That is literally their job

This is great reporting about the lawyer t-shirt in the "antifa" trial in Texas www.thisamericanlife.org/i-want-what-...

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

If we needed fewer police how would we know? I think about that sometimes because there doesn't seem to be any mechanism in the system that might allow for that to be possible, at least internally.

I have fallen down a laundry optimization rabbit hole lately and it is such an embarrassing enthusiasm. I still miss my all in one GE.

So people who know a lot more than I, why isn't dog sledding in the winter Olympics?

Man Canadian coverage of the winter olympics is so much more excited and loving! I was not prepared for the lack hyping up the pressure or the genuine joy.

Abduction of the hearts of all who saw.

I think a dispatch center that doesn't include the police sounds like a great alternative, you can call them as needed but I don't see a compelling reason they have to be involved if you are building a separate dispatch center anyway

We met for coffee. It was about four hours long?

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

So something I am realizing there are a lot of documents about the technical how of using collaborative document creation, but there are not a lot on the interpersonal how of collaborative document creation. Anyone have any sources?

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI. The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

I thought I had an understanding of what was going on in Minneapolis but this podcast broke down the systemic legal process abuse and the human impacts in a way I really appreciate and did not fully grasp. This is good even if you are not an attorney, but almost essential if you are an attorney.

This feels like the mass arbitration type attack the Roberts court should have seen coming from denying class relief.

This week: 911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh

Learning law is kind of like eating a hippopotamus and then putting it back together inside you And now I am trying to eat another hippopotamus and there isn't a lot of room and the parts all look wrong and some of them were trying to assemble themselves on themselves on the wrong hippopotamus.

Someone vibe coded a "hook up an LLM to your email and texts and calendar and bank account" thing which is exactly as sane as that sounds They called it "clawdbot" then "moltbot" then "openclaw" for stupid reasons we're not getting into It went viral among people who have never heard of IFTTT

#Bridgerton is a horror series. Change my mind.

Ok this ended up making me cry. It is very good. And it made me feel less alone.

Compromise gets a lot of grief but it is genuinely a big prat of building community together. However it requires the people having the disputes to be treated neutrally and as peers. And that is why what Dems call compromise isn't. It is usually silencing and sometimes ignoring.

scitechdaily.com/2-8-days-to-... “But Kessler syndrome takes decades to fully develop. To showcase the immediacy of the problem these solar storms can cause, the authors came up with a new metric – the Collision Realization and Significant Harm (CRASH) Clock.”

If we actually wanted to keep people safe and enforce the law then the departments involved would be social workers with de-escalation training and forensic accountants.

Democratic Party candidates should be held to the same standard as my church holds its ministers. If you've never been arrested at a civil rights protest, you at least have to make a convincing argument why not.

One of the amazing things about going back to school is the LLM classroom I was in Monday was BY FAR the most diverse group of legal professionals I have ever been a part of.

How are people with small children supposed to run for office? I guess they are not unless they can self fund or have a stay at home spouse, that really puts a clear picture on who is allowed to run.

Please admire my sidewalk SUV, the getter of groceries, creme del la cart...

Read the thread for the exact breakdown but the numbers are closer to 1.5 billion on policing. Waterloo is better than a lot of places I have lived but it is always interesting how social programs are usually given in amounts over time and police is one year operating and capital separate.

I have never needed to know anything about Jurisprudence as a discipline in order to be an attorney. I do find Jurisprudence super useful when dealing with forum moderation and I find it frustrating that what we have learned from community moderation doesn't seem to be informing jurisprudence.

Random book suggestion: In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker... This one is especially for people who like sci fi and alternative history and want to read something that features androids as a metaphor for AAD written by a woman with ASD in the 2010s

The ION train in K-W is an absolute treasure

So I have no dog in the Ottawa PWHL stadium dust up, but I think they lost their team and the reason are going to lose them is worth talking about: The complaints from the team are all about being excluded from planning. The mayor says we expanded seating from the original plan. I winced.

We watched The Wizard of Oz in a theater last night with the kid. It really was better than I remembered, and I remembered it as being good.

Someone should make ballets out of 1980s kids movies. The neverending story, the princess Bride, labyrinth all of these would be awesome to adapt to dance and many of them already have soundtracks that are halfway there.

Starting off the post holiday season with breakfast with with wife at our favorite coffee place. There is a long list of stuff to get done today but seeing her across the table makes me like I am powerful.

If you happen to be part of the family law bar or work in a field where you might want to screen small businesses for being owned by white supremacists this might be very useful to know about

Moral panics are how Republicans justify regulations so when they are in power expect to see a LOT of fomenting of moral panics.

HIS MOM MADE YODA CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE

Louder for the people in the back

Businesses are not real things, they are a kind of imaginary friend we all agree to pretend about. But I am still sad about the wrap up and end of Smol Law, it was an excellent imaginary friend for almost ten years. It was time, but sometimes even good changes are sad.

That four digit player numbers in roller derby should be phased out, it slows down all officiating processes and they are harder to see. Also teams are fifteen players we do not need four digits except people wanted 1337 and 1989 and similar. It SHOULD be fun but don't make it suck to be a zebra.

To Boldly Grill

Watching The Christmas Baby the Hallmark movie where a nice sapphic couple gets a surprise baby left for them... One thing I appreciate is at no point does anyone say anything nasty about birth parents without immediately being lovingly corrected.

so I watched the new Hallmark lesbian Christmas movie last night, A CHRISTMAS BABY, and today I am watching a new one called THE CHRISTMAS WRITER on Tello (a sapphic movie streaming app, though I just bought the movie on my Apple TV) some gay thoughts:

I love this idea. A random internet security furry who has a wide range of Internet friends and a very specific set of skills.

1. This is really interesting! 2. It is also a timely addition to the “you really need to understand how much important data is still non-digital” discourse.

Let the end of yet another Longest Night be a reminder that no matter how deep the darkness, the light will come again.

Here we go! First, a little background. American football was invented in 1869, and evolved from the existing sports of soccer and rugby. 🧵

This. We hoped our kid would love roller derby, we got them on skates shortly after they could walk, in a league as soon as possible. They told us that they wanted to do Ballet. So we found a dance studio and they thrived. Because they know themself best.