Oof. How low can you go?

DARTH HAS RETURNED FROM HIBERNATION THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Oof. How low can you go?

OK, I call it, I have received the single most unhinged ad on LinkedIn. For one thing, it's Adjunct Professors of Law who need the abs, not Adjunct Professor of Law's.

This is art

Yes, the "mailbox rule" is one of the first things 1L law students learn. It's a prime example of "yes, the law is full of technicalities, but it's supposed to be practical, not stupid."

What’s the longest car ride that you’ve been a part of? From Utah to Massachusetts. We (two of us) stopped to camp nightly and/or traded off sleeping in the back while the other drove. I shudder to think how little time it took.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Lawyers, apparently Google has a /x -style search function called AROUND that limits results based on the proximity of the words to each other! (plus other handy Googling hacks)

Holy shit truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

This open letter describes what’s at stake when cramming AI into education: humanity and the very human ability to think critically and morally.

Emily Tucker is the executive director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. And she is magnificent medium.com/center-on-pr... Remember: “there is something that learning is for, that thinking is for, that work is for, and that you are for, the discovery of which belongs to you.”

And this, law students, is why the *process* of outlining is important. It's not having an outline that matters. It's making it.

People trying to tell me that Cesar Chavez now has a "complicated legacy" as if it didn't turn out that women like Dolores Huerta weren't the ones doing all the important work in the first place. JFC.

The process of organization is one of the strongest metamemory strategies. Cut that out, and you've cut out learning. As a teacher and cognitive psychologist I find this all so sad and frustrating and kind of incomprehensible.

What does this mean? Like, literally, what does this tagline mean?

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

I suspect huis use of the second person is deliberate here.

HEY AUTHORS CLAIM WHAT YOU ARE OWED 👇🏾

I’d ask Werner Herzog.

“Department of Limited Operations and Excursions”

There are very few things from my 1980s teenage years that continue to provide me undiluted geek delight. The final credits scene from 'Buckaroo Banzai' is one of them. The energy of the cast (little Damon Hines leading the charge), the costumes by Aggie Guerard Rodgers! youtu.be/MAgnTREVCXk?...

Pitch an unnecessary sequel Fargone

Pitch an unnecessary sequel Fargone

Thread.

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

There used to be a certain kind of “wow, someone actually took the trouble to make that” wonder. Like, “wow, someone took the time to draw a cartoon frog saying ‘wee!’ while riding an ostrich” or whatever. It was kind of a testament to human ingenuity and strangeness. AI basically destroyed that.

There used to be a certain kind of “wow, someone actually took the trouble to make that” wonder. Like, “wow, someone took the time to draw a cartoon frog saying ‘wee!’ while riding an ostrich” or whatever. It was kind of a testament to human ingenuity and strangeness. AI basically destroyed that.

COVID really messed with our national psyche. We shifted our standards of behavior and performance in all kinds of areas, and just kinda never went back.

COVID really messed with our national psyche. We shifted our standards of behavior and performance in all kinds of areas, and just kinda never went back.

I want AI to do laundry and dishes so I can do writing and art, not AI to do writing and art so I can do laundry and dishes

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“Our jurisdiction was so vast that it must be raining somewhere...”

Pulling this off would require some River Tam–worthy dancing around landmines.

In Pittsburgh, it’s spelled “Marquesne.”

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

Oops! All despots!

1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings. I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:

My “US is not veering into a new, endless war” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

More on Pittsburgh’s canceled Year of the Horse events in Squirrel Hill. www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

You’re absolutely right — that was a hospital. My mistake.

Shorter Trump: We will be creating the famous Skynet, from the great movie Don't Create Skynet.

Knock me over with a feather. They ran it! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

PITTSBURGH WHO YOU GOT

Upper Middle Working Mysterious Stranger / Murder Hobo

You know, being "forced to retire" isn't really a consequence for showing up in the Epstein files, especially if you're an old, rich guy. Like, retiring was what you were gonna do anyway!

I've lost track of the current (post)(non)ironic slang. When someone prefaces a question with "Chat," are they pretending to address a group text chat or an AI?

Milkshake puck