Chris Sprigman

I haven't. But I'd heard of this "problem."

I suspect much the same will be true of AI. It will work its way into business processes. As it does, it is very likely, in my view, to create value. But will it transform the economy quickly and in the jolting ways that both its cheerleaders and critics seem to expect? We'll see, but I doubt it.

Let me make sure I'm clear: I am skeptical of the claims that AI will be world-transforming in the short term. Look at the history of previous large technological shifts. It took nearly a half-century for electrification to transform the economy. It took decades for the internet to do so. And ...

And I say this as someone who is skeptical of the value of current (and foreseeable future) AI, but who is not opposed to the technology's development, with proper regulation.

File this under "argument that any decent, normally intelligent person would never make because it's completely stupid."

In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Trump for comment about 'Obama judge' The president later responded on Twitter, defending his attacks on the Ninth Circuit for ruling against him in an asylum case.

It's wild that six years ago John Roberts was issuing huffy public statements about how there is no such thing as a "Trump justice" or an "Obama justice," and then today at a press conferece Trump basically called Roberts a cowardly RINO cuck and Kavanaugh a "genius" who "loves our country"

They got this far b/c we've been subsidizing their lazy, incompetent asses.

Every word of this. Every step of my personal climbdown from belief in the efficacy of judicial review has been painful.

One thing to understand is that jackasses like me graduated from law school basically believing that, while nothing like <all this> was realistic in our lifetimes, if it did happen, then our Supreme Court with all its flaws would respond roughly like this judge did, maybe 9-0.

The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence

A lot of "this-is-the-moment-when-Donald Trump-became-president" energy here

The Supreme Court, previously supine, has now provoked the wrath of this demented idiot. My only wish is for utter mutual destruction.

Spent a few hours w/my German class at Nat'l Socialism documentation center reading about Freiburg's history during the Nazi period. Walked out w/my blood boiling. When we topple Trump, we should make him + all his enablers pay. No matter what it takes and no matter what we have to break to do it.

Genau.

I will add that today I went to the National Socialism documentation center in Freiburg and read up on Heidegger’s Nazi-period leadership of the university. What a fascist brute that piece of shit was.

Husserl.

Here taught Edmund Husserl. Forbidden his profession, 1933. Forbidden to travel abroad. Humiliated/disenfranchised. Died April 27, 1938. /end

It’s oddly beautiful that renowned mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl gets the same very modest remembrance as the other persecuted and murdered Jews of Freiburg. The bronze cobble, laid in front of a building in which Husserl taught, reads … 1

YouTube video by Zeteo Why The MAGA Manosphere are ‘Submissive Queens’

This is pretty insightful about what's behind the facade of Trumpist conservative manly-manliness. www.youtube.com/shorts/qagSo...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

Have the American people ever chosen a scummier cast of C-grade villains to be their government? This story features allegations of sexual misconduct against *both* the Sec. of Labor and her husband. And it's two drops in an enormous bucket. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

Sounds like this guy won't work to hold Trump and other GOP criminals accountable. If he's gonna be Mr. Kumbaya, I'm a hard no and I suspect most Dem primary voters will feel likewise.

See also: Harper's letter signatories, many of whom have little or nothing to say now.

Doesn't mean there are zero legitimate concerns about Biden social media interventions or campus culture circa 2020-2024 but COME ON.

Yes, all the more reason for Democrats to be promising, if they are given power by voters, to disrupt that by legislating and stripping jurisdiction.

If the Brits can hold their rotten elites accountable, why can't we?

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - live updates It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

As much as it pains me to say this, props to the Brits. Here's hoping for similar accountability for our utterly rotten U.S. elites. www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

Leo brought it with this one.

I will take this as a friendly amendment and accept it.

Making these tools of fascism unemployable is the very least that civil society can do.

A Case Against 6 Democrats Lacked Urgency. Then Came a Swift Bid for an Indictment.

The federal prosecutors who brought these absurd indictments, and others like them, should face discipline from state bars and shunning by fellow lawyers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

This is how international law dies

www.icj-cij.org/case/186

Conservatives.