New Photo Post - Dolphin Lanterns Reflected in the Water

New Shared Link - 2026 Guide to AI and LLMs in Trial Practice craigball.net/2026/01/09/2... AI

Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #182 Are we going to let AI Shove Us Offline? #Careers #AI #AISlop #Microsoft #MentalHealth mikemcbride.substack.com/p/thought-pr...

New Photo Post - Shady Spot by the River

BREAKING: According to the Wall Street Journal, Meta laid off 1,500 people in its Metaverse division. I remember when we were told that the future of work was meetings with avatar participants. A lot of what we hear today about 'the future of AI' is wishful projection.

New Shared Link - The Problem With Sending Your AI Agent to Meetings, According to Neuroscience

New Photo Post - Raising the Flag

New Post - Worth Reading – We Asked 9 Burnout Experts Their Secrets to Protecting Mental Health at Work—and They All Said the Same Thing

New Shared Link - Why Mandatory Cameras Can Harm Neurodivergent Employees neurospiceeverythingnice.com/2026/01/14/w... Diversity

ICE agents and its leadership need to be investigated, prosecuted, and imprisoned. www.propublica.org/article/vide...

New Photo Post - Fall flowers

More on Recurring Meetings a.k.a - what happens if I change one event in a series? #eDiscovery #Teams #M365 #Purview newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/more-on-re...

New Shared Link - How to Job Search When the World Is on Fire thejobhopper.substack.com/p/how-to-job... JobSearch

New Photo Post - Hancock Tower and Chicago Skyline

New Shared Link - Your Bonus Won’t Buy Loyalty and Your Above and Beyond Won’t Buy a Raise substack.com/home/post/p-... LawFirms

right out of the nazi handbook

New Photo Post - Shared Photo Links (weekly) Jan. 11, 2026

Watching a Trumper tell the BBC today that Denmark can’t protect Greenland so we should have it, if only Denmark was part of some alliance of countries that agreed to cooperate on defense and band resources together… oh wait.

New Post - Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 11, 2026

The surveillance industry is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties like we’ve seen in the actions of ICE. The industry seeks to profit off the data of millions while ICE creates one of the largest surveillance machines in history. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

New Post - Gmail Users Losing POP and Getting AI Whether We Like It or Not

New Shared Link - Here's what we wrote about in the Offbeat newsletter in 2025. www.linkedin.com/posts/lavini... Training

New Photo Post - After the rain

New Shared Link - When Good Frontline Workers Make Bad Supervisors www.gallup.com/workplace/70... Leadership

New Shared Link - Please stop inviting bots to your online meetings

X could have put a stop to all this nonconsensual sexual imagery. Instead it decided to monetize it. from @mattburgess1.bsky.social

“Folks have warned for years about the mission creep of surveillance infrastructure systems like (automated license plate readers) and this propensity for them to be abused, and we’re seeing those risks manifest today,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @pressdemo.bsky.social.

New Photo Post - Laurel Spot Made for Social Media

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad…

New Photo Post - Dragon Head

New Shared Link - Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/j... AI

New Photo Post - Tree Lines

New Shared Link - Why I’m Really Worried by the Negative Trend of Hallucinations Cases (and It’s Not Because of the Ethics Failures) ediscoverytoday.com/2026/01/06/w... eDiscovery, AI

eDiscovery and Meetings M365 eDiscovery does a poor job with meetings. #M365 #eDiscovery #Microsoft newsletter.mikemcbride365.com/p/ediscovery...

New Photo Post - MLK in DC

New Photo Post - Sun streaming in the cacti house

New Post - Worth Reading – Is 2026 The Year We All Decide to Quit the Internet?

New Photo Post - Shared Photo Links (weekly) Jan. 6, 2026

Don’t label a generation lazy because they’re not willing to make the same sacrifices you did. Refusing to jeopardize your well-being for your boss is not an act of disrespect. It’s an expression of self-respect.

Lawyers, private equity doesn't care about your clients. Big tech doesn't care about your clients. Your rules of professional conduct are the only thing separating you from the bots and the money people. Ethics aren't a constraint. They're your moat.

New Post - Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 4, 2026

New Photo Post - Lakeshore Park Chicago

New Shared Link - If you thought subscription costs were high now, wait until you have to pay for AI www.trustedreviews.com/opinion/if-y... AI

New Post - Worth Reading – The Legal Profession Cannot Yoga Its Way Out of a Mental Health Crisis

Remember how Microsoft decided to give Elon Musk a platform back in Build 2025 conference? When they announced Grok was coming to Azure? And how not everyone at MSFT nor the ecosystem felt that was a great example of "responsible AI principles"? Yeah, if only someone would have warned Satya...

New Photo Post - Perched in Profile

New Post - Worth Reading – X Users Have the Power to Edit Any Image Without Permission

New Photo Post - Best of 2025

New Photo Post - Christmas Nostalgia at Lucky Rabbit

New Shared Link - OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation futurism.com/artificial-i... AI