Blake Emerson

This book rips.

How many USAID’s have we spent on the Iran war so far?

Unconditional surrender an sich/fuer sich

New kind of false consciousness just dropped.

Our government has absolutely no idea what it’s trying to do with this war.

I mean having AI write the text of the article in whole or substantial part. I’m fine with people using AI for research purposes as long as it’s disclosed.

Suppose for the sake of argument that AI could write a law review article better than the professor. Regardless, the professor will be a worse scholar and teacher because they did not do the work of writing the article.

Significant political blow to the administration. Good.

“But I can write 500 articles a year with AI prompts!” Great, they will be littered with hallucinations and errors and no one will read them except a judge who needs a cite for the error of law he wants to commit.

If you feel the need to write articles using AI, please find another job. Your students and colleagues deserve a lot better.

Yes.

On the plus side, you’ve kept your integrity as a scholar and produced real research

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Pleased to share my forthcoming article on birthright citizenship, based on 7 days of in depth Google searches and only a handful of basic conceptual errors.

This seems like one of those “let’s see if these still work” situations. Like Trump saying he’s going to build new battleships. WWII cosplay but it’s real and we’re the aggressors.

We illegally renamed the Department of Defense the “Department of War” but the thing with the bombs and the killing we are doing with all our “warfighters” is NOT a war.

Coping by reading about seventeenth century English legal history.

Not singling out this guy’s head. Really any head. Cut it out.

I’m not sure what the nyt thinks I want a large head talking directly at me when I go to their homepage.

The scary thing about a prediction market is that people with little information can randomly make a catastrophic event marginally more likely.

We used to be a proper country.

When is the last time someone made an LA noir TV show?

I don’t disagree, just observing the politics of the situation beyond Trump’s personal whim. No doubt Khamenei was a tyrant.

This seems like a very long way of publicly saying that we don’t have adequate munitions to keep this up for long.

The thing about the Iran war is this is not just a Trump thing. Remember McCain “bomb bomb Iran?” There are also (small) domestic constituencies that have an understandable personal animosity to the regime. Plus “grand strategy.” It seems like the fruition of longer running trends rather than “MAGA”

“Maybe we can blame this on Haitian trans professors?”

Haven’t heard much from JD Vance on our latest forever war.

People asking me a lot of questions already answered by my “US not veering into a new endless war” shirt.

Sure hope the US doesn’t have any actual defense needs while we’re expending our limited weapons stockpile and resources (and killing kids in school apparently) in a war of choice.

It’s also an argument for regulating tech and breaking up monopolies. The problem of concentrated power exists in many spaces. In my view, regulatory agencies and public universities are duly constrained as is. Large financial interests, the presidency, and law enforcement agencies are not.