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Amanda Levendowski Tepski

@tepski.tech
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writing Good Technologies: A Practical Primer for Lawyers (coming 2027 @ucpress.bsky.social) teaching intellectual property, information privacy + technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social making prints, perfumes + poems @ tepski.tech/art

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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For some freed and exonerated people, karaoke has been something of a reentry ritual. Read more about how they recently came together for a celebration of life and freedom. nyti.ms/4AmQ8pD
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At Karaoke Night, These Exonerated New Yorkers Voice Their Freedom
A night of belting out R&B and pop hits has become a re-entry ritual and celebration of life for some wrongly imprisoned men and women thrust back into society.
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Aaron Moss @copyrightlately.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: The Third Circuit affirmed Thomson Reuters' win over ROSS, the first appellate ruling on fair use in AI training. Westlaw's headnotes sit behind a paywall. The court's reasoning now sits behind a seal. My quick take: copyrightlately.com/thomson-reut...
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Signed, Sealed, Affirmed: Third Circuit Backs Thomson Reuters over ROSS
The first federal appeals court to weigh fair use in AI training sided with Thomson Reuters over ROSS. Why it did so, for now, is under seal.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 14h
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Pope Leo criticises Nvidia’s Jensen Huang over AI safety
Rare intervention from head of Catholic Church comes as top executives are due to meet at White House on Tuesday
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18h
Did everyone know this but me
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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 19h
THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. No one should have to verify their identity (much less send their ID information to a tech company) to access patents. <END RANT>
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 20h
www.techpolicy.press/millions-of-...
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Millions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.
We’re never going back to the human internet we had. But we can hope for a better internet than the AI-dominated one that is emerging, writes Sarah Gilbert.
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Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Come work with our team! We're hiring a Sr. Digital Security Trainer. You would lead digital security trainings for journalists, conduct organizational risk assessments, contribute to our editorial efforts, and help to develop our curriculum. freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/708479-...
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Sr. Digital Security Trainer - Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF)
FPF is hiring a senior digital security trainer to conduct in-field digital security training with journalists and newsrooms.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 28/09/2026
We have a one-year tech policy LLM for non-lawyers 👀
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 28/09/2026
I’d argue that these norms exist and are pretty obvious, and yet.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 28/09/2026
This happened to me recently. We need scholarly norms around workshops reinforcing that we share drafts to solicit human feedback; we’re not giving our colleagues permission to upload our drafts to AI systems.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 28/09/2026
What if Wikipedia was a symphony? 🎶 "Listen to Wikipedia" transforms the efforts of hundreds of thousands of editors into audible and visible actions ➡️ listen.hatnote.com
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 28/09/2026
He’s like the Forrest Gump of the FBI in that he’s at everything that mattered for 40 years.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 27/09/2026
Ok this is the exhibit, you’d both get a ton outta it.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 27/09/2026
The exhibit at the Guggenheim is beyond engrossing, I’ve never read every single piece of text at a show before.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 24/09/2026
www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Aaron Martin @sixfouronea.net · 24/09/2026
📣 We're hiring an open rank tenured/tenure track prof. in 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 If you work on the governance of data and AI, we'd love for you to consider joining @uvadatascience.bsky.social ❤️ Details in the job advert: apply.interfolio.com/191214
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 23/09/2026
This is the problem with corporate moratoria: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2457/
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"Resisting Face Surveillance with Copyright Law" by Amanda Levendowski
Face surveillance is animated by deep-rooted demographic and deployment biases that endanger marginalized communities and threaten the privacy of all. But current approaches have not prevented its ado...
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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join us on 10/20 for our Atlanta book launch event at Charis Books and More: @laurenfklein.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social @marguread.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social This hybrid event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance🍑 charisbooksandmore.com/event/2026-1...
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Gabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Job, Job, Job Alert, Director of Research Berkman: brk.mn/director-res...
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Director of Research
Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (BKC), an interfaculty research center, seeks a Director of Research. This is a rare and...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/09/2026
Most people should use a password manager, but there's no one-size-fits-all recommendation. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
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Choosing a Password Manager
Password breaches are a common occurrence, and if you use the same password on every site, that may grant access to bad actors who try out that password elsewhere to get into your accounts. The best way to protect yourself is to use a unique password everywhere (and two-factor authentication,...
