Matthew Gallaway

After Neoliberalism: Predistribution and the Law and Economics of Income Inequality Law and Economics scholars argue that if income redistribution is to happen at all, it should occur exclusively through the tax system, rather than through supposedly less efficient methods…

Today, Matthew Dimick explains why one of the most famous arguments against addressing inequality through predistribution fails on its own terms.

Cover of Chilling Effects featuring people walking amidst security cameras

This book exposes the weaponization of surveillance, law, and technology to chill and control us, and how we should respond.

Chilling Effects by Jonathon W. Penney, Coming Soon

#LawSky #Tech #Politics #USPol 💙📚 #Surveillance #AI

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"A Perspective from Rural America: Lawyers and the Viability of Rural Law Practice', a new blog by Hannah Haksgaard, author of THE RURAL LAWYER (out now)

#LawSky #BookSky #sociolegal

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This was a lot of fun to work on, and (IMHO) the result is a fantastic set of chapters on regulatory responses to misinformation. (Also, it's open access!)

I love all animals as a rule but to honor #Caturday I am sharing this ‘cats rule dogs drool’ graffiti I spotted the other day on a run through Fort Tryon Park.

Norman Brannon won't take part in Texas Is The Reason reunion ”I truly hope this experience gives everyone involved whatever they need from it. And I have nothing but love for anyone—including the band—whose experience allows them to celebrate in this way.”

This quote from Norman Brannon resonated strongly with me. www.brooklynvegan.com/norman-brann...

Anecdotal evidence BUT I believe Broadway and Riverside Drive in Upper Manhattan are less traffic-y and insane since #congestionpricing started?

I was happy to help publish this one!

I wish it was $15 but $9 is better than nothing.

Finally went to the office this week and spent the entire train ride hypnotized by the most beautiful advertisement.

States do a lot of terrible things. Maybe we shouldn’t have them?

Resolving to take more pix of the GWB this year.

Can Democracy Survive Online? The dream of a democratic web has turned into a nightmare of moderation crises, content mines, and billionaire overlords. Rebuilding digital spaces for meaningful participation in a post-X future will...

Good review of The Networked Leviathan (which btw is OPEN ACCESS) by @paulgowder.bsky.social in Jacobin. jacobin.com/2024/12/inte...

Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love “About Ed” is a literary monument that harnesses memoir’s emotional honesty while indulging fiction’s stylistic latitude.

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Sunset in a frigid New York City.

Beautiful butterflies in Key West. #bluemorpho

Watching a show set in the UK where I’m more fixated on the bike lanes than the plot.

Fort Tryon Park: Still beautiful in 2024.

The mix of (fake) indignation and pleasant Gen X nostalgia I felt when my nephew texted and asked if I had ever heard of the Stone Roses :)

I know there are bigger problems but the ongoing invasion of NYC’s bike and footpaths by motorcycle and moped riders is a bummer. (The solution is to reduce the space allocated to cars.)

Nice day on the bike path in Upper Manhattan.

Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2023 Ah, it’s Halloween weekend. And that means it’s time for our favorite Japanese festival Jimi Halloween, where people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained. The tradition was...

Always the best Halloween costumes. www.spoon-tamago.com/jimi-mundane...

How Our Roads Hurt Us and Everything Around Us In “Crossings,” Ben Goldfarb shows that our dependence on highways and freeways is an environmental concern as well as a social one.

Next time someone asks why you support a moratorium on road building, give them this book. “About a hundred people and one million wild animals are killed by cars every day in the United States alone.” www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/b...

Japanese anemones in bloom at Fort Tryon Park.

Perfect light on a perfect bridge — no cars! (This is the High Bridge over the East River connecting Manhattan and the Bronx.)

First day of fall, sort of.

Made everyone at work sign an NDA before taking them to a rooftop bar I discovered that’s always empty and has incredible views. The drinks are very mediocre!

Getting a Covid booster at a corporate chain pharmacy is one of more dispiriting aspects of the current era :(

World’s least-friendly bench at my subway station.

It’s toad lily season in the garden.