I am willing to credit legal realism to a degree, and know that many sophisticated people thought “Oh sure the law says that but all high-status institutions are doing the other thing and in case of conflict we win.” Cultures change over time and sometimes rapidly.
POLICY
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Legal Risks of Diversity Initiatives in Tech Engineering
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And the evidentiary record in many coming cases will include “Management did a recorded Zoom call saying, and this is a quote, ‘Everyone knows we have too many white and Asian males in engineering. We are working urgently to diversify the pipeline in Q3.’”
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Legal Regimes Targeting Systemic Discrimination Through Code Word Detection
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Our entire jurisprudential regime here is based around “OK society moved on and basically nobody is openly racist anymore but orgs are riven with secret racists who are coming up with increasingly elaborate code words and we need to ferret those practices out.”
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Employment discrimination practices in major institutions under scrutiny
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Honestly I think this is not going to be nearly as material as the reams upon reams of “As all good people must, we intend to discriminate in employment in the hiring of this candidate” of paper trail institutions have been splashing around internally and externally.
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Reddit sues Anthropic; ChatGPT workplace apps, AI tools
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Top stories in AI today: – Reddit sues Anthropic over data scraping
– ChatGPT connects to workplace apps
– Generate research reports with deep analysis
– AMC partners with Runway for AI production
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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Antitrust Trials Updates: Big Tech Legal Battles Unfold
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Damn, I miss writing about all these court docs. Maybe just for kicks I'll start writing stories about the various updates in the antitrust trials even before I start officially freelancing or before finding a new full-time role post-layoffs…
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Google Adtech Antitrust Case Project Code Names Revealed
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Throwback to last summer, when I dug through all the court docs in the Google adtech antitrust case for a pre-trial story about all project code names:
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Social Trust Erosion and Systemic Consequences in Digital Age
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"It depends." It has been widely publicly reported and rumored that much of the high trust which society depends on is being abused by more people than is historically typical in recent years. There might eventually be a reaction in the material universe in some systems.
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AI Authentication Legal Liability in Real Estate Contracts
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If same thing happens in a real estate situation, "Yeah that was not really me in the room signing that", their lawyer is going to have some Pointed Questions and eventually your lawyer is going to have some Carefully Worded Professional Advice.
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Solemnization as sociolegal boundary marker in business contexts
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As I've mentioned previously, solemnization is a sociolegal tripwire to say "There are many situations in society and in business where you're Just Talking and up until this exact moment we have been Just Talking *and after this point* We Were Not Just Talking. Do you get it?"