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Ann M. Lipton

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Law prof at U Colorado, business and securities. Blogging at https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/ Scholarship at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2365170 No longer welcome in the State of Nevada.

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I finally got Zoom's "AI Companion" to tell me how to disable it.

There's no option in the phone or desktop app, you have to go to your account on the Zoom website.

06.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Asking an LLM to provide step by step instructions on how to disable the LLM is one of only a few legitimate use cases.

06.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can't make this shit up

06.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Oh nice the thing I worry about every single time I walk across a city grate happened.

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 322 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 4

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06.03.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Weather app, are you...okay?

06.03.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Twitter 'Lied' About Bots, Musk Says At Stock Fraud Trial - Law360 Elon Musk continued his testimony in California federal court Thursday in litigation over Twitter investors' claims he publicly trashed the company to get a better deal on his buyout, calling Twitter'...

i am absolutely losing my mind. time is a flat circle

www.law360.com/securities/a...

06.03.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why vulnerable Gulf energy assets are rattling the world Infrastructure in the region plays a critical role in global power supply

I ... think I know?

www.ft.com/content/e05d...

06.03.2026 11:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re 23 HBS Professors. This Is the Cost of Silence. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson We urge business leaders to recognize that there is no conflict between their responsibilities as CEO and their responsibilities as citizens. The cost of silence is incalculable.

"We ask that the leaders of the business world in the US--some of whom it has been our privilege to teach--speak out now, act now, in defense of democracy....[T]here is no conflict between their responsibilities as CEO and their responsibilities as citizens. The cost of silence is incalculable."

27.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5
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Whither 122(18)? In late January, VC Zurn rejected a request for an emergency temporary restraining order enjoining a merger between Fifth Third Bancorp and Comerica. The

Actually asking: Does 122(18) apply to deal protections?

www.businesslawprofessors.com/2026/03/whit...

06.03.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minnesota Officials Welcome Firing of Homeland Security Secretary

Did they sing "nah nah nah nah hey hey hey"?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

06.03.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise' President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not concerned about rising U.S. gas prices driven by the widening Iran conflict, telling Reuters ​in an exclusive interview that the U.S. military operat...

i like that better than "people will die" i suppose

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

06.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

i assume the court could pause the trial for discovery and then resume, now that musk revived the defense. i certainly don't think that's impossible

06.03.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is what the ny plaintiffs had to file:

bsky.app/profile/annm...

06.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i suppose if/when musk does the same thing in ny - testifies as to what counsel told him after explicitly disclaiming the defense - plaintiffs there will point to this case and say "this is a strategy, don't reward him, curative instruction is not enough"

06.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

yes that's what it is.

musk's team disclaimed reliance on counsel defense to maintain privilege. on the stand, musk said this is what counsel told him. now court is planning a curative order which won't cure anything

06.03.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

that's definitely what happened in the ny case, and may have happened here as well. then musk on the stand started talking about what counsel advised him - despite previously waiving the defense - which is what created the problem

06.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i don't have access to the transcripts, maybe there was something in the courtroom, but i hope plaintiffs preserved their right to appeal on these grounds

06.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

incidentally, in the other musk/twitter fraud case - the one pending in NY - musk is trying to pull the same shtick

06.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ie., i'd insist on discovery into counsel's advice, etc etc

06.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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if i were the plaintiff i'd insist that musk waived privilege and object to the instruction but that's me

06.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

not ... not me though

06.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

um

06.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this cat cave sat in the bedroom entirely unused - the cats prefer to sleep on the bed - and then i moved it into my office space (which has multiple cat trees) and now they fight over it.

i mean, not fight exactly, more like take turns w/ some bullying to get one out

(this is the bully)

06.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The very existence of commercially available glasses with Internet-connected cameras sold by Meta, a company built entirely on hiding the costs of services in negative privacy externalities, is an indictment of U.S. tech law and policy. This is an unfixable product from a fundamentally bad company.

05.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 684 πŸ” 255 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 12
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 6889 πŸ” 1964 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 60

in nyc? yeah

05.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes you learn things when you do an interview with a chief executive. And sometimes, you learn things when you do not in fact do an interview with a chief executive:

05.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

on bluesky?

05.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

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