I realize now that the way I wrote this was very confusing. To be more clear: I agree with you!

The conclusion that Sachs' little article is one of the dumbest things that a person could possibly read.

The thread is helpful if you want to read it but this conclusion is just unquestionably true. People wanting to play the refs here are beclowning themselves in a way that would, in a just world, end their careers.

Jacob Wysocki is a national treasure, and I appreciate his commitment to the bit / Kushtopia across a number of years.

Yeah, you said “anything the press publishes” and I don’t want people to be misled.

Yeah 100% he is. Sadly.

THAT is not correct. “Actual malice” is only required for publications about public figures (as confusingly defined by law). Your average person could sue based only on negligence if they were defamed by the press.

HAHAHAHAHA OMG THEY ACTUALLY DID IT

I was very worried when Rao’s got acquired by Campbell’s Soup but so far it seems to be the same (delicious) sauce.

Defenders of capitalism are yet to explain why the people at the top are the absolute dumbest, most gullible people alive. Humanoid robots will replace some significant portion of our manual labor force in four years? Has this guy ever even gone outside?

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

I have frequently said that it is hard for me to imagine how Trump could further damage the institution of the DOJ, but that only demonstrates the limits of my imagination.

I did not imagine Trump putting Joe diGenova in charge of investigating his political enemies. It just got worse.
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This is SO true. Assigning a real task to an intern has never ONCE saved me time or effort. We hire interns as a mentoring program and an investment in the next generation of junior colleagues. But none of that applies to an LLM that doesn’t think and isn’t reliable.

This is a momentous story in a lot of ways. One incredible little detail: the Roberts clerk and the Alito clerk who wrote the key memos creating the shadow docket, Joseph Benjamin Tyson III and Barbara S. Grieco, ended up getting married two years later.

The screenshots in the header image don't do it justice. The unique procedural posture is one thing. The justices discussing what they've seen on TV, how they worry the plan will be too expensive, etc., shows that they really are just politicians in robes.

May this give ammunition to those fighting with Roberts’ conservative hagriogaphers. He’s motivated by the “most expensive regulation” of all time. Well yeah, idiot. A) that claim is unsupported by evidence, but B) it was intended to fight the most costly regulatory PROBLEM of all time.

He’s asking this question in context knowing the answer, but it’s worth saying. Black students, trans students, and many other groups face very real discrimination on a regular basis at law schools. But no one has stepped forward with a sovereign wealth fund to help them.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Incredibly important story here about two of the worst outcomes of the last ten years: a decade of the US actively making climate change worse, caused by a wilfully lawless Supreme Court that learned the wrong lesson from Bush v. Gore.

Record Store Day seems like such a dumb rip-off. My local record store opens at 8AM and lines start at 6:30?!?! And yet! I would REALLY like a copy of this. recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelea...

Headline at The Guardian illustrated with an ominous looking photo of a roiling stormy seascape: "Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought" Subheadline reads: "Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas"

Turns out, we *really* needed that last decade of lost climate action that Trump has wasted.

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That's a very cramped and limited view of what it means to be "an actual practicing lawyer." And I think the "training" you get as a very junior associate in a big firm can vary greatly. No one I knew who did 2-3 years at a law firm was ready to start a practice after that.

You're right! And guess who else is now hiring people out of Fall 1L? BigLaw. So let's stop acting like working for giant corporate law firms is somehow "prestigious."

I agree that the profession needs to adjust. But why start with law schools? Clerkships ARE valuable experiences and many of my students benefit greatly from it. The difference is that we send a lot of students to great state court clerkships where these shenanigans don't happen (or are secret?)

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This is a really terrific depiction of what it's like to be a lawyer. For three years the Internet has been saying "AI will completely eliminate your job overnight!" Meanwhile the actual practice of law has not changed in any discernible way because these are just websites that don't really work.

Saw Caleb Hearon talk last night, and he made this point insightfully - the fact that anyone listens to or wants to hear a comedian's opinions on such matters is the sign of real societal decline resulting from our anti-intellectual war on expertise

We can all stop reading after the phrase “JD Vance said … that Pope Leo XIV was wrong”

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The next Democratic President acknowledge the jurisdiction of the ICC Challenge

Contrast this with the IDF’s own social media propaganda which openly uses AI or Photoshop to defame the people they kill