On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
Earlier this week, I attended a Commonwealth Club presentation of the book and film Fired! by Annabelle Gurwitch. I have to say it (the film) was quite funny.…
In a recent post on his very thoughtful blog, Brad DeLong posted a self description that I absolutely resonate with: "I am... a reality-based center-left…
In a very well thought out September 1 blog post, Sanjana asked “Is technology neutral?†partially in response to my own post on the subject from a few week…
"...we have to have elected officials in government and we have to have the faithful in government and over time, that lie we have been told, the separatio…
I didn't see Katie Couric's debut broadcast yesterday, but I heard she had Morgan Spurlock (writer and director of Super Size Me and the interesting sho…
From CNN.com, "Ex-Iranian leader blames Bush policies for terrorism," posted 2:24 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2006: '...former Iranian President Moham…
I'm heading down to hear the oral arguments on the section 230 case, Barrett v. Rosenthal today. Eric Goldman has a good summary of the case and links to ke…
Golan v. Gonzales has been briefed and argued in the Tenth Circuit, and we are awaiting a decision. Government's brief is here. govt_response.pdf…
Great song by Paul Simon on his latest album, Surprise: "We heard the fireworks. Rushed out to watch the sky. Happy go lucky. Fourth of July. How can you…
So it's a little dated (mid-August), but I was morbidly amused at this article and headline from Federaltimes.com: "Transparency bill subjected to secr…
Denise Howell interviewed me recently for her podcast series Sound Policy on IT Conversations. It's now available for downloading. Here's the descriptio…
I've been busily trying to finish an article I'm writing with Elizabeth Townsend Gard about podcasting in corpoarations and universities, but had to dro…