Adam T. Whitten

My students: But I *own* an NFT

Me:

An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.

Heard that law journals received a few submissions during the editor application process that they were pretty sure were AI-produced. They had no idea what to do about it.

Daria as Zendaya on the cover of Vogue Magazine.

magazine covers ft some familiar faces: thread

nothing fundamental is going to change about the life you’ve already built for yourself unless you make it. it’s happening right now

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

In the near future economy, I bet the skill of “can type a prompt into ChatGPT and repeat whatever it says” will be less in demand than “understands things enough to catch when ChatGPT makes an error or hallucinates.”

it's also a private market story. openai and anthropic are private companies, they have a lot of investors- including indirect retail investors, who invest through funding vehicles- but they don't have to make disclosures and if the bubble bursts, those investors will have a lot more trouble suing

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

Salma Hayek in an orangish red and yellow dress..

..kayaks to match her outfit.

salma kayak: thread

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d Join Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals Debt & Money Hi there and thanks for reading. I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem. Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset. Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity. I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k. Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45. Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output. Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API. Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days. tom_watts • 3d According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code. ••• 146

ShavedAp3 OP • 3d Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to. Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did. If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much. If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things. Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours. • • • 4

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

The Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed Robert Roberson’s execution, sending his case back to a lower court for reconsideration. He was scheduled to be executed in less than a week.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

FWIW, this is also how Nvidia sees the future: current LLM/GPU combos are too inefficient.

Frankly, it's unclear if current GPUs can be profitably used in data centers *right now*, much less in 5 years, when energy will be even more expensive and newer chips more efficient.
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XAI’s financing would be split between about $7.5 billion of equity and as much as $12.5 billion of debt in the SPV, the people said. The vehicle will be used to buy Nvidia processors, and Musk’s artificial intelligence startup would then rent the chips out for five years, allowing Wall Street financiers to recoup their investment. The unique deal structure, backed by the GPUs as opposed to the company, could provide a playbook for tech firms looking to decrease debt exposure.

A bunch of these circular AI deals are treating GPUs like they're real estate or Treasury bonds or something, rather than rapidly depreciating equipment with a high risk of obsolescence well within 5 years due to energy inefficiency and rising electricity costs.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

USN AL-1 FLIGHT JACKET As World War II ended, the U.S. Navy began adapting to new challenges that arose from tensions with Stalin's Russia. The AL-1 Flight Jacket and separate Hood was one of the early designs from this per...

today in “jamelle admires things he cannot afford” is this recreation of a post-war US Navy flight jacket therealmccoys.com/products/usn...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

And yet, after last Friday, the Supreme Court's Republican appointees made fighting back — on at least one ground — more difficult. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-imp...

That said, these are almost certainly unlawful on other grounds as well.

Reporters: lol the QAnnon Shaman filed a hilarious case against Trump
Me: May I see the complaint please
Reporters: haha it’s 26 pages and it’s so funny and here are a couple of details
Me: Link please
Reporters: seriously you won’t believe this shit
Me: probably but could I read it
Reporters: nah

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

My SCOTUS term preview for the Guardian - it focuses on the case challenging what remains of the Voting Rights Act (Callais), how that's part of a centuries-old campaign against Reconstruction, & how that's representative of several issues on the Court's docket.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

On September 3, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a preliminary injunction directing the Executive to obligate roughly $10.5 billion of appropriated aid funding set to expire on September 30. Of that $10.5 billion, $4 billion was proposed to be rescinded in a “special message” transmitted pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act. See 2 U. S. C. §681 et seq. After the District Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied stays of that order, the Government filed this application to stay the District Court’s injunction. The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. The Government, at this early stage, has made a sufficient showing that the Impoundment Control Act precludes respondents’ suit, brought pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, to enforce the appropriations at issue here. The Government has also made a sufficient showing that mandamus relief is unavailable to respondents. And, on the record before the Court, the asserted harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents. This order should not be read as a final determination on the merits. The relief granted by the Court today reflects our preliminary view, consistent with the standards for interim relief.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It's a really impressive magic trick. In one paragraph, John Roberts made Congress disappear.

Latest in @lawfaremedia.org from @klonick.bsky.social and me on yesterday's TikTok divestment executive order. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-ti...

Johnson v. Maryland, 254 U.S. 51 (1920) Johnson v. Maryland

There is a Supreme Court case saying states can't require mail carriers to have driver's licenses when they're driving mail vehicles, with some pretty strong language about the state's inability to restrict FedGov's ability to carry out its federal functions: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook

Superb essay by @jamellebouie.net on how the hyped-up unitary executive theory is built on a distorted conception of the President’s superior democratic legitimacy, and why it’s extreme application would fundamentally upend our constitutional order.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...