Look who joined us on the mini-golf course around hole 8. ⛳️

Almost every weekend for a few years the kids & I have been watching #StartTrek #TNG. Since the youngest missed some of the first episodes, we went back & watched “Encounter at Farpoint” in preparation for “All Good Things...” They made this artwork & asked me to share. They also chose the filter.

Walking by this guerrilla art (“NOT ART” stenciled on a paint spill) sparked a nice conversation with the 7yo, including a discussion of guerrilla art and a definition of irony.

Turns out the solution to energy scarcity may actually be fusion. ;)

I wonder if one day the etymology of "trumped-up charges" will get confused because of the current administration's use of the DOJ et al. or if the originally etymology will stick (i.e., from words that mean "to deceive") & folks will feel his name was just a really on-the-nose aptronym.

I think about 8% of my caloric intake comes from eating food left on my kid's plates/place mats/in their lunch boxes. This post was sparked by my eating a random handful of raisins that didn't make it into someone's oatmeal.

This is a really interesting read, and it supports what I'm always telling my students, "There is nothing more corrosive to good work/being our best selves than the state of being in a rush." See also, sparq.stanford.edu/sites/g/file...

I’m genuinely considering adding this to the codebase. ☔️🤔

You don’t see this everyday. 😮

1,000 .gov employees, one million visitors in a week, and 100-million API requests over the last year. A hundred million! That number is still blowing my mind.

there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them

I received the most delightful email this morning. It was a Google Scholar alert letting me know someone had cited my work, and for the first time ever, I recognized one of the authors’ names as a former student. 🥰

This week’s #StarTrek #TNG is Sub Rosa. I’m really curious how this will stand up on rewatch and what the kids will make of it. I mostly remember this episode for what folks say about it. Is Sub Rosa sub par? Tune in this week to find out.

Zero-sum thinking may not be the root of all evil, but all evil is rooted in zero-sum thinking.

The gutting thing is when I speak to anybody under 25 or so, and they… don’t know this is unusual. The only America they’ve ever known is this openly corrupt, broken one.

Here a big part of the "algo"¹ is who you follow. I built @icymilaw.org to find the best law content and parcel it out over the day. At times like this, I find it invaluable. You should give it a look. ___ ¹ suffolklitlab.org/how-and-why-... (deeplink to a note on algorithms and "no-algo" feeds)

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that the US Constitution is a suicide pact.

I do not think this is a useful application of ChatGPT, to be honest.

I was contacted recently by some law students who needed to do an interview with a practicing lawyer for one of their 1L classes. I gave a few bits of my usual advice, but let me repeat it: spend your summers looking at the senior lawyers at your job and seeing if you want to be them one day. /1

Today’s tiny-wildlife photography: one of these subjects let me get really really close, the other was well out of reach and involved a good deal of zooming in.

Happy New Year!

The change of season is perfect for experimenting with celestial navigation, and it's not too late to print out a quadrant and do a noon site today on the Autumnal Equinox. Here's a How To I made many many years ago. How to Navigate by the Sun: youtu.be/CycmCFb-6VU

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/

The fault, fellow user, is not in our servers, but in ourselves.

Spotted tonight, a Great Egret in flight. Goodnight. ;)

The alumni of this program are a who’s-who across silicon valley. Suspect there aren’t many law students following me here but if there is one in your life who is interested in tech law, they should apply.

Spotted tonight, a Great Egret in flight. Goodnight. ;)

It’s worth noting that we’ve already seen this with tariffs et al. Arbitrary power means “friends” get exceptions. So, if you don’t want the stick, you best prostrate yourself. It’s all about power and coercion. Don’t make him mad, and maybe you’ll be safe. Spoiler: no one’s safe.

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

Looking forward to the legal test, “you know it when you hear it.”

it is very hard to violate rule 8. so this one's heading to civ pro classes nationwide

I'm ready to accept a definition of "agent" that I think is widely-enough agreed upon to be useful, at least in the AI engineering space: An LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal (I've been dismissing the term as hopelessly ambiguous for years) simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/...

Look at that. Nature’s about to open up a new color palette. 🎨

Do you know what’s “fun?” Cleaning broken glass out of the sink, esp. when it includes reaching into the garbage disposal. I know I was safe, but it just felt like so much could have gone wrong.

Many folks who follow me also follow @icymilaw.org, but honestly, I suspect more of you would enjoy its feed. So, I figured I'd make this shout out. To get a sense for what it shares, scan the feed, or browse this archive of daily digests: icymilaw.org Law-themed news, blogs, & scholarship!

The fault, fellow user, is not in our servers, but in ourselves.

this is super cool! hackathons aren't solutions, but well structured ones are a great way to bring inside/outside community together - people have been trying for this for years (& the other branches *really* need civic tech work 🏛️💻 ❤️)

If you ranked my possessions by the amount of time they’ve been within arm’s reach, this pocket Constitution (which I’ve owned for more than half my life) comes in just after my wedding band. On this #ConstitutionDay may we realize the ideal of a nation ruled by laws, not men. No Kings; no tyrants!

Alas, I will note that this can be said about the reporting for many news items involving this administration.

Today’s entry for my tower of quote posts: a monarch framed by the scene that inspired it — my neighbor’s front garden.

I don’t know what to do with the fact that the chief executive is ordering people to commit what is likely murder or a war crime,¹ sharing video of same/snuff films, and it somehow isn’t a bigger deal. This is literally worse than shooting someone on 5th Avenue. ¹ See

I swung by the Old State House on my way into work. So, it’s time for another in my quote-post tower of watercolors framed by the settings that inspired them. Here the effect is to entirely cover the subject. I’m not sure if it highlights the contrast between old v new or “papers” over it. ;)

The 6yo spotted a rabbit in the yard and snapped a photo. Then she wanted us both to paint it. She has a good eye. Time well spent. 🎨🐰❤️

Look what we found in Lexington Center after getting ice cream! Long story short, the 6yo and I just played an impromptu game of chess. ♟️❤️

When I wrote this I wasn’t expecting it to be an evergreen post, but here we are.

I wasn’t happy with the composition of the quoted “action shot,” but one of the great things about painting is that you don’t have to paint what you see. ;)

Monarch in flight! Alas, this little friend would not stay still! Here’s the best of the “action shots.”

When I was a kid, we didn't have observational evidence for the existence of black holes. This Sunday is the 10th anniversary of @ligo.org's discovery of gravitational waves (produced by colliding black holes), and now this thanks to the JWST. Could it be... primordial black holes?

I'm thankful I built @icymilaw.org a while back (a bot that finds and shares legal content), because when the flood of news hits, it's nice to have things curated a bit. It's not perfect, but it shares more-thoughtful less-loud content than a lot of feeds, & I learn something new from it everyday.