-eyes the "use credit cards to transition to a new institution" rule of academia-

The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.

Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.

named my fists Kennedy and Souter because they're not what the Federalist Society expected.

Arguably this ship sailed a long time ago, at least in civil litigation, but I also understand the larger point, which is that it's far from business as usual for the shakedown to come from the government and to involve purporting to waive one's constitutional rights.

Not to play one-up, but now imagine that your students can only access the books for the class through the LMS because the university really pushed them to do that. And imagine that this persists for a week. Welcome to CSUN!

For a small fee, I will go to your enemy's job talk and say, "Your causal identification strategy is a mystery to me. Can you explain it?"

tapping the sign

we deserve a better class of media elite, dawg

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.

If you are describing someone as a "heeb" you have either missed a memo somewhere, or you got the memo and you want to say exactly what you're saying.

It's good to know the CORRECT Arabic for what my wife taught me was "outshallah."

Actual attorney ethics expert here: the answer to this question is "no."

I am, and will always be, an AI skeptic. What I’ve learned over decades of teaching and researching is that learning and absorbing new knowledge is cumulative, requires engaging cognitive abilities that are not used when reasoning is delegated or outsourced. LLMs are incapable of providing it.

It is a sobering thought to realize that we're watching the leaders of American universities determine whether critical thinking-- and by extension, the #humanities --are still worthwhile investments.

the thing is, you should still try to learn the material, even if your professor is not good at their job i really wish this is something that i had thought about more consciously about while i was going into debt being registered for their classes

this is why people keep falling in love w AI. you have to be forewarned that it’s bad. your brain can’t tell the difference between feel-good neurotransmitters you get from a real person vs ones you get from a chatbot

It's wild that I was talking about how the US had very robust social safety nets prior to the civil rights movement and they all systemically got dismantled earlier today

The logic of this ruling would seem to suggest that Texas's new map cannot be used but California's Prop 50 map can, which is going to be a big boost to mutual redistricting disarmament folks.

I think wealth inequality is part of it for sure, but its also a legal and political culture of elite impunity that is more than just about money

I went to ONE interview conference before COVID, and while my interviews were in hotel rooms, they had been specifically arranged as meeting rooms with round tables brought in and the bed stood up vertically against the wall. The modern era is a vast improvement even over that.

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

Just downloaded an article from HeinOnline and it opens with an AI summary of the article? What in the french-fried fuck? Who asked for this?

Why does the book that my department uses for mandatory courses so very, very bad? Just read a case that is allegedly about promoter liability for preincorporation contracts that never actually states a rule for when the promoter is or isn't liable.

But Dan, how is my college roommate's brother going to afford spending a month in Aspen this winter if I don't pay him 13% of ad buy?

It’s just mass delusion

You can say a lot of things about me, and students probably have, but at least nobody in the Epstein files knows who I am.

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

Make your voices heard, #OR06! 🗣️ If Republicans’ government shutdown affected you, please share your story so I can better fight for our communities 👇

after reading how all these rich folks write i think i understand why they believe everyone else needs a chatbot to write everything from emails and text message to novels

Showing how the elite protect the elite, even when they know their own is likely a child predator, is a whole untapped layer of populism for the American left and center.

YOU MIGHT SAY THEY’RE PUTTATOES

Dishwashers also get substantially hotter than any hand washing will ever do. Dishes from the dishwasher are more sanitized!

I know the answer to this one and am RIGHT NOW writing about it!

I have written two days in a row and I can see the shape of the writing to come and I AM NOT DOING IT, so that I don't burn myself out and also so that I have something to do tomorrow.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

We probably all need this right now: Japanese surrealist Tohukiro Kawai’s saintly cats. 🐈 🐱 www.gyokuei.tokyo/globalstore?...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

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I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.

My first for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough. bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...

I did the same thing every time I went to Barbados.

@kevinbaron.bsky.social hope this helps

Three years ago I had a conversation with my new-to-me colleague and now-dear-friend Rory Bahadur about the issue of trans kids in sports, specifically. Rory was interested because of his experience coaching his daughters' rec soccer team. a 🧵