Hot off the presses.

"A fertile land mass of American moviemaking has gone arid — has been allowed to go arid — in order to plumb the depths of so-called intellectual property."

For the Black Panther fans out there: Why Hollywood Should Leave Dead Actors Alone (Guest Column) https://t.co/OKLRcUpA49 via @variety

Spent some time coming up with a top 5 neuroscience books to recommend:

Move toward "ghost kitchens" make the relationship between fast food brands and the actual food we consume increasingly tangential. https://t.co/eIhSa2N16E via @slate

One can only hope. Perhaps with a little help from @JeanneFromer https://t.co/eWEJPkyMwW #trademarks

Nice line from the latest by @DrSandyV & @legallysocial: "The deference ... given to trademark protectability depending on abstract classifications of its distinctiveness is disconnected from the measurable impact of a trademark on the brain of a relevant consumer."

Will neuroscience be the death knell for trademark law's Abercrombie spectrum?

Excited to share a new, interdisciplinary article just published with @legallysocial! Virtue, S. M., & Cahr, D.S. (2022). Trademarks and the Brain: Neuroscience and the Processing of Non-Literal Language, The Trademark Reporter, 112 (4), 695-705. https://t.co/cPEwIyo3q8

Had a great time talking with @leticiacaminero about my new book. Great questions, a "brainy undertaking" indeed!

"What have we lost when we become so collectively inured to invasions of our privacy and to exploitative economic practice that we would happily accept a 12-pack for the placement of beer advertising into our dreams?" – https://t.co/U6bI2VUahB via @aeonmag

Gross, especially at a public university. But probably a sign of things to come. https://t.co/LbB2CxdyEp via @Yahoo

Take it down. RiverWorks blasted for erecting giant sign along river https://t.co/eeuv8x6YOz via @TheBuffaloNews

Congratulations to all of today's Buffalo Law graduates! You should feel proud of your accomplishments. Enjoy the day! #UBClassof2020

Not just free money: "Renaming stations disguises the operating costs of public transit. It’s harder for officials to argue for higher taxes to fund buses and subways when they’re signaling to the public that private sponsors are picking up the tab."

As a reminder, we've built a global infrastructure of tech addiction, surveillance, and manipulation that undermines our democratic values because companies want to make a few cents more on the ads they show us. So much has been sacrificed in pursuit of so little actual value.

I’m often told I’m "brave" for putting my papers on arXiv before they are accepted for publication. How silly! It’s 100x more likely for academic papers to languish in obscurity than for the ideas in them to be so good that someone would want to steal them.

One of the last great (partial) holdouts against the privatization of public space: the national parks. This proposal threatens to turn Yellowstone into a KOA because visitors supposedly want more wireless service, places to shop, and "food trucks."

Proposal: an ad blocker that saves copies of ads targeted to you, and lets you browse, sort, filter, and view them later, so you can see at a glance what advertisers know about you, how they have categorized you, and how they're trying to influence you.

Stay classy NY. The Empire State has taken a relatively hard line against advertising in public schools and should continue to do so. Even the authors of this pro-ad report admit that school naming rights bring in little overall revenue.