Liam McHugh-Russell
@xntl.info
Canadian law professor. Transnational law, labour regulation, cooperatives and corporate governance, knowledge politics. Currently obsessed with the uses of legal scholarship. Two time dad. Not even a jack of any trades.
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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look, gambling apps aren't going away. you have to embrace them or get left behind. incorporate Kalshi into your workflow. get your kids onto Polymarket to prepare them for the future of America. send threatening DMs to athletes if they fuck up your parlay. Uncut Gems is aspirational now
February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
look, gambling apps aren't going away. you have to embrace them or get left behind. incorporate Kalshi into your workflow. get your kids onto Polymarket to prepare them for the future of America. send threatening DMs to athletes if they fuck up your parlay. Uncut Gems is aspirational now
Look, this is not really my bag anymore but gosh, it sure would be great if the law and economics folks would acknowledge that other fields exist. Like, say, is it possible accounting scholars might have something to say about questions like "how do we value assets"
February 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Look, this is not really my bag anymore but gosh, it sure would be great if the law and economics folks would acknowledge that other fields exist. Like, say, is it possible accounting scholars might have something to say about questions like "how do we value assets"
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I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
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A crucial thread about the limits of automation. Though it reminds me that I think we all need to be more careful, deliberate and explicit about what we think "meaning" is, beyond "some words that can be used to describe other words"
There's a kind of intellectual malaise among a certain kind of socialist that just doesn't understand automation and I think probably comes from not having worked much on or around it.
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
This is the smart person’s “if wishes were horses.” Morozov repeatedly asserts that technologies have politics but he chooses to overlook here that technologies do also have material properties that circumscribe their politics. www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
A crucial thread about the limits of automation. Though it reminds me that I think we all need to be more careful, deliberate and explicit about what we think "meaning" is, beyond "some words that can be used to describe other words"
A crucial thread about the limits of automation. Though it reminds me that I think we all need to be more careful, deliberate and explicit about what we think "meaning" is, beyond "some words that can be used to describe other words"
There's a kind of intellectual malaise among a certain kind of socialist that just doesn't understand automation and I think probably comes from not having worked much on or around it.
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
The prospect of AI as a fantasy capacity to automate labour and free us from drudgery I think corresponds to...
This is the smart person’s “if wishes were horses.” Morozov repeatedly asserts that technologies have politics but he chooses to overlook here that technologies do also have material properties that circumscribe their politics. www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
A crucial thread about the limits of automation. Though it reminds me that I think we all need to be more careful, deliberate and explicit about what we think "meaning" is, beyond "some words that can be used to describe other words"
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Site engineer here. Warehouses are built to have utilities sized for storing inanimate objects. There is a reason for zoning laws. The use of a building determines the size of utilities, sanitary sewers, water supply. Warehouses were not designed to store people.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Site engineer here. Warehouses are built to have utilities sized for storing inanimate objects. There is a reason for zoning laws. The use of a building determines the size of utilities, sanitary sewers, water supply. Warehouses were not designed to store people.
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We are hiring at UNB Law! Contact me if you’d like more information. www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...
www.unb.ca
February 10, 2026 at 2:14 AM
We are hiring at UNB Law! Contact me if you’d like more information. www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...
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i love early Canadian political history
February 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
i love early Canadian political history
I have no idea what the OP means but the replies had me in stitches
February 10, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I have no idea what the OP means but the replies had me in stitches
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
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“fighting about podcasts, for or against” is gonna age like milk in the historical record, I do believe.
February 10, 2026 at 2:57 AM
“fighting about podcasts, for or against” is gonna age like milk in the historical record, I do believe.
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Look there are good reasons to experiment around with genAI tools, especially if that's how you make money. But being a "tech guy" without redundant backups of data you care about is already grounds for divorce, even before you start letting a chatbot FAFO with that data
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Look there are good reasons to experiment around with genAI tools, especially if that's how you make money. But being a "tech guy" without redundant backups of data you care about is already grounds for divorce, even before you start letting a chatbot FAFO with that data
Look there are good reasons to experiment around with genAI tools, especially if that's how you make money. But being a "tech guy" without redundant backups of data you care about is already grounds for divorce, even before you start letting a chatbot FAFO with that data
February 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Look there are good reasons to experiment around with genAI tools, especially if that's how you make money. But being a "tech guy" without redundant backups of data you care about is already grounds for divorce, even before you start letting a chatbot FAFO with that data
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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You know how Gene Wilder only agreed to be Willy Wonka if he was allowed to walk out slowly with the cane only to then barrel roll because from that point on you don't know if he's lying or telling the truth?
