State courts are contracting with a Palantir-back ai @angryblacklady.blacksky.app @evanbernick.bsky.social @gowder.io @sifill.bsky.social @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

It’s my position companies like this are perpetrating a fraud until proven otherwise. LLMs don’t reason. They find patterns. They have enormous inherent bias. And their promises to eliminate hallucinations are outright lies unless they have a human looking at every output. www.learned-hand.ai/FAQ

@tyleraking.com this is bad in ways I can’t fully articulate, in case you hadn’t heard about it. I have serious concerns about a new Palantir ai software company being set up inside the state courts.

Michigan courts just signed a contract to use Learned Hand AI. Florida is considering following suit. Learned Hand is owned/developed by Shlomo Klapper, a Peter Thiel/Palantir protege. The same Palantir that selected the DOGE kids to force Elon Musk’s ai on the federal government. Sources in 🧵:

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

"Wait until you're older, your body will stop working well." Or, may I introduce a concept of people being chronically ill at every age.

the most uncanny aspect of the 21st century is how many stories we have about charlatan showmen who conned the world—from PT Barnum to Andrew Wakefield—and yet we still take grandiose, provably false claims from tech CEOs as though they are harmless or, at worst, true

I also do this one at least once a week. My ex and I used to say it to each other. Also Homer’s “I take a whiskey drink, I take a choco drink, and when I have to pee, I use the kitchen sink”

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Next week, I hope Ezra Klein will interview Chuck Tingle about whether "debate me" guys are doing politics the right way.

@hankgreen.bsky.social autistic mothers are more likely to have Ehlers-Danlos/hypermobility. Pregnant women w/ EDS/HMS are more likely to suffer pain from increased progesterone loosening the joints. Pregnant women w/ more pain will take more Tylenol than avg. Boom. Done.

“Time flies when everyone is miserable and only bad things happen, apparently” - @shaunvids.bsky.social 2017 Shaun summarizing 2025.

I had to give a big speech to our school's freshmen class on Wednesday and my big takeaways were a) Fuck Gen AI, b) this is an opportunity to find something you love that will enrich your life, so don't just outsource the process to the planet-killing autocorrect app.

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore” that, in a nutshell, is why I avoid these things because no matter how convinced you are that it isn’t happening to you, it is happening to you these machines will suck your creativity dry and you’ll thank them for it

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

It's once again time to listen to @nicklutsko.bsky.social's "Spirit Halloween Theme." nerdist.com/article/nick-lu...

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Memphis is 63% Black, but not one Black person was with Trump today when he signed his presidential memorandum to send the National Guard to the largest Black city in America. The Black mayor of Memphis, the Black mayor of Shelby County, and the Black police chief, were not involved.

AND HARRIET TUBMAN. John Brown was not acting alone on a whim. He was acting on the orders of Black abolitionists who had been planning the raid for YEARS. They drafted a whole new constitution, had a whole new government ready to go. But that’s the part of the story that threatens the status quo

I've been putting out fires with other, more intense fires.

WATCH: Tonight on public television across the nation, the premiere of the new documentary “Becoming Thurgood.” It’s so good. Check your PBS and public television schedules. It is part of #HBCUWeek on PBS.

Unpopular opinion: Varys is the Peter Thiel of A Song of Ice & Fire

In the 1920s, Cincinnati, Ohio began to build a subway system. When the Great Depression hit, they abandoned the project. It has never been completed or filled in, so there are still 3.5 km of abandoned subway tunnels below Ohio. (Image: Jonathan Warren; CC BY-SA.)

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Every AI chat has a hidden water cost. One ChatGPT conversation? A couple of tablespoons of water. Here’s how to calculate the true footprint of your prompts: buff.ly/8Bgglz4

Whenever I see liberals shitting on red states as a whole, I feel the urge to remind them that DeSantis wouldn’t order stuff like this if Floridians weren’t going out & coloring the crosswalks back in. If everyone in Florida was MAGA there would be no one for DeSantis to torment.

Literally my best theory, you should watch

This is not good

@nicklutsko.bsky.social just dropped the new album today! I’ve been high key waiting for everyone to hear it for a YEAR. Link to YouTube version in case you don’t use Spotify: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hey @nerdclub.bsky.social and I are streaming a game it’s very fun www.twitch.tv/theinteresti...

That’s like saying “cars use an amalgamation of a century’s worth of human developments, so we shouldn’t hold Ford or any of its employees accountable when their cars explode & kill people.” OpenAI can be sanctioned & shut down if they don’t implement better safeguards 🤷🏻‍♀️ it’s not rocket science

This. As if 48% of voters in some of those blue states didn’t vote for a monster. As if they don’t swoon over red state politicians like Jasmine Crockett. Angry liberals in California still want her constituents to freeze to death when the Texas power grid goes down in a snowstorm 🤷🏻‍♀️

LawSky, take the afternoon off. You won’t do better than this today.

Florida's Supreme Court has upheld the GOP's congressional gerrymander, which may have cost Dems 3 seats & a House majority in 2024. Voters passed a 2010 amendment that explicitly banned partisan & racial gerrymandering. The court enforced it in 2015, but DeSantis appointees now dominate the court

Just checked out Gary the Canary & it seems like @foldablehuman.bsky.social passed on an opportunity to include an extremely niche callback to the Suicide Squad video in the Mantracks video

I wrote about the disappearance of Andry José Hernández Romero, who hasn’t been seen or heard from in more than four months. www.salon.com/2025/07/16/t...

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social this made me think of you

I have shown this video to so many friends. Behold the creative genius of Nick Lutsko and his amazing talented crew!

Our cousin Daniel here is being deliberately obtuse. bsky.app/profile/meer...

“Often juggling multiple jobs…” That’s the sort of barrier Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is describing. If students are living with their parents & paying $6k for tuition, they should be able to devote their time to their studies.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

@nicklutsko.bsky.social Dan Bongino’s desk has an open spot now

It’s me, I’m Beth

This is stupid. There are some things that AI can’t do and legal writing is one of them. If you’re in danger of losing your house or being sentenced to death, you don’t want a computer deciding your fate, I promise.

Today, a war criminal under indictment from the ICC will be welcomed to the White House. Trump, like Biden before him, has aided and abetted the extremist Netanyahu government as it has systematically killed and starved civilians in Gaza. It is a shameful day in America.

The people who say Texans “deserved it” for being Trumpers love to share videos of Jasmine Crockett and Al Green being heroic. Southerners can stop being “southern” when it’s convenient for a liberal narrative.