Jennifer Hendricks

Shockingly poor strategy. Good judges accept that people can say many things about them without their being able to respond at all.

Also, this would be a Golden Rule violation if said to a jury. You might as well just announce, "And now, your honor, I will attempt to manipulate you emotionally."

For any who wonder: Under state court procedures we had no duty to return accidental disclosures. Also, the govt in question generally waived privilege and WP on the grounds that they were doing the public's business. But we did give it back.

My opposing (govt) counsel once sent discovery including an email from chief agency counsel to all legal staff offering a 6-pack to anyone who could "defend [client's] position w/ a straight face."

They asked very nicely if we would send the email back, but they did not try to defend the position.

The DOJ has absolutely the best attorneys.

Oh no! I think the original drawing was good. It's memorializing a class discussion for people who have a whole context that you gave them for understanding it.

So we DO have extra rights!

I don't know how to use any of the other software you mentioned! On reflection I might space out the y-axis a bit more.

To test my estimate of the time in involved--this was 10 minutes in Word. The line is free-hand, obviously. The only other trick I used is that if you paste in a little screenshot and set the Wrap Text setting to "In front of text" or "Behind text," you can put it wherever you want it.

Taking a picture of it would often be enough, but ... handwriting .... So my goal for something like this would just be "here's the thing I drew in class, but a little neater." I could just re-write or re-draw it, or I could do the following ---

... more regions of the graph, or maybe you could have a discussion around how they would be filled in, which rights get added as you move up or right etc.... It's the kind of thing you would draw as part of a discussion, but then students maybe want to have a copy for their notes.

I think most of my comments about the AI chart being confusing have to do with it introducing extra elements that create a false sense of precision (the boxed lines in particular). I read your original graph as just trying to get across the gist--maybe you have some more cases that could annotate...

the more confused I became.

And I'm especially interested in what's going on in Omaha because that's where I'm from! Do we get extra rights? : )

As someone who is a visual thinker, I can glance at your drawing and immediately see that it is meant to show constitutional protections as a function of place and status; then I can start looking at the details. But the purpose of the generated image is less clear, and the more I studied it, ...

corners (though nothing really lines up with the axis labels, so that's confusing too).

In short, there are conventions for visually communicating information that you intuitively obeyed when drawing your graph, even though you say you aren't a visual thinker. But the computer destroyed them. ...

the boxes, and the axis labels are mystifying, seeming to imply additional, intermediate statuses between the labeled ones. At the lower left, those statuses appear to be discrete, but at the upper right they become continuous, since the red line passes through box-edges rather than only ...

actually wrong. (4) By labeling the x-axis at the bottom of the page but the y-axis at the directional point (rather than where you put it, on the side, which corresponds to labeling the x-axis at the bottom), it obscures the basic point of the graph. (4) The relationships among the red line, ...

error that you wouldn't have made if you'd done it yourself but that was easy to miss when checking its output. (3) It bullied you into accepting another error that undermines the whole substantive message of the graph. If you used this in class, you'd have to spend time explaining that it's ...

This is a sincere question: Can you explain what you see as useful here? To me it seems to illustrate many problems, setting aside environmental impact. (1) It seems to have taken longer than it would take to, say, type the axis labels into Word and draw a few quick lines. (2) It made an ...

I think this explains it: "the yips" are a golf thing. It's when you freeze up, make involuntary movements, and otherwise go on the fritz when trying to putt. It is possibly caused by "biochemical changes in the brain that accompany ageing."

So that's reassuring.

What is a yip? He is consulting a chihuahua?

Isn't it bad, from the cop's perspective, for handcuffs to be oversized?

“The cat that wanted to be alone” - from 1945. The eagle is the US, the bear is Russia, and the lion is the UK. If only they had left us alone decades ago…

Mir Houssein Mousavi led Iran’s Green Movt in 2009. He ran for pres & received immense support from the Iranian ppl. Millions voted 4 him in an election w/high turn out. But the vote was stolen by the govt, leading 2mass protests. Mousavi & others were put under house arrest /n x.com/tparsi/statu...

That would include having plenty of access to students if you chose to hold yourself out as a mentor or whatever.

Even at my lowly state university, a mere professor emerita gets library privileges, a shared office, some staff support, invitations to talks and events, and if you're lucky an MS Office subscription. You are retired but very much still welcome to be part of the intellectual life of the school.

They are giving him emeritus???

"Emerita" doesn't just mean "former." It's an honorary title and usually requires a vote by the appointing authority--the faculty to be a professor emerita but I guess the board to be a president emerita.

Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties.
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
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Interesting example, shooting down drones. Definitely no recent events that would give anyone pause about doing that on your say-so.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light