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Another “going to live rent free in my head” game.

@atabatabai.bsky.social oh my gosh! I loved FF7. I had a fan website that was one giant copyright infringement. When we made our FF MTG set, I went looking for it back in the way back machine. It was very “graphics design is my passion” and now I am a lawyer. Ah well, I had a lot of guestbook sigs.

Guys, I’m from New York. Is Markwayne like, a real name?

It’s evolutionary bro science but between the fact that I just don’t sleep once it hits 11 and that I have a new football player crush, I’m pretty sure I inherited all the cave-woman-takes-night-watch genes. oh hi bam bam

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I use AI in work daily and almost none of it for “law stuff.” It has been a game changer for easily falsifiable corporate bullshit (hi, spreadsheet formulas) and frees up my time for the larger questions I struggled to find time for (in-house, so my calendar is wild.)

“How many showers equals a depression” was a metric I stumbled upon in law school.

I still feel pretty strongly about this.

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.

Sometimes I read things I wrote and wish to death I had the benefit of an editor. Alas.

If you’re looking at Iran and thinking “Kind of seeeeeems like a war?” then I’d encourage you to continue interrogating what the admin is telling you. For sure, there are all kinds of technicalities that lawyers can argue about but you have eyes and ears and a brain; you’re not crazy. It’s war.

“Who can connect with young men,” I ask as I set up my Steam Deck on my hotel TV before crushing an energy drink and going to the gym as WWIII starts.

The thing about forever wars is you don’t really know if you’re in one until it’s too late, which is a good reason not to start a war on a lark.

Dems should politicize the heck out of this war—on unconstitutionality, strategy, national interest, US deaths, negative economic impact, you name it.

As @gregsargent.bsky.social argues, don’t focus on procedure only, fearing accusations of weakness. The public and press are already quite negative.

Thinkin’ maybe that coffee on the 9:30 pm plane ride was poor judgment.

Motion for the next No Kings Rally to be turned into a Draft Barron Trump rally.

@alanrozenshtein.com Only a little bit in but after Malazan, City of Stairs was a solid book rec. if I can return: Suneater Series (if you want Dune meets Lovecraftian horror) and Lies of Locke Lamora (heists!!!)

A+

Look, I’ve thought about how I’d survive the apocalypse as much as the next person but this is why we have RPGs.

I know it’s an evangelical thing but I’ll ask anyway: WHY do we WANT to bring about Armageddon?

Oh, I cannot recommend “The A Mirror” by @shannonvallor.bsky.social enough (and I’m bullish on some adoptions of AI.)

In non-WWIII news, the Supreme Court has denied cert in Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving in place the DC Circuit’s decision denying copyright to wholly AI-generated works. This will leave for another day hard labor and industrial policy questions about hybrid works generated in part by AI.

Saaaaame

If it were just this, sure: Anyone could carelessly quote an inoffensive post from someone who turns out to be vile. But if you do it after a whole controversy about a Nazi tattoo, and then gush about a rabidly antisemitic podcast, either you’ve got a toe in the swamp or HORRENDOUS judgment.

@emilypeck.bsky.social @espiers.bsky.social @felixsalmon.com

If I get one more ad for perimenopausal collagen and unrelated “pelvic floor therapy” (dear advertisers: we both know these things don’t need to vibrate)…

I could live with “dude gets dumb tattoo in USMC” because that’s legible to me (look, I knew a lot of these growing up — not saying it’s great but am saying people get to change.) But this shit is ridiculous.

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

The young at work explained to me that she’s actually a little girl in a cat costume?

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.