New interview! On digital surveillance, the players behind Trump's pardons, the agenda of the Epstein files, and much more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2l1...

Ugh. Already not thrilled about using Canvas and I’m not going to willingly give them my teaching materials, if I don’t have to.

Ope…my good ship & crew were bones to be chewed when the gales of November came early.

(Bless me, fellow librarians for I have sinned by not reading enough this year.)

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

Starting your "research" with ChatGPT is like filling the foundations of your house with cotton candy or building your menu around radium.

What is “sunlight”?, she asks in Michigan winter.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.

Whoopsies?

Meet Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir — the tech company Trump has enlisted to build the largest government surveillance system in U.S. history.

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

This was the plan all along. Russian TV host gleefully claims Trump’s Cabinet will ‘dismantle’ America, report says Several Russian state TV figures have praised Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, according to Daily Beast columnist and Russian media monitor Julia Davis. www.ms.now/the-reidout/...

“They want us to be overwhelmed. They want us to become benumbed to the mounting horror. They want us to think their success is inevitable & there’s nothing we can do about it. This is how they win. It’s our job in the coming year to prove how wrong they are.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...

Equally true for the legal profession: actually reading the cases you find in your research helps you hone your clients’ / rebut opposing counsels’ arguments even better.

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

the Lions remain absolute kings of “wait a game can end like that???”

This is some amazing stuff. Definitely going to have my LL.M. students read this in my research & writing classes next semester for “what not to do”!!

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

From my 2022 book THEY KNEW: "It is very bad in America to be right too early." www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...

Read this. Then read it again.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.

"...History is not a distraction. It is a critical source of information. The patterns revealed in our historical experiences can help us face the truth of what we are confronting. History urges us to move quickly, and to resist with greater intensity."

Seriously. You can save so much time & avoid bad results with even just a 5 minute conversation with a librarian about what you’re researching.

You know, it would be pretty cool of the Academy if they gave Dick VanDyke an Oscar in 2026 for … anything, so that he could finally get that EGOT designation.

The people who support $12B in corporate welfare to farms and forgave $80B in auto bailouts and forgave $700B in bank bailouts and forgave $755B in PPP loans want you to know that forgiving medical debt and student debt is socialism😐

Very problematic for academic / business study and forecasting purposes.

the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession

Sobering to think of all the dismantling and sabotage of everything that is part of the common good being done by this regime just to save billionaires from having to pay taxes. bsky.app/profile/volt...

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Let’s Go Blue!!! 💛💙🏈

A sobering thread for those of us in academia. Again, it’s astonishing how much this regime (w/help from Heritage & Project 2025) is committed to literally destroying everything good about this country.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

This quarter of Lions-Packers appears to have the roughly the same number of sacks as a Hermès boutique does of in-stock Birkins!

"Wishbone" was just the absolute best show!

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Oddly satisfying!

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Obviously my favorite one thus far…

If this sets Verstappen up to win the championship, a lot of fans are going to be pissed off.