bsky.app/profile/atru... In contrast, this philosophy - lets treat all our kids as if they are all our kids - is the America we should work towards.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

This answer encapsulates Trumpism perfectly.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Q: What message does it send if Trump fires a US attorney because she determined there was not sufficient evidence to charge four people with a crime? BLANCHE: If he fires a US attorney, it turns out he's allowed to do that because he's the president

This paper tests #GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5 & Grok 4 on every SCOTUS argued case from OT 2025. Accuracy looked good until you realise most of it just reflected the Court's usual ideological alignment, not actual legal analysis. spkl.io/633247zQpk #AI #LegalTech

If you're wondering how Rep. Ed Case's day is going, I saw him out sign waving in the rain in Waipahu earlier. I did not see any volunteers out with him. I don't think he's gonna lose his primary, but I think Keohokalole is at least giving him a much-needed wake-up call.

There is a guy on my bus who has color coordinated his* reyn spooner shirt, his messenger bag, his socks, and the hair tie for his ponytail and, dear reader, done it so tastefully that I am literally awed. 15/10, no notes.

This is an important point to keep in mind. While the contours vary and a lot of people have wrong ideas, the basic notion of fair use is not legal, but normalized. "Hey, listen to this couple of lines of the song, the lyrics are awful" is fair use.

The Questionable Authority@questauthority.bsky.social · 2d ago

The thing about most fair uses is that mostly you never need to litigate them, often because they're kinda recognized as areas that are outside what copyright is there to do.

If that is how you talk about people killed by the state, if you think they are "ineffective" because they got killed, full stop, you are historically illiterate and a bad person.

Chilling here for the next several hours while my wife does a little swim down to Pipeline and back.

Judge Willett says - as clear as you can say it - the First Amendment does not allow for liability for being famous and in a protest, and he calls for SCOTUS to act.

“It could be argued that” by someone who is definitely arguing that but won’t cop to it

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

@greatdismal.bsky.social's Neuromancer was a hugely formative book for me as a youth. I'm cautiously optimistic about Apple's adaptation, but wanted to investigate more how Gibson's point about narrative constitution of identity dovetails with philosophy. www.hipcrimevocab.net/cases-two-bo...

Case's Two Bodies: Cyberspace, the Lived Body, and the Narrative Construction of Identity

Neuromancer is a fantastic treatise on narrative identity, and I hope Apple does it justice.

hipcrimevocab.net

If you search for “-insert name- controversy” it will manufacture one for the named person.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5d ago

Relatedly, a reminder that "AI" will just make shit up about you

Starting to plan out a Japan trip with my son for November. Just the two of us. Should be fun. (He's going to stay here with my parents next year when my wife and I go to France for our 30th.)

Just saw some folks playing cricket at Lagoon. Didn't realize there was an active local scene.

"I would much rather see an authoritative review on a topic in which the authors have particular insight, opinion or expertise."

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · last wk.

Hey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses

A lot of things in law are one or both of these things: gatekeeping people who aren't part of the in group out, and hazing people to make ritual bullying a part of the culture. Both those things should end.

Great article, and also fuck this shit. Imagine thinking that "sure, one option to upending your life to take a test we could not administer is that you should just take the bar exam in February" is a remotely reasonable remedy.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 6d ago

I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

imagine getting dunked on by Playboy for being weird about women’s bodies

Playboy@playboy.com · 6d ago

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

Come in as hot as you want. I think format shifting, especially by individuals, should be fair use. I think the "you own nothing, you license" approach to content ownership is dangerous bullshit that acts to restrict the dissemination of knowledge and transfers wealth from the poor to the rich.

This. In my view, the current Comey indictment is more than sufficient to create a reasonable belief that Fauci would be prosecuted for perjury no matter what he testified to today.

Charlie Savage@charliesavage.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeing people confused about Fauci taking the Fifth even though he was pre-emptively pardoned by Biden. Pardons only cover past conduct; they don't immunize future lawbreaking. Fauci's claim is Trump II DOJ would gin up a perjury investigation into him based on anything he says today.

The Supreme Court invited exactly this when it held that the president's attempt to conduct "sham" "investigations" was a core executive power immune from all regulation, including criminal prosecution, in Trump v. United States.

Deborah Pearlstein@debpearlstein.bsky.social · last wk.

"Secret Service agents who questioned the former FBI director James B. Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them....One government document said that 'POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6pm press conference.'"

This order is thoroughly - and deservedly - brutal. Like bring popcorn levels of brutal.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last wk.

The defendants asked the district judge to award attorneys' fees (as a judge is allowed to do in certain copyright cases). The district judge just released a decision on this matter. It is short and readable. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Public Defender, picking up a new file: "I know that the threats statute looks scary, but the First Amendment is an important check. It has to be a true threat." Defendant: "I said 'This is a direct threat.' " Public Defender: "Ah, well, let's see what they're offering on a plea."

James Brooks Cascade@alaska.bsky.social · last wk.

If you threaten to kill someone and dare the Department of Justice to do something about it, you're going to have a bad time. cc @courtwatch.bsky.social

Quick reminder: I'm writing a book about this and have been talking to people who were at the IRS during the relevant period. If you were at the IRS and agree to speak with me, please DM. Also...

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

When journalists asked me about where we would see the effects of DOGE, my answer was a) during crises and b) for the big services that interact with the public like SSA, VA and IRS. So lets check in on the IRS: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you worked with immigrants who were deported, and believe this was a result of the IRS/DHS information sharing, and willing to speak with me (and you're not bound by rules that prevent you from doing so), please DM me.

The problem isn't that AI is breaking law school exams. The problem is that law school exams were already broken. In part, this is because law school exams are usually practice runs for the kind of questions you get on the bar exam, which, in turn, does roughly fuckall to measure legal competence.

Jess Miers 🦝🦞@jmiers230.bsky.social · last wk.

Law professors are significantly overestimating the capability of generative AI which is leading to some incredibly strange discourse. The take that we need to upend open book / take home exams because students are paying for fancy models is wrong. 🧵

I do not give Instagram or any entities associated permission to use my pictures, information, both past and future. I give notice to Instagram it is strictly forbidden to distribute this profile. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · last wk.

Mike Lee out here doing his best Michael Scott

The substack article is interesting, and the underlying article looks likely to be as well. Gut reaction: strikes me as reasonable to think that courts would be OK with this approach as a guide to the meaning of clauses, but the state of the tech alone suggests that you'd be a fool to agree to one.

Dave Hoffman@hoffprof.bsky.social · last wk.

Lawyers might soon adopt a new contractual technology: choice of model clauses committing to particular LLM models as interpretative guides. Would these terms be enforceable? And what problems might they pose for courts and policymakers? Today's post: profhoffman.substack.com/p/are-choice...

Weapons-grade lack of self-awareness from Rep Fallon (R-TX).

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Pat Fallon: "What concerns me is the IRGC seems to be absolutely committed to watching their country disintegrate, and not caring at all so long as they get to rule over the ashes"