Associate professor of law at @NYULaw. Director of the Science, Health & Information Clinic (SHIC). He/him. https://teapaw.org/t.co/5Le1qH7ECs
New York, NY
Joined March 2016
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New from me & the Science, Health & Information Clinic @nyulaw:
Amicus brief of Intellectual Property Scholars in xAI v. Bonta, No. 26-1591 (9th Cir.)
A major appeal with consequences not just for AI transparency but all of tech & regulation
Quick 🧵!
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Last week, @realtahiramin, @reshmagar, and @cmorten2 sat down to discuss pharmaceutical monopolies and what it will take to end the drug pricing crisis. Thank you to everyone who came out, and to @nyulaw for hosting!
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Thanks @WisconsinLaw, @WisLRev, @bj_ard, Paul Connell, Jason Reinecke & Ben Sobel for putting together this symposium on the Politics of Intellectual Property, Technology, and Innovation. Wonderful group of participants and perfect fall weather in Madison. wlr.law.wisc.edu/wisconsin-l…
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Zohran Mamdani launched his mayoral campaign two years ago today. @PeterSterne interviewed him at the time. And it's remarkable how decarceration has not been the mayor's focus, at all, in office.
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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We bought and tested what was sold as an experimental weight loss drug. The lab results were "pretty terrifying."
featuring DFA Vice President Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS
@reshmagar
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Reminder that this event is TOMORROW! Please join! Free and open to all (with registration)!
Event at @nyulaw @nyuengelberg with @realtahiramin & @reshmagar!
Monday, October 19, 6 pm!
We'll discuss Tahir's new book, Pharma Monopoly: The Battle for the Future of Medicines, co-authored with Rohit Malpani.
Free! Open to all! Join us!
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This is the result of 7+ years of Trump's attacks on @Ilhan, Somali-Americans, & the Muslim community.
Everyone, regardless of party, must speak out against this fascistic abuse of power.
If they can do this to a sitting Congresswoman, they can & will do it to anyone.
BREAKING WSJ:
The Trump admin's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe. wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha…
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Some pretty insane details on Gillibrand here including:
– Her comms director bought up to 30k of bitcoin and ether one week before Gillibrand announced a bill putting both under friendlier CFTC oversight.
– Her chief of staff invoked the Senator's role as the DSCC’s top fundraiser while pushing other Dem aides to back her crypto-friendly legislation
-Her 22-year-old son raised $30M for a startup that is backed by crypto investors, including a key Gillibrand donor.
Gillibrand on staff trading crypto: “I could care less what they do with their money. This is not a nanny state.”
I asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand if it bothers her that her staff trades crypto while she works on legislation that benefits the industry. “This is not a nanny state,” she said.
Profiled crypto’s favorite Democrat for @NYMag:
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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I asked Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand if it bothers her that her staff trades crypto while she works on legislation that benefits the industry. “This is not a nanny state,” she said.
Profiled crypto’s favorite Democrat for @NYMag:
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Many on the left suspected this was the case, but it’s still wild to see the WSJ confirm it.
Needless to say, stripping the citizenship of opposition elected officials is really, really far down the road to fascism.
New: The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha… via @McCormickJohn @MHackman @sgurman
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Looking forward to two conversations next week in NYC on the occasion of my book, Pharma Monopoly. On Monday, I’ll be speaking with @reshmagar and @cmorten2 at NYU. Then on Tuesday I’ll be in conversation with @gabyaboulafia at Bibliotheque. Both free and open to the public.
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Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined
Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
Event at @nyulaw @nyuengelberg with @realtahiramin & @reshmagar!
Monday, October 19, 6 pm!
We'll discuss Tahir's new book, Pharma Monopoly: The Battle for the Future of Medicines, co-authored with Rohit Malpani.
Free! Open to all! Join us!
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Between the companies pushing direct-to-consumer pricey drugs for off-label use with no evidence of meaningful benefit to others marketing devices that failed clinical trials, this a real who's who of top contenders willfully fleecing patients and betting on deregulation. #MAHA
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I’ll be discussing my co-authored book Pharma Monopoly on Oct 19 at NYU with @cmorten2 and @reshmagar. The event is free and open to all with RSVP. Please join us! eventbrite.com/e/pharma-mono…
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There are so many charts like this, where, if you remove China from the global data, the change is no longer significant.
China is responsible for:
- half of the world's solar/wind energy capacity,
- all of the decline in global pollution,
- 3/4ths of extreme poverty reduction
How fast is the world building up solar power?
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organization with 172 countries and the European Union. Its Renewable Energy Statistics is a reference dataset on how much renewable power capacity has been installed around the world.
IRENA gathers the figures each year from national statistical offices, energy ministries, and industry associations, and fills gaps from official reports. The data covers almost every country from 2000 to 2025, broken down by technology: solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, and others.
The chart shows the total solar capacity installed in each country, in gigawatts. Note that the figures are cumulative: they count every panel still in operation, not only those added in a given year.
The world added more than 500 gigawatts of solar in 2025 alone — more than twice all the solar capacity that existed anywhere in 2015. China alone accounts for half of the world’s cumulative total, with 1,200 gigawatts.
Our principal data scientist Pablo Rosado recently updated our charts with IRENA’s July 2026 release, which adds data for 2025. In the same pass, he updated two other IRENA datasets we rely on: the cost of electricity from renewable plants, and patents in renewable energy technologies.
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Why don’t New York Times columnists have any friends who don’t leave New York City every summer
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NYPD cops roughed up a civilian for *standing on the sidewalk* in a spot where NYPD Sgt. William McKnight (badge #: 3576) wanted to *illegally park his car.*
And NYPD leader Jessica Tisch & Deputy Chief Michael Baker say that *the civilian* is the one who acted "unlawfully"!
ALT Police officers can rough up civilians to protect their ability to illegally park. That’s the unmistakable conclusion from a recent decision by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to not punish officers who roughed up and threatened to run over a cyclist who was blocking other cops from parking on a sidewalk — a decision by the top cop that came even though the NYPD’s patrol guide prohibits both excessive force and bars officers from parking on the sidewalk. The main details of the initial October 2023 incident are not in dispute: According to the just-obtained Civilian Complaint Review Board case file obtained by Streetsblog, the cyclist stood on the sidewalk on Bergen Street near the 78th Precinct house in Park Slope as Sgt. William McKnight tried to park his personal vehicle on the sidewalk. The cyclist refused to move, and two officers then pushed the cyclist and used the bike rider’s backpack to pull them out of the way. McKnight, meanwhile, told the cyclist that he should have run
Hey, so this is insane
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/…
