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*chop* the onion first?? You rube, you plebeian, you absolute pauper

Hawkins for me

Anyone have a read on the Gravel boy that went in-house at Andreesen as a podcaster? Is this some strange attempt at entryism? Thiel-ite red-brown fusion, like the tech futurist wing of Compact? Pure payday? Or did he just have an ordinary political conversion?

Someone has been paying hosting/domain name registration fees for this for nearly 20 years

I was looking for a population density map of Long Island and this late-stage Web 1.0 relic was the third google result lol

Really glad my firm is going to 4 days/week in office. I get a lot of mentorship and culture out of wasting an hour commuting, having some zoom meetings, then going home without talking to anyone

I was worried about a future where 100-200 philosophers had cushy jobs at Ivies, elite SLACs, and flagship state schools, and everyone else would be contingent or teaching online. Seems like that was optimistic

I made the call to go to law school instead of taking another year as a lecturer in 2020, because I thought COVID would accelerate existing trends outside of the top research universities (adjunctification, defunding humanities, etc.) Didn’t predict total self-immolation by the elite universities!

I thought maybe I’d practice law for a few years and find my way back to academia—teach tax classes in a law school but keep publishing my silly papers on moral psychology, recognition, alienation, etc. Lately I’m less sure there will be a recognizable thing that is “academia” by then time I’m ready

Exactly, and I think AI makes it harder for firms a tier or two down from the top to justify it

The 10-20 firms that don’t do it can tell their clients “you will pay more to train out junior associates because your board will be impressed that you hired us”, which is kind of already what happens

Seems like there’s an equilibrium where lots of firms prioritize short-term cost-savings over training the next generation and just hire the 7th-years that aren’t going to make partner at Wachtell and Skadden

Admittedly the term you went with does roll right off the tongue

Someone should make a Lee Buchheit movie. International intrigue, courtroom drama, heavy-handed political commentary about vulture funds and the conflict between markets and sovereignty, big personalities... feels like a Felix Salmon/Adam McKay script could really play

It also has the distinction of being the only ska song beloved by a generation of Hatebreed and Earth Crisis fans, which is its own special place in history

He once DMed me on the other site to call me an idiot for claiming that many pro-choice people do not believe that a zygote is a human being. I thought he was drunk and would apologize later but apparently he was just mad

Liebman and Arrabito both say they have experience with “landlord-tenant” law which reads to me like they’re on the landlords’ side (don’t people on the tenants’ side call it “housing law”?), but that’s all I’ve come up with

Who are my Brooklyn lawyer friends on this website… @ruthmensch.bsky.social ?

Two of them mention experience with landlord-tenant law without saying which side??

Planning to pretty much vote the WFP slate but they didn’t endorse for Brooklyn civil court judge. Anyone have a read on any of the candidates?

And what’s more, he’s far too handsome to be mayor! I mean just look at him! Don’t dare vote for him or you’ll have to see his smiling face on tv constantly the next 4 years!!

They just came out and said it:

“We both know why you’ve been detained…it’s because of what you wrote about the protests at Columbia”

I wonder how long before the first mass-killing that can be traced back to a video created by a “generative AI” bsky.app/profile/aman...

(I tried asking about it at thanksgiving but got booed. Maybe social media will be more forthcoming—can’t believe I never thought of that)

I’m interested in hearing more data points about how individual Jewish people feel about the term, since there’s been so little discussion of it the last few years

One of the first bands I saw live. Used to rent videos from I think Chris, who worked at the indy video rental place where I grew up, and once my friends and I brought our first recorded music in and excitedly asked him to play it on the stereo, which he graciously did

Do you carry around that print-out of the “self-hating new” Wikipedia page everywhere or just for the photo opp?

Oy veh

I’ve been stuck drinking “Bruh” Coke Zeros at the office for months now and it is wearing me down, spiritually

It’s also a problem that reliable legacy news sources could in theory go a long way toward ameliorating if they were, say, committed to telling the truth about the ugliest aspects of American governance, even when that meant upsetting the president, local police forces, or crucial allies abroad