blaming a paralegal should automatically get you double sanctioned

Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) Mill Pond, 1945. Oil on masonite.

Kaoru Yamada

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

Jef Bourgeau The long voyage into night

Even AI thinks it sounds 0% human.

lol

Heard from a colleague in a different department that a candidate they were trying to promote got two identical outside letters because the letter writers both used the same AI prompt to generate them. 🙃

Crazy that the CEO of the most overvalued company in the history of markets is also the CEO of the second most overvalued company in the history of markets and at the same time.

The Clock Tower. Chien Chung We

Henri Martin

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

I agree, but also it probably should crater—does the local counsel requirement really do anything to help clients? I think it’s an outdated relic at this point. Just let lawyers practice across state lines.

If your broker called you more than once asking if you have an interest in the SpaceX IPO, let all of us know, please.

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...

“Everything was beautiful. Not that there was anyone to share it with, anyone to tell. Just the beauty.” - Heaven, Mieko Kawakami Artist- Je Shen.

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” Loren Eiseley Art by Kevin Kia

This feeds my soul.

Today in @theconversation.com, @andrarobertson.bsky.social and I write about the latest USCIS news, the policy memo that came out a few days ago attempting to make life much harder for green card applicants. theconversation.com/how-a-propos...

Brian Mansell spent 15 years and around $30k building the world's largest sealed Star Wars Lego collection with his 83-year-old father. After consigning the Lego at Bricks & Minifigs, the corporate parent took over the store, took the collection, and never paid another dime. youtu.be/14ktgvoH4Mc

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

Great work here by @capefearadvisors.com. Especially fascinating is the discussion of the Cursor option. (And #$TSLA owners should be alive to the fact that Tesla's cash stash will be difficult for a cash-starved SpaceX to resist.) I'll be following along to read any criticisms of CFA's analysis.

Ironically, the SpaceX IPO is actually a Grok IPO, and even Grok isn’t having it.

On this rare occasion I believe both attorneys are accurate.

We gotta get Bad Bunny's makeup people to the set of For All Mankind

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

In the '60s series Get Smart, Don Adams played Maxwell Smart, Agent 86. I never got the joke till today.

Every DOJ lawyer and agent who’s worked on this corrupt nonsense…. I’m sure that some have refused/quit/retired. I hope that they, protected by the same First Amendment that does and will protect Jim Comey, will speak up.

youre laughing. a half sunk visage lies beside two trunkless legs of stone and you're laughing

Denaturalization is a tool of political control and intimidation.

The DOJ not only indicted the group @splcenter.org that infiltrated the KKK, they indicted them because they infiltrated the KKK. I’m donating today to the Southern Poverty Law Center, of which I want half to go to help fighting racists and half to fight the KKK’s legal dept, aka the DOJ and FBI.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Chen, Chacón, and Gleeson on Immigrant Racialization and Temporary Legal Status Ming Hsu Chen (UC Law, San Francisco), Jennifer M. Chacón (Stanford Law School), and Shannon Gleeson (Cornell University — School of Industrial and Labor Relations) have posted Exclusion by Design: Immigrant…

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Lyonel Feininger, IV B (Manhattan), 1937

"The Supreme Court has a chance to hear an important First Amendment challenge that would vindicate the right to give basic legal advice" against an unauthorized-practice-of-law charge. [Thomas Berry, Dan Greenberg, & Alexander Xenos on Cato's cert amicus brief in Upsolve v. James, Second Circuit.]

I’m actually more concerned about SBF’s counsel here—why didn’t they file the MET/motion for new trial? Or motion to withdraw, if they don’t plan to take further action on his behalf?

ICML desk-rejected papers from "506 reciprocal reviewers who violated the rules regarding LLM usage that they had previously explicitly agreed to." (They said they wouldn't use LLMs and got caught by a watermark trap.)

This should not need to be said but Judge Boasberg is a widely respected judge and these efforts to intimidate and harass him are shameful.

My article, "Interpretive Facades," is forthcoming in the Case Western Reserve Law Review! I address courts' practice of claiming to interpret constitutions one way, but then applying a different approach when they get down to the interpretive work itself. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I heard this live, and all I could think of was “One bright day, in the middle of the night…”

"'A decision without articulated reasoning, of course, cannot possibly carry the same reasoned weight for the simple reason that there is no reasoning from this court to weigh in the consideration of a different case,' the judges told the high court in their amicus brief...."