Rebecca Fordon
@thefordon.bsky.social
law librarian, legal writing prof, legal tech skeptic/addict in Columbus OH. Writing & researching about the ways tech enables access to information. I enjoy bikes, books, and birds. she/her. join a union.
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Rebecca Fordon
@thefordon.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Introduction post! I'm a law librarian (any other #lawlibrarians on here?) and #legalwriting professor. I love thinking and writing about #legaltech and information systems. I also like bikes, birds, and flowers.
Feels weird to reintroduce myself, but I’m finally fully gone from the other place, and fully here. So hi again everyone!
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KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
Exhausted after spending all day in the kitchen*
(*Heating bowl after bowl of chicken broth because the 8yo has a stomach bug, and then anxiously watching to make sure it stays down)
(*Heating bowl after bowl of chicken broth because the 8yo has a stomach bug, and then anxiously watching to make sure it stays down)
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Exhausted after spending all day in the kitchen*
(*Heating bowl after bowl of chicken broth because the 8yo has a stomach bug, and then anxiously watching to make sure it stays down)
(*Heating bowl after bowl of chicken broth because the 8yo has a stomach bug, and then anxiously watching to make sure it stays down)
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Some "what we know so far" articles about Epstein emails, starting with the BBC...
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Some "what we know so far" articles about Epstein emails, starting with the BBC...
I loved this book so much!
Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99.
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Amazon.com: Someone You Can Build a Nest In eBook : Wiswell, John: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I loved this book so much!
I honestly think it’s a power thing. They’re sooo busy they can’t possibly be bothered with capital letters or punctuation or proper spelling.
Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I honestly think it’s a power thing. They’re sooo busy they can’t possibly be bothered with capital letters or punctuation or proper spelling.
Hey remember how a bunch of people made their OpenAI convos public (perhaps without realizing it)? Here's WaPo's look at them: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Hey remember how a bunch of people made their OpenAI convos public (perhaps without realizing it)? Here's WaPo's look at them: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Hey, what do you know, he did deserve to be canceled. (He was not in fact canceled)
From a former Harvard president who once, in a speech, told women their “biological differences in aptitude” lead to their under-representation in STEM — this is indeed a shocking update
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Hey, what do you know, he did deserve to be canceled. (He was not in fact canceled)
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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The RECAP Archive now has basic metadata about every federal district and bankruptcy case in PACER, and will gather every new case within about five minutes. Search it all here: www.courtlistener.com/recap/
Advanced RECAP Archive Search for PACER – CourtListener.com
Create alerts, search for and browse the latest case law, PACER documents, judges, and oral arguments. Updated automatically with the latest court documents. An initiative of Free Law Project.
www.courtlistener.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The RECAP Archive now has basic metadata about every federal district and bankruptcy case in PACER, and will gather every new case within about five minutes. Search it all here: www.courtlistener.com/recap/
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An impressive list, girls, but I know we can do better
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
An impressive list, girls, but I know we can do better
I covered dockets (amongst other topics) in my Advanced Legal Research class today, and it's soooo hard not to nerd out. I think I scared them when I said some law schools offer a semester-long class on PACER!
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I covered dockets (amongst other topics) in my Advanced Legal Research class today, and it's soooo hard not to nerd out. I think I scared them when I said some law schools offer a semester-long class on PACER!
Today in weird texts you send when you have a kid: "yay our big shipment of pants is coming today"
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Today in weird texts you send when you have a kid: "yay our big shipment of pants is coming today"
This is huge and will continue to fuel amazing innovation in the legal research space
Today we're launching semantic search as an API. The legal technology space is booming, and this is one of the top requests we've heard from innovators. With this launch, new systems can provide powerful legal research without reinventing the search engine itself. 1/
free.law/2025/11/05/s...
free.law/2025/11/05/s...
Semantic Search API Now Live!
Try out our Semantic Search API in CourtListener, a big step forward in case law search!
free.law
November 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is huge and will continue to fuel amazing innovation in the legal research space
Did everyone know about this PACER demo site but me? (Said after I vibe coded a solution very similar to this, because I wanted students to see how painful it is) pacer.uscourts.gov/help/pacer/p...
PACER Demonstration Site | PACER: Federal Court Records
pacer.uscourts.gov
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Did everyone know about this PACER demo site but me? (Said after I vibe coded a solution very similar to this, because I wanted students to see how painful it is) pacer.uscourts.gov/help/pacer/p...
One side *wants* no government. That’s why they’re fine keeping it shut down forever—or maaaaaybe reopening it if Democrats agree to weaken it enough that it’s barely a government. How can we possibly negotiate in this situation?
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
One side *wants* no government. That’s why they’re fine keeping it shut down forever—or maaaaaybe reopening it if Democrats agree to weaken it enough that it’s barely a government. How can we possibly negotiate in this situation?
Just asked ChatGPT about whether there are any current movements to shelter and hide undocumented people, and it lectured me for trying to break the law. In case you were wondering if technological systems have a point of view.
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Just asked ChatGPT about whether there are any current movements to shelter and hide undocumented people, and it lectured me for trying to break the law. In case you were wondering if technological systems have a point of view.
I have never seen this much sports in my feed. I do not cultivate a sports feed. I’m so confused and disoriented.
November 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I have never seen this much sports in my feed. I do not cultivate a sports feed. I’m so confused and disoriented.
Spotted this ad recently in my city. Would the response be legal advice?
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Spotted this ad recently in my city. Would the response be legal advice?
What a beautiful piece, definitely planning to assign this to students.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What a beautiful piece, definitely planning to assign this to students.
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This needs to be blasted far and wide, particularly to all the GOP voters who support public education.
Trump’s Department of Education actively collaborates w/ Moms for Liberty. Asked “what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told ProPublica: “‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This needs to be blasted far and wide, particularly to all the GOP voters who support public education.
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This is madness. Today we had to send a message to our 1L students telling them it’s not a great idea to use the first drafts of their first legal writing assignments because the new OCI timeline is so early they are wondering if they should.
#LegalWriting
#LegalWriting
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is madness. Today we had to send a message to our 1L students telling them it’s not a great idea to use the first drafts of their first legal writing assignments because the new OCI timeline is so early they are wondering if they should.
#LegalWriting
#LegalWriting
Entering my middle aged pain in the ass era. Just submitted a few 311 issues (a blocked pedestrian crossing sign, not good!) and headed to a school board meeting tonight.
October 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Entering my middle aged pain in the ass era. Just submitted a few 311 issues (a blocked pedestrian crossing sign, not good!) and headed to a school board meeting tonight.
A reminder: dietary supplements are super unregulated, which is how protein powders can apparently get away with having pretty large levels of lead(?!).
i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area
there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold
there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A reminder: dietary supplements are super unregulated, which is how protein powders can apparently get away with having pretty large levels of lead(?!).
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Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
www.dispatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Sora is a cesspool, meanwhile this is what my child chose to do with this power.
October 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sora is a cesspool, meanwhile this is what my child chose to do with this power.