Seth Wright

🚨 In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court rules that the Sentencing Reform Act does not authorize a rule automatically extending a defendant’s term of supervised release when the defendant absconds.

🚨 The Supreme Court reversed a $1B copyright verdict, holding that Internet Service Providers aren’t liable for user piracy based solely on knowledge of infringement.

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S.E. Finer on States and Regimes A work I keep going back to when thinking about the variety of states and regimes that existed over the past 5,000 years is S.E. Finer’s great trilogy, The History of Government. It combines clear concepts and detailed institutional information.

New rule to judge the health of a discipline. If more than 2% of abstracts in field specific journals involve making up words, your field is in trouble.

Where do Americans look for details on breaking news? 🧵⬇️

🚨 New paper in Personality and Individual Differences! We introduce the Words Can Harm Scale (WCHS): a 10-item measure of the belief that speech can cause lasting psychological harm. Who believes that words can harm, and what does this belief predict?🧵 ⬇️