Yeah, Robert Pattinson's entire professional life has been that.
Yeah, Robert Pattinson's entire professional life has been that.
February 9, 2026 at 10:29 AM
You know how Gene Wilder only agreed to be Willy Wonka if he was allowed to walk out slowly with the cane only to then barrel roll because from that point on you don't know if he's lying or telling the truth?
Yeah, Robert Pattinson's entire professional life has been that.
Yeah, Robert Pattinson's entire professional life has been that.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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Just thinking of how thankful I am for the time, care and attention faculty give to writing reference letters for their students, including the care they take to ensure that they do not write a letter for a student different than the one who requested it
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Just thinking of how thankful I am for the time, care and attention faculty give to writing reference letters for their students, including the care they take to ensure that they do not write a letter for a student different than the one who requested it
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Another tune that's been rattling around in my head all week, thanks to @mpeterf.bsky.social patiently explaining to me that Geese and Goose are actually two different bands.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ud...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ud...
Geese - Cobra (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Geese
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February 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Another tune that's been rattling around in my head all week, thanks to @mpeterf.bsky.social patiently explaining to me that Geese and Goose are actually two different bands.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ud...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ud...
Just thinking of how thankful I am for the time, care and attention faculty give to writing reference letters for their students, including the care they take to ensure that they do not write a letter for a student different than the one who requested it
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Just thinking of how thankful I am for the time, care and attention faculty give to writing reference letters for their students, including the care they take to ensure that they do not write a letter for a student different than the one who requested it
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Breaking: EU Commission finds TikTok in breach of the digital services act over its "addictive design"
Bytedance-owned app could face fine of up to 6% of global revenue if it doesn't fix addicitive properties like infinite scroll, autoplay, recommender systems
Bytedance-owned app could face fine of up to 6% of global revenue if it doesn't fix addicitive properties like infinite scroll, autoplay, recommender systems
February 6, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Breaking: EU Commission finds TikTok in breach of the digital services act over its "addictive design"
Bytedance-owned app could face fine of up to 6% of global revenue if it doesn't fix addicitive properties like infinite scroll, autoplay, recommender systems
Bytedance-owned app could face fine of up to 6% of global revenue if it doesn't fix addicitive properties like infinite scroll, autoplay, recommender systems
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they have gone to sex workers but that would be not them not being in full control bec it’s a commodities exchange. Whereas here the trafficked women are treated as the media through which a network of a gift economy transacts, but the relationships are only amongst the men themselves
February 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
they have gone to sex workers but that would be not them not being in full control bec it’s a commodities exchange. Whereas here the trafficked women are treated as the media through which a network of a gift economy transacts, but the relationships are only amongst the men themselves
Trying to imagine a U.S. Cultural Revolution, except instead of university professors being forced to work the fields, it's the cultural class forced to visit one (1) real university campus
Oh look, they remade "American writers who get work can't imagine a university setting that is not Princeton, because they all went there" again. I didn't like the last 15 versions they made but maybe this one will finally get the formula right
Rooster | Official Trailer | HBO Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
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February 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Trying to imagine a U.S. Cultural Revolution, except instead of university professors being forced to work the fields, it's the cultural class forced to visit one (1) real university campus
I will give $̶1̶ ̶m̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶ $100 to the person who makes The Pitt but it's about a university department trying to actually educate students, do meaningful research and keep the wheels running as the administration tries to fire half the faculty for caring about health outcomes for women and Black people
Oh look, they remade "American writers who get work can't imagine a university setting that is not Princeton, because they all went there" again. I didn't like the last 15 versions they made but maybe this one will finally get the formula right
Rooster | Official Trailer | HBO Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I will give $̶1̶ ̶m̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶ $100 to the person who makes The Pitt but it's about a university department trying to actually educate students, do meaningful research and keep the wheels running as the administration tries to fire half the faculty for caring about health outcomes for women and Black people