Hell yeah man, go for it. They’ll love that.

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

This case is only happening because a racist president created an ultraconservative Supreme Court, and a handful of extremely thirsty law professors are trying to get the racist president’s attention for an appeals court judgeship. It’s all very stupid and embarrassing, and also *really might work*.

I love a lot of older MTG art but Gravedigger by Dermot Power is up near the top of my list of favorites.

We better scrap our entire law school curriculum and replace it with this or else our students will be “left behind.”

The principal kinds of prayer are adoration, praise, thanksgiving, penitence, oblation, intercession, and petition.

Just out of SSRN Jail: My article, "Relativity and Constitutional Time," is forthcoming in the West Virginia Law Review! Rather than wade into ongoing debates, I think through disputes over seemingly clear constitutional provisions that will arise in the future. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to provide access to Holy Week religious services to immigrants held at the Chicago-area Broadview detention facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Chrome's split screen view seems like a good idea (especially to me, someone who regularly uses multiple monitors), but for some reason it overwhelms me instantly and I have to go back to multiple tabs.

The Virginia Conference shares guidance from #UMC Bishop Ken Carter for welcoming guests on Easter Sunday. “Don’t make fun of people who only attend church this time each year; they are telling you that, when it matters, yours is their home church,” Carter writes.

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

And now, a review of Judge Leon's exclamation points, to be read as if shouting at youths on your lawn "The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!"

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon enjoins Trump ballroom construction in suit by National Trust for Historic Preservations. Order stayed for 14 days to allow for appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This isn't Posting this is War

Archdiocese of Louisville shares draft plan to close, merge multiple parishes

The whole concept of professionalism is on its deathbed.

Shout out to all my trans friends, students, and former clients on this Trans Visibility Day. The world is better with all of you in it.

According to March polling, only 32% of American Jews support the US's war on Iran, while 61% of white evangelicals support it. For reference, that's 27.3 million white evangelicals and 2.4 million American Jews

Religious appeals are commonplace in the context of wartime, but Hegseth is doing something different entirely. He's expressing open contempt for limits on the military while also claiming God's sanction for *maximum violence and killing.* 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2083...

So many fascinating questions about religious identity, community, organization, and obligation all wrapped up in one obnoxious person.

A circuit judge overturned the Republican-controlled Kentucky House’s attempt to impeach a sitting Lexington judge on Tuesday, roughly a week before proceedings were set to start in the Senate. #kyga26

You never have to hand it to Ken Griffin, but at least he's honest here. The unceasing insistence that AI is the unavoidable future is hype meant to juice investments and stock prices, while the end product is mostly just a pile of "work slop." youtu.be/5Ez0iC9x3ds?...

I don’t relish this. But, if law profs try to sell the Supreme Court a historical fantasy and change a constitutional rule for 340 million people, which if adopted, destroys the entire constitutional order. Honesty must yield to niceties. We have a higher calling. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The @kygop Know-Nothings tell you this is about financial responsibility but they’re lying. This is about tearing down higher education: Teach the MAGA Way or get out. Sadly, the universities have already demonstrated their willingness to be complicit.

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

today in why are food prices so high

Church and state should be separated.

So far a pretty good sports night.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

If you were hired by a foreign power to destroy the stability and hegemony of the United States from within, what would you do differently?

It seems like an intentional marketing move by Silicon Valley to make AI seem so inevitable that there is literally nothing to do be done except sit back in terror/ecstasy.

I keep reading things like "you can't ban LLMs" or "you can't prohibit AI use" and my friends, c'mon. You can ban those things quite easily. Just because enforcement might be difficult does not mean you can't ban stuff and punish the people you catch! (This is not to say that bans are good policy).

Since there is still confusion about whether Grammarly is a more benign “tool” than full on chatbots; as if it’s just a fancy grammar (the name) and spell checker… “In short, it gives students tools with which to cheat, as well as tools explicitly for hiding that they’ve cheated.”

"Lenders who originated data center loans—including the private credit facilities described in Section A—have begun pooling those loans and selling tranches to asset managers and pension funds, spreading risk well beyond the original lending institutions." www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/pub...

"In some data center deals, for example, tenants effectively backstop the project, yet the transaction nonetheless sits off balance sheet, obscuring its risk profile." www.cambridgeassociates.com/insight/shou...

Tired: “office hours” Wired:

“Like Chrysostom, you cannot separate love of God from concrete love of neighbor.” Sounds right. whichtheologianareyou.netlify.app?fbclid=IwdGR...

UConn has a faculty hiring freeze lol

The Hall of Justice courthouse in Louisville, Kentucky has a small food mart in it. They really splurged on signage graphic design, as you can see.

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

I was very grateful to Bishop Sally French of New Jersey for her unequivocal prohibition of AI use in sermons and pastoral writing. She said (and I agree) that preaching is a task for humans, inspired by the Holy Spirit, in a particular congregation, and AI cannot do that.

Legal Theory Bookworm: “Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship” by Law The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants by Anna O. Law. Here is a description: Since the late nineteenth century,…

A very beautiful (and crowded) Palm Sunday service at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church this morning. www.youtube.com/live/m6SDdax...

There's no one thing called "religion."

Via @apnews.com: Israeli police prevent Catholic leaders — *including Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and the head of the Custos in the Holy Land* — from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem apnews.com/article/isra...

Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself?

Neighbors question LMPD's use of force after officers fatally shot woman in 'mental health crisis'