🎤𖥠 ANTE UP, FOOLS! 🎤𖥠 In the spirit of Friday's footnote on Boston attorney Joe Resnek's 🔥 Top Dog Law diss track, OA is ready to throw down with every other legal podcast that anyone actually listens to.* 10 RTs on this and @legalafmtn.bsky.social gets the business first -- *and also Law & Chaos

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Delusional optimism is what the moment calls for. Cats by 40. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social

Betting used to mean sort of committing a crime in the name of fun and nothing legal can ever beat that

treb@treblaw.bsky.social · last yr.

a lukewarm take I have is that betting has become supremely boring. Going-to-the-window euphoria doesn't exist in the phone. Scarcity was fun (in moderation). And the ads and content around it all is so bland

I got you, also oh my absolute god

This is controversial for her career but the extent of the controversy, the extent of the provocation to anyone, is showing children being bombed as kids who deserve to live instead of faceless statistics, and if someone argues against that? Idk maybe that viewpoint should be the controversial one

Seeing that perfectly executed double spin by the Haas boys yesterday during the British GP had me needing to add a music track to it for the final spice 🤌🏽

going to college, living in an international dorm and meeting brown kids from africa, dark-skinned kids with african features from india, spanish-speaking chinese kids from argentina, and many others changed the way i understood the world in some pretty fundamental ways

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

TAPPER: The one thing I hear from almost every small business owner is the uncertainty. They don't know how to plan for the future because they have no idea what's gonna come. BESSENT: Strategic uncertainty is a negotiating tactic

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

wait for it…the payoff is INCREDIBLE

No one is coming to save us but us. Go Sharks. Go Cats (except Riley Gaines). @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social

not that it should have to be like this for people to care, but everyone should understand that anti-trans bigotry is a threat to cisgender people as well as to trans people.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · last yr.

Advocate [Mar 28] -- Lake City FL Walmart fires 7-year employee w/ spotless record who tutors special needs kids in spare time after a male customer attacks her for being trans because she is 6' 4" tall. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

The position of the democratic party should be "you can return him now, or we will come get him when we are back in power, and drop you off at the Hague on the flight home."

Walter Olson@walterolson.bsky.social · last yr.

Nayib Bukele is an enemy to the liberties of Americans and has behaved with contempt toward our laws and our courts. For as long as he lives, patriotic Americans should remember that about him -- and about his patron in the White House.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

not to be a "but the founders" guy but one thing the founders had absolutely right is that habeus corpus -- the principle that the government has to justify imprisonment through a process more complex and adversarial than just asserting that someone is bad -- is the foundational liberty we have

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 2y ago

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

The ball is tipped

We're doing these racists a big favor when we pretend their project is in any way based on actual grievance with modern DEI policy. They just want to promote the belief that no non-white person has ever been worthy of any praise or qualified for any honor or position

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

the abhorrent opinions in question:

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just asked Sen. Schumer about the Trump admin relying on Marco Rubio to “personally” decide to deport Mahmoud Kahlil. He cut off the question and referred to his new statement, which he starts by saying how he abhors many “opinions and policies” Kahlil supports, without saying what any of them are.

Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools.

Celeste Ng@pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 2y ago

The tech world is pushing AI into everything and telling us it's both the way of the future and inevitable. Meanwhile, in the tech world:

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

this really isn’t hard. stand up for everyone and they’ll back down. if you don’t punch back forcefully, they’re not going to stop at trans people because they never do

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.

It really pisses me off that even after a historic loss, some Dems still haven’t realized that their totally transactional approach to solidarity is not only not working, it’s straight up evil. You can’t just dump people when they’re not convenient and expect them to come back to your cause.