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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If ever there were a post to force tenure and hiring committees to confront hard questions this might be it

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every so often, I'm horrified anew.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Law + Tech News Bot @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org · 02/09/2026

TL;DR: Norway is considering a ban on camera-enabled wearable devices, known as 'pervert glasses,' citing significant privacy risks that necessitate regulation.

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Norway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable 'pervert glasses' | TechCrunch

The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/08/2026

The NYT piece is IMO both too scary and not scary enough, in that the AI targeting tech used in these Russian drones isn’t a big surprise - but we also cannot assume at all that adding AI to drones will REDUCE civilian casualties. It is just as (if not more) likely to do the opposite. On purpose.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And the Conclusion is up! That's a wrap for Edition 1! (Now time to get started on Edition 2 . . .)

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/08/2026

OK wait I just thought of something. If you were an intelligence agent for China or Iran and you wanted to bait some U.S. officials into coughing up military secrets, you could maybe do worse than creating a prediction market around the specific question you want the answer to…. ?

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hits WAY too close to home. Especially in late August -

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Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you get enough projects in the air, you can always be procrastinating and working way too hard at the same time.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

While I can't hope to fill Stephen Dycus's shoes, I'm delighted to be joining the stellar team of authors of National Security Law (Bill Banks, Emily Berman, Peter Raven-Hansen & @stevevladeck.bsky.social) I teach from this book, and it's an honor to be able to contribute to it going forward.

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National Security Law, Eighth Edition

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabili...

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Andrew Beverage @vinceness.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i’m on that slithy tove shit, i’m gimbaling in the fuckin wabe baby

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Chapter 13 is up! And note that we're intentionally posting these chapters as googledocs open to comments, as we welcome suggested additions and citations. Get access to the whole book at techlawbook.com!

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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New from ISP Fellows BJ Ard and @crootof.bsky.social! Read “The Challenge of Generativity,” Chapter 9 of Technology Law, and explore the book’s website: Chapter 9: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Book website: www.techlawbook.com

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TL Chapter 9: The Challenge of Generativity

Technology Law Chapter 9: The Challenge of Generativity BJ Ard and Rebecca Crootof Last updated February 2026. Comments welcome! Cite as: BJ Ard & Rebecca Crootof, The Challenge of Generativity, in T...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026

Small drones are killing more civilians than ever before - and we need to act. Here’s my thoughts on what we need to do, like establishing a center dedicated to evaluating and investigating drone attacks, training investigators, and explaining how IHL applies to self-defense against drones:

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What Can We Do About Drone Attacks on Civilians? Some Thoughts

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Chapter 12 is up! And note that we're intentionally posting these chapters as googledocs open to comments, as we welcome suggested additions and citations.

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Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New working paper with @janinadill.bsky.social: "The Moral Logic of Blame for Civilian Casualties": In survey & interview data, residents of Mosul Iraq penalize the intentional killing of 5 civilians more than the unintentional killing of 125, & blame is not zero-sum: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 28/07/2026

This is an excellent encapsulation by @doctorow.pluralistic.net of one of the core takeaways I want my students to get from my AI Law & Policy course. pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...

As a technology, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's applications "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology:

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Chapter 11 is up! And note that we're intentionally posting these chapters as googledocs open to comments, as we welcome suggested additions and citations.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Honestly surprised by this framing. LOAC is hardly a moral compass, and it wasn't designed to be one. It's a practical floor, not an aspirational ceiling - it reflects states' self-interest, not human rights or morality. Cavalier violations of baseline requirements just show how far we've fallen.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A group of academics/policy ppl have been shouting for more than a decade about technological due process, the right to know, and the right to human decision making. Why? 👇🏻

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chapter 10 is up! And the techlawbook.com site now has teaching materials, with more to come this week!

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The perfect skee, that marries my college and PhD theses, doesn't exi . . .

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/07/2026

google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

After a brief pause, we're back! And now with a fancy new website: www.techlawbook.com I'll be posting the remaining chapters of the first edition of Technology Law here weekly; they'll all be up by mid-August.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 08/07/2026

Surveillance capitalism? You mean the pan-opt-in con?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

@propublica.org: I can answer this: "Current and former CHMR personnel said it’s impossible to know whether a more robust prevention team could’ve helped the military avoid civilian casualties in Yemen and Iran." Because I was the person whose job it was to check potential targets at CENTCOM. 1/

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Reading "Hellscape for Taiwan" by @spettyjohn.bsky.social @mollykcam.bsky.social @cnas.bsky.social and struck by the (utter lack of) discussion of relevant int'l law. Essentially, the report advocates for fielding indiscriminate weapons. Which is prohibited by the law of armed conflict. Unless...

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Hellscape for Taiwan

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 26/06/2026

States should not be able to consent to others using force that they cannot use themselves, and intervening states should not blindly rely on host state consent, writes @crootof.bsky.social (Rebecca Crootof).

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Consent is Not Enough for U.S. Military Activities in Latin America

States should not be able to consent to others using force that they cannot use themselves, and intervening states should not blindly rely on host state consent.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If you're involved in training/teaching, or a student, this is worth a read – "The Anatomy of a Learning Stall": tagide.com/blog/llm/the...

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