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Now forthcoming in the Duquesne Law Review!

I did!! I appreciate it!!

hell yeah state constitutions

Fwiw I do pretty much all of my very basic graphic design in Google Slides, which makes it pretty easy!

This is via @daveweigel.bsky.social, from a Third Way event happening today.

This is so malignant and unserious. That these groups have to put their thumb on the scale so egregiously to get the results they've pre-ordained tells you everything you need to know about them. x.com/daveweigel/s...

What a sense of accomplishment you must feel

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

as well you should be

It’s always a great day to talk about state constitutions!

The damage done to Labour by the by-election loss seems massive. Their argument to centre-left voters that they should “vote strategically” to defeat Reform failed. Now, there’s a *more* plausible argument for Labour voters to vote strategically *against* Labour and for Greens or the LibDems.

yep. that’s what I thought of.

I really don't have words

I find it incredibly insulting when Ivy League law journals—which have never accepted my pieces—suddenly think that I possess expertise and that my thoughts are worth listening to when they want me to review a piece for them.

I'm old enough to remember when "negligently" meant something different from "intentionally and maliciously".

if a frog had a tail it wouldn't bounce on its ass

LLMs break our ability to conclude when there is proof of effort. We make high schoolers write essays and do math assignments not because we care about essay or because we don’t know the problem set answers, but because the effort trains them in a certain way. We read customized cover letters as an important signal of interest, because it has traditionally been hard to make a good one, and you could only do it for so many jobs you applied for. Gatekeeping is inevitable, and when the old mechanisms stop working, other measures will step in, like relying on the prestige of the candidate’s institution or their connections to decide who to hire, or what papers to cite or publish.

I think about this a lot with LLMs and education and also publishing. The hope that by undermining failing or unfair systems, LLMs will destroy the hierarchies and unfairness seems... naive. The result will likely be the opposite. jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...

I hope there's a backlash, and if there is, it'll be severe.

the gubernatorial primary is stuffed with candidates. one of them just needs to switch over.

this is just evil.

it's molting season for RFK Jr

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I made an offer for a house this weekend. I offered X over listing. The seller's agent tells my agent if I offer X+5K, I'll get it. I upped my offer. Then the seller leveraged my offer to get an X+10K offer and rejected my offer.

surely there are no lessons to draw from this about the value of fighting back

what a helpful, constructive response.

hitting the low 30s is when things get real

way too self-congratulatory for a man who chooses to defend child slavery

maybe a sign, but also, there was no competitive and high-octane statewide primary on the Democratic side in 2022

written by an LLM student? a current student at the University of Minnesota Law School? a student at the same institution where he teaches, and where he wields power?

on the other hand, can we really say for sure that the profession of economics doesn't deserve a little bit more shame