Stav Zeitouni
@stzeitouni.bsky.social
Postdoc, Berkeley Law
NYU Law & Hebrew University alum
Writing about privacy, copyright and law & psychology (and occasionally Israel/Palestine)
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NYU Law & Hebrew University alum
Writing about privacy, copyright and law & psychology (and occasionally Israel/Palestine)
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📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now!
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
Academy in Exile
www.academy-in-exile.eu
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now!
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org
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Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.
I turned my YouTube watch history off a few months ago and my Luddite hot take is that it's kind of nice not to be bombarded by an endless feed in at least one of my social media apps
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I turned my YouTube watch history off a few months ago and my Luddite hot take is that it's kind of nice not to be bombarded by an endless feed in at least one of my social media apps
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We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
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“We must ally with strength over goodness“ is Saruman’s bargain.
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“We must ally with strength over goodness“ is Saruman’s bargain.
I would be *overjoyed* to do an LOTR book club for anyone who thinks this is the storyline. Will throw in a Frodo Lives button or something for anyone who gets to Ch. VIII of ROTK. Hit me up!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I would be *overjoyed* to do an LOTR book club for anyone who thinks this is the storyline. Will throw in a Frodo Lives button or something for anyone who gets to Ch. VIII of ROTK. Hit me up!
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Got this email this morning from the folks @ Berkeley Food Network. A reminder that our most vulnerable neighbors are going to be hit the hardest in the coming weeks. If you can, please donate to a local org to give them a boost this month.
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Got this email this morning from the folks @ Berkeley Food Network. A reminder that our most vulnerable neighbors are going to be hit the hardest in the coming weeks. If you can, please donate to a local org to give them a boost this month.
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
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All the major AI companies are training on your chats with them, Stanford's @kingjen.bsky.social finds
arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382
arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382
User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies
Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality training data as they race to improve m...
arxiv.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
All the major AI companies are training on your chats with them, Stanford's @kingjen.bsky.social finds
arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382
arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382
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If you are a service member or civil servant ordered to perform an operation in spite of concerns you raised about their legality, you have lawful options to blow the whistle. They do not involve leaking to the press.
Consult with qualified counsel. You can honor your Oath without breaking the law.
Consult with qualified counsel. You can honor your Oath without breaking the law.
Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy:
"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."
"Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."
Top Democrats demand details of spy agencies’ role in boat strikes
Democrats are demanding that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard share intelligence on lethal operations against alleged narcotics traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you are a service member or civil servant ordered to perform an operation in spite of concerns you raised about their legality, you have lawful options to blow the whistle. They do not involve leaking to the press.
Consult with qualified counsel. You can honor your Oath without breaking the law.
Consult with qualified counsel. You can honor your Oath without breaking the law.
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CFP: Law Culture & Humanities 28th Annual Conference @ DePaul, Chicago, June 17/18 2026 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2026-t... We welcome proposals for papers, roundtables, work-in-progress sessions, you name it!
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference - Law, Culture, and the Humanities
2026 Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference June 17, 2026 @ 8:00 am - June 18, 2026 @ 7:00 pm DePaul University College of Law 25 E Jackson Blvd. Chicago, Illinois 60604 United States + Google Map Share this...
lawculturehumanities.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
CFP: Law Culture & Humanities 28th Annual Conference @ DePaul, Chicago, June 17/18 2026 lawculturehumanities.com/event/2026-t... We welcome proposals for papers, roundtables, work-in-progress sessions, you name it!
Got this email this morning from the folks @ Berkeley Food Network. A reminder that our most vulnerable neighbors are going to be hit the hardest in the coming weeks. If you can, please donate to a local org to give them a boost this month.
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
October 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Got this email this morning from the folks @ Berkeley Food Network. A reminder that our most vulnerable neighbors are going to be hit the hardest in the coming weeks. If you can, please donate to a local org to give them a boost this month.
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
BFN donation 🔗
www.berkeleyfoodnetwork.org/get-involved...
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For all the #privacy academics out there: In case you missed it, submissions are open for FPF's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) award! You have until Oct. 30 to submit the best privacy scholarship from the past year.
⏩ See details here: fpf.org/privacy-pape...
⏩ See details here: fpf.org/privacy-pape...
Privacy Papers for Policymakers Call for Papers
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) invites privacy scholars and authors with an interest in privacy issues to nominate finished papers for consideration for FPF’s annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers...
fpf.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
For all the #privacy academics out there: In case you missed it, submissions are open for FPF's annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) award! You have until Oct. 30 to submit the best privacy scholarship from the past year.
