Lee Kovarsky

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The Book of Love by Olivia Rodrigo & War Child Records on Apple Music Song · 2026 · Duration 4:08

So the first dance at my wedding was Book of Love by Magnetic Fields and … Olivia Rodrigo just covered it. And it’s as beautiful as you’d think.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARTHUR LEE

Top 10 album of all time

allegedly US operating out of Bahrain, NOT GREAT

But we can't totally solve for coarse, initial screening by student editors that simply have to rely on proxies to do their jobs. And they just aren't positioned to know the literature well enough to spot a diamond in the ocean without some other signal.

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I think the one issue that we can never truly solve is a false negative problem - brilliant articles by young or non-faculty stream folks on topics that don't flash to student editors. We minimize the problem by blinding later stages of review as much as possible, and by doing peer input.

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Third, use faculty to do blind peer review towards the end of the selection process, and take that peer review seriously. This step will cut out a lot of the false positives that are probably troubling @cjsprigman.bsky.social.

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Second, after the initial sort, have the student editors work fully blind, so that letterhead bias doesn't swamp other variables. After the initial sort, I don't think a lot of biographic detail is necessary to do finer evaluation. But this one only works if you do (3) below.

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First, either have enough student editors do a fair blind review of every submission or permit pieces of the intake sort to be unblinded to apply basic proxies that track the journal's mission. You'll get some false negatives and positives here, of course.

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Personally, I think the best balance of all worlds, given the inherent human resource limitations that are constraining full on, expedient peer review, look something like this.

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I'm not saying I'm a fan, but law is unlike a lot of the other disciplines in that the salience of academic work rises and falls a lot faster than in other fields, and so there are timeliness virtues in a student-centered system.

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I agree w/ @davidasimon.bsky.social insofar as the effects of this issue are muted somewhat by a general awareness that placement is a bad proxy for quality.

It still matters on certain margins where it's a coarse, administrative sort of a giant data set, but not nearly as much as folks think.

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your daily reminder that if you find yourself lecturing someone about how they should be ok with the guy with the nazi tattoo, you're the baddie

Lots of name changes happening rn. “No no my name is Ayatollah Jenkins, wrong house!”

This is going to end with AI targeted drone strikes against everyone with the last name Khamenei

You can’t bottle genius but

what the fuck was that man, FFS (grim I mean)

that was such a frustrating game to watch, and if you are a houston fan the major issue lately has been ime pulling reed sheppard inexplicably at key moments - he sat out the last 4 mins of the 4th.

confession: i sometimes type "whilst" into my AI so it thinks i'm smart

Paxton is probably unconfirmable and that's at most a 2 year solution for a guy playing the long game and that has been gunning for this seat his whole life

FWIW I think this is *extraordinarily* dependent on whether he's running against Paxton or Cornyn since Paxton is an awful candidate that would be running in a hideous national environment. T would have more than a puncher's chance there.

He's going to be tried for war crimes at some point in the future and he's going to try to defend on the grounds that it's the wokes persecuting him yet he is out there just ... SAYING IT.

winner

yeah, agree. like, i can see a world where that tips the scale a little in cornyn's favor. but before that announcement the fact that hunt voters were a lot more like paxton voters should have made him the favorite. and the atlantic report shouldn't affect odds THAT dramatically.

HOLY SHIT THE ODDS ON KALSHI ON CORNYN V PAXTON ARE OUT OF WHACK

They have been selling out where I see them. They have them at the Austin Central Market on Lamar and they are often gone.

Both Olipop ***and*** Poppi have just both come out with new Shirley Temple flavors.

Discuss.

The first thing Rs are gonna have to do is give Wes Hunt something to endorse C, and they are gonna have to turn off that flamethrower they’ve been directing his way.

You are right on all of this but we have been living the Paxton nightmare for an eternity and it is just incredibly hard to imagine him dropping out in time to consolidate Rs