Oh. Ok. That makes more sense. Trump is using the US military to commit war crimes to drive up oil prices and enrich Russia, which like Venezuela, sells a lot of oil to China. That totally tracks. It's not about drugs, or even about Maduro. It's Trump being played by Putin.

Today, the UCP government passed a law in Alberta making it illegal to prescribe gender affirming care to minors, even with parental approval. And before it could even be challenged in court, they used a provision of the constitution that allows them to violate charter rights with impunity. 1/

All of the high priority issues with the new version of Blawx have been resolved. Unless any more show up, it should just be a couple of weeks of final production checklist stuff before it is live, maybe less. From masters thesis to bootstrapped SaaS #LegalTech in under 5 years! 😅 #RulesAaCode

A financial company, which will not be named, yet, is refusing to release my trans eldest's RESP unless they have the university change their name on their records to their deadname. Our answer was (paraphrased) "No other institution required deadnaming. Gross. Go fuck yourselves." #TransRights

The reaction of the Premier to the court ruling a referendum question is unconstitutional is the beginning of the "judges are the problem" MAGA bullshit that must be actively rejected by members of the bar in Alberta. The judge only applied the law #ABLeg wrote. The judge is not the issue.

There is a very small group of current, past, and "future" #LegalTech founders and builders that are getting together (almost) weekly online to learn and play Go. Absolute beginners welcome, non-competitive, designed to introduce people to the game, and stretch some unusual brain muscles.

Absolutely the latter. I spent a long time working with people suffering from sometimes extreme mental illness, both in and out of the criminal justice system. You know what the difference was between them? Nothing. Just chance. 1/

Pretty happy with the RTÉ and others' decision to boycott Eurovision over Israel's being invited. It's symbolic, and it won't change much. But we should abnormalize the state perpetrators of genocide. That seems like a good policy.

So I'm learning his party is run by extremists who are pissed off at how not extreme enough he is, and they have decided to assert a power to remove him they don't actually have, with the thinnest of veils. Hilarious. The leopard ate his face, basically. Remember when the right was for "order?"

What is going on the the BC Conservatives? A majority of MLAs wrote a letter indicating they had lost confidence in him. That, somehow translated into his being "professionally incapacitated", and replaced with an interim leader? I'm a big fan of caucuses getting to choose their own leader. 1/

To do: ✔️ Implicate Hegseth in war crimes against alleged narcotics smugglers ✔️ Release actual narco state dealer from jail ✔️ Fall asleep in cabinet meeting while Rubio is talking in the chair next to you, on camera ✔️ Unhinged social media tweet storm for 5 hours. ✔️ Spin brain MRI as "preventative"

So is ordering a murder impeachable? I guess we will have to wait to find out. But it feels very much like that shouldn't be necessary.

Blawx v2 is down to one bug to fix before I can start work on the live deployment checklist. The closer I get to releasing it, the more absurd the entire project seems. One lawyer, alone, implementing a freemium legal tech SaaS product in his free time, for a tech category that doesn't exist. 1/n

Similar story re law firms that have a chef.

Helping my middlest with his grade 12 Chem homework, checking his answers by taking a picture of the quiz and asking ChatGPT to answer it. Twice now, he has gotten answers that vary from the answer key, but GPT for the same answer. Is GPT now better at marking Chem 30 quizzes than Chem 30 teachers?

Whoops... I changed the link for the new §Blawx v2 video, and forgot to tell #Lawsky #Law #LegalTech #RulesAsCode #RegTech #GovTech. Sorry, my bad. youtu.be/LZQUprbbmUU?...

Also, telling US soldiers to disobey illegal orders isn't subordination. It's superordination. Or ordination simpliciter, or something.

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Ukraine is forced to choose between *checks notes*... having US help with surrendering to Russia, or not having US help with fighting them. Doesn't seem like a hard choice. Either way, the US isn't helping you fight. One way, you cease to exist, and RU aggression is rewarded.

So evidently the editorial board of the Washington Post thinks that there is no public interest in the release of the Epstein files they haven't seen. In other news, Washington Post editorial board grateful to Jeff Bezos for sharing Donald Trump's advice as to what constitutes a public interest.

If you are interested in the latest re §Blawx v2, check out this video I submitted as part of the G7 GovAI Grand Challenge today. The demo shows the version on which I'm currently doing QA. youtu.be/2cnSEnwI9Nc?... #LegalTech #RulesAsCode #GovTech #RegTech #ComputationalLaw #LawSky

So far this week, the AB Gov't has put trans kids at risk, screwed up the public health care system, and shut down a safe consumption site. Just letting disadvantaged people suffer and die for dollars and votes, helping no one.

Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.

So now we get into an argument about whether he is releasing everything he should? Will anyone actually know? Or does he just destroy the records he doesn't like, and assume he won't be impeached for it? Or is there another play, here? He's clearly not coming clean.

Just tried some high protein high fibre pancake mix for breakfast. Recipie makes three medium pancakes. Not bad, flavor wise. What they don't tell you is that eating three of them is more or less impossible. I had 1.5, I won't need to eat again for three days, feels like.

Hey, #LegalTech friends. I'm toying with the idea of releasing Blawx v2 in a strictly limited paid beta, so as to increase the signal:noise ratio from new users. There will be a free tier, unlimited if possible, but the features for which v2 was built including AI code generation would be paid. 1/

Blawx v2 has reached the testing stage. Unless testing reveals large issues, it looks like it will be live by the end of the year. #LegalTech #RulesAsCode #Bootstrap #Solo #WhoNeedsVC #HashTagBrag

Was chatting with a friend about the lessons you learn from playing #Go. I think the first and foremost is this: Go is a perfect information game. You always know everything relevant. And you are constantly failing to understand it. Be humble about your own wisdom when faced with complexity. ⚫⚪

Hey friends. Using #WSL and #Docker Desktop on Windows? Fair warning that Docker is using a virtual drive to store its data, which can grow to accommodate more needs, but cannot automatically shrink. Bad docker hygiene will eat your entire drive, eventually. There's good hygiene, and a fix. 1/n

Yeah. I'm pretty sure you can put any descriptor in front of "questions", here, and get a yes. If there is a type of question, it is regularly posed to AI. We can all rest in utter confidence of that.

Mighty Nein Time

This is a dangerously stupid way to look at the problem. I know, let's take the 75 people that the justice system doesn't have any effect on, and justice system them HARDER. 🙄 The criminal justice system is in effect a badly-designed mental health system. Fix THAT. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I wonder if some people will begin to realize that being a pedophile sex offender is not his worst quality. Epstein thought Trump was the worst person he knew, without a decent cell in his body. Epstein clearly didn't mind pedophiles. He is a narcissistic psychopath you RE-elected.

This is consistent with my experience with CoPilot. Using an AI coding agent is a skill that needs to be acquired and honed. But it does accelerate your work. The variety of models and the pace of change in them make it important to continue experimenting, too. #AI #Dev

I'm not sure what to make of this. It seems more subjective than is entirely necessary.

Incredible thread from Steve. Please read.

The Democrats resisted, and when they resisted, they won elections. So they stopped resisting. Trump was in court arguing for the right to needlessly starve poor people to death. A protest is designed to make authority look unsympathetic. It was working. Now, people made sacrifices for nothing.

THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦 PeaceLoveCanada.ca

Jesus, Brennan. In episode 4? That's how It's going to be? You needed 13 player characters because it's a war of attrition? #CritRoleSpoilers

As of tonight, v2.0.0 of Blawx is feature and content complete. Just QA and bug testing left before it can go live. Looking forward to switching from making it exist to making it better. Has been years, at this point #RulesAsCode

On what grounds would the USDA be authorized to prohibit anything of the sort? Is this just a promise of corrupt mistreatment later for companies that embarrass the administration? Or do they have actual authority, here? This is Banana Republic shit.

Happy logical operator Halloween! 🎃

Thinking of taking a poll at the door tonight of people's ages, and whether I am dressed as Doc Brown, or Rick.

The ATA is going to fight by giving up. The AFL has the unprecedented response of planning for a possible future general strike, such they say will take weeks or months. Embarrassing.

Getting very close to a Blawx v2 release candidate. Maybe next week. Then it's time for some intensive QA and debugging. Depending on how testing goes, v2 should be live by the end of the year. #RulesAsCode.

The cognitive dissonance of the ATA saying it will do everything it can to fight Bill 2 with public pressure, and then not doing the only thing that generated public pressure.

Obvious wavenumber-5 mesovortex pattern within #Melissa’s eyewall earlier today — when the simulation matches reality. Just two decades ago, the very existence of mesovortices was still a matter of debate.

The ATA has decided to give in to Danielle Smith's unconstitutional bullying. Embarrassing, and self-defeating. It takes the wind out of anything else other unions can do to react to Bill 2. The ATA should be split into a teacher's union and a professional body, so the union can actually fight.

TIL there is a 14th inning stretch.

These teams are running out of players. 14th inning. ⚾ #Jays #Dodgers #WorldSeries