Nick Nugent

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

i'll believe america is on the road to being a good faith participant in global order when international organizations are widely taught in high school civics and international law is a required course in law schools. but from the left to the right, we're globally uneducated & hardly care.

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that 404 Media's important reporting on pirate news site archive.is is gaining traction because the Drudge Report linked not to 404 Media's paywalled website but to the pirated version of the article on ... archive.is? (see archive.is/TFqAx)

37 years ago this week, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours — worm slithered out and sparked a new era in cybersecurity The Internet contracted worms a year before the World Wide Web was even a thing.

Happy Morris Worm Day to those who celebrate

Conecuh Sausage

Excited to present my new paper, Generative Cybersecurity, to the faculty of the University of Alabama today. But equally excited to try some conecuh sausage this morning, apparently an Alabama classic.

I'm not conspiratorial, but I can't ignore this circumlocution. The issue isn't whether there's some formal "Epstein list" that lists clients along with their crimes. The issue is whether there is any *evidence* of others who participated in sex trafficking, whether in emails, texts, photos, etc.

Enjoyed presenting the new RIR Governance Document in Prague and answering questions from the governments of China, India, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States #ICANN83

Excited to present an early draft of my paper on Generative Cybersecurity at the Penn Law & Computer Science Roundtable.

Schrödinger's outrage?

Pitch Perfect Protection An engineering professor and his PhD student develop a tool to keep AI from stealing music

Univ. of Tenn. has developed HarmonyCloak, a tool that prevents AI models from reproducing an artist’s unique sound. Here's a nice write-up about the tool, which also features some legal commentary by me.

torchbearer.utk.edu/2025/04/pitc...

It definitely grabbed my attention, as I'd not heard of it before. But I'm still skeptical. I haven't seen any evidence that this is a thing. And I struggle to think of what statutory basis LE would have to ask ISPs to do this. Doesn't fall under the Wiretap, Stored Comms, or Pen Register Acts.

Judging by the Restatement, Intel v. Hamidi, and Intel's progeny, this would indeed seem to be a trespass to chattels if police acted directly on the Wi-Fi (via signal jamming or deauthentication attack). But remedies would be (trivial) damages rather than exclusion of evidence or anything useful.

Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, says the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a "path of perfect lawlessness." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, the rule is clearly due for a name change to get with the times

Endangered tortoise, 97, welcomes four hatchlings at Philadelphia Zoo Four rare Western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise hatchlings will go on public view at Philadelphia Zoo starting April 23.

The fertile octogenarian rule has been vindicated

www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

Thanks. I plan to quote it and wanted to correctly attribute.

I did some pole attachment work (the legal kind, not the back-breaking kind) in private practice. A law school colleague of mine has made an entire career out of it.

That's a wonderfully articulated aphorism. Even if the concepts aren't new, is the wording yours?

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

Beyond betrayal.

Even if Ukraine were an incorrigibly corrupt monarchy, the rules-based international order would still compel the rest of the world to help it protect its borders from a foreign invader.

We must defend Ukraine not because it is a democracy and not because it is free from all corruption but because the international norm that has kept the world safe and predictable since WWII is that a nation may not invade and plunder another just because it is bigger and stronger.

Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors to Drop Eric Adams Corruption Case: Live Updates The dismissal of the charges would, for now, end the case against New York City’s mayor, and raise questions about the administration of justice under President Trump.

The correct response to rightwing corruption (if indeed this dropping of charges was corrupt) is not "What about when Biden/Obama/Clinton did ...?" It's "Because I don't wish to make any allowance for corruption, past or future, left or right, I will forcefully condemn it under all circumstances."

The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

The thing about running the federal government like a software startup is that most software startups fail www.wired.com/story/the-us...

“People, especially people who aren’t experts in the subject domain, coming into projects often think ‘this is dumb’ and then find out how hard the thing really is.”

Justice Dept. Is Said to Discuss Dropping Case Against Eric Adams Senior officials under President Trump have talked with prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of abandoning the corruption case against New York City’s mayor.

If the pardon of Ross Ulbricht to fulfill a campaign promise and now the potential dropping of charges (or pardoning of) new Trump buddy Eric Adams teach anything, perhaps it's that state prosecutors need to think about bringing parallel state charges where possible.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

Five murders for hire, no less, including some of which he believed were successfully carried out. Thanks for saying this, James. It's discouraging to see so many carrying the "Justice for Ross" banner.

• Daniel Joseph “DJ” Rodriguez, sentenced to 151 months, who can be seen on video, federal prosecutors said, deploying an “electroshock weapon” against a policeman who was dragged out of the defensive line, by “plunging it into the officer’s neck.” The night before, he promised in a MAGA chat group: “There will be blood.” • William Lewis, given 37 months, “sprayed streams of Wasp and Hornet Killer spray at multiple police officers on four distinct occasions,” forcing several to flee the line and “seek treatment for their eyes.” • Isreal James Easterday, 30 months, blasted a cop “in the face with pepper spray at point-blank range,” after which the officer “collapsed and temporarily lost consciousness, which enabled another rioter to steal his baton.” • Thomas Andrew Casselman, 40 months, hit multiple officers “near their faces” with pepper spray. His later internet searches included, “The statute of limitations for assault on a police officer.” • Curtis Davis, 24 months, punched two police officers in the head. That night he filmed a video of his fist, in which he bragged: “Them knuckles right there, from one of those m— faces at the Capitol.” • Ronald Colton McAbee, 70 months, hit a cop while wearing “reinforced brass knuckle gloves,” and he held one down on the ground as “other rioters assailed the officer for over 20 seconds,” causing a concussion. • Michael Joseph Foy, 40 months, brought a hockey stick with a TRUMP 2020 flag attached, which he swung “over his head and downward at police officers as if he were chopping wood.”

WSJ Ed board even includes descriptions of the cop-assailants Trump pardoned.

www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...