I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

this pretty much sums up "progressive media and activist circles" on the internet: yeah I'll hang out on the website with the nazis where I end up "accidentally" retweeting literal nazis spouting antisemitism, but liberals are CRINGE

Update: Although C-SPAN does not tell us who it is, they do narrow it down — and say who it was not. Side-note: C-SPAN is more responsive to weekend online discourse than most governments, politicians, or businesses. x.com/cspan/status...

So, uh, why is a Verge reporter talking about there being too many rothschilds at NYU?

”The distinction between programmer and user is reinforced and maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. If we accept and adopt the role of less agency, we then make it harder for ourselves to come into more agency.”

This is incredibly blunt antisemitism, obviously, but it's worth pointing out that the core of it—that Jews are not "true" Jews or are perhaps even fake—is maybe second most common antisemitic belief in America and has been rapidly spreading across the left for quite a while.

A thing about watching the Olympics I really like is how no one ever tells me to bet on anything

It’s 1625. During the reign of King Charles, an executive is trying to wield the power of the purse without legislative approval. It’s 2025. During the reign of King Charles, an executive is trying to wield the power of the purse without legislative approval.

For the record, having students throw Ea-Nasir (the name of my personal cuneiform stuffie) back and forth to each other as they do first-day introductions works _really well_. :)

Due to popular demand, here is a demonstration video of how to make 3D printed PCBs using just vector drawing software, a 3D printed (PETG filament for mine) and self-adhesive copper tape. Any questions, let me know!

the verge is the atlantic for people who are too online and i will not be doing discourse about an article on there, no thank you

oh my GOD

I mean given that there are no tariffs permitted under IEEPA, that’s not exactly a high bar.

#BREAKING #SCOTUS blocks President Trump's tariffs.

This illustrates one more problem with the “they should just leave the South/wherever” argument: Even if it was reasonable for adults (it’s not), *kids can’t move unless their parents can and do.*

In honor of @aelkus.bsky.social

Hey #LadyLawyerDiaries crew—any good white collar practices out there (Midwest/east coast) looking for talented associates with early, strong stand-up trial court experience? We know someone great 👀👀

The moderate position is rapidly becoming that ICE/CBP/ERO/everyone involved spends the rest of their lives in these exact conditions.

Idk why they shut the experiment down, I think crows attacking people for smoking cigarettes in public is a great way to discourage litter.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Kat Abughazaleh is implying here that subtext of criticism about her not being from the community is because of her being Palestinian-American/“not born here” There’s no doubt racism/sexism that does exist in this convo, but I will say the concern I’ve heard in #IL09 is very much not that 🧵

If you want to hear from the NY-17 candidate who doesn't work for Palantir, @mikesacks.bsky.social joined us on Normal Men in December. You can listen here:

child refusing to eat the thing they ate yesterday and everyday previous 🤬🤬🤬

Speaking of people I’m completely unsurprised to see showing up in the Epstein files...

Btw this story isnt true. A lot of anti AI ragebait is written by...AI for clicks and likes and to farm reputation so they can resell reddit accounts to bad actors :)

Strange how journalists who want to be stenographers are claiming doing actual journalism is the problem. (Also, like… there was no investigative journalism before the late 60s? Tell it to Upton Sinclair, Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, Ida B Wells, Jacob Riis, etc.)

One of our top requests lately is to develop an MCP server. This will allow you to seamlessly access our APIs from tools like ChatGPT and Claude. We're working on it and eager to hear your input: www.courtlistener.com/help/mcp/

Further evidence Claude can actually be funny.

With Gail Slater getting axed from DoJ Antitrust, anyone know if Kallay is on her way out behind her?

Ohio State, wrestling, and sexual abuse? Surely those have never been connected before.

I don't think Opus 4.6 likes Kid Rock

An early case of in-band signaling being a security issue. (Apropos of nothing these days, I’m sure.)

Jeffrey Epstein also thought his making money in the market was more important than his child abuse.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

… please read the actual article/study, not just the pull quote, which makes clear that it provides productivity gains but that people took that to expand the scope of what they did, rather than taking less time to work overall.

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

I love that UConn has embraced Ennui Husky so enthusiastically

this is exactly right and explains why most handwringing about building systems we don’t understand is misplaced. pre-LLM software engineering already consisted almost entirely of building systems we did not understand

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

I owe you an apology, Amber Glenn. I wasn't really familiar with your Magic: The Gathering Game.

@rtushnet.bsky.social, @markpmckenna.bsky.social, and I filed an amicus brief opposing THQ's argument that Mar Vista can't make a horror movie called "Alone in the Dark" about, well, people who are alone in the dark because it made a video game with that name ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/0311469...

This sentence is six words too long.

Stricter copyright laws might seem tough on big tech, but they just become new tools to enforce monopolies and bully artists. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

People are surprised by this even though that one blog post that got everyone up in arms about AI and Firefox clearly said “AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.”

Seeing everything as a product to be min-maxed is a cancer. (And I say that as someone who would have no particular issue with reading a book generated via AI if it was actually good.)

If you have a LARGE follower count, pls know that Scott Horton is a chronic thief of posts. He also gets things very wrong and won't take posts down. No matter how nicely you ask. Please unfollow him and do not repost. Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.

but is "infringement of personal brand" even a thing? i argue that it isn't, & acting like it is risks chilling speech, creativity, & competition. i just posted my draft, "litigating personal brand: intellectual property & the construction of self" on ssrn--comments welcome!

the video of the process of gathering sticks in an aesthetically pleasing forest at dusk; & the vibe embodied in the image of a woman, shot from behind, hair in loose waves w/ subtle highlights, wearing white cowboy boots & holding the bundle of sticks triumphantly over her head.