Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Every time somebody says "AI tools can improve access to justice," a thorough reporter might want to note the piles of federal court orders where pro se plaintiffs have been dismissed (and sanctioned) for using AI to write slop briefs.

There's a lot going on but I just read an ABA Journal article in which a federal judge "suggests judges use AI to detect hallucinated cases before they send out orders, a practice she and her clerks now follow."

Yes, Dear Reader, a federal judge, in the ABA's magazine, recommends first to generate orders with AI, then to use AI to check for errors in that order. Does anyone have any idea how anything works at all? Do they even care?

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I think YouTube Music should reconsider the photo it's using for Tchaikovsky.

For the Bluebook nerds: No, they didn't have small caps for "Const," and yes, I ordered it with a lower-case "a" for "amend" but they changed it to upper-case. Editors! Happy 2026, everyone.

I mean they're doing it for above-the-line substance so why not citation format too?

I think YouTube Music should reconsider the photo it's using for Tchaikovsky.

I am officially an Old. I will be sick for that kicker for days.

Lord David Ziff! I don't have to work because of my vast inherited wealth, so I help solve crimes as a hobby, what?

Hey @uwlaw.bsky.social folks: Are we bringing the party again this year? Or was last year a flash in the pan? We're building a reputation here! (I have no idea; I've never been.)

My best guess is that there are some serious errors and omissions in the Blinkist version of the trilogy.

Excited to announce GOLLUM, an app that helps you focus on your most precious possession!

cc: @fdostoevsky.bsky.social

I have an established practice for when I want to cite a source I haven't read.

I gotta stop playing when I'm hungry.

I gotta stop playing when I'm hungry.

"Like a furry Santa Claus...." #WetRatWinter www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"Like a furry Santa Claus...." #WetRatWinter www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"I'm seeing a show at the Kennedy Center" "Don't you mean the Trump and Kennedy Center?" "No, the Trump is separate, it says so right on the building"

With the double "The" I'd actually read it differently. It's not that Trump is dead; it's that the signage now indicates two separate things. There's a Trump and then, separately, a Center for the Performing Arts.

Everyone should watch this video. Everyone. Judge Salas is a person of extraordinary bravery, at a moment in our nation’s history when bravery is vital. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Duuuuuuuuumb Sorry for not offering better analysis

Just to be clear, this ban would have prevented me from coming to the US, had it existed in 1983.

@jrabrams.bsky.social changed my law teaching for the better with this book. Highly recommend.

So grateful for the insightful Book Review of "Inclusive Socratic Teaching" (@ucpress.bsky.social) authored by @suemcmahon.bsky.social and infused with all the wisdom, expertise, savvy, and experience in law teaching, wellness, and justice that she brings to all things! alwd.org/lcr-archives...

Apropos of nothing, Rule 18.7 provides guidance on citing audio recordings of pop songs from the 80s. #originalism #executivepower #scholarship

Now this is scholarship

I mean, I was already going to see this movie. But now I'm really going to see it.

Putting aside the merits of corpus linguistics, it's interesting when judges talk about *methodological* precedent like this, i.e., "Our circuit has embraced" some method. It's not precedential in the sense that the method is accepted or required. More like just saying "I'm not weird to do this."

It's an obvious and fitting WOTY choice. Jess & I also both chose it. I love how it's used to make so many other words: — slopaganda — sloperations — slopographers — sloptimists

Restaurants across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-food lifestyle.

I always misread underserved as undeserved.

"there's a new serif in town"

Random thread of my favorite gifs that I (mostly) made myself. (This is the only one that's not mine!)

The thing I have found about my current job is that there is no piece of learning I do not use. It's not just about facts (although those, too). Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.

100%. I often tell students my undergrad math work helped me with legal analysis but *not* because of "logic" or whatever. The real skill was just wandering around with an in-progress proof for weeks, scribbling ideas, hitting dead ends, trying a new approach, headaches, &c. That's legal analysis!

Totally. I am not denying some efficiency gains that have benefits for other uses of time. I guess I'm struggling with how everything is "easier" now with Amazon and AI and phones, yet I (and many others?) feel more overwhelmed with so little time. So I'm trying to reorient my thinking.

For me (and maybe for others?) it also taps into a core problem I have with GAI evangelists, where the goal is some sort of "answer" or "efficiency" in activities that are, at their core, human and relational endeavors. It's part of my discomfort with GAI in law. And certainly parenting!

I think it reflects an impoverished relationship with parenting. The online-ness of parenting websites and FB groups etc. is a tough balance... you can get obsessed with "answers" but also build relationships with real people. But asking your LLM app why your kid is dropping pizza? Just parent!

Also, there's a tension between all the "return to office" mandates and the push to use ChatGPT. So many of the supposedly great use cases seem like things that, in another world, would be just walking down the hall and brainstorming with a colleague, or chatting at lunch. Talk with people!

I don't think it's a coincidence that ChatGPT and this whole "human-like dialogue" LLM thing took off in the wake of social distancing. Maybe we all forgot how to just talk to each other and ask for help?

This is bonkers.

This is bonkers.

“No evidence the intent went beyond freeing slaves” — the framers of the amendment openly stated that it would grant citizenship to the children of Chinese immigrants. It’s in the Congressional record. Cited extensively in Wong Kim Ark. These aren’t obscure sources, especially for law professors.

"No evidence" wp.me/p2hMhO-is

Out: Using AI to write your brief. In: Providing the judge with a link to an AI chatbot to converse about your arguments.

Out: Using AI to write your brief. In: Providing the judge with a link to an AI chatbot to converse about your motion arguments.

Not the point, I know, but is this really NYT style on a number in a headline? It's "2-Decade," not "Two-Decade"?