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Hilary Escajeda

@hilaryescajeda.bsky.social
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Associate Professor MC School of Law. Research focus: AI, tax policy, future of work, and dinosaur fossil taxation. Articles: ssrn.com/author=1537904

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is unbelievable. also gonna totally mention it when i cover shlensky v. wrigley
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
would that ordinary people going about their lives in front of flock cameras had the same right to deny others a viewing experience
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...
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I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine
A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every American should read this article, it could save your life or that of a loved one. You dont have to remember every detail, but get to know the concept of an external appeal of insurance denial.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
I want to point something out here: this is also an education issue, for K-12 and higher-ed. If our students are not only students, but caregivers, then then their caregiving role profoundly shapes the nature of their educational experience, AND it should shape our pedagogy.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
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1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Josée Poirier @joseepoirier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Cutting through the AI doom noise, as written by Prof. Melanie Mitchell.There's substantial quality research out there on the threats and harms of AI and of Big Tech' (in)actions. It doesn't get enough attention to inform the public. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading... …
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An especially clear and insightful piece on AI from Melanie Mitchell Misleading Metaphors and Real Risks aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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Hilary Escajeda @hilaryescajeda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Museum leadership may find it useful to contact Griffin Catalyst since Griffin plans on opening a new museum in Miami www.griffincatalyst.org
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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's the big one: what's going to happen to the Academy's collections? Excellent and thorough reporting from the Inquirer (gift link) www.inquirer.com/arts/academy...
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The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them
"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
AI hiring tools can reject qualified people "for reasons no one—including the employer—can adequately explain," warns NYU School of Law senior affiliated research scholar and former EEOC chair Charlotte A. Burrows. She says gutting disparate impact law makes it worse.
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A Labor Day Prescription for Preserving Fair Employment in the Digital Age
We can’t let technological progress turn back the clock on civil rights, writes Charlotte A. Burrows.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/08/2025
"Being in a colonizing discipline first demands and then encourages an attitude that might be called intellectual hubris." Turkle, Sherry (1984). The second self: Computers and the human spirit
"Being in a colonizing discipline first demands and then encourages an attitude that might be called intellectual hubris. Furthermore, since you cannot master all the disciplines that you have designs on, you need confidence that your knowledge makes the ‘traditional wisdom’ of these fields unworthy of serious consideration." —
Sherry Turkle (1984, p. 230)
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
DC Ct of App strikes Deutsche Bank's appellee brief entirely because its counsel used Generative AI & the brief contained hallucinated citations 🤖😵 I assume a malpractice suit/settlement will follow www.dccourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What a night in Mound Bayou! Folks of all ages, old friends, new friends & so much love & support in a place with so much history. I’m grateful for every conversation & every person who came out for the fourth night of the Where's Cindy 🔎 Tour. The Delta is something special. #MississippiMatters
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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Writing is thinking and much more than a skill. Writing and writing knowledge are methods for thinking through ideas and storing insights so we can return to them later. Writing allows someone to build their ideas & imagination into reality.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Predictable and predicted: "revenue from audits plunged 35% in fiscal year 2025, meaning billions of dollars in taxes went un-collected. The drop coincides with a 27% cut in enforcement and collection staffing at the IRS, as part of Elon Musk's campaign to boost government efficiency."
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Kat Eschner @keschner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fact-checking services cost $$$$, particularly specialized fact checkers. Prepping a book for that kind of scrutiny is also a huge undertaking. And it's absolutely not possible to fact check your own work to the standard of an independent checker. You're too close to it. Can't be done.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/08/2026
Annie Lowrey explores the administrative burdens people face applying for government benefits. It's not just about wasted time: "When the government treats us like this, we don't trust it," she says. n.pr/4xoHwwC
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Paperwork, lines, hours on hold: There's a 'Time Tax' on Americans who need help most
Annie Lowrey explores the administrative burdens people face applying for government benefits. It's not just about wasted time: "When the government treats us like this, we don't trust it," she says.
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CNN @cnn.com · 30/08/2026
A water line leak this week in El Reno, Oklahoma, which has cost residents more than three million gallons of water, has been traced to a data center, according to local reports.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not only are we cutting taxes on the 1%, we're not chasing big tax cheats: "the purposeful reduction in the enforcement of the tax code for the wealthy is both a symptom as a well as a cause of America’s rising oligarchy." - Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/oligarchy-...
