Folks, I've got a good and very timely sports and culture mash-up here and I think you should see it. I'm very proud of it and also I'm procrastinating and I liked Sinners better.
bsky.app/profile/djsz...
Very fun for my students on the quarter system who have 3 sets of finals and 3 sets of midterms every year! (Also fun for grading.)
Preposterously funny. Much funnier than it has any business being.
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This seems like great news for folks who like/want to use a citation manager!
Meanwhile I'm over here like...
Cf. Justice Ginsburg, Morse v. Frederick ("What if instead of Bong Hits 4 Jesus the sign said Bong Stinks 4 Jesus?").
This is so good!
It’s been a busy weekend…
Ha! No. (Although I do often (relatively speaking) fondly reminisce about the Lotus Notes case management system in the federal courts back in 2006. That was the best.)
I just do it by hand. I'm also not writing 100-page articles or books, so perhaps that's easier. But I'm John Henry-ing it.
This seems like great news for folks who like/want to use a citation manager!
Meanwhile I'm over here like...
Legal writers: I've posted to SSRN a short user's guide about how to use the Zotero citation manager and its Word plugin to automatically generate Bluebook citations that are 95%* compliant. The paper explains which fields to use for which type of source, and examples of generated citations.
An essential shout out to the work of @cjsprigman.bsky.social and @jennifermromig.bsky.social in putting together The Indigo Book, an essential online resource and an open-source uniform citation system. While the CSL doesn't implement it directly, the Indigo Book has been a very useful reference.
Any recommendations for doing polls on Bluesky? I'm prepping for the new Bluebook T6 Worst Abbr. Tournament!
#LegalWriting
#T6MarMadness
Just saying thanks for walking folks through this on here.
Wait what? Concubines? What does he think that word means?
Come for the nonsense, stay for the additional nonsense and also some baseball.
Well my beat is just calling out specific rule errors. I can't call out everything ugly. I have a day job!
I looked it up too. R. is part of the name as R. with that period. So that's not wrong.
I mean, I think it's fine to do different things. But I certainly don't think their use of the abbreviation for Enterprises and keeping the Inc. is *wrong* in any sense of the word. It's literally correct!
I mean that's really four or five citation/quote errors in one blurb on the half of that poster that I can see.
I'll give them a pass on the U.S. instead of United States.
But they also appear to be missing a comma between Enters. and Inc.
And there's a space missing between 292,297.
And the quote is missing a comma after "violated."
And the quote itself is actually a quote within a quote.
Other than that...
Euclid's 6th postulate.
[I'm not making any sense. I think I'm losing them. Even I can no longer understand what I'm saying. Quick. How can I save this?]
[I've got it!]
"This is the most intellectually ambitious answer."
Not a problem for Claude!
Though I would be skeptical of the model's explanation of its own actions. I don't think it's any more factually accurate or reliable when purportedly reflecting on itself. It doesn't actually have particular insight I don't think. (Or at least I've heard others cautioning re this.)
For those keeping score at home:
I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.
To be continued...
