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Kendra Albert
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They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. Proud Philly resident. More at kendraalbert.com

"Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." - Ursula K. LeGuin
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Happy election day, everyone, but specifically NYC. Please enjoy this unhinged flyer I picked up off the ground in Staten Island two weeks ago.
A postcard that says "Staten Island is God's Country" on the top. The rest of it reads: "I, James Manning am still in the race WRITE MY NAME ON THE BALLOT Nov. 4 2025" "Keep this card in your bible"
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Some personal news...

(On Stalker, in case folks are curious.)
The Steam page for The Long Dark, showing 426.1 hours played. Steam achievement post game summary text from today, showing "Faithful Cartographer" achievement - "Map all named locations in survival mode, 1.1% of players have this achievement."
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Posted without comment.
The dog "no take only throw" meme, but with the dog asking for OPSEC. No threat model, only opsec.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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One of the hallucinated case citations was to the Mata v. Avianca AI hallucinations case?!?!
So this is another AI-generated incorrect cite? MR. FOURTE: Yes. THE COURT: All right. Then they also point out that Mata versus Avianca case which you had a Westlaw cite for. That also appears to be incorrect, right? MR. FOURTE: The case exists. The citation is incorrect, your Honor. I believe opposing counsel points out the correct citation.
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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As of today, I have officially finished my first walk around all 100+ miles of Philadelphia’s border.

That’s me and JJ, Walk Around Philadelphia visionary, at the top of the Washington Ave pier stairs.
A white nonbinary person with a buzz cut stands at the top of a spiral staircase in an Eagles shirt, below them is a tall white man in a red shirt. A third person is also on the stairs but their face is blacked out because I don’t have their permission to share.
September 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Happy Walk Around Philadelphia season to all who celebrate!
A graph of steps from Apple Health. The total for September 8th is 32,136. The rest of the days in the week are much lower, likely less than 10,000.
September 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Happy first day of school! Super proud to have published an op-ed on the Trump administration's war on science as part of the Philly Inquirer's "You Can't Teach That" series (with @mattz.bsky.social). You can read it here:
share.inquirer.com/Quf8pS
You can’t teach that Under a regime hostile to academia, educators must walk an ideological tightrope. A drawing of a wolf wrapped around a school building, with the text "You can't teach that. College professors and administrators from across Greater Philadelphia share nine essays on the tectonic shifts in higher education through the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term." under it.
September 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Some excellent Dunkin themed suggestions, this is my favorite.
A velociraptor holding a cup of dunkin donuts coffee, with the word massachusetts in what looks like comic sans above it.
August 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Having the row of icons at the bottom is a bold choice but I think does represent MA's innovative future.
A screenshot of a computer desktop, with a hand drawn flag (red white and blue vertical bars, rings of stars and 1776 in the middle) in the background and a task bar at the bottom.
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Look, really, who can argue with that?
Motto submission: The motto should be "Wicked".
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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A good slide from @adamshostack.bsky.social at Usenix Enigma.
STOP DOING RISK • SINGLE INSTANCES ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO predict! • YEARS OF HEATMAPS yet NO REAL ARGUMENT ever SETTLED • Wanted to pretend for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "GUESSING" • "Yes please give me the odds of Volt Typhoon doing that" - Statements dreamed up by the DeRanged! YaLOOK at what RISK has been providing for all this time C/SS THEYY have Played us for absolute fools! 조
August 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The most relatable person in the whole Oceangate saga is "wife plane ticket" copilot.

(From the recently released Coast Guard report.)

