Professor of Law, University of Arkansas. Admiralty and Maritime Law, Corporate, and M&A. Real Christmas tree enthusiast.
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If these prophecies about AI bots hacking everyone's bank accounts start to come true, it won't be long before courts start applying strict liability to AI companies--probably stretching the ultrahazardous/abnormally dangerous activities concept.
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I'm just going to point out that there are two people at the start of this hike.
The testosterone level of the parents at these youth wrestling tournaments is just out of control. And don’t even get me started about the dads.
I was talking about my kid with another dad, and the dad said, “he’s destined for something.” And I said “greatness?” And he just smiled and shrugged and and walked away.
When you are at a special event watching your kids, you should:
41%Enjoy the moment
5%Record it all
54%Make a poll about it on X
41 votes • Final results
If you are 27 years old you might feel like you are young but, just like me, you will be referred to as “a person from the 1900s.”
We need an inverse-Pangram. It tells you what percentage of your article is substantively original (i.e., doesn't map onto existing literature, whether word-for-word OR paraphrased, whether AI generated or not).
A rare opportunity to disagree with The Hoff.
So first, he is right on all the main points, including flooding and how ugly AI slop is, &c.
But I don't love the remedy (and I suspect he isn't too excited about it either?). Pangram is measuring the wrong thing and is also gamable (less so than I thought in the past!). Still the semi lazy can just have Claude generate an article and then rewrite it using meat tokens, and the AI signature disappears without resolving any of the underlying problems. The truly lazy will use AI humanizers, but I haven't benchmarked those.
What to do? Use AI to identify works worthy of human attention! AI triage is the only robust way forward IMHO, and also, I suspect that it's being done covertly anyways.
A lot more to say but I wanted to outline this quickly
I just overheard someone in the hallway describing transactional law to a student as, "Filing documents, copying and pasting, stuff like that," and I couldn't really argue.
True Story: One time I got a law school Contracts exam that contained no capital letters, punctuation, or paragraphs.
This checks out. Delaware still faces an existential threat to its chartering business.
🚨 SOFTBANK’S OPENAI- AND NVIDIA-BACKED AI INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY LEFT DELAWARE FOR TEXAS BEFORE GOING PUBLIC.
SB Energy’s SEC registration statement reveals that its predecessor, SE Global Holdings, completed its conversion from a Delaware corporation to a Texas corporation on August 28, 2026.
Three days later, it adopted the SB Energy name.
The company is pursuing a Nasdaq IPO under SBE, with SoftBank as its controlling shareholder and OpenAI and NVIDIA as strategic investors.
Its prospectus discloses approximately $439 billion in contracted backlog and 8.8 gigawatts of contracted or under-construction data-center capacity.
The Texas reincorporation is already complete. The IPO remains separate from that completed legal move.
Many of us who read scholarly literature have noticed the that sometimes a footnote to an article contains the most interesting idea of the piece. I wonder whether the author didn't realize it at the time, or just wanted to minimize it because it didn't fit the article agenda?
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Public service is hard, but clearly these guys have the chops for it.
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Probably my greatest strength as a teacher is that students routinely come out of my classes saying they feel even more confused after listening to me than they did before.
A political candidate is just a vector in a policy space. You pick the one closest to your ideal point. Their personal attributes are mostly a distraction except insofar as they bear on their location in the policy space.