Patrick Ward

ECF 105 may be for the transcript from the mentioned proceeding today. Presumably it’s sealed in though.

Seems like a more reasonable case of obstruction than this framing

Seems like a more reasonable case of obstruction than this framing

A bit more complicated than that

Agreed—but I don’t think anything short of promising would be significant enough to justify pausing discovery.

The government must have promised to get him back

Guarantees

Agreed. It’s the only reasonable explanation for Xinis to pause discovery. The government could still be playing them, but that’s a whole new level of defiance, and that’s saying something.

The government must have promised to bring him back

I don’t think there is any other reasonable explanation

The government probably has promised to bring Abrego Garcia back

Agreed—and I don’t think anything short of credibly promising to bring him back would be meaningful enough to pause discovery

The government probably promised to bring him back

She hasn’t issued any sealed orders

She would need to issue an order to act on the motion. I supposed her order could also be sealed but it wouldn’t have to be—but she hasn’t issued an order.

They filed a motion under seal. But she hasn’t granted it. So they are still obligated to meet the existing deadlines.

Ahh good catch. Also wouldn’t apply to motions then.

Blackman is obviously obsessed and quite obviously not thinking clearly

Blackman is obsessed and not thinking clearly

It may reflect an actual softening or pivoting of the administration’s approach in the court (and include actually sensitive details to support this).

Or it may just be more gamesmanship—an effort to avoid PR about the motion via a bogus confidentiality claim.

This may reflect an actual softening or pivoting of the administration’s approach in the court (and include actually sensitive details to support this).

Or it may just be more gamesmanship—an effort to avoid PR about the motion via a bogus confidentiality claim.

It may reflect an actual softening or pivoting of the administration’s approach in the court (and include actually sensitive details to support this).

Or it may just be more gamesmanship—an effort to avoid PR about the motion via a bogus confidentiality claim.

This is the doc governing confidentiality in this case: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How will AI affect venture capital investing?

People wish, or even believe, that "smart" solutions always beat "dumb" ones.

Same reason "intelligent design" was attractive vs evolution.

Last day for Barry’s annual sale FYI

James Scott's Seeing Like a State is the best starting point for thinking about the societal implications of legibility more generally. It's a great book, too.

eg, the kind of differentiated messaging needed to sustain the Dixiecrats would be much less feasible even in the 90s media ecosystem.

It's not just the internet (and electronic communications more broadly) that increases legibility of communications. The nationalization of print & broadcast media (staring pre-internet) also limited space for differentiated messaging and tended to make it riskier.

In a recent podcast, Peter Thiel points out the internet also limits the ability to microtarget political messages.