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Oligarchy and the Great Evasion
The tax gap: What it is and why it matters
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 29/08/2026
How did some of Earth's earliest complex animals move—and could half-a-billion-year-old fossils reveal clues about life on other planets? Find out in this video with invertebrate paleontologist and Museum Curator Scott Evans (@fossilslablab.bsky.social)!👇
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What 100 Bent Fossils Revealed About Early Animals
YouTube video by American Museum of Natural History
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 29/08/2026
Scott Colom is a seventh-generation Mississippian who was born and raised in Columbus, where he became the city’s first Black prosecutor and still resides today. He is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, challenging Cindy Hyde-Smith and independent Ty Pinkins. buff.ly/wj4dZFP
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Meet the Candidates for US Senate in Mississippi’s Elections
Mississippi voters will choose a U.S. senator to represent the state in Congress in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s Dollywood Foundation “was initially focused on reducing school dropout rates in Sevier County, in part by offering $500 gifts to graduates. Cold, hard cash proved a powerful incentive; high school dropout rates plummeted to just 6 percent in the county, from 35 percent.”
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Dolly Parton’s Other Legacy: A Fortune Given Away, Dollar by Dollar
The country star supported early childhood literacy, disaster relief, the development of the Covid-19 vaccine and more.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 29/08/2026
Dolly Parton was fiercely protective of her songwriting catalog when even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones failed to maintain control. That conviction became the powering force as she expanded beyond music. on.wsj.com/4gUWRzb
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Dolly Parton was fiercely protective of her songwriting catalog when even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones failed to maintain control. That conviction became the powering force as she expanded beyond music.
Dolly Parton was fiercely protective of her songwriting catalog when even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones failed to maintain control. That conviction became the powering force as she expanded beyond music.
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Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You're not alone, Joe. It has been a rough cycle. Very frustrating.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was an uncredited producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When she learned the only female producer was making less than her male counterparts, Dolly cut her a check for the difference, on the spot.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton was the best of us.  She was an American treasure — a rare embodiment of talent, kindness, and generosity in equal measure.  We’ll always love you, Dolly.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We have lost someone who made the world a better place.-
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's impact wasn't her music--though it was obviously that!--it was her love of humanity and her willingness to show it, to put in the work and money and effort and time and energy to show it, locally and far away.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When we say Dolly Parton changed lives, she did, it was clear, it was evident, it was everywhere. The Imagination Library was a supreme act of loving children and families and showing it through books and money and effort. The Moderna vaccines she funded. The money she poured into her hometown.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Imagination Library was a gift, a gift that meant anyone could have books delivered to their house, for their kids, for YEARS. Your kids would have books that were THEIRS, in THEIR room, so they would grow up knowing what it was like to live in a house where reading was valued.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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@dpc1zspeaking @dpc1zspeaking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yes.. it’s called The Nerd Reich .. by Gil Duran. He’s on Blue Sky.. it was released this month. My copy arrived today. 👀
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Barchart @barchart.com · 23/08/2026
The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Children worry their families can't afford food after Trump's SNAP cuts: In Delaware, an 11-year-old wondered why her family could no longer afford Cinnamon Toast Crunch. In New Jersey, four siblings wanted their mother to buy groceries — but she had to tell them she couldn't.
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‘Mom, are we OK?’ Children worry their families can’t afford food after Trump’s SNAP cuts
The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“.. more than 1,000 securities trades in June, including significant purchases of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. and Cintas Corp., ..” @fortune.com $BRK $V $MA $PLTR fortune.com/2026/08/22/t...
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Renee Nicole @reneenicoleallen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Lots of talk about AI and device bans in the law school classroom, not enough about smart glasses and privacy concerns, recording without permission.
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I've now lived long enough to see the Kennedys and Nixons do the funniest political body swap comedy ever.
The image is from Fox News of Democrat Angie Nixon and it lists her positions:  

•MEDICARE FOR ALL
•FREE CHILDCARE
•FREE PAID FAMILY AND SICK LEAVE
• NATIONAL RENT FREEZE AND MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS
• UNIVERSAL JOBS PROGRAM
• TAX THE RICH
• ABOLISH I.C.E.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The evidence that the White House sought to punish Colorado over Tina Peters continues to ricochet within the state: @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2026/08/18/t...
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