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm really sad about the death of one of my favorite wikipedia editors so here's a thread of some of the greatest articles he wrote
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 22/09/2026
Literally working on a new project that NEEDS this dataset. Bless you 🙏
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025
<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 21/09/2026
This makes Panopto look quaint: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2544/
scholarship.law.georgetown.edu
"Dystopian Trademark Revelations" by Amanda Levendowski
Uncovering dystopian technologies is challenging. Nondisclosure agreements, procurement policies, trade secrets, and strategic obfuscation collude to shield the development and deployment of these tec...
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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 21/09/2026
CDT is hiring a General Counsel to join our executive team and provide legal counsel across the organization. The role will advise on nonprofit governance, compliance, contracts, privacy, employment matters, litigation, and more, while serving as Secretary to CDT’s Board.
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Careers - Center for Democracy and Technology
Do the possibilities presented by an innovative, open, and free internet inspire you? Do you find yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? Are you yearning to put your expertise to work on internet neutrality legislation? If so, you might be a great fit for our team. View our open opportunities.
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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring! ✨ Come work with me at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We are recruiting an Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Prof of Data Science with a background in social science, legal, policy, STEM or humanities disciplines to join our Data and Society area. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191214
This is a screenshot of the UVA School of Data Science website portraying the school building in the background against a blue sky and trees. The texts reads: Jobs at the School of Data Science. Join Our Team.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 21/09/2026
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 21/09/2026
As the next generation of law teachers get their screeners, I’d nudge them—especially aspiring clinical and legal practice folks—to familiarize themselves with the struggles of our colleagues in librarianship: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...
inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 21/09/2026
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 20/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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A melanoma vaccine was hailed as a breakthrough. Which cancers are next?
Trials investigating mRNA vaccines for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases are already underway.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
just gonna park this here for now. figuring on gettin a lot of use out of it
you wouldn’t correct a joke
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 18/09/2026
US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 18/09/2026
I can’t help thinking that, increasingly, I teach a 4-credit class called “Bad Computer Stuff.”
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 18/09/2026
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Meta glasses captured and shared intimate images without users' consent, lawsuit claims
People who use Meta's smart glasses or were recorded with the gadget are worried about how the social media giant is using their photos and videos.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 18/09/2026
Shout it!!!!!!!!
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 18/09/2026
😇
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Non-Resident Fellowship at @cdt.org is open for applications! Deadline is Oct. 3. I'm one of this year's cohort and it's been a great opportunity to highlight the civil liberties underpinnings of my work. If you're an academic with a digital rights bent, please apply! cdt.org/careers/#op-...
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Careers - Center for Democracy and Technology
Do the possibilities presented by an innovative, open, and free internet inspire you? Do you find yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? Are you yearning to put your expert...
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
25 years ago today, Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered in the first act of post-9/11 hate. That crisis was met with collective action by AMEMSA communities, a model of care that we honor in "An Imprint Left in the Dust," the third volume of our political hope zine series: tinyurl.com/politicalhope3
Title page of the third volume of the Political Hope zine series, "An Imprint Left in the Dust: Reflections on the Past 25 Years" from the Center for Transformational ChangeDetail from the zine: Photo of a Peace Pole, a mini wooden obelisk, with the words "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in English and Hindi
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 17/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 17/09/2026
Higher ed has been dealing with this for many years: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2544/
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"Dystopian Trademark Revelations" by Amanda Levendowski
Uncovering dystopian technologies is challenging. Nondisclosure agreements, procurement policies, trade secrets, and strategic obfuscation collude to shield the development and deployment of these tec...
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I profiled the startup behind Pangram, the AI detector everyone’s talking about. It works really, really well. I wanted to understand how they did it. and also: why people still don’t trust them. (also, news: Penguin Random House is using it.) gift link! ✨
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The World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human Problem
Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.
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Danielle Pelfrey Duryea @pelfreyduryea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Honored and excited to join @tepski.tech @gabepac.bsky.social & Jonathan Smith on the first plenary for this conference on #GenAI use in #lawschool clinics. Join us in November! www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential...
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GenAI in Law School Clinics
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 15/09/2026
I just shared this with someone else, but the Morgan Library has a tarot exhibition that should still be up then!
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exciting Research Director position for someone with the (maybe impossible) combination of scientist, engineering manager, fundraiser, and administrator. If that's you, this is an amazing way to have an impact! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
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Research Director - Penn Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 15/09/2026
Tenement for sure. Morgan Library also has a historical tarot exhibit, if that’s your thing.
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 15/09/2026
www.coyotemedia.org/records-of-e...
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An Oakland Photographer Surveils the Surveillance State
Cara Esten Hurtle’s drone-based art project shows the difference between being seen and being spotted.
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