media.defense.gov/2025/Aug/05/...
"In the sub, we have -- the word I got from the - another crew member of the sub was that Stockton went around to each passenger or mission specialist, and he said, are you, are you willing to stay down here for 24 hours because if you don't, the company's going out of business. So, he pressured those people to say, 'yes.' The only person who, from my understanding, wasn't in the conversation, but from firsthand information afterwards, the only person that said no was NAME REDACTED (the co-pilot) *5, sorry, one of copilots, nd he, he basically texted up to us saying, "I'm, you know, I'm done. ✔️ my wife, tell her get me a plane ticket, I'm saying, right, because when I get back up, I'm quitting." 4.33.15.4. The co-pilot who stated, "TELL MY WIFE WHAT IS GOING ON TONIGHT. BUY ME PLANE TICKET" over TITAN's ATM system, departed the expedition once the HORIZON ARCTIC returned to St. John's and the former co-pilot was never part of any other OceanGate dives. Figure 210: TITAN partially submerged with HORIZON ARCTIC in the background during Dive 65. Source: Former OccanGate Director of Operations.
August 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I'm legitimately just confused. There's one defendant (the doctor), but there are sections of this complaint that refer to "the defendants" and talk about joint and several liability for abortion pill distributors and manufacturers.
28. The manufacturers and distributors of the abortion pills that [redacted] used are jointly and severally liable for the wrongful death of Mr. Rodriguez’s unborn child, and they will be added as defendants once identified. The manufacturer and distribu-tors caused the death of Mr. Rodriguez’s unborn child through a “wrongful act” be-cause they violated 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–1462, which imposes federal criminal liabilityon anyone who knowingly sends or receives abortion pills through the mail or byusing any express company, common carrier, or interactive computer service.29. None of the exceptions in Texas’s wrongful-death statute shield the defend-ants (or the manufacturers and distributors of the abortion pills) from liability. Sec-tions 71.003(c)(2) and (c)(4) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code are in-applicable because assisting a self-managed abortion is not a “lawful medical proce-dure,” nor is it a “lawful medical or health care practice or procedure.” Section71.003(c)(3) is inapplicable because the abortion pills were not dispensed or admin-istered “in accordance with law.” Coeytaux is therefore liable under section 71.003and must pay damages to Mr. Rodriguez for murdering his unborn child. 30. Mr. Rodriguez seeks damages in excess of $75,000.00, the minimum amount in controversy required for diversity jurisdiction. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a)
July 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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How I'm doing this week (/month/year).
An image of a metronome labeled "me" that goes between two points - "a better world is possible" and "we're so fucked"
July 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Wow, someone wants me to do CLE for them! How flattering!

Only one problem—to my knowledge, I've never spoken at a webinar called "The Legal Ambiguity of Emojis."

