starting a greek restaurant called the widening gyro

The objectively reasonable person is the most annoying human being on the planet.

The law asks: “What would a reasonable person do?” With the tension being that some people clearly do not have the faintest clue how the objectively reasonable person would behave.

My uncle died from tuberculosis he caught from his liver transplant. And the treatments for TB are hepatotoxic.

Watched INFINITY WAR and ENDGAME the last couple days 'cause I'm feeling a bit blah and needed something familiar as entertainment, and just like... I dunno, it's weird that when we talk about the MCU doldrums we don't so often emphasize the part where Chadwick Boseman died

I think the people who convinced themselves that mobbing a trans woman into deactivating is righteous this time are disctinctly More Wrong, actually.

And I’ve been blocked.

This isn’t a real thing. “Anglerfish are defined by gills that open behind the pectoral fins (as opposed to other fish whose pectorals lay behind the gill opening).” This isn’t an anglerfish. Also, it’s got a secondary mouth like a xenomorph. I’m betting it’s AI.

The NHL should avoid places where ice doesn’t form naturally. Forming in a freezer or lab doesn’t count.

Are the elders feuding again?

This is going to be longish, so I’m quote posting. My dad probably has ADHD. You listen to him talk about how the nuns treated him in school, and it is both evident, and heartbreaking. “What’s wrong with you?” “Why won’t you live up to your potential?” These are some of the more mild things…

Oooh! The Mass Effect effect!

Just realized that Emperor Qin Shi Huang's "Terracotta Army" of clay soldiers he kept in a vault in like 200 BC make him the first Warhammer Guy. he got some disposable income and started painting minis. totally get it

What is Neo-Venezuela but private equity persisting?

And a movie!

Removable media. How…quaint.

What is imperialism but capitalism persevering?

WTF? I haven’t even gotten my 2026 bingo card in the mail yet.

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

Is there a term for when the jury seizes the courthouse and takes the judge and his wife hostage?

This is not a precedent they want established…

Trump: LEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIINS! CIA: Oh my god he just ran in

Less than a year to cross the Rubicon. Fuck.

But Patrick couldn't you sell users data like everyone else? Man fuck everyone else, they suck. Pay me and I build helpful shit FOR YOU. You are not a product, you're a person. Don't sell your data to train AI to suck your bank account dry

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

You do not in fact need to pay $1 to establish an attorney-client relationship.

🤦

The important question is where he got his MLIS.

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

This is Warhammer erasure!

Hello, I'm chicken pox! *And* I'm a drug resistant staph infection! These things working together almost killed me when I was 10. I have the scars all over my body to prove it! Get your kids their chicken pox vaccinations, please.

I didn’t post many photos of my kids when I had a Twitter account. But I cannot say how happy I am that I deleted that account in 2023.

Worst disguise ever.

Grounded!

It was a failure to warn case that sent me from the plaintiff’s side to the defense. Jury came back with a defense verdict. And a request to speak to the defendant. Judge said, okay. Jury: We want you to know that we are very, very disappointed in these warnings, and we expect you to do better.

lmaoooo this though

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: Pneumonia with a loculated pleural effusion your GP missed because “idk brah drink fluids and take Tylenol, don’t be a pussy” isn’t a treatment plan

This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location. It increases towards a center. X marks the center of the danger.

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: Hi, I’m a borrowed van with failing brakes and a midnight colored female moose on the highway.

GROK knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective…

“We do right, we don’t do nice.” —Esme Weatherwax & ~200 BlueSky users.

Funny bit of received wisdom. In jury selection over a defective toaster, the plaintiff’s attorney asked the panel who had read the instruction manual that came with their toaster. Every member of the panel raised their hand. The lawyer then asked if anyone read it cover to cover. Again, 100% hands.

So one of the things I’ve learned doing PI law is the hierarchy of safety. If you can design a hazard out of the product, do it. If you cannot design it out, guard against it. If you cannot guard against it, warn the user. If you cannot effectively warn against the hazard, scrap the design.

I just saw a video talking about the Tesla door safety problem and the number of comments that are like, "well you should read the manual" are...shocking. No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?

I'm sorry, but this is *vile* framing. Don't fucking do this

George Lucas’s Juno.