Jason Morris

@lexpedite.bsky.social

Law, Tech, Rules as Code, Formal Logic, Computational Law, LLMs, Symbolic AI. Fastcase 50 | ALTA Startup Runner-Up | ABA Innovation Fellow | Computational Law LLM | Recovering Lawyer | Product Manager @ TR | Blawx dev. Opinions mine, etc.

I switched to progressive lenses this year, and it has made using computers a neck workout. I'm picking up my new single vision computer use lenses later today, and I could not be more excited. 🤓

I used to work representing people suffering from mental illness, and the biggest injustice our legal system commits against them is to conflate mental illness with a lack of capacity. They are different things. You remove rights for a lack of capacity, not for mental illness.

§Blawx generates multiple answers, and multiple explanations for each answer, each as a constrained tree justification. What if it was possible to take a bunch of those trees and combine them into a ternary flowchart diagram to allow you to explore them interactively? #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

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I've been doing it on and off for a few months, but I still get giddy asking Claude to do a #RulesAsCode encoding in §Blawx, and watching these little purple dots appear as sections of of the law are encoded one by one. One prompt, and it's done. Insane.

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So Trump confuses "exchange rate" with "trade imbalance" because he's losing his mind, and all of our news outlets are reacting with credulity that he wants to do something about the USD/CAD exchange rate, so our news is also utterly detached from reality. Do better, journalists.

158 Canadian military died in the Afghanistan war, which was triggered by the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. 158 Canadians who died defending our "allies". Now cabinet members for a New Yorker President in Washington are saying Canada does not have a military. Utterly beneath contempt.

I understand and regret the pain it causes short term, but I'm happier with this than I am with acceding to the demands of a bully, cheat, and liar. Every time the US injures the trade relationship our resilience as an economy is forced to expand, and our reliance on the US is reduced.

Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 3mo ago

I went to bed early last night and missed the news that trade talks were suddenly suspended. It should be no great mystery as to why: Trump's team of quacks and lunatics thought the punishing terms of the deal weren't punishing enough. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...