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Mine too! Like, you can pay $149 to still do sycophancy but not have a tripping hazard at the end of your legs all day. Or look stupid.

Unless they are beyond doing sycophancy and have graduated to asceticism?

That thread!

To answer the question: AI has broken people’s brains. There’s this new societal-corporate expectation that everyone should be able to do more with less, because AI. Except there’s no consideration for the quality ramifications, or what the legitimate efficiency gains actually are.

70s style office building

Hello and welcome on the Terry Sanford Federal Building in beautiful downtown Raleigh, NC where I will be live-posting a show cause hearing starting at 4:00 ET

@tbsky.app this is a good one

Paging @juliedicaro.bsky.social & @chrisgeidner.bsky.social (and I continue to appreciate that @maxbernstein.bsky.social always includes links to actual court documents).

Right up ‘til it’s December and kids are walking / riding to school in the dark.

Not saying you’re wrong — I like the later sunshine (mostly) too. But there are legit arguments for permanent standard time instead.

British Columbia is gonna let us all know what they think by this time next year.

Definitely a step in the wrong direction. But it is consistent with language I regularly see from people who are overly immersed in their own techno-utopian koolaid bubble. Don’t get me started on legaltech, where hyperbolic claims are making me lose respect for many folks I’ve trusted for years.

12 years after branding myself the “Agile Attorney” I get the attractiveness of the word. But, FWIW, the capital-A Agile approach is fundamentally about making things work at a human level. Maybe they’d argue they’re doing that? Feels like we are going to be in this uncanny valley for a long time.

Makes sense. Spending time with humanoids is obviously way less weird than dealing with robots. Especially ”agile” ones. 🙄

Seems like the kind of decision made by leadership that definitely enjoys eating a hamburger product.

It’s a Montana Republican thing. Greg Gianforte was probably holding his beer.

There could be a really funny Bill Murray movie in that story.

From my understanding of how most bar regulatory processes work, important considerations in an ethics investigation include the extent of the respondent’s responsiveness, cooperation, and candor.

Made a last-minute decision last night to watch John Woo’s 1996 action thriller “Broken Arrow,” a truly cheesy offering staring John Travolta & Christian Slater. The acting is hammy, the pre-CGI effects delightfully corny. Delroy Lindo was great.

At 1:48, it was the perfect use of my time.

Thank you for this explanation, it is very helpful context.

Two initial thoughts on the dissent:

1) It is an awfully contextualist argument for a group of originalists.

2) Kavanaugh seems to think he’s still serving as White House counsel.

*audible groan*

Oh wait, not like that.

I think Heraskevych knew this all along. His brave act of defiance was going to work either way (which makes it smart, but no less brave).

There have been zero Kinkos in the world for 18 years.

FWIW, and maybe it’s just me, the particular shade of grey text on your blog gives off the unsettling feeling that I’m about to run into a paywall the whole time. It kind of mimics that thing that paywalled sites are doing now where the article slowly fades away…

Appreciate the content though!

Prasad’s is the guy who (I believe in his book Ending Medical Reversal) decries his industry’s tendency to supplant “evidence-based medicine” with “eminence-based medicine.”

Either way, he talks about it in this Freakonomics episode:

freakonomics.com/podcast/bad-...

This is especially ironic for a guy who, in his book Ending Medical Reversal, decried the medical industry's tendency to supplant "evidence-based decision making" with "eminence-based decision making."

They basically admitted that 70% of the new jobs they claimed were created in 2025 didn’t really exist. 70%!!!

Let’s not miss the real news buried in today’s job report. Despite claiming stronger than expected growth in January, the BLS also revised its 2025 job gains from 584,000 to 181,000.

They admitted that 70% of the claimed job growth last year didn’t exist! 70%!!!

Come on, they have to be fudging monthly numbers because they know it will get headlines. This gives away the game:

“the revisions sharply lowered estimates for job growth... The new estimates show that the U.S. economy added just 181,000 jobs in 2025, down from the earlier estimate of 584,000.”

Is he the one with the underwater hockey pool in Tahoe?

Her Goldman Sachs bio is fun: “Ms. Ruemmler is the Chair of the Firmwide Conduct Committee, Co-Vice Chair of the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee, and a member of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee.”

“Ms. Ruemmler is the Chair of the Firmwide Conduct Committee, Co-Vice Chair of the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee, and a member of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee.”

Oops.

I’m seeing so many bad AI-generated contracts, but at least my clients are having a real lawyer review them.

It’s going to be a mess when the ones that don’t get reviewed lead to lawsuits in a few years and courts have to discern intent when the parties neither wrote nor read their “agreements.”

JFC, both ads for Amazon products (Ring and Alexa) are unhinged. They truly believe their own techno-utopian bullshit.