Just added a bunch of stuff to my watchlist.
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 3d agoWith Blades of the Guardians now on Letterboxd Video Store, here are the top 100 wuxia films on Letterboxd, ranked by average member rating. View the full list and eligibility rules here: https://boxd.it/UZdv4. Curated by Letterboxd member halfoun.
Not enough discussion of the performative cruelty of the bar exam mentions its racist and classist history, and it's always good to see an article that does!
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 6d agoI wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Doing something ok now than something perfect later is almost always better, is my version.
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
Overheard in LA coffee shop: “All of this stupid stuff is so competitive in LA, like where you get your hair cut.”
Headstone for Eugene Williams, whose murder was the first in a wave of racialized violence in Chicago in the summer of 1919. 102 years after his death, a group of people determined to see him remembered & honored were successful in getting his grave marked.
Robert Loerzel@robertloerzel.bsky.social · 2w agoRemembering victims of 1919 Chicago race riot: 38 names set in stone. A bike ride today will celebrate the completion and installation of 38 memorials. chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...
*Day 3* A deeply disturbing modern-day adaptation of Hobbes’ treatise. Matter, Forme and Power: it’s got it all. #LegalPhilosoFlicks
This thread is brilliant. (I may have pitched a screenplay for at least one of these once …)
Mathieu Carpentier@mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 2y ago🎬 LEGAL PHILOSOFLICKS 🎬 Imaginary movies adapted from jurisprudence books Brought to you by Procrastination Inc. On Bluesky only *Day 1* Some of you may already be familiar with Christopher Nolan's upcoming Dworkin duology.
The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.
Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 3w agoAmy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
I don’t agree with every one of these, but MI:2 gets a nod, and there are a few other fun watches on here as well.
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 3w agoAs the 2026 summer movie season delivers a fresh, hopeful batch of crowd-pleasing spectacles, the Letterboxd crew makes a case for some of the lesser-loved blockbusters from years past that we feel are worth a second look. https://boxd.it/3fw
Sam Neil has so many great performances that it feels almost reductive to focus on one scene. Except it's one of the most iconic scenes in movie history and all of it, The groundbreaking CGI, the sweeping John Williams score *doesn't* work without the authentic joy and wonder of Neill's performance
I’ve said I think this should be the first step in public middle and high schools, I did not think U of C would go all the way here.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4w ago“University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.”
This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion
I keep seeing certain people referred to as birthright citizens because they were born in the US to noncitizen parents, but it is vital to understand that every single person* born in this country is a birthright citizen! *except children of diplomats, who aren't subject to US jurisdiction.
This graph for writing a book would be the exact same graph.
Adam Vian@sfbdim.bsky.social · last mo.this is what it feels like to make a game
My favorite journey as an attorney has been going from an institutionalist with deep respect for SCOTUS to now holding nothing but contempt for it.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.Just filed my piece. This case is even worse than I thought. They're not just coming for Black people's hair. They're coming for ALL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS passed pursuant to the Spending Clause. These fucking people must be stopped.
Two months after the end of the Civil War, Union troops went to Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to free over 250,000 enslaved people and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.
History professors/history students/dads who have read one book about World War II: "Oh COME ON!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump: "It's signed. I signed it in Versailles. I just signed it."
It is now illegal to post this image with the caption “become ungovernable.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoOh, so they have NOTHING nothing
history without discomfort is propaganda. It’s certainly been my experience that the more nuanced and layered my understanding of history becomes, the less room there is for comfort. And yet, the more room there is for hope. 3/
Co-signed, says this UChicago alum, and also this former editor-in-chief of @chicagomaroon.bsky.social, where this essay is published: chicagomaroon.com/52978/viewpo...
Welcoming Claude Into the Classroom Risks the Soul of Education
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
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UChicago AAUP@uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:
No better run of films in the history of cinema than summer of '82. Close runners up include the summers of '84, '99, and '68.
@welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 3mo agoNewspaper movie page from the Summer of 1982 #filmsky
AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO PAY HIS OWN WAY THROUGH THE U OF C WITH STUDENT LOANS this is great and I approve www.wbez.org/education/20...
University of Chicago to offer free tuition for students from families making less than $250,000 a year
The university is the latest to waive tuition for families making under a certain threshold in an effort to make education at top-tier colleges more accessible to middle-class families.
wbez.org
