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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Yes like every other lawyer in America I’m reading about tariffs right now.

Once again, copyright being the only functional law for the first quarter century of the Internet is leading to unexpected emergent results

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

This is straight up embarrassing.

techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/a...

23andMe files for bankruptcy | LinkedIn The DNA-testing company's co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki also said on LinkedIn that she has resigned from her position, but still hopes to buy the company's assets.

I gave this example as to why I would not submit my sample for evaluation when the company was founded. Bummed for them that it came to this, but data being assets that are transferable in bankruptcy (or even just acquisitions) is a real issue... www.linkedin.com/news/story/2...

Another example of how unimpressive AI actually is...

Google query: convert 7:15 min/km to miniutes per mile

Response: 7 minutes and 15 seconds per kilometer (min/km) is equal to 7 minutes and 38 seconds per mile (min/mile).

Explanation of how to convert is correct, but conversion is wrong.

con law prof here—seems like a separation of powers problem

Having Samuel L Jackson narrate as Uncle Sam was pure genius. I just absolutely love intelligent storytellers and that is exactly what Kendrick is.

Still thinking about Kendrik Lamar and all of the performers who kept their secrets and pulled off that gorgeous half-time show of artistic resistance against America's worst qualities. Gave me the most hope of any action by any famous person since Trump's inauguration.

Thank you! A U.S. District Judge has approved requests from anonymous federal employees to proceed under pseudonyms in multiple cases against the Trump administration to protect themselves from potential harassment and threats.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

On the value of Twitter, btw - We had similar traffic from Bluesky, where the FT has 300 thousand followers, to what came from Twitter, where we supposedly have 6 million.

"The law" is an overloaded term. It can, as you note, be used by US lawyers to refer to a specific statute. However, w/o a specific reference to a statute, it is used to refer to the entirety of all legal resources that define relevant rights and obligations, the majority of which is case law.

I see that we've gotten critical mass from X/Twitter...

Super sad to report that while XTw in general is something I'd like to drop (the promoted content just gets grosser and grosser), when it comes to sports (like today's US Olympic Marathon Trials) there is nothing better.

German word for “public figure you’re mostly neutral about and who doesn’t engender strong feelings in you, but who unhinges the shittiest people in society, suggesting some inherent merit”

There's a reference to the English roots of this practice in Spain in this article english.elpais.com/verne/2020-0...

This is also how it used to work in Spain. People would put up signs to mark their buildings as insured and sometimes get creative with their placement to pay one fee and place it between 2 connected buildings. english.elpais.com/verne/2020-0...

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Just using the free trial right now, which I presume you could use to figure out if the algorithm meets your needs or not.

FYI -- Kagi doesn't appear to have this problem:

That being said, while it's obviously robotic and weird now, no doubt it will improve, and quickly. open.spotify.com/show/0sVxKR5...

The launch of the Spotify AI podcast translation so FUNNY. You can absolutely tell that it is the voices of the people it is supposed to be, but DANG the "choices" around inconsistent phonetic pronunciation and blended accents from all the various Spanishes are wild.

You're totally right. The cute animals are the glue that holds the whole experience together.

How weird it feels to return to the time honored tradition of putting on an KN95 to go walk and bike ride outdoors for air quality reasons instead of pandemic ones. Oh California. <sigh/>

I'm guessing it's going to go by communities. The legal folks from the bird app seem to be here. The sports folks, not so much (yet).

And I'm here.