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Technology law and policy | Lecturer @INSEAD | @PurdueEngineers, @KelloggSchool, @UWSchoolofLaw

Bull Valley, IL
Joined October 2011
In 2022, Techdirt's Mike Masnick created a 'Legal Misunderstanding March Madness' bracket for law twitter, and of course the First Amendment "won" as the most misunderstood legal doctrine in the U.S. Was funny at the time, but also not funny.
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Replying to @mwashamtx
fwiw, my Deere 5075e was manufactured in Augusta, GA. And yes ... import taxes (aka, tariffs) put pressure on margins, resulting in cost cutting measures like layoffs.
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The Wichita Eagle is the largest newspaper in Kansas, where Trump got 57% of the vote
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Here's another ... he won this state by 37 points.
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This is quite the op-ed page for the largest newspaper in a state Trump won by 34 points.
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There are certain masterstrokes of still photography that capture the gestalt of what's happening in a way video never could.
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Mad props to @MichaelDalynyc for the subhead on this Feb 2021 opinion piece about Kristi Noem criticizing gov't subsidies while happily accepting gov't subsidies. So close.
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I don't know which synthetic voice tool was used to create this NH primary scam, but the go to market strategy for the product segment is clear: ready, fire, aim.
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How it started --- How it's going
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Re-upping this piece, given that Boeing is its main example of how regulatory agency permissiveness is a non-obvious form of "self-regulation", which of course doesn't work.
After years of talking about self-regulation in various venues and contexts, I've come to the conclusion that it's pretty much bullshit. It's a made-up term that amounts to an anti-regulation headfake. timobrien.substack.com/p/the…
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