIP Products, LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. 000
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 22/05/2026Is this a lot for a side project? It seems like a lot for a side project. 012
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 15/05/2026I submitted a pull request to the Claude for Legal skills repo while listening to the Claude for Legal webinar today. Hey #trademarks people, this isn't so hard - chime in! github.com/anthropics/c...github.comip-legal clearance skill improvements by anseljh · Pull Request #31 · anthropics/claude-for-legalThis PR makes a few small improvements to the trademark clearance skill. Main changes: Adds context about trademark classes Trademark lingo tweaks (e.g., prefer "register" to "regis... 140
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonEddie Yang @eddieyang.bsky.social · 13/05/2026New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers. 25879450
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonMike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com · 12/05/2026Finally our news is out. Legal research is changing today. It really is. This stuff is unreal. 1146
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonMike Lissner @michaeljaylissner.com · 12/05/2026I'm convinced every court, firm, and lawyer in the country should use our x-ray tool. It's a Python library now, but we'll make an API and pay to get SOC 2 compliance so y'all can send us your filings. If somebody sponsors this, we'll make it free for courts and pennies otherwise. How about that? 3407
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonEd Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The mark consists of: "the stylized number "6" composed of a breaded appetizer bite . . . positioned above a yellow hand and the number "7" composed of a breaded appetizer bite . . . positioned above the other hand" tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9... 0144
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 06/05/2026The Dem governor debate was held at Pomona College's Bridges auditorium. I loved my time at Pomona! Chirp! I've been pulled over for driving while Black many times near Bridges. That I did not enjoy. And while I was at Pomona, a friend was killed by cops near there too. I didn't enjoy that either. 2287
Reposted by Ansel Halliburtonceej @ceej.online · 12/02/2025haha that’s so crazy (pulling out a giant feather quill and adding your name to a book labeled COLLABORATORS) 181806278
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 04/05/2026“Unpaid labor”, hm is there a pithier single word for that, I wonder 031
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonYael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 04/05/2026I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses. 41822204
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 24/04/2026There is so much going on in just this signature block. 000
Reposted by Ansel HalliburtonNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I wish the United States was conducting a war with a strategy more complex than my seven year old responding to his older brother with "Oh yeah?!? Then I would..." -I'd block your shipping. -Then I'd block *your* shipping. -So what, I'll mine the strait. -Oh yeah?!? Then I would shoot your boats! 912917
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 23/04/2026I spent half an hour tonight whipping up a pre-filing citation checker. I ran it on the Sullivan & Cromwell brief from this story, and it works. Time to raise the bar, folks. 1107
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com · 22/04/2026While I was drinking my morning coffee, I got two legal MCP servers working together: FOLIO to identify which area of law a question is in, and then my own to do hybrid search on a collection of legal materials, scoped to that area. It works. ✨ FOLIO: openlegalstandard.org 144