@marklemley.bsky.social
William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
CDC is dead. Look to the western health alliance. Follow them
05.12.2025 21:19 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0Hep B vaccine came out in the early 80s, shortly after HIV had caused the med profession to implement universal precautions, treating all blood and body fluids as potentially infectious. Hep B is spread the same way. Hep B is 50-100 x more infectious. And can live in dried blood for up to a week. π€¦ββοΈ
05.12.2025 21:22 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Disgusting.
Hep b was reduced in babies to around 20 cases a year. Watch it shoot up and babies suffer because their parents listen to the weirdos making health decisions for the nation.
Key word here is STUPID (but I'll add EVIL)
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Likely that some countries in the world will be adding various vaccination requirements on travellers from the US in the future.
05.12.2025 23:01 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Better yet
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My paper with Matthew Wansley, "Coopting Disruption," was republished in abridged form in Antitrust magazine.
www.americanbar.org/groups/antit...
The Center for Disease Control can now officially be renamed the Center for Disease Communication
Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
A useful essay on the science of how power degrades empathy
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-studied-...
Sigh. I keep hoping for some sign of moderation from Roberts, Kavanagh, and Barrett but apart from not joining the Alito opinion, we have only their votes. Which, again, as they have been almost always, are silently in favor of Trump and the party he owns.
05.12.2025 01:46 β π 21 π 3 π¬ 3 π 1It's goodβvery good, and very importantβthat district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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Please join us for a virtual event (Dark Matter author Blake Crouch and an all-star panel of lawyers talking about legal issues in Dark Matter) that should be both great fun and supports a great cause (Phil Weiser's campaign for governor)
05.12.2025 00:53 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Please bookmark this post for several months from now, when I predict the Court eliminates the Voting Rights Act and somehow concludes that that later decision won't be too close to the election to prevent redrawing the maps.
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The Supreme Court lets the Texas racial gerrymander go forward, overruling the three-judge district court. In so doing, it tells us that as of December 2025 it is too close to the 2026 election to redraw maps.
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www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The PTAB would like a word . . .
04.12.2025 23:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy to help! :)
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The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
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NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.
buff.ly/hbjzh2q
I'm not worried about developing nuclear power to provide the energy AI needs; I'm worried about AI designing and operating those nuclear power plants
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What could possibly go wrong?
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
Russian sleeper agent
03.12.2025 19:34 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 2 π 1Iβll be speaking on the panel, then presenting the poster with several of my co-authors.
Joint w/ @marklemley.bsky.social @mbogen.bsky.social @nicolaspapernot.bsky.social @klyman.bsky.social @milesbrundage.bsky.social @jtlg.bsky.social @hannawallach.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social + many others
I guess now we know what the Nodfather meant when he said he'd be "anti-woke"
03.12.2025 18:59 β π 57 π 15 π¬ 4 π 0Those few boats were literally carrying enough cocaine to kill every person in America, I guess. π
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Racist grandpa is off his meds again
www.alternet.org/trump-truth-...
Martin Skladany and I submitted this comment to the PTO on behalf of 22 law professors and Public Citizen pointing out that the proposed rulemaking restricting IPRs by requiring waiver of all validity arguments in court is both illegal and really bad policy.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
An excellent breakdown of why the poverty line doesn't work for measuring actual poverty or drivers of inequality & deprivation.
01.12.2025 22:36 β π 31 π 10 π¬ 0 π 2Tutorial tomorrow at 1:30PM PST!
My talk slots will cover memorization + copying in models and their outputs, canonical extraction methods, and recent work with @marklemley.bsky.social and others on extracting pieces of memorized books from open-weight models.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546
