Kate Silbaugh, Professor at BU Law

Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order - Truthdig How an obscure 20th-century tax rule ensured that newly decolonized nations would never fully escape the orbit of their colonizers.

Such a pleasure to team up with my #BULaw colleague @sshermanstokes.bsky.social Sherman-Stokes to tell this important story of race, immigration, and tax law.

I don’t think so.

Maybe easier to teach an AI to say I’m not sure? arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13962

That feeling when you’re about to deep dive into your area of expertise to explain a joke …

Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️

I did it; hope you’re sitting down.

Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.

For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.

Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.

We must stop this devastating bill.

Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social

Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS?

Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST

ALONE

AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM

They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.

Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?

a 3D graph with the X axis of compute budget, Y axis of accuracy, and Z axis of confidence threshold. The chart shows that accuracy increases with higher compute and confidence thresholds, though the trade-off tends to be fewer questions answered overall.

You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵

Republicans do something outrageous and extreme, their opponents respond by critiquing each other.

Providence, Rochester, New Haven

I love this. I make this same point to anyone who will listen: teaching high school students to debate is a terrible use of education. It deliberately schools them in insincerity. The 'how to be toxic club,' to avoid real talk. I pointed out to Wurman speaking at BU that this is not debate club.

Debate as a form is the worst.

PS 100% you could be the original source of the argument.

In discussing whether we should be scoring points, or getting the story right, I asked if he'd ask the NYT for a correction. He said it didn't warrant it, is my recollection. One other thing: I think he said the opportunity to write this in NYT shaped the project. Again, confirm elsewhere please.

each explicable (diplomatic immnty, e.g.). You should call him, you'd have a better conversation about his concession than I. I believe he said this was the one part of the op-ed that gave him "heartburn" is how I remember it (could have been a like term, headache/insomnia, but I recall heartburn).

1/2 I'm not on x and I am not a historian. I read a number of pieces about the op-ed organized and linked by a scholar, and one linked to Calvin's case. I think the op-ed itself does as well. The idea was that open war is required to negate, not simply being Alien [sic]. Other exceptions also ..

What I saw was a future federal judge

I'm persuaded that it is, but on this one point, Wurman conceded something wrong with it.

But he did concede that the way he'd characterized amity in the NYT did give him some heartburn. Not enough to correct.

At BU last week, Wurman gave me a pointed "if I could finish my thought" because I interrupted his answer to my Q to say his answer was again mischaracterizing. I had prefaced my question by saying we are not at debate club scoring points and concessions. I asked him to issue a correction. A: No.

Machine learning paper says the longer the machine thinks the better its answer; a second thought is usually more accurate.

The Pope drops a diss track on JD Vance

The same ones who are confident that the 28th Amendment didn’t pass because they would have known about it if it were real

It feels like this dynamic is at play with recognizing the properly passed Equal Rights 28th Amendment. Feels like it would be obvious if it capped a tax rate instead of addressing women’s legal equality. Many just can’t accept it +feel it can’t be w/o their ok on how they feel process should be.