3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Oh! And a belated thank you to all who answered my call for office tech competencies for law students over the summer. I've added Word and Excel self-guided trainings in my Lawyering class this fall, as part of their Attorney Development Plan. Basic office tools AND more executive fxn exercise, FTW

Normalize putting stipend amounts in "service" position advertisements. Even if that amount is $0. </rant>

From the Critical AI Perspectives panel - how to turn off Google AI Overviews on multiple browsers: tenbluelinks.org #AALL2025

You'd think by now it would take me less than 10 minutes to remember where to make the Canvas modules list the home page, rather than that dumb default "Welcome" page. (Pages>view all pages>dotmenu>Remove as front page). YW.

Yikes, fire season has started already. Big fire on RR tracks not super far from campus. Fire trucks were just coming through, so I pulled off the road for a bit. Hope everyone's safe.

Now that I'm writing more regularly, I'm tweaking part of my organizational system. OMG why won't Zotero sync with Notability. That seems so basic. They're too similar not to talk to each other, and too different to get by with just one of them. If anyone has a workaround, I'm all ears.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Line edits and footnote-chasing. "My favorite thing in the world," said no one ever. But it brings me one step closer to getting my article on legal literacy at the reference desk out into the world.

A not-insignificant part of late-Dx ADHD is the mourning what could have been. But honestly, I'd probably be a Veterinarian right now if I'd been medicated and regulated in college, so idk... I think law-library-lawyering is a much better professional fit!!

Leopards. Eating faces. Because it's what leopards do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QGy...

Community is great! Let's have more of it in future remote-Calicon, please! #calicon25

Random, I know, but I really miss the mem:o app that visualized trackable things along a calendar, and I've had many moments where I've thought about trying to code something like it. Or making a koala rainbow version. I'm sure other apps could do it, but it wouldn't be as pretty.

Spent the afternoon session at #calicon25 at Jonathan Franklin & Sean Harrington's Vibe Coding session. I'll admit, I didn't know that term before today, but I'm intrigued based on their presentation. And also aware it could really, really be a (BAD) time suck for me, so I might steer clear.

AALS sections are *free* to join? How did I miss that? Joining the Balance and Well-Being section now. Their summer series has been great so far, and I'm doing their 14-day writing challenge.

Good points about the Stanford study & hallucination; and the more recent Michigan/Minnesota study and ways people use research tools. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/anot... #calicon25

Now @seanlovesbooks.bsky.social talking about the array of tools that can test RAG and more on the back end; if vendors won't give us an API to test, they should be using these tools to test, releasing white papers etc. #calicon25

Now @thefordon.bsky.social is talking about typologies of tasks for AI tools, developing those for the legal research tools and more. What tasks are these tools useful for, what are the errors, etc. #calicon25

"Will it do the job?", "which one is best?", and everything in between. Users want to know, and rightly so! Our job as librarians is to figure out what to teach, when, and how. #calicon25

They're specifically talking about benchmarking AI tools, to compare across, measure and compare. Consumer Reports-style. There are many different types of tests we could put to the tools, though w/o APIs, we're very, very limited. #calicon25

Now up: The Problem with Benchmarking, with @debgpi.bsky.social, @thefordon.bsky.social, Nick Hafen, Jonathan Franklin, and @seanlovesbooks.bsky.social - tools and more. #calicon25

Can't hear most questions (which aren't questions bc lol academics), so taking a break before the next session at the half hour. #calicon25

John's talking about the auto club lawsuit - www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/auto.... #calicon25

Abundant law (in contrast to scarcity) could be many small changes. Taking the handle of a much-used pump in London to reduce Cholera. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"Lawyers aren't rent" -- paying rent keeps people in their houses, not lawyers. Saying the answer is more lawyers is like saying the answer to world hunger is everyone having a nutritionist. #calicon25

ProBonoNet runs LawHelpInteractive. Harden advocates for more use of AI for discrete tasks, like contract review (see Adobe's new feature). It doesn't take away from lawyers' work. But lawyer regulation is a hindrance (to innovation). #calicon25

"We're afraid to let go of scarcity." It's a great framing -- lawyers naming the Justice Gap problem as too few lawyers. #calicon25

Sam Harden talking about the need for public access to the equivalent of paraprofessionals for law. Love it!! "No one is coming after Dr. Scholls for the unlicensed practice of podiatry." Yes!!! #calicon25

We're unfortunately missing the keynote slides, but right now he's talking about cholera, so maybe that's ok lol. #calicon25

The #calicon25 keynote: Sam Harden at ProBonoNet. www.linkedin.com/in/sam-harde...

If my counting from last year is correct, this is my 17th #calicon! Last time it was at GSU, I registered and drove down rather last minute.

I get the need to use Zoom webinar mode for hybrid conferences, but I miss the chatting.

Caffeinated and ready for #calicon25 remotely. Didn't miss the COVID years, can't miss now!

Cool feature that sometimes feels like a bug: if you don't put your email etc. into a workspace as a tab, they'll get hidden until you re-launch hidden tabs. Which is good for focus!!

Current tool I'm gaga over: Workona. It's "just" a tab manager, but since 99% of what I do these days involves a browser, effective management of browser tabs is LIFE. I liked free enough to bump up to Pro for more "spaces" (not quite ready for annual, w/o a couple months to integrate into workflow)

well that was the most obnoxious time zone picker I've ever seen. Took me 5 minutes to find my own time zone.

Wondering, for no particular reason, whether there's any data showing that HR trainings reduce harassment. Or change anything.

Yes. This is bad. Prompts can be VERY long. Imagine a prompt that includes an entire opinion to ask a question about it. Beyond that, the services respond based on the entire back-and-forth, not just the most recent prompt. So the prompt alone is not helpful. #Bluebook22 #LegalWriting #GenAI

And oooh, now I'm down the rabbit hole of the Bluebook 22nd... it's in your acc't, if you have the online sub.

Now I'm interested in incorporating some routine professional communications that 1-2L summer associates would encounter in most legal settings. Speaking to staff, emailing attorneys in the firm, emailing opposing counsel, requesting continuances, etc. Could any of these be improved in 1L year?

I got lots of great ideas for 1L Lawyering tech competencies, and plan to incorporate many of them this year. They include: Word, Excel, Power Point, Acrobat, as well as strong facility w/ the research platforms and understanding of features in concept, as well as practice/tool-specifics.

Or, excuse me, "Meets" and vodcasts. Since we're apparently a Meet-only institution soon lol.

I know it's not how that works, but why can't it? Why can't all these zooms be zooms AND vodcasts?

At this point, can't all y'all sending out zoom invites for summer things just register me automatically? Like, yes. If you're talking about AI, sign me up. If you're talking about higher ed in 2025, sign me up. If you're talking about anything related to the 2025 dumpster fire, sign me up.

Harvard is offering free online courses to the public on politics, government, policy, civic engagement and more pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

It's the end of week 1 of summer bar support in the library, and we're offering stress balls at the circulation desk. And donuts, because Friday.

Lately I've been hearing people use the word "corpora" as a singular noun. They'll say that an LLM is "trained on a corpora of..." Is this an evolving use, like a group noun? Or are people forgetting that corpora is the plural of corpus?

It's almost like the qualifications Trump values most are plastic surgery and loyalty, rather than knowledge and skills.

Yup. I continue to say that AI is for those who fetishize THE IDEA and dismiss THE WORK. It's for those people who come up to writers and say, "I got a great idea for a book, I'll give it to you, you write it, and we'll split the profits 50/50," as if the idea is the hardest and most important part.