Our wizard masters no longer feel the need to explain themselves when they issue edicts to us

Once again, if you have never been to a WNBA game, I am pleading with you to go. The best vibes of any sporting event I have ever attended. The nonbinary lawyer who got presented with an award during a timeout for their work with LGBTQ kids seeking asylum got a standing ovation.

Thank you all for the kind words, they mean more to me than I can say. Here’s our union’s statement about what happened yesterday: bsky.app/profile/scia...

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

Brooklyn. 🏀 (via Paul Williams) 💕

"The organization of the world’s biggest sporting event is in turmoil, bringing together racism, restrictions, discrimination, and visa selection based on ability to pay."

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

“The United States… is hosting its own Hitler Olympics.”

In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

“To work for a library in a city where somebody who is that publicly supportive of what reading and literacy can mean for someone is really inspirational.”

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Let us peer into the soul of the nation, via a staged non-discussion about a contentious tax measure for library funding in El Cerrito. And then let us heal: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-dont-deba...

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

“AI systems cannot reliably explain their own reasoning. While they produce plausible legal arguments, it’s not clear that the reasons are the motivations for their actual decisions” news.uchicago.edu/story/how-do...

THANK YOU, @reckless.bsky.social for saying it. “… I'm just going to say it. AI does not have a marketing problem. People experience these tools every single day […] You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences.” This entire monologue is 🎯 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

The Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School is a library of wolves, raised by wolves, for the wolves!

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Some job news: I now work in the newly-established Federal Department of Metaphors. How are we doing so far?

A thought for Superman Day. #SupermanDay #inspiration #fypシ

Also, important obligatory update from Vermont: Today — April 14, 2026 — is @benandjerrys.bsky.social Free Cone Day, if you find yourself close to a scoop shop: www.benjerry.com/scoop-shops/...

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

"I don’t know what comes next, but I am caught up in it. We all are. The man who threatened war crimes is still in power, in my country. Yesterday, I gifted him more money." thewhitepages.net/p/i-filed-my...

But here's the part that would have me crawling into the sea if I were involved on the BOP side. The judge basically call the US prison system Soviet Russia.

Honesty hour: it was incredibly disorienting to put this chron together (mostly due to moments like "SignalGate was WHEN?!"). But perhaps the most surreal (and devastating) part is that these entries barely scratch the surface of all the data / info losses we've faced--some we may never know about.

Lovely piece by @marjorieingall.bsky.social: arcmag.org/a-tribute-to...

We are heartbroken by the passing of former Vermont Democratic Party Chair Terje Anderson.

🧵 “The program, which launched last month, gave half a dozen LA County civil court judges access to AI software called Learned Hand.” Can we agree that naming AI after people without any acknowledgment—much less consent—is bad? (I didn’t find any acknowledgement on Learned Hand’s web site.) 1/3

I'll give them a pass on the U.S. instead of United States. But they also appear to be missing a comma between Enters. and Inc. And there's a space missing between 292,297. And the quote is missing a comma after "violated." And the quote itself is actually a quote within a quote. Other than that...

This gotta be the most pro-cancer administration in our country's young life

that's the fun part! you just have to ... see if anyone tells you that they saw your name!

Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

“America’s calendars now have eight days a week. That’s not even touching the mangled American flag and the random splattering of stars around it.” The least of the issues with the cooption of the IMLS, but also so representative of all that Kelly Jensen has been documenting.

Scenes from a personalist regime

“by ignoring de minimis privacy encroachments, the law is complicit in normalizing surveillance. Privacy law helps acclimate people to being watched by ignoring smaller, more frequent, and more mundane privacy diminutions. We call these reductions ‘privacy nicks’…”

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

But this is not one of those times. I will not change a presentation title, and quite literally erase the word “trans” from my entire presentation, to comply with a regulation that undermines academic innovation, independence, and integrity, solely to receive funding. Absolutely not.

We asked four horses in a rural diner why they think AI is the future

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

How to avoid getting an education while paying for one:

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

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Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas - @justsecurity.org @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi

Is this the most valid excuse in academic history? Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas posted her email to her professor, asking for an extension due to her participation in the Milano Cortina Olympics 🔥