With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

The details of this trial are bonkers. But at the end of the day, I’m heartened when blatant liars are held accountable.

So all of this is in a thread about a Claude tool someone built to link to NLRB opinions, and it's just such a massive misunderstanding of how law works.

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.

I love watching trials because I learn so much, but they need to close the comment sections.

The thing about this conspiracy which is most sobering is that it’s just a more elite version of the multitude of little, mundane conspiracies between normal men that maintain patriarchy everywhere.

Can we normalize pondering your orb?

We practitioners need to bully legal academics more.

Didn’t realize how unhinged my eating habits are until I described them out loud to a dietitian.

Kash Patel does everything except his actual job description.

The idea that to be a good citizen required curiosity about the world was a positive force. Now we just have ignoramuses crowing about "Western civilization" while knowing nothing and wanting to know even less.

It’s so funny that Prince Andrew got arrested on his birthday.

Just saw a guy get arrested in the gas station parking lot while two Mormon missionaries pulled up and got gas.

going mad because anyone working with medical imaging and segmentation knows there are *specific* models to do this, not LLMs

Many people are shocked that my undergrad career leaned so heavy in early modern history because my thesis focused on witch hunts.

In a country of three hundred million people, you're going to have one of EVERYTHING.

Happy Mardis Gras everyone!

related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter

I'm assembling a team

Hotty Toddy! We are staying on island time.

It's wild that nothing we can dream up as a caricature of the Trump admin is nearly as ridiculous and inexcusable as the truth, which includes "the DHS Secretary fired a Coast Guard pilot because someone forgot her blankie but then rehired the pilot because no one else could fly the airplane."

banning consumer and employee arbitration clauses would probably go fairly far in fixing the rot in American business

Arresting refugees to undermine national security and provide aid to enemies.

A champion for the ages

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!

Every time I watch the Olympics, I’m convinced I could do that too. But I simply choose not to.

Cillian Murphy stuns in the “Opalite” music video by Taylor Swift.

Me if I was in the courtroom during the hearing:

Got a double jump scare in the grocery store parking lot.

One of the most underrated things about Mississippi politics is how much the legislature and governor hate each other. It’s been that way for a while, but their hatred for one another keeps reaching new and increasingly funnier heights.

Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.

What its journalists do—accountability journalism about the rich and powerful—does not serve someone who is rich and powerful. The Washington Post and many of its reporters are no longer useful to Bezos, and so he has decided to get rid of them. @jasonleopold.bsky.social gets into it:

The courtroom crashout is even more bonkers and troubling in context.

Billionaires accumulating exponential wealth is a threat to free societies.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

This is why we need cameras in federal court. We should have footage of this historic crashout.

And we’ve been in Hell ever since

Paris prosecutors raid the French offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes.

a thing i think about a lot is that the median tech billionaire enjoys a level of privilege, wealth and comfort that even the most profligate medieval king could not have dreamt of, with absolutely none of the responsibilities that king would have had, while constantly demanding to be thanked for it

it’s difficult to overstate how much the next generation of Republicans is worse we’re seeing a little of it bleed into the current admin with their social media interns but basically every young person actively engaged in Republican politics is a psychotic freak who should be exiled from society

I have the opportunity to do the funniest bit right now.

you want your message getting out there. you want your personal acts of resistance to become national symbols. that is, in fact, the only way we're going to win this.

This. I know people in Minneapolis would do it. I can’t speak for anyone else.

New grounds for challenging regulations in court just dropped.

This is like when my grandmother would fall asleep in church. I would nudge her when she snored, and she’d say she was not asleep. She was resting her eyes in the word of the Lord.

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...