Spelling bee is really trolling all us type B parents today.

Another high profile redaction fail, for those of us who collect them.

I’m going back and doing NYT connections puzzles I missed, and it’s really not fair to put sports and cars in the same puzzle. I thought they were trying to trick me, how was I to know Ram spun out of Dodge 15 years ago?

Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...

Watching an 80s movie w/my 8yo yesterday and he said “why is this movie all white people?” and it just made me really grateful for modern kids’ media where he sees kids who look like him *all the time*.

I hate this so much.

A major problem with vibe-coding is that it's an excellent way to procrastinate. Oh, this mind-mapping app I'm using to plan my course is doing *exactly* what I want it to do? Better vibe-code a new one (which coincidentally is so much more fun than course-planning)

Just showed the kiddo Muppet Christmas Carol (he loved it of course) and I never knew there was a big trademark dispute involving the character Spa'am. www.courtlistener.com/opinion/7108...

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

Anyone else influenced by that teacher who eats her snacky lunches on TikTok every day? Today I had a sweet potato with some cheese shoved inside it, with some pickles on the side, and now I want that lunch a few times a week.

This is a terrible story--both because of the trap that was set (either in advance or ret-conned to seize a moment) for this graduate student but also because the student's department failed her. The 1st problem is easy to see, but I want to explain the 2nd one. 1/x

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild - vermillion flycatcher (san joaquin marsh wildlife sanctuary, irvine, ca) - wolverine (glacier national park, mt) - spanish shawl nudibranch (crystal cove, ca) - burrowing owl (salton sea, ca) - bald eagle (catskills, ny)

I worry about this degradation of expectations a lot in the law. A lawyer gets fired for messy citations, a wrong point of law. But if a would-be client asks ChatGPT instead, and Chat gets a few things wrong, is it a dealbreaker? (Same concern for librarians btw; and research assistants; and and …)

I’m reading a thriller where a female character is nonchalantly described as 5’7” and 98 pounds … why, yes, the author is a man, how did you know?

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

Exhausted after spending all day in the kitchen* (*Heating bowl after bowl of chicken broth because the 8yo has a stomach bug, and then anxiously watching to make sure it stays down)

Some "what we know so far" articles about Epstein emails, starting with the BBC...

I loved this book so much!

I honestly think it’s a power thing. They’re sooo busy they can’t possibly be bothered with capital letters or punctuation or proper spelling.

Hey remember how a bunch of people made their OpenAI convos public (perhaps without realizing it)? Here's WaPo's look at them: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Hey, what do you know, he did deserve to be canceled. (He was not in fact canceled)

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

The RECAP Archive now has basic metadata about every federal district and bankruptcy case in PACER, and will gather every new case within about five minutes. Search it all here: www.courtlistener.com/recap/

An impressive list, girls, but I know we can do better

I covered dockets (amongst other topics) in my Advanced Legal Research class today, and it's soooo hard not to nerd out. I think I scared them when I said some law schools offer a semester-long class on PACER!

Today in weird texts you send when you have a kid: "yay our big shipment of pants is coming today"

This is huge and will continue to fuel amazing innovation in the legal research space

Did everyone know about this PACER demo site but me? (Said after I vibe coded a solution very similar to this, because I wanted students to see how painful it is) pacer.uscourts.gov/help/pacer/p...

One side *wants* no government. That’s why they’re fine keeping it shut down forever—or maaaaaybe reopening it if Democrats agree to weaken it enough that it’s barely a government. How can we possibly negotiate in this situation?

Just asked ChatGPT about whether there are any current movements to shelter and hide undocumented people, and it lectured me for trying to break the law. In case you were wondering if technological systems have a point of view.

I have never seen this much sports in my feed. I do not cultivate a sports feed. I’m so confused and disoriented.

Spotted this ad recently in my city. Would the response be legal advice?

What a beautiful piece, definitely planning to assign this to students.

This needs to be blasted far and wide, particularly to all the GOP voters who support public education.

This is madness. Today we had to send a message to our 1L students telling them it’s not a great idea to use the first drafts of their first legal writing assignments because the new OCI timeline is so early they are wondering if they should. #LegalWriting

Entering my middle aged pain in the ass era. Just submitted a few 311 issues (a blocked pedestrian crossing sign, not good!) and headed to a school board meeting tonight.

A reminder: dietary supplements are super unregulated, which is how protein powders can apparently get away with having pretty large levels of lead(?!).

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Sora is a cesspool, meanwhile this is what my child chose to do with this power.

And that’s why we held tonight’s webinar: To educate members on their rights & responsibilities, and to provide resources people need to stay safe online. Thank you to our speakers. You can find more information from the discussion here. @ShareMyLesson.bsky.social sharemylesson.com/webinars/fre...

Saving this thread to savor and enjoy with my coffee in the morning.

Idly wondering if ProQuest is working on AI summaries/analysis for Legislative Insight. I feel like I'm living in the Stone Ages, relying on Ctrl-F to page through 1000+ page documents.

Is there a good example of moderated tags other than AO3? It’s the best example I know, but there are too many giggles when I talk about it! (Also I feel like some of the best moderation is around ship pairs, and there would *really* be too many giggles there).

Fascinating how so many of the professions being targeted right now (libraries, teachers, social services, even the particularly targeted pockets of higher ed like DEI and humanities) are highly feminized. Nah, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

No one uses cataract that way, come on. #nytconnections

It's painfully ironic that the amount of clerical bullshit you have to go through to get ADHD meds is the exact kind of clerical bullshit that most ADHD folk struggle with. It's equivalent to, 'Ouch, broken leg? Don't worry! We've got some crutches for you at the end of this marathon.'

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)? Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower JFK LBJ Ford Carter And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

I've got a bit of a hobby of digging up the pleadings in these cases and trying to figure out what went wrong. This piece does a great job of showing how often time pressure contributes (and how often people blame their subordinates). I always wish courts pushed attorneys to give more detail.