Ansel Halliburton
@anseljh.com
Law technology & technology law. In-house trademark lawyer. Free Law Project (@free.law) board. Building in #LegalTech since 2006. Making derpy from-scratch robots for fun. DM for Signal.
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
That’s enough Internet for today!
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
That’s enough Internet for today!
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realized i didn't know the origins of "in the ballpark" meaning "approximately correct" and once again had it reaffirmed that you will never regret looking up the etymology of a word
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
realized i didn't know the origins of "in the ballpark" meaning "approximately correct" and once again had it reaffirmed that you will never regret looking up the etymology of a word
This one looks interesting!
I'm now following Cameo v. OpenAI (Cameo app sues OpenAI for Sora genAI celebrity "Cameo" feature):
View Full Case | Background Info | Complaint
#CL71786846
View Full Case | Background Info | Complaint
#CL71786846
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
This one looks interesting!
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I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
If going forward we ever fulfill the actual promise of our Constitution, the dissents from this era of #SCOTUS are going to be very important and influential.
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.
Exactly as the Founding Fathers planned 🇺🇸
October 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Exactly as the Founding Fathers planned 🇺🇸
Your tax dollars at work
Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.
October 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Your tax dollars at work
What would happen if she just went into the chamber and started voting on stuff? I know her little voting buttons or whatever wouldn't be set up, but she could walk up to the Speaker's podium and hand Mike Johnson a slip of paper with each vote she takes. Now what, bro?
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 AM
What would happen if she just went into the chamber and started voting on stuff? I know her little voting buttons or whatever wouldn't be set up, but she could walk up to the Speaker's podium and hand Mike Johnson a slip of paper with each vote she takes. Now what, bro?
Great thread on a wacky new trade dress case. I’ll add it to @tm.bots.law soon!
Huge thanks to @mikescarcella.bsky.social for linking to the UNCRUSTABLES trade dress complaint here: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Shall we all take a look?
Shall we all take a look?
My brain is such that I see this an immediately think of @lexlanham.bsky.social.
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Great thread on a wacky new trade dress case. I’ll add it to @tm.bots.law soon!
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
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I feel very moved by the Portland resistance - inflatable people, hot-to-go dancers and twerking dinosaurs, as this piece outlines , it’s true courage, defanging fear
![It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as "war-torn" becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it's, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:frnash4fleux4zv2p4vq3aqh/bafkreibhaj3gpefsj6qwl5wx5tnbccnxguzil6gxjdiikv6wtv7wyo55my@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I feel very moved by the Portland resistance - inflatable people, hot-to-go dancers and twerking dinosaurs, as this piece outlines , it’s true courage, defanging fear
“warrior ethos”
October 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
“warrior ethos”
What a beautiful interview. Shame on @bsky.app for banning this man.
“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link
We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.
thinkingautismguide.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
What a beautiful interview. Shame on @bsky.app for banning this man.
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Hey folks,
Good news, we've got newly described species of #shark. I'm hoping Etmopterus westraliensis has the same #bioluminescence as the other #lanternsharks; there's always room for more glow-in-the-dark sharks.
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Good news, we've got newly described species of #shark. I'm hoping Etmopterus westraliensis has the same #bioluminescence as the other #lanternsharks; there's always room for more glow-in-the-dark sharks.
share.google/1ffc28R6gz3p...
Etmopterus westraliensis, a new species of lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Western Australia, with redescription of Etmopterus brachyurus
Etmopterus westraliensis is described as a new species based on six specimens collected from Western Australia, eastern Indian Ocean. The new species is assigned to the Etmopterus lucifer group due t...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hey folks,
Good news, we've got newly described species of #shark. I'm hoping Etmopterus westraliensis has the same #bioluminescence as the other #lanternsharks; there's always room for more glow-in-the-dark sharks.
share.google/1ffc28R6gz3p...
Good news, we've got newly described species of #shark. I'm hoping Etmopterus westraliensis has the same #bioluminescence as the other #lanternsharks; there's always room for more glow-in-the-dark sharks.
share.google/1ffc28R6gz3p...
What if we did the shell game, but with humans? Despicable and unjust. The ones ordering and executing this policy, up and down the line, must face justice—no “just following orders.”
ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...
prospect.org/justice/2025...
How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers
‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.
prospect.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
What if we did the shell game, but with humans? Despicable and unjust. The ones ordering and executing this policy, up and down the line, must face justice—no “just following orders.”
I decided last week to name my robot Clanker, but there are some other good robo-slurs on this list.
Updated photo:
Updated photo:
October 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I decided last week to name my robot Clanker, but there are some other good robo-slurs on this list.
Updated photo:
Updated photo:
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Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756
October 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756
Perhaps it is time to see what the Space Force’s X-37B is really all about…? One just went back up in August.
October 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Perhaps it is time to see what the Space Force’s X-37B is really all about…? One just went back up in August.
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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’
Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency
Surely, the nineteenth package will do the trick.
🇪🇺 European Commission proposes tougher sanctions against Russia, — Ursula von der Leyen
"We are no longer approaching sanctions gradually, but are proposing much tougher measures on energy, financial services and trade. 19th package is currently under consideration."
"We are no longer approaching sanctions gradually, but are proposing much tougher measures on energy, financial services and trade. 19th package is currently under consideration."
October 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Surely, the nineteenth package will do the trick.
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there will always be people preaching capitulation as if its strategic.
you should always ignore them.
you should always ignore them.
October 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
there will always be people preaching capitulation as if its strategic.
you should always ignore them.
you should always ignore them.
I’m sure all brand owners like Coca-Cola are delighted by the butchering of their famous and valuable brands. Q: Is this dilution? #trademark
These Sora videos feel like a more capable version those “Elf Yourself” videos from a decade ago. Except this time, any silliness is overcome with a nagging sense of dread.
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’m sure all brand owners like Coca-Cola are delighted by the butchering of their famous and valuable brands. Q: Is this dilution? #trademark
[pedant voice] That first one is an emoticon, not an emoj— [yanked off stage by very long cane]
October 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
[pedant voice] That first one is an emoticon, not an emoj— [yanked off stage by very long cane]
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As I've said a few times, I had Judge Young for Evidence. And he was one of my favorite professors (and everyone should read his book, www.mcle.org/product/cata...).
And he's written some opinions I absolutely LOATHE.
But attacking a Young opinion is like a final boss battle for a lawyer.
And he's written some opinions I absolutely LOATHE.
But attacking a Young opinion is like a final boss battle for a lawyer.
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
As I've said a few times, I had Judge Young for Evidence. And he was one of my favorite professors (and everyone should read his book, www.mcle.org/product/cata...).
And he's written some opinions I absolutely LOATHE.
But attacking a Young opinion is like a final boss battle for a lawyer.
And he's written some opinions I absolutely LOATHE.
But attacking a Young opinion is like a final boss battle for a lawyer.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.