I would love to be able to follow litigation on Grammarly’s use of expert names like this, but are they really going to try to defend it? Who signed off on this idea, seriously!

Grammarly’s legal analysis on likeness rights must have been AI-generated

Went to Inn of Court to hear Brian Steel speak, and he did not disappoint 💪

Wizard of Oz: Wicked Hamilton: This

my last waymo should have called a door dasher to spray air freshener because it pulled up reeking of pot 🙄

LLMs are used professionally by people who are basically getting paid to use it. That’s the opposite relationship readers have with news they value enough to pay for.

The Levi's ass commercial is the winner so far. Simple, no cameos other than stand-in Springsteen, actually sells its product, and I won't mind seeing the chopped down version another 10,000 times between now and Thanksgiving.

Claude is trying to deal a serious blow to OpenAI I guess?

Men’s grooming ad upsetting

Brought tears to my eyes - also reminds me of volunteering at a consignment sale and coming across baby golf cleats (metal!!)

1/ Regarding the arrests of Lemon and Georgia Fort, my first thought when I saw it was to ask who would pay for their defense. It’s something you might not have thought of unless you did journalism, professionally, but relevant to the “just go start a newsletter” solution to journalism’s woes.

"Prompting" is not general purpose skill. It's just a synonym for giving instructions. You can be amazing at giving clear instructions, but without domain knowledge *and* awareness of the context and the limits of the entity you're instructing, it doesn't matter how precise your articulation.

It seems increasingly clear the rampant noncompliance with court habeas orders happening in immigration cases now is not a problem of attorney ethics. It’s a symptom of structural, institutional collapse at the department of justice.

Team Danielle Sassoon over here 🙋‍♀️

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Damien Charlotin at his database today

Alice Munro

Was going to get a Spencer Strider jersey but a real one is $174 so never mind

Local newspaper not covering local baseball team is about the saddest, dumbest decision I've ever seen newspaper management make.

This is a small immediate action you can take to support the businesses where the murder this morning happened. They were closed yesterday. Now they’re going to have to close today. Few of them can take multiple days without business.

The lunatics who insist that you are giving away that you rely on AI if you use em dashes are going to be shocked to learn that I also must rely on a time machine — given that I overused em dashes since long before the world had ChatGPT or the like.

Let's gooooooooo With alt

Read Motherland and 1929 -- both very good and recommended, but damn. Where do I go from here 😭

I think the second part is the bigger news.

Reboot (2022)

In re One A-hole Bear That Won’t Leave My Basement In re A Second Bear That Trespassed to Interfere with My Bear Trap Docket nos. 26-0001 and 26-0002, consolidated

Looking forward to the feature adaptation of these court proceedings, “My Cousin Winnie (the Pooh)”

Went for a ride on my ebike and upheld resolution by using power assist 2 throughout, instead of power assist 3 😂

I know Miami is going to win but why does this AI thing say they already did - and apparently 2 hours ago??

This thread is also delicious food for any law professor ever thought to have created an “unrealistic“ fact pattern

if a lawyer has to have an articulable ”professional identity,” this one would be all right:

Today’s the day…

Dogs know. They don’t know what, but they know ❤️

Virtue

Law firms: “Law schools need to do a better job of teaching our students how to be lawyers.” Also law firms: “Hey 1Ls, blow off your class reading and #legalwriting assignments from October to February so that you can come to our recruitment dinners and do interviews and complete applications!”

Regardless of whose “fault” this is (firms blame schools; schools blame firms), everyone can agree this makes zero sense. My 1Ls were worrying about applying for 2L summer jobs (not a typo) even before we read Palsgraf—and they were asked to fly out for callbacks in the middle of 1L fall finals!

In response to SSRN's removal of Professor Edwards's "The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses," I have posted "A Response to SSRN's Removal of Jerry Edwards's 'The Originalist Case for the President's Power to Pardon State Offenses'" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The oatset aavrilo in St Lontce are really good

Living with the fact the logic applies elsewhere is WHAT IT MEANS TO DO LAW

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

Walking out of the law school and see a 3L coming in to take a final Me: “How are you?” Her: “Living the dream.“ no need for her to take the bar exam, she’s practice ready now

The Gala Pie from Great British Bake Off #ithauntsme

Faculty meeting today with brown bag lunch policy - everyone was breaking out bags and tupperwares of turkey and dressing, it was so wholesome

Ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future #grading

Contains a great example of human reasoning about what’s NOT there and answering “un-confidently” but with a range of correct answers

Every year the Atlanta improv theater Dad’s Garage does a run of A Christmas Carol where some unexpected character interrupts the show and they have to continue the basic storyline with the new character. Every night is different -the one I saw featured Macho Man Randy Savage

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I published a Thanksgiving essay about this turkey problem right after watching Battlestar Galactica “33” - the essay now lost to 404 land but a good frame at that moment

I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?