is there anyone who researches the effectiveness of 'public comment' campaigns on executive branch agencies during the trump admin?

For the @ajc.com, I wrote about how close reading cultivates the virtues that promote eudaimonia, or human flourishing, or the good life. That's me in the picture at the front of the room. www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

move over Gregorian calendar, we have the fish calendar now and it changes moment by moment

My favorite books as a kid were those set in times and places different from my own. The Borrowers, Little Women, Ballet Shoes…I already knew about my own time and place. I didn’t need that in fiction too

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

I enjoyed early voting in Georgia then replying STOP to the indefatigable text campaigns

The tell — and really it’s more of an ick feeling that this might be AI — is that the balanced list has parallel but weird filler as one of the items and the items are delivered in a strangely unsatisfying order.

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Sofia Coppola’s Thor

Slightly increase a band The Rear Admirals

Slightly increase a band The Chickens

All the papers I have to grade were submitted on Canvas But I had them all printed out before this happened

Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results

“The Horses Have Left the Barn: Now What Do We Do?” — Judge Hardiman’s wry alternate title for this morning’s Third Circuit conference panel on AI and the law.

TEASER

This is encouraging. I put Libby holds on more books than I could ever possibly read, but still want to try — and it feels like free shopping

In ancient times of legal writing (like 2000) we used to say “Learn to use Shepards in the books so you understand it and can still work if power goes out” Maybe those times are back as “Learn to research & write without AI so you understand it and can still work if token prices get jacked up“

I feel like there's a way to write a handbook to say that some unprofessional behavior should be expected within the context of content production and you understand that but uh, this ain't it!

Taking one of the AI tools at our disposal for a spin and it's going well.

Second!

If Rao’s wasn’t the best sauce before (it was), …

Exhibit 842538361 in “don’t tell me the stuff I make up for law school assignments and exams is ‘unrealistic’ “

Loved this from @amandamull.bsky.social: "Make the internet a thing that you go to instead of a thing that you live on."

Making table of authorities in Word - drag cursor to mark each authority and then click to make table; update for tweaks Making table of authorities with GenAI - upload doc, prompt, watch it code to make table (87 steps), then hand verify. May need to start from the top for tweaks to doc 🤔

Already bought $$$ close tickets for Fever-Dream game on June 20 — now it’s going to be even better!

Curly Apostrophe Gate

It looks like a curly apostrophe - does that mean it was drafted elsewhere then cut and pasted

Please tell me that someone from The Onion or some other comedy site will be publishing a piece consisting of Trump's live tweets from the SCOTUS birthright citizenship arguments.

A student said she wants to use em dashes the right way purposely uses en dashes with spaces so readers won’t think she’s using AI. I suggested “you can use em dashes correctly within trusted teams” 😭

Can we have polymarket betting on this?

It's bonkers to hire law students for what are essentially post-graduation jobs during their 1L year.

I would love to read detailed comparison of writing style in Wikipedia vs. AI writing style on the same topical material

I amn't ever gonna use Grammarly and I encourage all of you to avoid it as well.

If you enjoy a good Chotinering, this is worth checking out

Pro-tip: This is not how you respond to a judge's order to show cause. 'Instead, they said the show cause order was “void on its face for failing to include a signature of an Article III judge,” was “motivated by harassment of the Respondent attorneys,'

An essential shout out to the work of @cjsprigman.bsky.social and @jennifermromig.bsky.social in putting together The Indigo Book, an essential online resource and an open-source uniform citation system. While the CSL doesn't implement it directly, the Indigo Book has been a very useful reference.

Was thinking of doing a March Madness of hallucinated-case sanctions - this one could go the distance

Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

But we should also care about their commitment to the judiciary as an institution. Flouting institutional norms like this risks a serious degradation from within. And there are not many tools that other judges — even Chief Judges — have for constraining this kind of behavior ex post.

This is one of my favorite AI genres - AI sports copy that firmly reports what is more probable even though the improbable is what just happened

Grammarly has clearly been overreaching itself. I think it's time for the company to be split up, into Syntaxly and Morphologyly.

Inviting Grammarly and other tech companies with bad ideas to pay for my consulting service “Ask Me First.” Fees available upon request.

Haha 🔥 🔥 🔥 >This is about stupid Grammarly and its “Expert Review”>

AI-abusing attorney’s attempt to make sh*t flow uphill fails

No career lawyers on the brief, typically a sign that the arguments therein are indefensible