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A Conversation with the Dean of Students, Lexie Zirschky

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3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Oh! And a belated thank you to all who answered my call for office tech competencies for law students over the summer. I've added Word and Excel self-guided trainings in my Lawyering class this fall, as part of their Attorney Development Plan. Basic office tools AND more executive fxn exercise, FTW

Normalize putting stipend amounts in "service" position advertisements. Even if that amount is $0. </rant>

From the Critical AI Perspectives panel - how to turn off Google AI Overviews on multiple browsers: tenbluelinks.org #AALL2025

You'd think by now it would take me less than 10 minutes to remember where to make the Canvas modules list the home page, rather than that dumb default "Welcome" page. (Pages>view all pages>dotmenu>Remove as front page). YW.

Yikes, fire season has started already. Big fire on RR tracks not super far from campus. Fire trucks were just coming through, so I pulled off the road for a bit. Hope everyone's safe.

Now that I'm writing more regularly, I'm tweaking part of my organizational system. OMG why won't Zotero sync with Notability. That seems so basic. They're too similar not to talk to each other, and too different to get by with just one of them. If anyone has a workaround, I'm all ears.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

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Trump called Musk "a big-time drug addict" in a phone call shortly after their public feud. (WaPo)

Line edits and footnote-chasing. "My favorite thing in the world," said no one ever. But it brings me one step closer to getting my article on legal literacy at the reference desk out into the world.

A not-insignificant part of late-Dx ADHD is the mourning what could have been. But honestly, I'd probably be a Veterinarian right now if I'd been medicated and regulated in college, so idk... I think law-library-lawyering is a much better professional fit!!

Leopards. Eating faces. Because it's what leopards do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QGy...

The Ultimate "Leopards Ate My Face" Rendition!

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Community is great! Let's have more of it in future remote-Calicon, please! #calicon25

Random, I know, but I really miss the mem:o app that visualized trackable things along a calendar, and I've had many moments where I've thought about trying to code something like it. Or making a koala rainbow version. I'm sure other apps could do it, but it wouldn't be as pretty.

Spent the afternoon session at #calicon25 at Jonathan Franklin & Sean Harrington's Vibe Coding session. I'll admit, I didn't know that term before today, but I'm intrigued based on their presentation. And also aware it could really, really be a (BAD) time suck for me, so I might steer clear.

AALS sections are *free* to join? How did I miss that? Joining the Balance and Well-Being section now. Their summer series has been great so far, and I'm doing their 14-day writing challenge.

Good points about the Stanford study & hallucination; and the more recent Michigan/Minnesota study and ways people use research tools. www.lawnext.com/2025/03/anot... #calicon25

Another New Study of Legal AI Shows Some Models Can Significantly Improve Work Quality and Efficiency

Just last week, I wrote about a first-of-its-kind benchmarking study of legal AI tools, and now comes another, much-different study, that is also the first of its kind. This time, in a randomized cont...

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Now @seanlovesbooks.bsky.social talking about the array of tools that can test RAG and more on the back end; if vendors won't give us an API to test, they should be using these tools to test, releasing white papers etc. #calicon25

Now @thefordon.bsky.social is talking about typologies of tasks for AI tools, developing those for the legal research tools and more. What tasks are these tools useful for, what are the errors, etc. #calicon25

"Will it do the job?", "which one is best?", and everything in between. Users want to know, and rightly so! Our job as librarians is to figure out what to teach, when, and how. #calicon25

They're specifically talking about benchmarking AI tools, to compare across, measure and compare. Consumer Reports-style. There are many different types of tests we could put to the tools, though w/o APIs, we're very, very limited. #calicon25

Now up: The Problem with Benchmarking, with @debgpi.bsky.social, @thefordon.bsky.social, Nick Hafen, Jonathan Franklin, and @seanlovesbooks.bsky.social - tools and more. #calicon25

Can't hear most questions (which aren't questions bc lol academics), so taking a break before the next session at the half hour. #calicon25

John's talking about the auto club lawsuit - www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/auto.... #calicon25

Auto Clubs and the Lost Origins of the Access-to-Justice Crisis

A century ago, auto clubs offered an astonishing array of legal services, representing members in civil and criminal cases, on both sides of the proverbial “v.” But in the 1930s, bar associations deci...

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Abundant law (in contrast to scarcity) could be many small changes. Taking the handle of a much-used pump in London to reduce Cholera. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

"Lawyers aren't rent" -- paying rent keeps people in their houses, not lawyers. Saying the answer is more lawyers is like saying the answer to world hunger is everyone having a nutritionist. #calicon25

ProBonoNet runs LawHelpInteractive. Harden advocates for more use of AI for discrete tasks, like contract review (see Adobe's new feature). It doesn't take away from lawyers' work. But lawyer regulation is a hindrance (to innovation). #calicon25

"We're afraid to let go of scarcity." It's a great framing -- lawyers naming the Justice Gap problem as too few lawyers. #calicon25

Sam Harden talking about the need for public access to the equivalent of paraprofessionals for law. Love it!! "No one is coming after Dr. Scholls for the unlicensed practice of podiatry." Yes!!! #calicon25