Amazon tricked people into signing up for Prime. And the FTC is finally suing over it.

They think they can't get tuberculosis, won't die of Covid, and won't get whatever else affects the poors.

But their game is Project 2025's "gentle euthanasia." The goal is to reduce the population of the U.S. by 2/3.

Even if the very rich have better medical care, they still need food, though.

There's a lot of grind culture among lawyers. And yet, our rules require that we not try to handle too much work.

A friend is very vocal about keeping a small practice and giving away some kinds of work. It occurred to me that he's a much better lawyer for it.

You don't have to always be badass.

I write poetry when I feel like it. At some point, I'll collect the best and actually publish it somewhere.

Not having that as a pressure means I probably write about 50-70 poems year, probably ten or fifteen of which are really good.

It's my anti-grind authorship style.

An AI Company Just Fired Someone for Endorsing Human Extinction Michael Druggan, former xAI employee, is now trying to de-extinct his career.

If you’re not yet reading @xriskology.bsky.social on the creepy anti-human TESCREAL bundle of ideologies driving a lot of tech bros, you definitely should start (and subscribe, if you can). More of the madness infecting Silicon Valley needs to be exposed
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/did-an-ai-...

I've been listening to a CLE on, "Becoming an Appellate Lawyer." As you might expect, there are several presentations on AI.

They said it's safe to let it write legal blog posts for you.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

—Carl Sagan, Cosmos
#quote

Hate-Reading Wirecutter in the Nascent Era of AI Slop I love the feeling of being recommended to, rather than recommended at. So-called “AI” is making that harder than ever.

I warned y'all I was writing a silly little holler for my next @theflytrapmedia.com piece and here it is!!!

Anything to distract from Epstein and Abbott making things up.

Batteries. They’re a thing.

New way we're all going to die just dropped.

You could put solar panels on the moon and not risk destabilizing lunar orbit.

But noooo…

A cool thing in food aversion is that humans are very, very good at learning to become disgusted by food that has sickened them. The ones who didn't, died before having kids.

You literally have hundreds of thousands of years of ancestors telling you to never eat sushi again after having bad sushi

I'm just picturing all those people with inherited diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders, and any disability being declared "dead" for organ harvesting.

If you wanted to scare people away from organ donation, this is the way to do it.

For all of those in Blue States who are saying, "Just move."

In my case, a parent passed away, my partner's job dissolved, I'm settling an estate, and houses have or had to be sold, while I'm working my full time job.

And I hope someone will want a 23 year lawyer as an employee.

"Just move."

Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

"Research indicates that kids who are exposed to more than two hours a day of recreational screen time have worse working memory, processing speed, attention levels, language skills and executive function than kids who are not." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

I refuse to read any articles about AI taking people’s jobs.

At least in the legal profession, it’s been outlawed a lot of places, because it writes fiction.

Westlaw sells AI that will write briefs. I’ve seen 5-7 page, two issue briefs from actual people that are much better than AI.

Superman by @juanferreyra.bsky.social

I have a GirlScout Merit badge in something like fiber arts. Try double and triple crotchet, bigger crotchet hooks, and bigger yarn.

Fine gauge crotchet is more like lacework tatting and it is too finicky.

Spider-Man by Steve McNiven

I've been thinking about people who have helped after someone passed.

(The group that emptied my mother's house after her estate sale was retired state employees.)

Gen X is not going to do well when it's our turn.

The generations below us have had too little help to do anything but survive.

He knows you're the person that brought him home.

Go you!!

Having to go through all of my mother's stuff was dreadful. I remember standing in her garage a few days after she died, in tears.

Luckily, a friend recommended an estate saler, and we signed the contract for them to take almost everything.

Good estate salers are angels.

What kind of a hex?

Boils or The Black Death?

My top 10 favorite musicians/bands

Off the top of my head

Led Zeppelin
Einsturzende Neubauten
Kaizer’s Orchestra
Ultravox
The Police
Alphaville
The Who
Buffalo Springfield
America
Lady Gaga

My pharmacist tried to talk me out of redoing the two shot measles series, even though it had been fifty years since the original series. Be obnoxious. #vaccines #measles

AuGHOST OFFICIAL 2025 PROMPT LIST 1. bump 2. shy 3. hoop 4. fly 5. flavor 6. rad 7. eldritch 8. eight 9. necromancy 10. spy 11. bag 12. brimstone 13. flag 14. rodent 15. frantic 16. bad 17. catacomb 18. sag 19. evict 20. wag 21. repulse 22. flee 23. zig / zag 24. gelatinous 25. page 26. perforate 27. brood 28. ruckus 29. dissipate 30. flip 31. triumphant #AuGhost #AUGHOST2025

Hello boils and ghouls, we’re proud to unVEIL this year’s #AuGhost prompts a few days early! In August, create a new piece of art inspired by that day’s prompt word and post it using #AuGhost2025
Or don’t! There’s no pressure! Just relax and have ghostly fun!
#artsky #drawing

I think there's no rain. It's weirdly dark outside, and there's thunder, but no rain.

I appreciate it. We're not actually moving for a year or two. It's been a long time coming, and this is what's next.

*Ooh. Actually up to 43. Not California, perhaps unfortunately. The Texas Bar is hard, so we get special treatment.