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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

Amazingly, may not even require regulations that give OpenAI and anthropic collusive and monopolistic power to set prices

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

It’s the animal on top

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

This is why it’s not law - which, however else you define it - always has universal and representational qualities. You negotiate on behalf of the public, for the public, to apply to the public. No, it’s another beast entirely.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

Of course, you see negotiation with lawmaking. The thing is, lawmaking is negotiated in light of the idea that the law that results will apply to all, equally. Trump’s version of negotiation is that it is a private agreement between the two parties, by the two parties, and *for* the two parties.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

I think by “nationalized” he means tech should rule the nation

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 21h

Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

I think by “nationalized” he means tech companies should rule the nation

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

He did it with intel. He did it with US steel. He does it using tariff threats and regulatory threats and plain old physical “break your kneecaps” threats.

This is personalist rule, supported by tribute-paying cliques.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 14h

The Kennedy center threats are yet another example of this personalist regime replacing rule by law into rule by mafioso deal: gimme what I want or I will destroy you or someone you love.

prospect.org/2025/11/10/t...

Rule by Deal - The American Prospect

Donald Trump engages in ad hoc agreements with individual companies and governments to expand his power. Some observers have described these actions as a new “economic nationalism”—but that term fails...

prospect.org

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 21h

Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

My AI-enabled legal research approach:

Pretend it spits about a research memo written by a summer intern. Pretend that summer intern has no background in the area and that the method they used to select "relevant" cases is only slightly better than picking randomly from a deskbook or hornbook.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm that Westlaw AI cannot tell what’s dicta and what’s not

What a not-fun experiment

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

LOL!

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to use it as permission to Not Change any of my lesson plans notwithstanding university-level directives suggesting otherwise

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

also westlawAI cannot tell the difference between a caremark or massey claim and a controlling shareholder claim

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

This looks like a death cult

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

The ghost of Charles I, richest man of richest country, begs to differ

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell how fundamentally illiberal this cr@p is by considering it in light of John Locke by way of Jefferson:

“The earth belongs in usufruct to the living”

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

The AI debate has forced me, somewhat agst my will, to grapple a bit more closely with the "longtermists", basically a movement or subculture of morons who propose novel forms of moral reasoning based on sci-fi ideas they imagine might happen hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 2d

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it:

"But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Me dealing with conservative economic ideology:

Charlie Brown and the Football

ALT: Charlie Brown and the Football

static.klipy.com

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I thot republicans liked this guy

My bad

Cover of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations which definitely absolutely argued that hoarding bullion with trade surpluses did not make nations wealthy

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

“The earth belongs in usufruct to the living”

— a bunch of famous dudes we’re supposed to venerate

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Omg I love this lil meatball

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I think my favorite sound in the world is now “Baudrillardian Fever Dream” in a Mississippi drawl

Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

I join over 50 my of UCLA Law colleagues in expressing our dismay at Chancellor Frenk’s public response to a disinformation campaign against a Law School symposium on the legacy of 9/11. We call for a retraction and the opportunity to meet with the Chancellor. sites.google.com/view/ucla-la...

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We write to express our grave disappointment at Chancellor Frenk’s September 11, 2026 statement, which he has reaffirmed, that appears to condemn a symposium hosted by several law school centers on th...

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Can someone ‘splain to me. Effective altruists will say to you that you should sacrifice 300 people now to save 1000 people in the future but somehow don’t bake into their calculations the disutility that ensues after that 300 start wielding their pitchforks

Movie graphic from the film the 300 where Gerard butler has many countless abs

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

In Covington, KY, you can buy a gallon for $4.60 or feed your kid for $.70 less. Signs helpfully placed on each corner of the street for ease of comparison.

Burger King sign showing kids meal price

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm that Westlaw AI cannot tell what’s dicta and what’s not

What a not-fun experiment

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d

This illegibility likely represses the possibility of opposition even more than the copious use of flock cameras

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d

Before we can build anything together, we need to know something about what the world *is.* As Arendt says, the truth is “the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.” A loss of common reality makes politics impossible

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d

For even more context, consider the privatization of wealth hidden in tax havens, asset protection trusts, privately held companies and private equity investments. We cannot regulate what we cannot see.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d

And is probably more effective at repressing opposition than the copious usage of flock cameras

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 2d

For any academics out there looking for someone cool to come talk, 10/10 A+ 💯 recommend giving her a call

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