It’s unconscionable that Twitter would deploy what remains of its legal team to bully academics into paying an obscene ransom in order to keep access to essential data. https://inews.co.uk/news/twitter-researchers-delete-data-unless-pay-2364535

The best hope for stopping this is regulatory action, particularly under the DSA.

Groups like the Coalition for Independent Technology Research are helping lobby on behalf of researchers. Learn more and get involved: https://independenttechresearch.org/

“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

- Wanda Sykes

It is deeply, deeply infuriating how often competent women—including lots of junior women—get dragooned into service tasks because no one else will do them and because they are competent and can't really say no.

Don't be the person who keeps saying no and lets the tasks roll onto people who can't say no.

[No, this is not about any particular person. I have seen it maybe a dozen and a half times in the past two months.]

#academia #lawfedi

Also out today:

- Gonzalez v. Google https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1333_6j7a.pdf

- Twitter v. Taamneh https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1496_d18f.pdf

#SCOTUS #LawFedi

This description of the life of an AZ Republican official who resisted MAGA conspiracy theories reminds me of what happens to democracy activists in authoritarian states: Constant harassment, threats to family, an atmosphere of foreboding and violence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/06/bill-gates-maricopa-county-arizona-ptsd/