⏩ See details here: fpf.org/privacy-pape...
⏩ See details here: fpf.org/privacy-pape...
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World map of copyright lawsuits v AI companies [80 suits filed]
October 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
World map of copyright lawsuits v AI companies [80 suits filed]
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Amplifying this for my friend Matt, an artist and stand-up guy who lost everything in the Eaton Fire out in California and is trying to raise money to replace his lost tools. Can any of you lovely people help chip away at the ~$1900 left to raise?
I don’t know what it’s going to take for my message to break through. It’s been nearly a year. I am really struggling financially and emotionally. I am falling apart. I’m still @ only 58% of my goal. I feel horrible to ask anymore. I believe with sharing we can do this together gofund.me/1f347780
Donate to Help Matt replace tools burned in Eaton fire., organized by Matt O'Brien
As a member of the Altadena community for over a decade, I’m absolutely dev… Matt O'Brien needs your support for Help Matt replace tools burned in Eaton fire.
gofund.me
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Amplifying this for my friend Matt, an artist and stand-up guy who lost everything in the Eaton Fire out in California and is trying to raise money to replace his lost tools. Can any of you lovely people help chip away at the ~$1900 left to raise?
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Katrina Geddes, Ohio State University College of Law, is publishing The New Art Forgers in volume 58 of the Arizona State Law Journal (2026) /
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The New Art Forgers
<p>The “substantial similarity” between a copyrighted work and an unauthorized derivative has formed the bedrock of copyright infringement jurisprudence since t
papers.ssrn.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Katrina Geddes, Ohio State University College of Law, is publishing The New Art Forgers in volume 58 of the Arizona State Law Journal (2026) /
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Overjoyed to see all the living hostages home, but this isn't peace and even as a ceasefire it's extraordinarily brittle.
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Overjoyed to see all the living hostages home, but this isn't peace and even as a ceasefire it's extraordinarily brittle.
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Two years after October 7, JWA's podcast speaks with family members of Vivian Silver and Hayim Katsman, Israeli peace activists who were murdered that day. Hayim’s mother Hannah Wacholder Katsman and Vivian’s son Yonatan Zeigen share how they are carrying on their legacies. Listen: buff.ly/iw5clZK
October 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Two years after October 7, JWA's podcast speaks with family members of Vivian Silver and Hayim Katsman, Israeli peace activists who were murdered that day. Hayim’s mother Hannah Wacholder Katsman and Vivian’s son Yonatan Zeigen share how they are carrying on their legacies. Listen: buff.ly/iw5clZK
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Witkoff trying to complement Netanyahu for facilitating the deal. The crowd in Tel Aviv won’t have any of it. Jared finds the whole thing very amusing.
October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Witkoff trying to complement Netanyahu for facilitating the deal. The crowd in Tel Aviv won’t have any of it. Jared finds the whole thing very amusing.
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Hundreds of thousands in Tel Aviv “hostage square”. Witkoff, Jared and Ivanka speaking in favor of peace and ending the war. Every time Trump is mentioned the audience reacts overwhelmingly positively to at any mention of Netanyahu loud booing. This whole thing is surreal.
October 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hundreds of thousands in Tel Aviv “hostage square”. Witkoff, Jared and Ivanka speaking in favor of peace and ending the war. Every time Trump is mentioned the audience reacts overwhelmingly positively to at any mention of Netanyahu loud booing. This whole thing is surreal.
Witkoff at the Hostage Square in Israel just now, only mentioning Netanyahu's name and immediately being drowned out by loud booing.
A reckoning is coming.
A reckoning is coming.
October 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Witkoff at the Hostage Square in Israel just now, only mentioning Netanyahu's name and immediately being drowned out by loud booing.
A reckoning is coming.
A reckoning is coming.
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Happy to share our new piece with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes, “Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law.” It engages Gal & Lynskey’s excellent article & centers the role of ground-truth assumptions. The key q is how creation methods encode claims about the world ssrn.com/abstract=555...
Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law
Synthetic data is increasingly important in data usage and AI design, creating novel legal and policy dilemmas. All too often, discussions of synthetic data tre
papers.ssrn.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Happy to share our new piece with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes, “Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law.” It engages Gal & Lynskey’s excellent article & centers the role of ground-truth assumptions. The key q is how creation methods encode claims about the world ssrn.com/abstract=555...
My brother went to preschool at Temple Israel. This is just awful. And the equivocating responses below the post make me want to tear my hair out.
October 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My brother went to preschool at Temple Israel. This is just awful. And the equivocating responses below the post make me want to tear my hair out.
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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Legal Theory Blog
Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!
legaltheoryblog.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.