Screenshot of the TV commercial. The one you’re remembering is the solid chocolate one (I think).

Apr 9, 2026 1 Apr 9, 2026 Case Assigned/Reassigned Main Doc Att 1 Att 2 Complaint Att 3 Att 4 Att 5 Civil Cover Sheet Summons John Doe Summons Jane Doe Summons XYZ Company Exhibit TM Report

It’s a vast conspiracy. John Doe, Jane Doe, and XYZ Corp. www.courtlistener.com/docket/73168...

As a bonus, the AI can avoid booking you for a meal at the same restaurant as the members of your panel. (Or for their amusement, can steer both sides to the same restaurant.)

Hackathon to see how *little* information it would take to get this classification right almost all the time. (I bet you could do decently well with just the filename of the pdf and knowing which lawyer was logged in. Extracting the title off the first page of the pdf would just be showing off.)

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Totally normal, human way to describe a cooking fat here. Not at all the kind of phrase an LLM might produce when struggling to find different ways to describe something greasy.

The mummified fingers of Learned Hand slowly curl…

Italy, Texas is right on the highway

And again, I'm only saying this because I think people don't know what Beirut is, but Beirut was a refuge for Armenians (who are all at least nominally christians) fleeing from the 1917 genocide. It was a haven for our people and so its constant destruction is especially painful.

A Nikon Z9 Made it Aboard the Artemis II Moon Mission at the Last Minute Artemis II astronauts will test the Nikon Z9 in space after all.

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Why would he feel personally attacked about a purely "coincidental" number that was "not a joke"?

Recapping a movie trailer but it’s longer than the movie

“use of AI in Oklahoma courts” does not seem limited to litigants. That feels deliberate.

Drawing of the mechanical Turk with the open box exposed.

You’d think an true originalist would insist on a “machine” contemporary to the founding. Like the Mechanical Turk (1770). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tu...

I am completely dependent on a TextExpander shortcut for citing Texas intermediate appellate courts. When I type "texapp/" in Word, that triggers a popup with a dropdown to pick the COA by name (formatted to their preferences), a blank to type a date, and a dropdown with all the petition histories.

What you're describing is rocket fuel for Goodhart's Law

DOW CEO SAYS HE IS APPRECIATING MARCUS AURELIAS MORE AND MORE

Most likely they are trying to limit the length of text on each line to make it easier to read. The concept is discussed as “line length” in Typography for Lawyers. The smaller the font being used, the more margin is needed to balance. typographyforlawyers.com/line-length....

MARCUS My son is not a moral man. You have known this since you were young. He cannot rule. MAXIMUS Caesar, I am honored but -- MARCUS For twenty years I have been spilling blood. For twenty years I have written philosophy and ruminated and conquered. Since I became Caesar I have only had four years without war. Four years of peace in twenty. So perhaps I can be... forgiven. A long beat. MARCUS While I have been fighting, Rome has grown mad and corpulent and diseased. I did this. And now I shall make it right.

They made a movie about it.

I think @eddieperez.bsky.social might have been the first to bring up the protocol. But as a graybeard at SXSW, that made me feel at home.

a PDF that is neither too hot nor too cold

"The colours of the pales are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valour, and Blue, the colour of the Chief signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice. The Olive branch and arrows denote the power of peace & war which is exclusively vested in Congress. The Constellation denotes a new State tak-

Oh, no big deal. That olive branch just represented “the power of peace & war which is exclusively vested in congress.” (1782)

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Just to nitpick my own answer, it looks like he ran again in 2014.

2010 Ag Commissioner is a fun answer, but not really for serious political reasons.

X Google Books Proceedings of the ... Personnel Institute "Boil the ocean" 1 result • showing 1 PAGE 45 [submarines] are sinking our supplies and we can't deliver our supplies. If you can suggest anything that will help to solve the problem, I would be your friend for life." Will said, "That is not hard. You know I have read in physics hooks some place that submarines can't operate in boiling water. All you have to do is boil the ocean!"

PAGE 400 boil the ocean. The admiral replied: " Will, that is a splendid idea, but tell us how you propose to boil the ocean." Will re-plied: "Admiral, I am merely giving you the general idea. You will have to fill in the details."

There’s a probably apocryphal Will Rogers origin story that has to do with the problem of German submarines in World War I.

Have the people who pray for “such other and further relief” been getting pan pizzas all this time?

That violet crown is truly special

Being from Dallas, I am still scarred by “the pickle juice game.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickle_...

It's a short path from "the weak suffer what they must" (416BC) to a defeated Athenian army left to die in a quarry.

"Syracuse. 412 BC. So Gelon says to me, 'Let's go down and feed the Athenians. The weather's perfect for feeding Athenians.'" -- Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon