UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Reading the new H. Rider Haggard biography, I love the story about how Olive Schreiner, after having read Haggard’s first two novels, was convinced he was a woman writing with a pseudonym, like “Ralph Iron.” Apparently she only changed her mind when she met Haggard.

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Yet another semester ending with me basically forgetting how to relax.

Voters: lower costs now! Trump admin: we hear you! here are some flavored vapes aimed at children.

Robert Mitchum in the film noir, Out of the Past (1947), just starting.

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

Happy Mother’s Day to them. #hacks

Sorry, Lauren, but Marie Corelli already shared this news over 100 years ago.

The fact that Canvas also, in a totally weird way, completely replaces email, has meant that even messaging a class is now a complicated process. It was easier to contact your class a decade ago.

Trump talking about trans people in sports, nuclear war, snipers, and a rigged election to a bunch of kids in the Oval Office...all totally okay, apparently, but kids attending class in a room where _Pride Puppy_ is on the shelf requires a Supreme Court intervention.

Fun activity—here I go: Buffy Battlestar Galactica Star Trek: TNG Heartstopper The Expanse The Wire Poker Face What We Do in the Shadows The Comeback True Blood (first four seasons; the finale was a betrayal) Doctor Who Feud: Bette and Joan The Bear The Haunting of Hill House Andor

Photo of me with a massive baked pancake thirteen days ago, shared for no reason. It was delicious, and I was excited about going to a play with friends.

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

So much of the VRA and Supreme Court story is infuriating. The majority justices clearly think the public won’t notice their bad faith arguments.

laura dern has been cast on white lotus season 4

Forget the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—did you watch _Mrs. Hat_ this weekend?

We have heard nothing from Pam Bondi or her legal team. She didn't show up for her scheduled deposition, and half of the Epstein files are still unreleased. We are left with no choice. Contempt charges are coming.

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation. She represents us and the rage we feel.

Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?

Bye Tim Apple. Wish you hadn’t bribed our authoritarian president

François Arnaud also likes the new track from the Strokes. We’re basically best friends now.

Hindsight is 20-20, but this story, because it emphasizes one moment in 2016, implies we're in our current situation because the Obama admin was a bit flippant on TV about one of the court's EPA decisions. There were many off-ramps for the court's wizards on the way to our authoritarian present.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

"...this is absurd: The Court’s argument is that the law is not discriminating against trans people, but is just prohibiting treatment for the specific conditions that only trans people suffer from." ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Breaking news, everyone. 🙄

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This preposterous statement really says it all: “LA28 said the 24% ticket fee on Olympics tickets aligns ‘with standard industry practices for ticketing live events’ and covers the costs of securely processing and delivering tickets.”

We live in a failed state. Impeach him now.

How did spring break make me more fatigued? I didn’t even party. The highlight was shopping…

I’m sorry, but the April Fool’s posts about getting rid of academic departments were just not funny. And I say this as someone who laughs a lot, often in despair.

Sorry, legal scholars, but when I hear the words “viewpoint discrimination,” the only thing I can think is, “But why always Dorothea?”

No Kings #TwinCities

This was the week where the shared governance work pretty much consumed any scholarship I was trying to do.

These old canards have returned to CSULB. #waterfowl #higheres

Here we go again. We're tired of this revolving door. And we need a real say in what comes next.

i miss chubby jesse plemons and i bet kirsten does too

Rereading Ali Smith’s _Gliff_, and it seems made for this moment.

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detention by ICE sparked national fervor, has landed in Minnesota with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, Sunday morning, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro from Texas. 💙 No kid should be in ICE detention. No kid should be separated from his parents.

Colleagues, especially those in CA and in the California State University, please sign this petition. I know you've all heard the bleak news stories about our AI debacle (because people are always bringing the stories to me)!

Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college: 1. Historical Geology 2. Death, Suffering, and Endurance 3. Philosophy of Mind 4. Seminar: Racine 5. Symphonic Band

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I love this scene so much

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

ICE and DHS are killing people in the streets and violating due process. Impeach Noem.