Lawrence Lessig

Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated political folk to the Ed Sullivan Theater for a solo performance of "Join ICE," a tune from his latest EP, 'No Kings.' Keep watching… "Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)

Seriously brilliant protest music: youtu.be/61I4hlig78w?...

Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials! The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg Trials documents,…

From the Department of Tragic Irony:

On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.

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Episode 4: Dismantling "Allegation 2" the first of four.

I've published the fourth episode of the podcast reviewing the Francesca Gino case (Harvard Business School professor removed for academic misconduct). This is the first of four to review the evidence behind the four findings of misconduct.

President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance. It's raised questions about conflicts of interest and the president's use of the pardon… Trump pardon of billionaire sparks concerns

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We were on our way to qualifying for the second debate — then the Democrats changed the rules. Watch Lessig describe what this means for the campaign. Help us caption & translate this… The Democrats have changed the rules

Ten years ago today, I ended my effort to get corruption at the center of the Democratic presidential debate. Flawed and impossible in many ways, it was right. Then, and even more so now.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacts to President Donald Trump urging Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster so they can end the government shutdown. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports. #CNN #News Speaker Johnson issues warning after Trump says GOP should end the filibuster

Trump is right. The filibuster should go.

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I'm going to make this even easier for @jay.bsky.team - I'm willing to be a PR person at a very reasonable rate. I've worked in tech marketing for 10 years and was a software engineer for another 10. I've run the social media & tech side of a $11M campaign for Larry Lessig. I'm qualified. DM me.

BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul Absolutely Trashes Trump's Tariffs After Outrage Over Canada's Reagan Ad During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) criticized President Trump's tariff policies. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including…

Hey, the future. There were a few. Too few, but some.

Colorado AG Phil Weiser has filed suit against Trump for moving Space Force b/c Colorado has mail-in voting. My favorite line in the complaint: "Trump’s statements and beliefs on mail-in voting are simply untethered from the facts."

Let this become the refrain everywhere.

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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going… I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois

Wow. Talk about handing your opponent a megaphone.

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Maddow: This is what Democrats have been screaming about The real numbers on the impact of Republican changes to health insurance subsidies are being made public, and they are extreme to say the least. Suddenly, the abstract fight over the federal…

Re health care costs: "These are insane numbers."

Two ways to think about this story. One: the "insane numbers." The other: that 1/2 of America has no clue about these facts, because of the bubbles we've allowed media to become.

THAT is the insanity.

Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems | VotingWorks Yesterday, news broke that Dominion Voting Systems was sold to a new company, Liberty Vote. Dominion, the second-largest voting systems vendor in the US that currently tabulates 1 in 5 American…

"Trust us, we're the government" is fine, iff, as Reagan put it, we "trust, but verify." The only credible way to verify critical code is if that code is open-sourced.

There is one extremely prominent open-source vendor in America. There need to be many more.

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A former GOP official has privately financed the purchase of the second-largest voting technology vendor in America? What could possibly go wrong...

Here's what could go right: We urgently need a demand by election officials for open-source voting technology.

MIT Rejects Special Funding Offer From Trump Administration The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse.

This takes courage. Courage has always been costly.

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Jimmy Kimmel is Back! Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air and talks about all of the people who have reached out over the last six days including fellow late night talk show hosts, fans of the show, and those who don’t…

This is the most important political speech IN a generation FOR this generation. Let it begin the fight back.

Jon Ossoff is the only Democratic U.S. Senator up for re-election in a state Trump won. This is the most important Senate race in the country. He needs our support, join at ElectJon.com Subscribe… Ossoff: On authoritarianism

"It is unAmerican" — unless we just give in.

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US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier Milei Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says ‘all options’ are on the table to support the country through bout of market volatility

Yes, let's spend American wealth to prop up yet another right-wing fantasist.

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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

We are a nation of cowards.

Where are all the free speech warriors who were going to start a revolution because Twitter was throttling Hunter's d*ck pics?

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FBI Searches John Bolton’s Home: Trump News and Live Updates Year will end with 300,000 fewer federal workers, a Trump official says.

The ghost of a (much dumber) Nixon returns. Criticize the President, suffer an FBI search at your home.

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Super-interesting essay by one of my favorite legal historians about the 1872 story of a child born to enemy alien parents deemed a US citizen, even though the child left the US almost immediately. #ImagineIfOriginalismAppliedConsistently.

After repeatedly failing to render a cartoon correctly, ChatGPT offered this advice. Got to admire the honesty (also, saves server cycles).

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state will move forward with a plan to redraw congressional maps, as Democrats push back against President Trump and the GOP's gerrymandering… Newsom: 'Donald Trump, you have poked the bear'

This is not difficult. EVERY Democrat in the 117th Congress voted for a bill that would have ended partisan gerrymandering, and EVERY Republican voted against it. The GOP didn't want to disarm; this is the consequence of their decision.

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On settling with an extortionist: open.substack.com/pub/lessig/p...

ChatGPT - ChatGPT Advertising Policy Shared via ChatGPT

Fine to include links from those who pay. Not fine to auction truth to the highest bidder. At a minimum, we need transparency about whether an LLM is selling results to the highest bidder. ChatGPT tells me it isn't, but can't promise me it won't.

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Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Grok's responses | TechCrunch The move would help power X's struggling ads business following the departure of former CEO Linda Yaccarino.

And thus does the end begin?

AI companies need to commit firmly not to permit truth to be bought. "Joe's Tavern seems to be the most liked restaurant in Anytown" should not be a function of whether Joe's Tavern pays an LLM.

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