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Scott Shapiro
@scottjshapiro
Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. Content creator. “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing"
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Jun 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve never seen the inside of a SCIF before Image
Jun 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Web3? Web5? Lol, think Bigger. How about TrumpWeb? or GriftChain?
May 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Protest in front of the Supreme Court. Don't protest in front of a judge's house. That way lies madness and violence. Think one step ahead: You want crazies to show up at Justice Sotomayor's house?
May 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It's odd that the media has become liberal darlings, because during the W years, they were despised. We didn't see them as "enemies of the people," but rather as spineless sell-outs who endlessly disappointed us. The blogosphere was the alternative where we felt heard. Take the New York Times. The Times sold the Iraq war based on the flimsiest of evidence. The Times wasn't keeping fascism at bay. The Times helped get us into the Iraq debacle.
Feb 25, 2022 • 32 tweets • 7 min read
In the early morning of February 25, 1603—419 years ago today—a battle was fought off the Coast of Singapore that would have profound implications for how states wage war. A thread on the Capture of the Santa Catarina, origins of the laws of war, and birth of liberalism. Soon after Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498, Portugal came to dominate the Asian spice trade. By 1599, Dutch merchants had begun to challenge the lucrative monopoly. The Portuguese retaliated by harassing natives who did business with the Dutch and by killing Dutch traders.
Jan 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
As I finish up my hacking book, I have been revisiting the Snowden revelations and what they really revealed. To explain their true significance, however, you have to understand intelligence law and in particular FISA. But FISA is absurdly complicated. 1/ FISA is so confusing b/c 50 USC 1801 uses many similar parameters to determine whether a FISA warrant is needed: (1) communication location (any end in US?); (2) target identity (US person?); (3) target location (US?); (4) acquisition location (US?); (5) media (wire/radio) 2/
Jan 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
To make @inlieuoffunshow sustainable, we have been chatting about bringing on a producer. So we started a tip jar to that possible end. We got our first tip: $20. ngl, felt good. Thanks. Just got a "$100" tip. We are floored. Thanks.
Jan 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I rarely post about classroom conversations. It's a safe, private space. But occasionally a comment captures a deep insight and would like to share. This past semester, I taught with @NatSecLisa a course on Cybersecurity Law and Policy. Lisa did the law part; I did the policy. 1/ I spent a lot of my time talking about the underlying tech. We did one class on asymmetric PK encryption, and went through the RSA algorithm with examples. We spent another class on digital signatures and supply chain verification (taught with @seanodiggity). 2/
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Everyone celebrates in their own way Impressive that Fed Soc is “Lol, nothing matters”-ing January 6th
Jul 26, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
I'm so sick of complaining, but no solving. I don't care if you're conservative or socialist, democrat or republican, white supremacist or human rights activist, green or purple, I just want solutions that work. #Nolabels #ProblemSolvers #Civility #Pragmatism #RadicalCentrism Let's begin by solving Climate Change with #ClimateSavingAccounts. #CSA's give preferential capital gains tax treatment to green energy companies, thus spurning investment in renewable sources. Soon, there will be so much investment that the Earth's climate will change back.
Jul 6, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I have a good feeling about this one Not gonna make the same mistake twice
Jul 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Never Trump Elegy
Jul 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Amnesia can be a side effect of steroid use Thank you @clairlemon for giving us a universal explanation for things we don’t like.
May 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Cruz voted against the legislation because it didn’t cover Cancun Mike “We are not a democracy” Lee voted against the legislation because it had overwhelming popular support
Apr 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Some personal news: I’m resigning from @basecamp effective immediately. For journalists asking why, I have two reasons. First, the recent changes at the company with which I strongly disagree. Second, I never worked there.
Apr 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
JD Vance, sick of being bestselling author and rich hedge fund manager, decides to deprive poor families of child care JD Vance, sick of being respected by both sides, decides to beclown himself
Apr 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Canceling the Op-Ed,” Journal of Controversial Ideas (forthcoming) The Op-Ed is Op-Dead
Mar 8, 2021 • 64 tweets • 3 min read
This Meghan interview is explosive. Wow. Just wow. Meghan didn’t make Kate cry. Kate made Meghan cry.
Mar 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If you think about it, the idea of heaven sounds pretty grifty "Sure, you'll get your reward if you do what i say, but you get it after you die."
Mar 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Speaking of cancellation, the first article that I wrote with @oonahathaway was on "cancellation" in international law, what we call "outcasting." We argued there that in contrast to domestic law, where centralized institutions do things to scofflaws, /1
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… in international law states enforce the rules by refusing to do things with scofflaws. State outcast scofflaw states by depriving them of the benefits of cooperation. There are many forms of outcasting: if you look for them in international law, they are everywhere /2
Jan 30, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I make jokes about inclusive legal positivism, so an explainer about what it is and why it's ridiculous

Thread /1 Legal positivism is the view that the law is ultimately a matter of social fact. Law is, at bottom, a social construction. In its modern form, the social facts that ultimately make rules *legal* rules is the practice among officials to treat those rules as law. /2