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Law professor, Northwestern University. Doing privacy and intellectual property. Views are my own. https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/matthewkugler/ Free privacy casebook https://www.privacycasebook.com/

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The awkward part of this is that 80% of people would want to hang political fundraising texters in the town square as well, and the politicians went to school with them.

06.08.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, a task worthy of AI

04.08.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Uplifting though that sentiment is, the episode did end with a bad guy getting torn to pieces.

02.08.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tomorrow I’m going to β€œruthlessly” focus my time on my fall syllabus.

29.07.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best of luck!

28.07.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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27.07.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1183    πŸ” 388    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 137

Dear Student Who Wants My Fall Syllabus,
So do I, so do I.

24.07.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If I'm reading Westlaw correctly, he issued 6 opinions on June 30th. This makes me wonder if it was someone's last day, hence the rush.

24.07.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was wondering about changeover. But June 30 is too early for that to make a ton of sense. I’m mostly confused, and wondering what will happen when people check his earlier opinions.

24.07.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why I eat meat with every meal; I don’t want to risk going Nazi.

20.07.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll settle for it being the worst one I learn in the next 24 hours.

18.07.2025 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Real challenge will be getting it back under the word limit.

14.07.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Counting up the very young does emphasize the horror of it all. Also avoids any suggestion that these were combatant children.
So I don’t disagree with you, but I can see rhetorically why they did it that way.

12.07.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are multiplying!

07.07.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You have an optimistic view of university organization. This is a stupid scandal, but I’d be shocked if the admissions office had any idea of the ethnicity of the university’s own faculty.

04.07.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a disgrace.

01.07.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This guy is a really fun writer. And, having also gone to a small liberal arts college in middle of nowhere New England, this sounds so familiar.

30.06.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like to introduce you to toddlers.
Frozen
Cars
Cars 2
Moana
Moana 2
My neighbor Totoro
Encanto
Tangled
Fantasia

30.06.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well you get a break from scotus knocking over pillars for a bit. Now other institutions get a turn.

28.06.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhat’s the worst thing that happened yesterday” has too frequently been debatable in the past six months.

28.06.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That is my read as well. It doesn't work as a distinction - if I can have testosterone to be "more male" but my AFAB friend cannot that really seems like a sex-based classification - but SCOTUS is leaning on drug-for-condition.

26.06.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think this is relatively standard when doing population estimates. But i’m also constantly mistaken for Jewish based on my CV, so maybe projecting religious affiliation is hard.

26.06.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The real question is whether the judge will be teaching next year. Because there is a good argument that the grade is the grade, but I don’t see a good argument that you should retain the adjunct.

24.06.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not sure my old landlord knew the furnace had a filter. Sigh.

24.06.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But you should be writing about lord of the rings. It isn’t autocorrect’s fault that you picked the wrong topic.

22.06.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve given good grades to papers with which I’ve disagreed. I even advocated to get the school to cover the law review submission fees for one. But I can’t imagine how one writes a good or even acceptable paper arguing for conclusions explicitly in conflict with the Reconstruction amendments.

21.06.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I read some of the privacy memos and this was my take as well (generally good, though never perfect).
I feel really badly for the students and journal. There’s a reason we keep peer reviewers anonymous!

20.06.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can’t be a billionaire in an autocracy; you can only have temporarily control of the autocrat’s money. Only the rule of law gives security.

11.06.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Reposting to spread coverage.

09.06.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of those impossible challenges β€œexplain the trinity in lay language without committing heresy.”

06.06.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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