Sam Brunson

Instead I could just appreciate the art that was going on in front of me. 2/2

I went to a show that included my saxophone teacher tonight. It was a beautiful nonet, Birth of Cool if Birth of Cool had been written in 2025 or 26.

But also, as someone who is too political and too online, it was really nice to spend an hour or so that I couldn't look at my phone. 1/

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Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, “I guess.”

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People in my mentions blaming Jeffries and Pelosi for defections, and you shouldn't. Both whipped hard for yes on this, Pelosi was personally arguing with yesses on the floor until the vote closed. If you were following this previously, you'll see that some who had said they were voting no flipped

And even if it were, that entirely misses what makes writing valuable. bsky.app/profile/smbr...

Let me make sure I'm all caught up for the day:

AI made Israel use its Jew magic to get the US to bomb an elementary school with a super illegal "double tap," except none of that is true and if you say otherwise this whole site will call you a genocide war criminal lover.

Did I miss anything?

This is awesome. As an organizer in Chicago, I have met and talked to way too many people who push the lie that pedestrian and bike safety is bad - for business and for residents. We need better media to help push against the lies. And Urban Truth seems like just the thing we need.

Unfortunately, legal scholarship has a second set of purposes (land a job, get tenure, get promoted), though honestly, this second set of purposes doesn’t really work at cross-purposes with the first, at least if we’re reviewing scholarship and not just counting the number of publications. 2/2

In my mind, using AI to write articles deeply misunderstands the purpose of legal scholarship, which is to critically work through ideas, alone and in community. 1/

I've read some of these pieces, which some law reviews have published. They are indeed as bad as you describe.

If you feel the need to write articles using AI, please find another job. Your students and colleagues deserve a lot better.

Similar. I have one great piece out and one that’s at least pretty good. I’ve gotten a handful of rejections, but mostly silence.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

That’s exactly what I was hoping for, tbh. Why use inaccurate general- purpose AI when you can, instead, use legally-focused inaccurate AI?

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.…

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children

Great. He replaced the lady who shot her dog with the guy who hid behind a chair on January 6th.

I'm thrilled to say that I recognized just about every one of these references!

To put some more color on this: no one is calling for Tony Gonzales to step down because he cheated on his wife. It’s because he had sex with a subordinate. That is a violation of House ethics rules and is a terminable offense in any functioning corporate office.

I mean, if you ignore the USSR, Mao, and Cambodia, well, you've ignored the USSR, Mao, and Cambodia.

You’ll find more sophisticated understanding of the problems with interoffice sexual relationships at a Coldplay concert than you will in Mike Johnson's office.

Not Israel's war. The U.S. owns this.

Darnit, Omri beat me to it.

There is no good antisemitism. Bigotry, but from the left, is just bigotry.

I think leftist antisemitism has always been terrible, they’ve just been better at hiding it until now

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.

And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

Learning isn’t atomized! It’s not distinct! It’s intrinsically inefficient, because our brains and bodies aren’t efficient! 2/2

Over and apart from my skepticism that AI is an active teacher or that it’s good pedagogy to suit kids in grim if a computer to do their learning, I take MASSIVE issue with the idea that learning is something distinct that can be separated from the rest of the day. 1/

I’m actually willing to buy that he’s more a moron than an ideological antisemite, but you really have to be laughably clueless to think “but his wife is Jewish” is even the slightest bit relevant to that question. It should have exactly zero effect on anyone’s certainty either way.

Killing kids in a school is bad. Using AI is bad. Using AI, any AI, they're all bullshit, to bomb schools, is evil.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Darnit, they weren’t supposed to get a *good* attorney!