...this is why we don't use generative AI to do our jobs, y'all.
A screenshot of an email that reads: My name is Alex Castillo, Content Development Specialist at MyLawCLE. I recently saw a webinar you were featured in, “The Legal Ambiguity of Emojis” and we're currently putting together a CLE webinar on "Litigating the Meaning of Emojis". Would you be interested in presenting on this subject for MyLawCLE at no cost? This could be done remotely from your home or office through a live broadcast.
July 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Dispensing copyright-related “it depends” at #alaac25, courtesy of @libraryfutures.bsky.social!
Two people looking pensive behind a Lucy from peanuts style booth labeled “Copyright help”
June 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Flowers!
Pink, orange and yellow zinnias and white babys breath, in outdoor bins at a farmers market.
June 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Kagan's dissent in Paxton really nails it. Honestly, I would suggest reading it first.
The majority tries to escape that conclusion with a maneuver found nowhere in the world of First Amendment doctrine. It turns out, the majority says, that the First Amendment only “partially protects” the speech in question: The “speech is unprotected to the extent the State seeks only to verify age.” Ante, at 18, 29, n. 12 (emphasis deleted); see ante, at 28 (the speech is “unprotected to the extent that the State imposes only an age-verification requirement”). Meaning, the speech is unprotected to the extent that the State is imposing the very burden under review. Or said another way, the right of adults to view the speech has the burden of age verification built right in. That is convenient, if altogether circular. In the end, the majority’s analysis reduces to this: Requiring age verification does not directly burden adults’ speech rights because adults have no right to be free from the burden of age verification. Gerrymander the right to incorporate the burden, and the critical conclusion follows. If only other First Amendment cases were so easy!
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Absolute somersaults to get to intermediate analysis here in FSC v. Paxton.
Because H. B. 1181 simply requires proof of age to access content that is obscene to minors, it does not directly regulate the protected speech of adults. A law can regulate the content of protected speech, and thereby trigger strict scrutiny, either “on its face” or in its justification. Reed, 576 U. S., at 163–164 (internal quotation marks omitted). H. B. 1181 does not regulate the content of protected speech in either sense. On its face, the statute regulates only speech that is obscene to minors. That speech is unprotected to the extent the State seeks only to verify age. And, the statute can easily “be justified without reference to the [protected] content of the regulated speech,” because its apparent purpose is simply to prevent minors, who have no First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to them, from doing so. Id., at 164 (internal quotation marks omitted). That is not to say, however, that H. B. 1181 escapes all First Amendment scrutiny. Adults have the right to access speech that is obscene only to minors. Butler, 352 U. S., at 383–384. And, submitting to age verification is a burden on the exercise of that right. But, adults have no First Amendment right to avoid age verification, and the statute can readily be understood as an effort to restrict minors’ access. Any burden experienced by adults is therefore only incidental to the statute’s regulation of activity that is not protected by the First Amendment. That fact makes intermediate scrutiny the appropriate standard under our precedents. Dale, 530 U. S., at 659. In this respect, H. B. 1181 is analogous to the prohibition against destroying draft cards that this Court upheld in United States v. O’Brien, 391 U. S. 367 (1968). The prohibition may have had the effect of making it unlawful to protest the draft by burning one’s draft card. See id., at 369. But, the “destruction” of a draft card is not itself “constitutionally protected activity,” because the card is a Government document that, among other functions, serves as proof of registration. Id., at 376, 378. The prohibition on destroying draft cards thus placed only an incidental burden on First Amendment expression, making it subject to intermediate scrutiny. Id., at 376–377. So too here, because accessing material obscene to minors without verifying one’s age is not constitutionally protected, any burden H. B. 1181 imposes on protected activity is only incidental, and the statute triggers only intermediate scrutiny.
June 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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This is...a WILD statement.
H. B. 1181 is an exercise of Texas’s traditional power to prevent minors from accessing speech that is obscene from their perspective. To the extent that it burdens adults’ rights to access such speech, it has “only an incidental effect on protected speech,” making it subject to intermediate scrutiny. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U. S. 640, 659 (2000).
June 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Preparing the slides for my talk on data privacy is going great, why do you ask?
Two slides with black backgrounds and white text. The first reads "brief break for screaming in the void." The second reads "AHHHHHHHH (with many more Hs)"
June 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Tip 3: Default disappearing messages. You can and should set a default disappearing timer for new chats. This is under Settings/Privacy.

You can change individual chats to remove the timer or make it shorter, but it reduces the amount of info you're keeping to have a default set.
The Signal settings option for Disappearing messages: default timer for new chats.
June 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Judge Bates did not come to play in Jenner.
Section 2(b) violates the First Amendment. Section 2(b) received almost no attention from the parties and warrants only brief discussion here. It does either a great deal or very little. Either way it violates the First Amendment.
May 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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@mskellymhayes.bsky.social has good words for all of us in this moment. organizingmythoughts.org/from-aspirat...
Perhaps that’s the first thing we need to acknowledge to ourselves: nothing will feel like enough because everything we know and love is at stake. No individual’s actions will be commensurate with the threats we face. But we can each endeavor to do the next right thing, whatever that means for us. We must do what we can, while we can, because as Aly Wane reminds us, our time is running out. The question before us is not who we would have been in a different era, but what we are willing to do now, in concert with others, before it’s too late.
May 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Funny you should say that - this was the first sample I made. :)
A fancy looking letter that reads DEWEY, CHEATEM, AND HOWE 5 JOHN F. KENNEDY ST., 4TH FLOOR CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS · 02138 200-498-1557 GEORGE DEWEY JOHN CHEATEM AMANDA HOWE May 8, 2025 Equity Redevelopment Corporation 77 Spring Ln Boston, MA 02109 Re: Harvard Square Development To Whom It May Concern: It comes to our attention that you are looking to tear down the beautiful old buildings of Harvard Square and replace them with some new, modern monstrosity. You have already destroyed every non-chain eatery in the nearby vicinity, and now you come for our office building. Where am I supposed to get my Curious George plushies or my incredibly expensive bubble tea? This shall not stand. We reserve all rights. Very truly yours, George Dewey
May 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM